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.
German army and Freikorps setting up positions as they establish themselves in Berlin during the Kapp Putsch of 1920. Civilians watch as the soldiers go about their activities, setting up machine guns and the like during the unrest. A line of military trucks, displaying the Empire war flag. Crowd of civilians held back by barrier across the road. Troops bivouacked near a building, with machine guns on the sidewalk in foreground and a field kitchen in background. The Reichskriegsflagge (Empire War Flag) displayed on the building. German soldiers prepare to operate armored cars. Turret turning on an Austin Armored Car Model 1914, rearmed with German Maxim Machine Guns. Several armored cars depart on patrol. They all display skull and cross bones. Soldiers distribute flyers announcing the monarchistischen Putsch (Monarchist coup). Soldiers eating food from their field kitchen. One displays the words kampfwagen and a skull and cross bones on his sleeve. Soldiers pose atop a wheeled heavy machine gun. View of crowds as seen from a moving vehicle. The Imperial war flag carried in the crowd.
Hitler arriving in Nuremberg, for the Nazi Party Congress. Nazi Swastika flags everywhere, as well as local flags. German soldiers march carrying Nazi flags and other flags containing crowns and Prussian symbols. Hitler and Heinrich Himmler come out of the Deutscher Hof Hotel and review a formation of SS troops. Hitler drives in open car. Local spectators cheer and salute. Hitler enters a building and appears on a small balcony, with two other Nazi officials.
United States soldiers on alert in Michelbach, Alsace, France during World War 1. The soldiers, at the ready, with weapons in hand are in well established trenches reinforced with woven slender tree limbs and sand bags. They are in a forest with what appears to be a footbridge in the background. Troops aim their weapons.
B-24 aircraft in formation over German target. Sky filled with Flak bursts. Recreated views show aircrew on oxygen at altitude in their respective crew stations inside a B-24. Some scenes, showing gunners firing at a German fighter aircraft, are actually filmed from inside a B-17 (and show B-17 empennage, as viewed from waist gunner position, looking aft). While under attack, one German pilot drops his landing gear to slow down and bails out. Bombs dropping from aircraft and exploding on the German factory at Gotha. Narrator notes that the U.S 392nd and 445th Bomb Groups were decorated for this successful raid. (World War II period).
Imperial German Army troops marching into the middle of Berlin, to maintain order, as crowds of civilians mill about, watching them. German populace going about ordinary daily affairs, as the troops bivouack on the city streets. Soldiers on a street corner, eating a meal from a field kitchen set up on the sidewalk. The carriage wheels of an artillery field piece is seen on the sidewalk,in the background, along with the Imperial military flag. In another scene, soldiers sit and rest, idly, on the sidewalk of a boulevard. Their arms are stacked, and some are trying to nap. In the background, a crowd has gathered to listen to a speaker (unseen). A monument and statue stands in center of the scene. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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