German newsreel (1921-1933)

Carnival procession on the streets of Berlin.

Field kitchens move along one of the streets of Berlin.

Distribution of hot food from field kitchens.

People drink hot coffee from mugs.

Children eat bread.

Distribution of free soup.

People stand around a field kitchen.

A child with a can in his hands near a field kitchen.

Teaching people deprived of sight to read and the alphabet for the blind.

A teenager reads with his fingertips.

A parade of scouts on the streets of Rome.

Mussolini greets the children passing by.

A column of girls passes.

Political figures of the Weimar Republic leave the building of the Hotel Adlon.

Cars drive up to the entrance of the hotel through the parting crowd.

Political figures go inside the hotel.

People run along the street to the hotel.

Distinguished guests on the balcony of the hotel respond to the greetings of the people gathered below.

A car drives up to the entrance of the building.

Meeting the distinguished guests, soldiers at the entrance hold their rifles "on guard".

People on the sidewalk behind the police cordon.

Guests at the entrance to the building.

A car driving away from the entrance (top).

Military parade in Berlin in honor of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the German Empire, January 18, 1931. People at the entrance to the art exhibition in Berlin in 1928. One of the exhibits presented at the exhibition.

Visitors to the exhibition in the hall during the ceremonial opening, speeches of speakers.

Visitors examine the exhibits and paintings in the halls of the exhibition.

Boxer Max Schmelling on the street of Berlin.

The face of Schmelling giving an interview.

Schmelling with his trainer.

Schmelling during training.

Schmelling during a massage session.

Participants in the Munich Trial of the participants of the "Beer Hall Putsch" enter the building of the military academy on February 24, 1924, among them Goebbels J. Goebbels at the entrance to the building.

Arrival of participants in the trial and witnesses.

People entering the building.

Goebbels gets out of a car on a street in Berlin.

Goebbels speaking at a Nazi rally in 1927. Goebbels in his office at his desk.

Goebbels delivers a speech, standing in front of a microphone.

A column of trucks with Nazi storm troopers in the back drives along a street in Munich.

Cyclists ride next to the trucks.

Police in front of the military academy.

Goebbels gets out of the car and heads for the entrance.

Members of the Hitler Youth put on camping gear during a summer camp in 1933, eating lunch near tents.

Police in the square hold back the crowd (top).

Participants in a Nazi rally greet NSDAP leaders passing by in cars.

Parade of Nazi storm troopers in 1933 (top).

NSDAP leaders greet passing storm troopers.

Departure of NSDAP leaders after the parade (top).

A delegation of Italian fascist youth organizations at an event.

City residents disperse after the event, with police riding in front.

Columns of members of Nazi youth organizations walk by.

A parade in support of the NSDAP on one of the city streets.

Faces of city council members.

An officer on horseback overcomes an obstacle.

Participants in the German Cup tennis competition are photographed on the court.

Fans in one of the stands.

Tennis players on the court during the next set.

Architecture of churches and cathedrals in Germany, decorative elements of religious buildings, sculptures.

Types of ancient buildings.

View of the building of the Berlin Cathedral, a ship sails along the river.

The dome of one of the churches.

An elderly woman with a bouquet of flowers walks along the sidewalk in Berlin.

Examples of German architecture of the 1930s, views and panoramas of buildings.

A policeman helps an elderly woman across an intersection.

A child in a crib.

People are sitting at a table in an outdoor cafe against the background of one of the high-rise buildings.

Panorama of a high-rise building (bottom up).

People are sitting at tables in an outdoor cafe (top).

Children at cafe tables.

View of the wall of a high-rise building.

View of part of Berlin (top).

A tram passes by a high-rise building.

A chimney sweep at work.

Deck superstructure of a river vessel.

People on the embankment.

Passers-by on one of the streets of Berlin.

River transport in Berlin.

A Berlin subway train passes along the overpass.

Views of subway overpasses.

A train passes over a bridge.

Subway trains on open sections of lines, roofs of passing carriages.

People on the stairs leading to the subway.

Standards with coats of arms on lampposts.

Wheels of cars and buses passing on the asphalt.

Views of streets and buildings in Berlin.

Movement of public transport and pedestrians along one of the streets (above).

View of the building of the Protestant church.

People and public transport on the streets of Berlin, everyday life in Berlin.

A boy rides a pedal car.

People on the streets of Berlin, shop windows.

Views of city streets (above).

Street lamp.

A doorman trains sparrows.

Faces of visitors to one of the street cafes.

Views of street cafes.

A newspaper kiosk on one of the streets of Berlin.

Car traffic on one of the streets.

A porter carries luggage to the delivery address.

Movement of public transport, an airplane displayed on the street for advertising.

Types of public transport in Berlin.

Newspaper vendors at the Zoosad metro station.

A boy buys ice cream from an elderly street vendor.

A woman dressed in furs comes out of a photo studio, a shop window of a photo studio.

Traffic and horse-drawn transport on the streets of Berlin.

