Traffic in streets of Berlin. Buildings and trees in the background. Large number of pedestrians on street. Passengers getting in and out of a streetcar. Policeman directs traffic. Pedestrians cross after cars stop. A sign on the street. reads: "Unter Den Linden." A view of a low square clock tower. Crowd watches woman modeling bathing suit in store window. People seated on table and chairs in a park. Large crowd dancing at outdoor pavillion.
Streets of Berlin at night. Lighting on the streets. Shops are lighted. Crowd of pedestrians on sidewalks. Heavy vehicular traffic.Church spires silhouetted against lighter sky. Movie theater advertising "Brigitte Helm in Die Herren Von Atlantis." 'Hermann Tietz' sign lighted. "Automat" restaurant. Signs on building include "Cafe Am Zoo" ; "Michels" and "Wintergarten." Chorus girls perform a group dance on stage in a follies type stage show. Fireworks near water side.
A band plays trumpets in a show at a beer garden. A boy seated on the shoulder of a man as both play trumpets. Audience sings and sways with the music. A woman takes a mug and fills it with beer from a tap. A crowded night club in Berlin with couples dancing to an orchestra. Bartender and girls put on a show behind the bar. People seated at tables as a group of women chorus line dancers perform a synchonized dance while holding cocktail shakers. The chorus girl costumes include hats with "Haus Vaterland" written on them. Fireworks and celebrations. Man in tophat eats a sausage given by a chef.
View of the State Opera building on Unter den Linden, in Berlin, in 1941, being reconstructed by order of Adolf Hitler, after being bombed in April, 1941, during World War 2. (He ordered the reconstruction in spite of wartime, to bolster German morale at the time.) Trams with equipment and supplies are seen in front of the building. Scene switches to inside, where crystal chandeliers are seen. Camera focuses on two artisans who are restoring gold decoration encircling interior columns. Next, numerous persons are seen at work at various restoration tasks in a section of the building. In another area, dressmakers are busy working on costumes. A woman is seen placing costume helmets on a rack. Various artisans work on statuary and other features of the building and contents. Brief glimpse of restorers examining a painted mural on the floor. Designers working with architectural drawings and models of the Opera house.
Spectators are gathered on the steps at the left side of the Propyläen in Königsplatz, Munich. Quartermaster General (Generalquartiermeister) Erich Ludendorff, and several army officers walk forward, from the nearby doorway. Next, a procession of Sturm Abteilung (Storm troopers) is seen, wearing Nazi armbands. They parade in the streets of Munich, carrying Nazi flags. Several thousand assemble in Königsplatz. Next, General Ludendorff is seen on the steps of the Glyptothek (in Königsplatz) surrounded by civilians.
Germans demonstrate in Berlin, at the Reichtag and in the Lustgarten, against the Treaty of Versailles, after World War 1. A crowd of Germans demonstrating in front of the Reichstag in Berlin, The Bismark memorial and the Monument of Victory are clearly visible. As the camera pans, men raise their hats in unison (presumably prompted by the cameramen). One person holds a poster reading "98.Abt." (referring to 98th Abteilung, the German Army 98th Division). Others hold banners that are pointed away from the camera. Demonstrators also fill the Lustgarten. Men sit on a lamp post above street sign reading "Lustgarten."
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