Hitler Youth Rally at Post Stadium or Poststadion (Lehrter Str. 59, 10557 Berlin, Germany) in Berlin during Sixth Party Congress or 6th Party Congress. A Hitler Youth drum and bugle corps plays as Nazi Party national youth leader Baldur Benedikt von Schirach, and Adolf Hitler enter the stadium. Baldur von Schirach says a few words, followed by Hitler (who makes a point of addressing girls, as well as boys, in his remarks). The youth respond enthusiastically to Hitler's remarks and salute and cheer as he departs in an open car.
United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower visits Bonn, Germany. President Eisenhower arrives at Cologne Bonn Airport during his European Tour. Flags of the United States and Germany. German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and other dignitaries welcome Eisenhower as he disembarks from a United States Military Air Transport Service (MATS) aircraft. Eisenhower greets Chancellor Adenauer and the officers in Cologne Bonn Airport (Cologne Bonn Airport Kennedystraße, 51147 Köln, Germany). Secretary of State Christian Herter hears Eisenhower’s speech. During his speech, Eisenhower declares that the United States will stand by West Berlin. 315,000 civilians wave and greet Eisenhower as his motorcade passes through a street. “We like Ike and Conny” banner (pertaining to Eisenhower and Adenauer).
During the trial of Nazi leaders for war crimes at Nuremberg, Germany Hans Gesevius, former official of Berlin Police department testifies regarding his investigation of Reichstag fire. Scenes immediately following burning of Reichstag building -- destroyed as a result of fire. Firemen direct water hoses on smoldering Reichstag ruins. 1933 meeting where German representatives leave the League of Nations and Germany thereafter begins remilitarization and war production of armaments contrary to Treaty of Versailles. General Werner Edward Fritz Von Blomberg announces universal military conscription. Drafted and mobilized German men receive military training and goosestep on a training field with a Junkers 52 airplane in background. The new German soldiers goosestep while walking bicycles. German troops march to invade Rhineland. Mobilized Nazi German soldiers seen crossing Hohenzollern Bridge over the River Rhine, with Cologne Cathedral in the background. Nazi official announces March 7, 1936 invasion of Rhineland at a Nazi party gathering with Hitler present. Nazi German troops march at a parade in Nuremberg, Germany. Nazi military officers observe the parade and Adolf Hitler gives a Nazi salute to the German forces.
A Nazi Party meeting in Nuremberg, Germany in 1927. Nazis march, carrying a banner announcing their march from Berlin to Nuremberg during July and August of 1927, despite a ban. Adolf Hitler on the street in Nuremberg, as marchers come along with their banner. Hitler stands with Ernst Roehm, leader of the Storm troopers. Troopers stand with banner topped by swastika and letters: NSDAP, for the National Socialist German Worker's Party (Nazi party). Banner beneath says simply: Germany-Wake up! Adolf Hitler and Rudolf Hess (or Heß) walk together. Views of Julius Streicher, an influential antisemitic publisher and Nazi party member. Hitler stands at front of an assembly of party members on a staircase, and then steps into an open car with some and drives off. Columns of Nazis line up in an open field. A marching band plays. A quote from a newspaper, of August 22, 1927,extols the Nazi rally for its thought and strict militaristic discipline. Trumpeters play, as Hitler stands on hillside with large contingent of Nazis. Many banners are displayed. Hitler speaks to the assembly saying in effect, that Germany's freedom will be resurrected just as the people and the fatherland will be reborn, more powerful than ever. The party members parade. Hitler gives Nazi salute. He is wearing iron cross decoration on his shirt.
Sign on German hospital building reads 'Kreiskrankenhaus' (Town Hospital). United States Army blood donors in the German hospital. Nurse in hospital examining room greets soldiers. American soldiers play with homeless or orphaned German children. A German Porsche car in a car race with obstacles, attended by Americans and Germans. A Center for German youth in Stuttgart sponsored by U.S. Seventh Army and VII Corps. Army Soldiers supervise German youths in handicrafts; table tennis (ping pong); baseball, with players wearing "Phillies" uniforms; miniature car racing (Soap Box Derby). American Major General visits Boy Scout encampment. (General wears 11th Airborne patch on his uniform.) Scout leader wears Tyrolean hat. Boy Scouts cooking and eating food. Rural Town of Kirnbach, Germany, invites U.S. Army soldiers as guests. U.S. Army soldiers including an African American soldier exiting a bus on arrival in town. Musicians in band playing at a gathering. Views of groups of German citizens, including children and elderly, men and women, in the town. The U.S. soldiers share in various local cultural activities and dine with local people. View of plate of food and glasses of beer. View of poster promotion Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra concert in February 1949 under the baton of Paul Hindemith. U.S. Army musicians join in rehearsal of an orchestra (possibly the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra?), with an unidentified conductor (possibly a young Herbert von Karajan?), playing instruments and rehearsing a Mozart composition.
The signing of the European Axis Pact (called, by Mussolini, the Pact of Steel) in Germany on 22th May, 1939. Italian Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano arrives in Berlin by train and is met by his German counterpart, Joachim von Ribbentrop. Ciano reviews honor guards as a band plays. Then he and von Ribbentrop drive in a car through throngs of cheering Berliners. Later, when the principals and German and Italian officials are assembled for the signing, Adolf Hitler enters the hall and walks over to greet Ciano and Goering and several German and Italian officials present. He then sits down at the table and is flanked by the two foreign ministers who sign the pact. Hitler says farewell to Ciano and leaves the hall. Von Ribbentrop publicly explains the pact.
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