Life of Americans in enclave in West Berlin. American children at United States Army community school in West Berlin. American music being played on radio as youth dance to rock and roll tunes. American soldiers on duty outside the United States Headquarters in West Berlin. In East Berlin soldiers including Russian comrades march and salute. Nikita Khrushchev arrives at an airport in Berlin and greets East German leader Walter Ulbricht with an embrace and hand shake. East Berliners move as refugees to refugee camps in the western half of Berlin, to escape East German communist rule. Khrushchev and other Soviet leaders pounding fists on a table at a diplomatic gathering.
Opening title identifies this as the beginning of Leni Reifenstahl's Triumph of the Will, documenting Adolf Hitler and the German Nazi party at the 6th Party Congress. It opens with scenes from cockpit of a Junkers Ju 52 tri-motor airplane brushing over cloud tops as it travels to Nuremberg. Aerial views of the city of Nuremberg, as the airplane skims the rooftops. View from an another airplane of Lufthansa Ju 52 tri-motor passenger plane carrying Adolf Hitler. Seen below are formations of Sturmabteilung (Storm troopers) marching over a bridge. An enthusiastic crowd greets the airplane carrying Hitler as it taxis in on grass field. Hitler steps from the airplane followed by Joseph Goebbels and other Nazi party leaders.Crowd shouts Nazi salute Sieg Heil. Hitler stands in an open car in motorcade through the city. Roads lined with spectators controlled by Sturmabteilung. All render Nazi salutes. Point of view shots from moving car with camera positioned directly behind Hitler, showing him waving to the crowd as the parade passes through the city. Motorcade passes the 16th Century fountain statue known as the Little Gooseman. A little girl is held up by her mother so she can give Hitler a bouquet of flowers. Buildings are bedecked with swastika and tricolor flags. Hitler arrives at and enters the Deutscher Hof hotel. Hitler comes to the window of his room and waves. Heil Hitler is spelled out in lights below his window.
Adolf Hitler greeted at an outdoor rally. He takes a seat with Hermann Goring and other Nazi dignitaries. Dr.Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics, makes a propaganda speech in front of crowd, extolling Reich Chancellor Hitler and his ability to direct the Nation. Various views of crowd and Hitler youth, boys and girls, at the rally. Crowds cheering.
Film starts showing Chief of Staff Paul Von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff surrounded by German military officers. German diplomats in formal attire including top hats standing outside a building. The German tricolor flag is raised over a building. Glimpse of the German Bundestag meeting in the Reichstag building. Political leaders seated around a table, include Gustav Noske and Philipp Scheidemann in the forefront. More politicians of the era seated at a table. Members of the German Communist Party (KPD – Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands) march slowly along a street carrying flags. Weimar Republic leaders dressed formally with top hats, stand together at an outdoor event. Gustav Noske and Philipp Scheidemann are in the center of the group. More political leaders gathered around a table. A professor speaking in a classroom with blackboard behind him and globe of world nearby. View from front of classroom showing it filled with attentive young men students. A gathering of Prussian soldiers in uniform including Pickelhaube helmets. They walk together. View of the Quadriga statue atop the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Well dressed men walking in an alley way between two buildings. Closeup of men gathered to read the latest news posted on a bulletin board. An animated map showing German, France, Belgium, and Holland. A line of demarcation is drawn between Belgium and France. Berlin citizens cheer German soldiers on parade past the monument to king Frederick the Great at the east end of Unter den Linden. Germans in 18th Century military uniforms slow step in a parade watched by spectators also dressed in civilian clothing of the early period. More views of the German soldiers parading on Unter den Linden. Businessmen sit together and converse. They read newspapers.
U.S. Army personnel in Strasburg seize German scientific records and personnel as a part of Alsos mission in World War 2. Two Sixth United States Army officer talk and jeeps parked in Strasburg. Man open gates and Captain Augustine leaves in jeep. Sixth Army men stand near jeeps parked.
Several people seen standing in queue in front of a building holding an German Export Show soon after the end of World War 2. A child seen standing in the line. General Eisenhower, General Joseph McNarney and other officers climb the stairs, leave the grounds and enter the cars.
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