Ruins in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Shelled buildings, damaged by Allied bombings. Firemen douse fire. Damaged building by air attack of Allies. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda with other officers and inspects bomb damaged site. Civilians move with their belongings. Ruined buildings and debris. Civilians remove debris.
Kaiser Wilhelm II and Empress Auguste Viktoria enter an open carriage to take them on a ceremonial ride to the Deutsches Stadion in Westend, Berlin. Kaiser Wilhelm II and his wife officially open Germany's Olympic stadium (Deutsches Stadion, Olympischer Platz 3, 14053 Berlin) on the 25th Anniversary of the Kaiser's Coronation. The Kaiser wears a full-dress uniform and busby hat. He salutes a couple of times as the carriage passes unseen persons. The carriage proceeds followed by a rider on horseback.
Anti Shah demonstrators protest in Berlin, Germany. Large crowd of Anti Shah demonstrators gathered outside Berlin Opera House (Deutsche Oper). The students protest against the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. They hold portraits and masks of Shah. Berlin policemen control the protesting crowd. Student Benno Ohnesorg was killed during this demonstration.
Bundeswehr military exercise near Fulda, Germany. Camouflaged trucks loaded with soldiers move over cobblestone streets. Buildings on either side of the streets. German officers discuss the exercise with civilian officials. M-41 tanks loaded with soldiers advance along a road. A camouflaged tank moves through woods. Soldiers haul artillery. They load and fire artillery at edge of woods. Civilian officials observe from position in background. German soldier fires a mortar. German infantry take up positions on a grassy bluff. One fires a machine gun. No national markings of any kind appear on the weapons or equipment.
Ernst Hanfstaengl (known as "Putzi"; an early friend of Adolf Hitler) sitting in an apartment in Berlin, Germany, smoking a long tobacco pipe as he shares lunch and conversation with Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf and a woman (possibly Ingeborg von Wedel Helldorf?). He shows them a sculpture of German Chancellor Adolf Hitler by German sculptor Josef Thorak, whom he says the couple will meet later that morning. Close-up view of the bust of Hitler. Hanfstaengl plays the piano for the couple, introducing the song as one he wrote called "The Heart of Song." Behind him, on a book shelf, is a bust of Paul von Hindenburg and a photograph of Adolf Hitler.
Berlin chief of police, Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf, in Berlin,Germany. Heinrich von Helldorf at his desk. He receives and signs a documen, and talks into a telephone.
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