U.S. soldiers are seen walking into a village already occupied by U.S. infantrymen, who are lined up carrying their individual mess gear as they move in an outdoor chow line. A little smoke can be seen from an outdoor mess stove (unseen). A sign identifies the town as: "Bitschhofen, Kreis Hagenau." The arriving U.S. troops continue, walking through, and out of the town, along a wet muddy road. Other soldiers, in the town, bring their food back from their mess kitchen. The troops passing through, slog in the mud.
Adolf Hitler and party of military officers wait to receive the president of The Slovak Republic Jozef Tiso at a railway station. Dr.Tiso, president of The Slovak Republic, detrains in Berlin and is greeted by German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, who escorts him to a waiting car and joins him in the back seat. .
Athletes running the marathon race during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin (Eleventh Olympiad). Spectators cheer. A man delivering race commentary. Kitel Son of Japan wins marathon race; Ernest Harper of England comes in second; Shoryu Nan of Japan, Third; Erkki Tamila of Finland, fourth; Vaino Muinonen of Finland, fifth; Johannes Coleman of South Africa, sixth.
View towards starboard bow of the German Rotor Ship, "Buckau", at anchor, being photographed from a small boat that rocks with the waves. Another view towards her starboard stern. Brief closeup glimpse of one of her 50 ft tall rotor cylinders. View of the "Buckau" from starboard, abeam. Change of scene shows a German Braunschweig-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Kaiserliche Marine at anchor, viewed from the "Buckau." Camera pans port-side of the battleship, from stern towards bow, and continues panning left showing the deck and some crew of the "Buckau," from which it is filming. Next, two German warships are seen anchored, directly astern of the rotor ship.
A crowd of German civilians is seen gathered in the Lustgarten. But the scene shifts suddenly to the Berlin Deutsches Stadion (Deutsches Stadion, Olympischer Platz 3, 14053 Berlin) in the Grunewald Racecourse. Men in old-fashioned traditional military uniforms march into the stadium, carrying flags of the various German States. They parade around the perimeter of the stadium. Flag of the German Weimar Republic flies over the principal building in the stands. The flag bearers on the field lower their flags, in salute. Next, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and his deputy, General Erich Ludendorff, enter the field, leading several military officers, together with a civilian, carrying a sign reading: "I.G.I.D." They are followed by a long line of civilians. Spectators are on their feet in the stands where some men wave their hats and some women wave handkerchiefs. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Paul von Hindenburg, second President of the German Reich,enters a car and rides in a motorcade, accompanied by Horse Guards and motorcycle escorts. Spectators line the streets to watch. Crowds fill a square. The procession passes through the Brandenburg Gate. Hindenburg leads group of politicians down the stairs of a building, where they stop and
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