Slate notes heavy reliance on turnips for use in many foods while potatoes and other crops were in short supply in Germany during World War I. "Kohl-Ruben Zeit" (Epoch of Turnips): a German soldier eats bread with turnip marmalade. Two German officers standing beside a tree as the other soldier eats behind them, seated.
Swimming and diving competition in Germany. Men and women participants dive into a swimming pool. Three women perform a synchronized dive. Swimming competitors swim in lanes of the pool during a race. Winner as he completes the lap. Women participants dive into the pool. Spectators watch the competition. Audience cheer for the participants. Female winner comes out and smiles.
Berlin citizens are seen on an ordinary day in Berlin, Germany. People, cars, and a horse drawn wagon on a street in front of a park. A Berlin policeman is among the pedestrians. View of the Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom) on on Museum Island in the Mitte borough. Pigeons flying all about the dome. A newspaper being printed on a belt-driven press. Two men hawking numerous newspapers and magazines at a newsstand. A woman looking at a publication, nest to a display containing womens' magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post (September 24, 1932 edition) and Vogue, among others. A busy intersection with cars, a bus, cyclists, and pedestrians.
German troops marching on a rough field, as they are reviewed by officers mounted on horses. German SA Storm troopers (Sturmabteilung) with massed Nazi swastiks flags marching at a rally in Nuremberg, Germany. Adolf Hitler walking ahead of a group of SA Storm troopers (Brown shirts) led by Ernst Röhm and Schutzstaffel (SS) in black uniforms, led by Heinrich Himmler. Hitler gives impassioned speech about German people (das eigene Volk), saying" Und für dieses Volk und um dieses Volk wollen wir ringen und wollen wir kämpfen. Und niemals erlahmen. Und niemals ermüden. Und niemals verzagen. Und niemals verzweifeln.” (And for this people, and for the sake of this people, we will struggle and fight. And never slaken, never tire, never lose courage, and never lose faith.)
Animated map of Nazi Germany, with the western defensive Siegfried Line revealed. The Siegfried Line is shown from Emmerich in the north to Singen, near the German-Swiss border. Two Nazi German military officials discuss with a map on the table in an office. Nazi German officials conduct surveying work using maps and tools such surveying transit scope and range finder. Workmen hammer wooden markers to outline placement of the future Seigfried Line. German engineers, in white coats, work in office using plotter and plans.
Jaeger-Schnellmischer high-speed cement mixers at construction site for building of the Siegfried Line in Nazi Germany. A Nazi German official oversees construction work. Laborers haul a cement mixer using ropes. Various pile drivers in operation at the construction site. A welder works on metal form.. Laborer bends bar. Laborers pass around rebar. View of a bunker being constructed. View of a bunker excavation underground.
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