Funeral for SA men at which Goebbels speaks.

Identifier
irn1003679
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2005.64.1
  • RG-60.4221
Dates
1 Jan 1933 - 31 Dec 1933
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

The cortege and funeral of three SA men: Walter Apel, Robert Gleuel, and Franz Klein, who were purportedly shot and killed by members of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) in June 1933. People are shown laying flowers at the location of the murder in Berlin-Köpenick. The funeral cortege leaves the hospital and passes crowds of mourners, who line the street and give a Hitler salute to the passing hearses. The heavy-handed narration is accompanied by mournful music. The coffins are taken to their local SA headquarters for some sort of ceremony, attended by Joseph Goebbels. Low aerial shots of the cortege as it winds through the city. SA men, police, and Stahlhelm men march in the procession. Hitler Youth hold back the crowd. Lots of shots of SA and others entering the cemetery. In Goebbels' speech (original sound) he talks of the revolution for which these men died, and says that if men didn't die in the name of the revolution then Bolshevism and "dirty blood from the east" would overrun Germany. The ceremony ends with a twenty-one gun salute.

Note(s)

  • USHMM clip is 164 meters; film at Bundesarchiv is 181 meters in length.

  • Gleuel's name appears variously as Robert, Ronert, and Norbert on the Internet. During the "Koepenick Week of Blood" at least 23 people were killed in public. It was the peak of public violence during the Nazi takeover. According to one source, Apel and Gleuel were killed on the evening of June 21, 1933, when they attacked the home of SPD member Johann Schmaus, who was killed by the attacking SA men. Anton Schmaus, son of Johann, shot at the SA men and fled. Franz Klein died on June 27, 1933, as a result of his wounds. This film footage narration says the cortege started at the hospital.

  • Conditions of Use and/or Copyright updated. Correspondence from Bundesarchiv in May 2023, initially sent to Leslie Swift states: no rights claimed anymore by Bundesarchiv, but we don't know who the rights holders might be

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