Opening slate in English, describes man as a "human fly," who clambers up the side of a building, in Berlin, Germany. He uses handholds on gaps in the stonework, and climbs up a drain pipe. Huge crowd is gathered to watch the stunt. The man hoists his bicycle up from the ground with a rope and rides the bicycle back and forth on the parapet of the building. View from the building parapet, of the man riding his bicycle, with rooftops and smoke rising from chimneys in background. Signs partially visible on the building include the words- 'Siegmund' and 'Verbandstorff-Fabriken'.
German troops march along Unter den Linden, in Berlin, Germany, on Heldengedenktag (Day of Commemoration of Heroes) in World War 2. A military band (unseen) plays. The troops pass a reviewing party in front of the Neue Wache Memorial building, that includes Adolf Hitler, Marshal Hermann Goering; Marshal Wilhelm Keitel; Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz; SS leader Heinrich Himmler; Marshal Fedor von Bock; and Marshal Erhard Milch.
The beginning of Nazi-driven boycott of Jewish businesses in Germany. Anti-Jewish propaganda choruses exhort street crowds in Berlin. Sturmabteilung (SA) Stormtroopers in trucks and cars. They shout anti-Jewish slogans. Strormtroopers hold the Nazi flag. The Swastika is painted on their vehicles. Sympathizers on bicycles follow their truck. Pedestrians crowding the sidewalks watch all this going on. Two stormtroopers are seen guarding the entrance to a shop. They display a large sign that says the Jewish owners of this shop (at 5 P.S. Laden) are vermin, and displays other disparaging remarks. It identifies the owner as the Jew, Katban Schmidt. The Star of David and word "Juden" painted on Jewish shop windows. Anti-Jewish posters and signs on store doors and windows. A poster in both German and English reads "Germans defend yourself against the Jewish atrocity propaganda. Buy only at German shops."
German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler addresses volunteers and officials gathered for the opening rally of the annual Winterhilfswerk (Winter relief project), held in Deutschlandhalle, in Berlin, Germany. The hall is decorated with Nazi symbols and swastikas on side walls. Hermann Goering, Joseph Goebbels, and Martin Bormann, are seen. Hitler gives an impassioned speech with much gesticulation. (Note: Midway through clip there is a brief 2 second shot from an unrelated speech by Hitler to the Reichstag).
German Führer Adolf Hitler's military emissaries bring greetings to famous 85-year-old German Field Marshal August von Mackensen during World War II. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and other officials converse with von Mackensen and present him a laudatory document. At one point, Mackensen appears to be lecturing Field Marshal Keitel in attendance. Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Szálasi and other leaders of the nationalist Arrow Cross Party visit Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Germany. Szálasi and Hitler speak to each other while walking. Szálasi and Hungarian officials are seen wearing the Arrow Cross Party armbands.
Points of interest in Berlin, Germany. C-131B, C-47, British European Airways (BEA) and Vickers Viscount 701 at Tempelhof airport. DC-6 and C-54 in flight over apartments. Television antennas on the top of the apartments. Plane lands.
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