Changes in Germany before during Adolf Hitler's leadership. View of German youth idle and in poor slum housing areas during great depression years of hyperinflation between the wars, and before Hitler's rise to power. German boy children stand outside their houses and are seen idle. They run in an abandoned warehouse. Scene shifts to Hitler youth marching in front of a camp in 1935, holding Nazi flags. Adolf Hitler speaks to a crowd in an outdoor mass meeting (likely 7th Party Congress in September 1935). A large crowd assembles at a stadium. Sign for a Adolf Hitler Jugendherberge (youth hostel). Girls and young women of Hitler youth dance in pairs in traditional German clothing. Tents in the background for the girls camping. Views of a boys encampment for Hitler Youth with tents in the background. Boys in uniform gathering in camp, shining shoes, and working. Children work seated on ground. Workers enter industrial factories. Young men working in a factory producing goods in Germany using machines. Young men of the Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst or RAD) march in formation carrying shovels.
A contrast between East Berlin and West Berlin in Germany. The "Berlin wall" which separates East and West Germany with a wire fence on its top built by the Soviets. Workers in East Berlin constructing the wall. The streets of West Berlin and several dilapidated buildings in East Berlin, still not repaired following bombing during World War II, showing the contrast. Bernd Luenser who was shot down as he reached West Berlin after swimming across a canal from East Berlin. His body is hauled out by the West German guards. Wreaths laid in memoriam for Germans killed trying to escape to West Berlin. U.S. Air Force C-54 aircraft taking off from an airfield, connecting East and West Berlin. Bricked windows sealed over completely on buildings along the Berlin Wall. Khrushchev speaking at the UN, standing and waving his finger emphatically as he speaks.
Children in a classroom write with steel pens in Germany. Teacher writes on a black board. Montage scene of objects made with steel including pens, paper clips, nails, utensils, nuts, bolts, screws, buckets, tools, lamp, ashtrays, knives, model planes, toys and pots displayed. A cobbler pounds nails on bottom of a boot. Close up of a man using a metal file. A woman uses a hot iron on an ironing board to iron clothes. A woman seated and using a sewing machine. Various industrial machines shown with inner cogs, wheels, rods, pistons, and parts made from steel.
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, with officials in top hats, and German military officers, in formal uniforms, outside a building. They review goose-stepping German troops on parade. Garlands of greens are strung throughout the town. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
General Lucius D. Clay retires in Germany. General Clay shakes hands with people outside the West Berlin Schöneberg Town Hall (John-F.-Kennedy-Platz 1 10825 Berlin). West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt accompanies General Clay. A torch light demonstration outside the General's house. General Clay waves to the crowd. People hold a banner that reads 'Thank You Lucius Clay'. General Clay shakes hands with the crowd.
In Germany, a demonstration of a Heinkel He 280 aircraft, the first turbojet-powered fighter aircraft in the world. Animated drawing of German Heinkel He 280 turbojet fighter aircraft. View of a He 280 fighter aircraft on an airfield, preparing for takeoff. It makes an extremely long flat takeoff. Trees in the background. Men on an airfield. Buildings in the background. Vehicles parked on the airfield. He 280 fighter aircraft in flight over grasslands. The He 280 aircraft lands. The aircraft parked on the airfield in the background. (This was one of only nine He 280 prototypes built by Heinkel, following on its experience with the He 178 prototype)
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