Third test of an Achenstaber rocket by Klaus Riedel, and associates. View of another test stand structure, inside a small metal building. The test stand erected outside the building, next to a steep hill, where a group of people are assembled to witness the test rocket firing. Interior view of the operating station, with liquid oxygen and another pressure tank seen along with pressure gauges. A dynamometer for measuring the rocket thrust. The smallest and largest combustion chambers. Model of the Pilot Rocket having 750 Kg thrust, the starting point for a manned rocket. A man poses with the prototype rocket motor. A precursor for the Pilot Rocket, with thrust of 250 Kg is seen laid out horizontally on a stand and then in a launch test stand. Closeup on the test stand. A crew loading the precursor Pilot Rocket and a pre-fabricated test stand, onto a truck for transport to a site in Magdeburg, Germany. The crew setting the test stand and 250-Kg-thrust rocket in place at Magdeburg. Fueling the rocket with liquid oxygen. Condensate fumes rising. Test firing of the rocket motor while fastened to the test stand. The rocket burns smoothly, as seen from afar. Next is the first test firing of a large liquid-fueled rocket, on June 29, 1933, at Magdeburg. A large crowd of spectators gathered around the rocket and stand, as technicians do final refueling. Rudolf Nebel explaining the rocket to members of press and officials. Nebel giving signal to fire the rocket engine. View of fire streaming from the 250-Kg-thrust rocket on the stand as it slowly rises and heads horizontally, to impact the ground about 50 yards away.
Hitler speaking (in civilian clothes) as he seeks appointment as Chancellor of Germany, in 1933, and speaking outdoors, against backdrop of massed flags, as he pledges to fight for the German people.
Opening scene shows many thousands gathered in a Nazi rally at Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg. Adolf Hitler shakes hands with some Nazi Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung). Next, Hitler is seen on stage with German President, Paul von Hindenburg, when he was appointed Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933. German troops and some sailors parade, in honor of Hindenburg, along Unter den Linden in Berlin. A contingent does goosestep march past Neue Wache. Camera records various views of the parade. A military band plays for the marchers, while standing in formation in the center of the avenue.
Great Depression footage after the inauguration of Franklin D Roosevelt as the President of the U.S. in Washington D.C. in 1933. During a bank holiday two day after the inauguration of Franklin D Roosevelt as the President of the US, vehicles move on the streets. Long lines of civilians move on the streets. Man makes a genuine hand made "depression dollar." which is made out of rubber. He demonstrates how it can grow for inflation by stretching. He displays the dollar designed for inflation. Other man stretches the dollar. Man approaches a merchant. He exchanges his guitar for basket of fruits under the barter system which was common in the depression. Footage is from a 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
The wedding of Frime Chaye Rivke, daughter of Rabbi Chaim Elazar, of Munkács, to Baruch Rabinovich, on March 15, 1933. Jewish men ride decorated bicycles along a street. They wear sashes containing Jewish blessings. They are surrounded by crowds and followed by other men on bicycles. A horse-drawn carriage moves through the crowd, carrying Jewish Rabbis, and elders and escorted by walking policemen and followed by men carrying banners in Yiddish. The procession and crowd goes toward a wedding pavillion set up in courtyard of the Synagogue. Policemen work to control the crowd. Rabbi Chaim Elazar speaks to the crowd, in Yiddish, exhorting Jews in America to keep the Sabbath. The crowd mills around as several persons make their way through the gates of the courtyard, being protected by police.The wedding party proceeds through Synagogue grounds to the wedding canopy, where Cantor Mordekhai Salomon sings and a Klezmer band plays. Reportedly, over 20,000 guests attended the wedding from all over Europe and the U.S.
Opening of the official anti-semitic campaign on 1st April, 1933 in Germany. Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels delivers anti-Jewish propaganda speech to a crowd, declaring that a boycott of Jewish businesses began at 10am that morning. He says it It is taking place with sudden force and impressive discipline. There is a cut in the audio and then he continues with a phrase that translates to "which now have found sanctuary in Paris and London and New York, our Party and our Führer-- Hail! Hail! Hail!" Crowd cheers him on. Soldiers of SA (Stormtroopers) loaded on truck along a street. Boycott of Jewish businesses showing a shop with a sign reading 'Achtung Juden'. SA pickets boycott Jewish owned shops.