5 March 1933, Election day in Berlin, Germany. Officials gather in a hall. Retired General Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff, who was Hitler's partner in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, comes out after casting his vote. Officials talk among themselves. A wall map in the background. They hold ballot papers and go one by one for casting their votes. Newspaper headlines about the elections.
Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini visits Munich, Germany. Benito Mussolini and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler walk on a street. Huge crowd stands on the roadside. Torches at the Ehrentempel in Königsplatz. Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler at Königsplatz, where they place commemorative wreaths at the Ehrentempel, honoring Nazis who perished in the 1923 "Beer Hall Putsch."
America and Europe during post World War 1 period of 1920s Sketches: American workers in factories. The U.S. President Warren Gamaliel Harding converses with a friend. President with other officials signs a paper. President Harding dies and the Nation mourns. Pallbearers carry coffin of the President. Sketches depict the various scandals under the Harding administration, including the Tea Pot Dome scandal. Vice President John Calvin Coolidge becomes President. Several sketches of the President . Sketches of rich people in America. People in a car. Automobiles driven out of a Ford factory. Sketch of the workers building a road. Various labor saving electrical devices. Sketches depict a housewife relaxing and people becoming better off economically. Ordinary people gamble on the stock market. Various pictures of American farmers suffering, as demand for food falls in the wake of World War 1. Economic and financial crises affect Germany. Hyperinflation and riots occur in Germany. The unrest gives rise to future leaders like Adolf Hitler in Germany and Benito Mussolini, in Italy.
The Communs of the New Palace (Neues Palais Am Neuen Palais, 14469 Potsdam, Germany) in Potsdam, Germany. View of the colonnade connecting the two communs (now housing the University of Potsdam). Statuary obelisks at entrance in front of the communs. Dome of the New Palace from the west side. Other building of Communs. Statues and figures seen on pillars.
French occupation of Ruhr in Germany. Soldiers riding horses escort a car carrying President Paul Von Hindenburg of Germany. The car moves down a street with people gathered along the sidewalk. Children welcome their President. Hindenburg drinks from a glass. A large crowd gathered as the President reads from a book.
Brigadier General Billy Mitchell taxis in a Boeing Model 15 ( or a Curtis P-1Hawk) airplane, after landing at an airfield. . Battle ships underway at sea. Mitchell organizes 1st provisional Air Brigade for bombing demonstration against battleship target.. Crews and airplanes train and prepare at Langley Field, Virginia. Soldiers load bombs under plane wings. Planes take off to bomb the obsolete U.S. battleship USS Alabama. View from airplane in flight as it drops phosphorus bomb on the Alabama. View from water as bomb strikes with huge explosion. Armorers prepare heavier bombs for the next demonstration. Planes take off and bomb the USS Alabama again. General Mitchell crouched down beside a bomb loaded on an airplane for new tests in 1923. General Pershing, Admiral Shoemaker, Assistant Secretary of War, Davis, and General Patrick on deck of the Ship, USS St. Mihiel (AP-32) to observe the tests. Views of planes dropping bombs on Battleship USS Virginia and the ship rolling over and sinking. Large formations of 1920s era Air Service aircraft in flight.
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