A carriage stops at the sidewalk, a bride and groom get out of the carriage.

A bride and groom walk up the steps of a church.

Horse heads.

Elements of architectural decoration of the church building.

Newlyweds come out of the church.

Horse heads in a harness.

Guests and relatives come out of the church building.

Passengers and porters at the station.

View of one of the platforms (from above), passengers walking along the platform to board.

Seeing off at a train carriage.

View of a summer recreation area, playing sports.

Cooking on specially installed coal stoves.

Vacationers having lunch.

Automobile transport on one of the streets of Berlin.

Brandenburg Gate Square.

Cars drive along the Brandenburg Gate.

Passengers boarding a bus, the bus starts moving.

A tour guide with a megaphone in an open bus.

Views of buildings and streets in Berlin.

Architectural decorations of buildings, examples of architectural styles.

A tram passes under an arch.

View of one of the streets of Berlin.

Movement of various types of transport.

A festive procession along one of the streets.

People boarding an excursion omnibus.

Passengers' faces, a man grimacing and sticking out his tongue.

A coachman stroking a horse.

A cabby at a stop on a city street in winter.

A cabby on the box.

Public transport on the streets of Berlin (combined photography).

View of the Brandenburg Gate.

Telephone exchange building.

Loading fresh bread into a van.

Loading confectionery into a van.

Cars and horse-drawn carriages under a canopy in the yard of a transport company.

Trucks in a warehouse being loaded (top), draft horses being led out of the stable.

The yard of a transport company, horse-drawn carriages leaving for their destination (top).

Loading confectionery into a van.

Cars and horse-drawn transport leaving for their destination.

People walking along the roadway to a demonstration.

Police officers directing traffic on the streets of Berlin in the mid-1920s.

View of one of the intersections (top), a policeman leads a passerby off the roadway.

Views of intersections and streets in Berlin.

Movement of a Berlin subway train.

Cars on one of the streets.

Unloading coal from a river barge.

Workers carry baskets of crushed stone from the barge.

A river vessel departs from the shore.

Port cranes at work, ships being unloaded.

Metro stations, train traffic.

Double-decker buses and trams on the streets of Berlin.

Ponds in a city park.

People at a cafe table on the bank of a pond.

Swans in the park, children feeding swans.

Views of parks and recreation areas.

Panorama of the yacht club pier on one of the lakes.

Children swimming at the pier.

Children jumping into the water.

Views of old buildings in Berlin.

A man and a woman drinking wine.

German artist Heinrich Zille at work in his studio.

Artist Käthe Kollwitz gives an interview.

Hunters leaving for a parfos hunt.

Hunters are riding horseback, a pack of dogs runs next to them.

The dogs rush after a "hare" on a rope, the hunters gallop after them, overcoming various natural obstacles.

A ceremonial welcome in Berlin, the face of a man decorated with medals and arriving from Paris, a man driving a horse-drawn carriage.

Crowds of people accompany the carriage (above).

Entrance to the railway station.

Panorama of the station building.

Pedestal with a swastika, decorated with fir branches.

Interior views of the hall during a meeting of SA members in Essen in 1934. Passersby and SA stormtroopers on the city street, a tram is on the tracks.

Columns of NSDAP members march along the city streets.

Mounted police push the crowd off the roadway.

Columns of Nazi stormtroopers march along the street, carrying banners with a swastika.

Views and panoramas of a Nazi rally on a city square in the rain.

Street cleaning in Berlin with a watering machine.

Workers standing on ladders wash the facade of a building.

Horse-drawn and automobile transport on the streets of Berlin.

Unloading a basket of coal from the back of a truck.

The production process at one of the industrial enterprises.

Manufacturing gears of various sizes.

Checking a bicycle wheel.

A river on wood.

The production process in a metallurgical plant workshop.

Erection of scaffolding during the construction of a multi-story building.

Steeplejacks at work.

View of part of a Berlin quarter (from above).

Builders working at height.

Reeds in a pond in one of the parks.

Cargo ships sail along the river.

Cleaning the river bottom with a bucket conveyor.

Ducks and fish in the pond.

Fishermen pull the net with the catch to the shore.

A bird pecks food from a feeder on a tree trunk.

A traffic controller changes the traffic lights.

Young people on a horseback ride in the park, a girl gets into the saddle.

Sculpture in the park.

Young people riding horses along the park path.

Swans in the pond.

Examples of ancient and modern architecture of Berlin of the early 1930s, sculptural decorations in the niches of buildings.

Clock tower.

Traffic past the market (top).

Brass band playing in the street.

Faces of musicians.

Faces of shoppers at the market.

Live fish trade.

Fish cleaning on the spot.

Face of a girl.

Street trade in fruits and vegetables, faces of shoppers and sellers.

Flower trade from a stall on the street.

Signs and shop windows of shops and stalls.

Entrance of an antique shop.

Knight's armor in the shop window.

Sculptural composition in one of the parks, fragments of statues.

