Kaiser Wilhelm II is seen looking through a telescope on the deck of his namesake pre-dreadnought warship (Linienschiff) the S.M. Wilhelm II, of the Imperial Germany Navy, circa 1912. Next to him is a Korvettenkapitän (three stripes insignia) who points out something to the Kaiser. The ship's captain (kapitän zur See) smiles for the camera as he leans over a railing while holding a spyglass (telescope). Smaller boats are seen anchored in a bay, in the background.
Germany Air Force preparing for the invasion of Poland. German soldiers load bombs on a Stuka Ju-87 dive bomber and camouflage it. Number of German Dornier Do 217 bomber aircraft parked on field. Soldiers inspect bombs lined up on the ground. They prepare machine gun ammunition for aircraft. Bombs loaded under aircraft wing. Aircraft are refueled. Troops rest with the camouflaged German aircraft parked in the background.
French Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré resigns from his position as President of the Interallied Reparations Commission. Scene shifts to closup, on board a ship, of Reinhold Wulle, leader of a monarchist wing in the conservative German National Peoples Party (DNVP). Scene shifts again, to Berlin, Germany, where well-dressed citizens are gathered on a sidewalk. It shifts again, to German citizens at a newsstand holding many different newspapers, all reflecting unhappiness with restrictions and economic effects from the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, following World War I. A poster shows a facsimile of the Treaty with arrows pointing to Part 5, requiring demilitarization of the Rhineland. Scene shifts back to the well-dressed gathering, where a photographer stands on an iron fence railing as a car arrives and an official steps into the group waiting for him. Next, a man is seen seated on the roof of a truck driving on Unter Den Linden, with Brandenburg Gate in background. He throws monarchist leaflets to bystanders. Men on bicycles accompany the truck. Leaflets are also seen being thrown from an automobile on a Berlin street. Six men distribute monarchist leaflets from a truck. Leaflets fill the air as traffic, including a tram, moves through main streets of Berlin. A contingent of Berlin police officers begins clearing crowds from sidewalks and streets. Mounted police clearing a square.
During the period of the Weimar Republic, following World War 1, an officer on horseback reviews German soldiers on parade on a tree-lined dirt road.They are led by a brass band mounted on horseback, followed by a contingent of mounted German Lancers. A brass band stands and plays opposite the reviewing officer, as a unit of infantry with shouldered rifles and fixed bayonets marches past, led by a goosestepping unit. Numerous flags are carried by marchers at the rear. Scene shifts to a railway platform, where German Army and Navy officers accompany Friedrich Ebert, the first President of Germany, as he reviews an honor guard drawn up in precise formation. President Ebert is introduced to other German officers.
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel on a break in assignments, in Germany, during World War II. On a visit to the home of his friend, Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, he is seen helping Magda Goebbels roll her youngest daughter, Heidrun, down their backyard playground slide, on a wheeled board.The Goebbels son, Helmut, tries out the scooter on the slide while his sister, Helga, does a somersault on the climbing bar behind. She pushes Helmut too hard and he falls off the slide. Marshall Rommel and his aides watch with amusement, as all the Goebbels children, and their dog, frolic on, and around, the slide. Their mother, Magda, helps the little girls.
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, on leave, in Germany during World War II, visits the home of his friend, Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, and shares some time with Magda (Mrs. Goebbels) and her children. He comes out of the house in the company of five Goebbels children and their dog. Mrs. Goebbels is behind them carrying her youngest daughter, Heidrun. They all walk a path and Rommel and Magda pose with her daughters. Then, as they walk toward the house, son, Helmut Goebbels, is seen walking backwards ahead of them. They all stroll in the garden.
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