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.
A captured Wehrmacht Major General gets into a jeep after German defeat from the Battle of the Bulge during World War II. A German Volkssturm militia man with an armband. Armband reads “Deusches Volkssturm Wehrmacht”. Volkssturm militia carry discarded Schmeisser guns to defend a town in the Ruhr Valley. A Volkssturm militia man surrenders to an American soldier. Surrendered Volkssturm men shows a place to an American soldier, where arms have been hidden. American soldier being led to a riverbank of the Rhine River where the German Volkssturm men show him flame throwers. The mass escape of prisoners from a German concentration camp. Polish, Czech, Yugoslavian, and Soviet prisoners of war find United States soldiers in the forest after their escape from a German prison camp. An Asian man, likely Soviet, after escaping a German concentration camp. Food and medical aid being provided to them by the Americans. Women being released from a camp by the Americans. Russian prisoners appear happy after being released from German prisons.
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.
Animation depicts an airplane flying to cities such as Danzig (Gdańsk, Poland), Königsberg (Kaliningrad, Russia), Memel (Klaipėda, Lithuania), Riga (Latvia), and Reval (Tallinn, Estonia). Civilian travelers board a Junkers F 13 passenger plane at Tempelhof Airport (Platz d. Luftbrücke 5, 12101 Berlin, Germany) in Berlin, Germany. Men and women peer from the door and window of the aircraft before departure. A man opens the back of an Ullstein cargo truck. Men unload cargo from truck in front of the Junkers hangar. Cargo handlers load packages into the aircraft. The aircraft takes off from Tempelhof aerodrome.
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