Nazi Party organizes; "Voelkischer Beobachter" office; newspapers; leading officials

Identifier
irn1003263
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1991.263.1
  • RG-60.3797
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Philipp Bouhler (1899-1945) SS-Obergruppenfuehrer who served as chief of Hitler's chancellery and head of the T-4 Euthanasia program. In 1922 he left the department of philosophy at the University of Munich to help edit the Voelkischer Beobachter.

Franz Xaver Schwarz (1875-1947) Treasurer of the Nazi Party. One of Hitler's old guard, made treasurer in 1925. Elected to the Reichstag in 1933. Later made a Reich Leader and SS-Obergruppenfuehrer.

Scope and Content

Offices of the Voelkischer Beobachter. Franz Pfeffer von Salomon works in his office as Philipp Bouhler and Franz Xaver Schwarz, Nazi Party treasurer, join him. Seated at a table, they review and edit papers, presumably copy for the newspaper. Exterior of the office of the Voelkischer Beobachter, people carry stacks of newspapers into the building. People reading a copy of the newspaper posted on the side of a building. SA men pick up stacks of the paper from the counter. The interior of the sales office of the paper. Several female typists at work; people bustling about the office.

Note(s)

  • One intertitle refers to Alfred Rosenberg but he does not appear in the sequence. This is a re-transfer - see also Story 3791, Film ID 61 for duplicate footage. See also Film ID 2705, Story 4017 for fuller coverage ordered in 2004.

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