Streets of Berlin at night. Lighting on the streets. Shops are lighted. Crowd of pedestrians on sidewalks. Heavy vehicular traffic.Church spires silhouetted against lighter sky. Movie theater advertising "Brigitte Helm in Die Herren Von Atlantis." 'Hermann Tietz' sign lighted. "Automat" restaurant. Signs on building include "Cafe Am Zoo" ; "Michels" and "Wintergarten." Chorus girls perform a group dance on stage in a follies type stage show. Fireworks near water side.
A band plays trumpets in a show at a beer garden. A boy seated on the shoulder of a man as both play trumpets. Audience sings and sways with the music. A woman takes a mug and fills it with beer from a tap. A crowded night club in Berlin with couples dancing to an orchestra. Bartender and girls put on a show behind the bar. People seated at tables as a group of women chorus line dancers perform a synchonized dance while holding cocktail shakers. The chorus girl costumes include hats with "Haus Vaterland" written on them. Fireworks and celebrations. Man in tophat eats a sausage given by a chef.
German army and Freikorps setting up positions as they establish themselves in Berlin during the Kapp Putsch of 1920. Civilians watch as the soldiers go about their activities, setting up machine guns and the like during the unrest. A line of military trucks, displaying the Empire war flag. Crowd of civilians held back by barrier across the road. Troops bivouacked near a building, with machine guns on the sidewalk in foreground and a field kitchen in background. The Reichskriegsflagge (Empire War Flag) displayed on the building. German soldiers prepare to operate armored cars. Turret turning on an Austin Armored Car Model 1914, rearmed with German Maxim Machine Guns. Several armored cars depart on patrol. They all display skull and cross bones. Soldiers distribute flyers announcing the monarchistischen Putsch (Monarchist coup). Soldiers eating food from their field kitchen. One displays the words kampfwagen and a skull and cross bones on his sleeve. Soldiers pose atop a wheeled heavy machine gun. View of crowds as seen from a moving vehicle. The Imperial war flag carried in the crowd.
Phonograph vinyl record spinning on turntable at AFN ( American Forces Network) Master control spin studio. Announcer, Army Specialist Ted Shrady speaks over microphone before playing Ottorino Respighi's 'Pines of Rome'. Man reading newspaper adjusts frequency to listen to song on radio.
Hitler arriving in Nuremberg, for the Nazi Party Congress. Nazi Swastika flags everywhere, as well as local flags. German soldiers march carrying Nazi flags and other flags containing crowns and Prussian symbols. Hitler and Heinrich Himmler come out of the Deutscher Hof Hotel and review a formation of SS troops. Hitler drives in open car. Local spectators cheer and salute. Hitler enters a building and appears on a small balcony, with two other Nazi officials.
United States soldiers on alert in Michelbach, Alsace, France during World War 1. The soldiers, at the ready, with weapons in hand are in well established trenches reinforced with woven slender tree limbs and sand bags. They are in a forest with what appears to be a footbridge in the background. Troops aim their weapons.
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