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  1. SA parade in Koln

    Tracking shot, SA/Nazi parade through Koln. Intertitle identifies "Gauleiter Grohe". Banner: Heil der alten Garde

  2. Hitler with plane

    Hitler into plane. Reverse angle of plane taking off and aerial (wheel). Hitler receives flowers by plane, signs autograph.

  3. Aerials of Hitler plane

    Hitler by window of plane. POV, plane landing. Aerial of plane. Hitler gets out of plane.

  4. New Cabinet Meeting in Berlin

    Quick, soft, nighttime march of SS, SA, and stormtroopers with torches, flags. Inside the Hotel Kaiserhof, before the Cabinet meeting begins. Everyone in suits, gathered around, mingling, a bit disorganized. Posing for their first official photograph. Cabinet members include (according to BA documentation): Hitler, Goering, von Papen, Seldte, Gerecke, von Schwerin Krosigk, Frick, von Blomberg, and Hugenberg. EXT, Reichstag, Nazi elite spotlit in window. Murky shots of nighttime parade with torches.

  5. Freikorps in Munich

    Freikorps through street and aboard train. WS, Burgermeister.

  6. Government troops parade in Munich

    Government troops take aim, bullet holes in shop windows. Victorious government troops through Munich.

  7. Banks closed

    "Deutschland in Not" Newspaper headlines Banks closed, sidewalk scenes.

  8. Hitler trial in Munich

    Tilt down from Kriegschule to guards. Soldiers checking IDs at barbed wire. Barbed wire, people enter court.

  9. Liebknecht speaks

    Title: Demonstration vor dem Abgeordnetenhaus waehrend der ____ des revolutionaeren Reichsparlaments. "Liebknecht speaks." Karl Liebknecht, a communist and member of the Spartacus League who was executed without trial following the Spartakus Rising of January 1919, speaks to a group of demonstrators. Title: "Volksbeauftragte [delegate] Barth speaks." Emil Barth speaks to the crowd. New scene - camera pans across men, seated and standing (appearing to pose for cameras). Two men, seated, talk and shake hands. Scene switches to a man and a woman posing beside a ship; the (presumable) ship's ca...

  10. KPD demonstration 1929

    KPD (communist party) demonstration on May 1, 1929. Shots of police running down the street, seen from above through a window down an alley/street. Shot of police marching and running after people. Several shots of police attempting to push and beat people. A horse and cart in street, people rush by.

  11. Hindenburg and von Papen vote

    Hindenburg and von Papen voting.

  12. Hitler becomes chancellor

    Both daytime and nighttime scenes. Daylight scenes are good. Title: "Hindenburg and Hitler at the window of the Reichschancellery." Spotlit Nazi flags passing by. Hindenburg appears at the window, dimly lit from a lamp or candles behind him. SA men bearing torches run in formation. Hitler, spotlit at the window, salutes the crowd below. A brief closer view of Hitler at the window.

  13. Jewish boycott; Goebbels

    Title: "Germany defends itself against the atrocity-mongers [Greuelhetze] - In the struggle against the false reports in foreign lands, Jewish businesses across the country will be boycotted." March 30, 1933, the day before the official boycott of Jewish businesses in Germany. SA men driving through the street in the back of an open truck with a "Deutsche! Wehrt Euch!" sign on the back The SA men wave Nazi flags and the audio has people chanting, "Deutschland!" Civilians on bicyclists follow closely behind the truck as it weaves through the street. The scene switches to SA men posting "Deut...

  14. Hitler speaks: "Germany is Awake"

    Title: At the Berlin Sportspalast, the Reichschancellor thanks the assembled SA and SS for their loyalty, their courage, and their perserverance." Martial music plays as the camera shows the huge assembled crowd from above, standing at attention. Hitler walks through the crowd to the podium and speaks, thanking them for their patience in the past years, stating that he knows that they must have sometimes questioned whether Germany's hour would come, but that now: "That great moment. . . has arrived, Germany is now awakened. . . is the master of her own destiny." Hess and Roehm are visible a...

  15. Red revolution in Munich

    Poster of General Strike. WS, Munich railroads. Red troops with weapons. Kiosk on fire, smoke.

  16. Book burning in Berlin

    Book burning outside Kroll Opera House.

  17. Election day

    Berlin election day. Street scenes. Trams, pedestrians, bicyclists riding in single line wi th placards. Leaflets tossed in air. Potzdamer Platz. Group of people running along street while others watch. Vehicles with banners waving.

  18. Berlin workers leave factory

    Berlin workers leave factory.

  19. Hindenburg reviews Naval honor company

    Hindenburg reviews Naval honor company at Wilhelmshaven, Germany

  20. Socialists and Communists demonstrate in Treptow

    Socialists and Communists demonstrate in Treptow. Many good close shots, among brass band, among crowd, of speaker, etc.