Eighth Party Congress in Germany between 8th -14th September, 1936, Nuremberg, Germany. The insignia of the Nazi Party. A military review. A parade moves past old buildings in a town. Civilians cheer. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler reviews an honor guard and steps into his car. He rides past cheering people to his hotel and appears on the balcony for more applause.
Italian commentator covers Greco-roman wrestling event at Berlin Olympics, Germany. Crowd cheers them on as they continue to wrestle. Last match shown is in the heavyweight division and includes Kurt Hornfischer of Germany versus Aleardo Donati of Italy. Hornfischer wins.
100 meter freestyle womens swimming event during the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin, Germany. Swimmers dive into the pool as crowd cheers them loudly. Audio commentary in Italian describing the race. Gold medal won by Rie Mastenbroek of the Netherlands. Silver won by Jeannette Campbell of Argentina, Bronze won by Gisela Jacob-Arendt of Germany.
Australian Prime Minister in Berlin, Germany. An Avro Lancaster XPP aircraft (a modified long-distance transport version of the Lancaster Mark X bomber) taxis to a parking place at the Gatow airport in Berlin, Germany. Australian Prime Minister Ben Chifley steps from the plane and is greeted by military officers and others including Lieutenant General Sir Edwin Otway Herbert, Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin.. Prime Minister Chifley speaks to news reporters as a photographer takes his pictures.
Older men and youth, formed by the Nazis into a Home Guard (Volkssturm),late in World War 2, parade with regular army and SS units in Braunsweig, Germany. Young school children walk along a cobblestone steet and sidewalk in the historic district of the city, ahead of the marchers. Medieval style structures line the street. (This is shortly before the devastating bombing of the city, by the RAF, in October, 1944.) Nazi Gauleiter (who is also SS Gruppenführer) Hartmann Lauterbacher, reviews the marchers. Citizens line the sidewalks and render the Nazi salute. Some of the home guard march shouldering axes. Guards flank a banner with swastika in the center and the words: "Germany Awake." The banner pole is topped by a swastika, in a metal wreath and a plaque bearing the word,"Harz." Camera pans upward to Gauleiter Lauterbacher speaking to the assemblage from behind a wall overlooking the scene. Closeup of old men with white armbands reading:"Country Awake." Views of helmeted soldiers.
Scenes from an assembly hall meeting in Germany. Kurt Georg Kiesinger is sworn in as the Chancellor of West Germany. Attendees stand up and applaud. Dignitaries exit the hall. Photographers take pictures of the dignitaries including, Kurt Kiesinger, Karl Heinrich Lübke, Willy Brandt.
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