Slate states the new Germany honors its dead by means of State Funeral. Brief views of the Berlin Cathedral (Am Lustgarten, 10178 Berlin, Germany). View of a resting (dead) Hans Eberhard Maikowski, Leader of a Storm Trooper unit (SA Sturm 33), who was fatally shot, along with Police Sergeant, Josef Zauritz, January 30th, during a melee with Communists after parading to celebrate Hitler's appointment as chancellor. Hermann Göring (or Goering) talking with Nazi officials on steps of building. Adolf Hitler stands near a car with large contingent of Storm Troopers. View from a high point of a funeral procession surrounded by huge crowd. The procession includes the hearses of Maikowski and Sauritz, pulled by horses. Close view of elaborate hearse of Zauritz, drawn by covered horses and escorted by Berlin policemen, and that of Maikowski, escorted by Nazi Stormtroopers. Procession of mourners including Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goering, followed by Stormtroopers carrying wreaths. Pallbearers in top hats carry a coffin.
Adolf Hitler reviews a parade in Nuremberg. Many Nazi Stormtroopers (Sturmabteilung) and SS (Schutzstaffel) gathered for the parade on Zeppelin Field (Zeppelinstraße, 90471 Nürnberg, Germany) at the Nazi Party Rally Grounds. Troopers march and give the Nazi salute. Hitler reviews the parade and assembly. He walks up a path towards a monument. Troops on either side. He gives the Nazi salute before the monument. SS (Schutzstaffel) soldiers march with 'Germany Awake' flags.
Film opens showing German Colonel General Heinz Wilhelm Guderian, who was appointed Chief of Staff of the Army, by Adolf Hitler, on 21 July 1944, in World War 2. He is being feted as the New Army Chief. He reviews a large Honor Guard of German troops who line both sides of a street, in Germany. Local people cheer him from the sidewalks, and he is greeted by several German Youth girls. He steps into a building where other officers greet him and present him with a scale model of what appears to be a Panther Ausf. G tank. He looks closely as another officer points out the model's features. He then writes his name in the city's book of distinguished visitors. Complete change of scene shows General Guderian visiting members of his family, who greet him with kisses at the entrance to their house in Goslar, Germany. Inside their home Guderian shares coffee and cake with them at their dining room table. He and family members then look together through albums of photographs and memorabilia, of his career in the military, including one photograph of General Guderian with Adolf Hitler.
Police gather outside the Karl-Liebknecht-Haus (Kleine Alexanderstraße 28, 10178 Berlin), the headquarters of the Communist Party of Germany, in Berlin. Members of the Communist Party of Germany flee from policemen along Weydingerstrasse, near the Karl-Liebknecht-Haus. Berlin’s Babylon cinema can be seen nearby. Berlin police wield clubs and run after Communists along present-day Weydingerstrasse and Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse. Berlin policeman wields his baton at a communist, who narrowly escapes getting hit. German communists run from police.
A military parade displaying symbols of the former German Empire and the Nazi party in Berlin, Germany after the First World War. A marching band playing. Soldiers raise the German Empire (Second Reich) flags and symbols such as the Imperial Eagle. Military officials salute past spectators from their open car. Former German Empire Crown Prince Wilhelm, the son of the former Emperor Wilhelm II, speaks to a military official at a roof deck, likely near the Berlin Zoologischergarten (Berlin Zoo), the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft logo can be seen from the background. Soldiers holding the war flags of the German Empire. A woman uses binoculars to watch the parade. Crown Prince Wilhelm salutes the parade. Marching band parades from the Charlottenburger Chaussee (now known as the Straße des 17. Juni), passing through the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany). Soldiers holding Nazi flags and marching band parades through Under den Linden boulevard. Some spectators perform the Nazi salute at the parade. Some spectators carry umbrellas while watching the Nazi parade.
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany on his annual Nordlandfahrt cruise sailing the North Sea in 1914. Kaiser Wilhelm II shakes hands with dignitaries before boarding a car. The Imperial yacht, SMY Hohenzollern II, departs from port, heading back to Germany. German crowds line shore to watch the arrival of the SMY Hohenzollern II. Kaiser Wilhelm II descends gangplank from ship and enters waiting car. Cavalry marshals control crowds in Berlin waiting for Kaiser Wilhelm II arrival. Kaiser Wilhelm II rides an open topped royal carriage to travel back to the New Palace (Neues Palais), in Potsdam. Crowds wave with their hats to Kaiser Wilhelm II.
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