Cabby on the box.

Statue of Neptune on one of the city streets.

View of one of the streets (top).

Shell representative office building.

Barge on one of the canals.

Waterways and bridges of Berlin.

A vessel with a collapsible funnel passes under a bridge.

Ships sailing along the river, sculptures above the bridges.

A man riding a hand-powered water bike.

Views of the river port.

Loading various cargo onto ships.

Views of a river port.

Loading various cargo onto ships.

Lifting a bundle of barrels with a crane.

Transporting various cargo with a crane.

A woman hanging freshly washed laundry on the deck of a barge.

Transporting cargo with port cranes.

A train passes over a bridge above the port.

Fishermen with fishing rods sit on the granite embankment and barges.

Seagulls fly under the bridge.

Women tend to flowers growing in boxes on the deck of a moored ship.

Panorama of a part of the Humboldt Harbor.

Unloading bulk cargo.

View of a part of the bridge (bottom).

View of a part of the cargo pier with railway tracks (top).

Timber on the pier (top).

Everyday work at a river port, a train with cargo passes, river ships sail by.

Views of the Spree River within the city limits.

Workers on a barge push off the bottom with poles.

Operation of the river lock of the Berlin-Spandau Canal.

An old man and a boy sit on the anchor chain.

The boy feeds the swans that are swimming up.

One of the bridges within the city.

Cargo ships on the river, the daily work of the port.

A steam launch sails along the Berlin-Spandau Canal.

Cargo and passenger ships and barges on the Berlin-Spandau Canal.

Bridges across the Spree, architectural decorations of the bridges.

View of the Brandenburg Gate, cars driving across the square.

Views of Berlin streets, passers-by and public transport on the streets.

People on the square near the Brandenburg Gate.

A woman waving from the balcony.

The building of the Berlin Cathedral.

Architectural decorations of part of the cathedral.

Sculptures on the edge of the roof of the building.

Victory Column in Berlin.

Statue on top of the column.

Tiled roofs of Berlin houses.

Photos of the destruction of the Reichstag building after the storming in May 1945. Pigeons flying over the roofs.

Monuments and sculptures on the Lustgarten, street sign.

People on the streets of the city in the early 1930s.

View of the Brandenburg Gate.

Quadriga above the gate.

Representatives of the German leadership and Reichstag deputies, led by Reich President Ebert F., descend the steps of the Reichstag after the end of the elections in 1921. Residents of Berlin go to a demonstration.

An infantry unit of the Reichswehr marches across the square in parade formation.

Ebert and Reich Chancellor W. Cuno inspect the formation of the guard of honor company.

Demonstration in Berlin under the flags of the Weimar Republic.

Ebert speaks at a rally on the square in front of the Reichstag.

Views of the rally in front of the Reichstag building.

A wedding procession passes.

People see off horse-drawn carriages with newlyweds and a car with guests.

Panorama of buildings on one of Berlin's squares.

A double-decker bus, cars, and horse-drawn carriages pass by.

The face of automobile inventor Karl Benz.

Cars and trams on the streets of Berlin.

A summer restaurant in one of Berlin's parks.

Selling drinks from a stall.

People queuing at a buffet in a park.

People walking in a park.

A wheel-rolling competition on the roadway.

A bicycle race on a track.

The face of an Italian cyclist.

A man and a woman getting into a car.

A woman on the balcony of the Adlon Hotel.

Demonstration of models of women's clothing and fur jewelry.

A model changing her outfit.

A model demonstrating a dress.

Views of the streets of Berlin at night, the illuminated advertisement is on.

Fragments of a dance revue on the stage of the Admiral Palace.

The legs of girls dancing the Charleston.

Musicians playing jazz.

Carnival participants dancing near the stage with an orchestra.

The faces of the musicians.

The legs of the dancers.

Participants in a costumed festival playing with a tame cheetah.

Cleaning up autumn leaves in the park.

Whitewashing tree trunks.

Street trading of spring flowers on the streets of Berlin.

A woman washing a window.

A waiter at a summer cafe sets up tables outside.

Waitresses wipe chairs with rags while waiting for customers.

A man tars the bottom of a boat before the summer season begins.

Women with strollers in a park, a man carries a bunch of balloons.

Children playing.

An organ grinder performs in a yard for children.

Berliners relaxing in cafes, parks, and by the water.

Dogs are put in a boat before a river cruise.

Lovers in a park under blossoming trees.

Berliners fill parks to relax.

Berliners ceremonially welcome Gustav Heckmann driving a horse-drawn carriage.

Communist rallies and events in Berlin in the first half of the 1920s, speeches by speakers.

People go to Lake Wannsee to relax by the water.

Views of the beach filled with vacationers.

Swimming in the lake, faces of vacationers.

Women sunbathing in deck chairs, beach activities.

Speakers speaking at rallies of various political parties of the Weimar Republic.

Hitler A. speaking from the rostrum at a rally in 1927. Minister-President of Prussia Otto Braun speaking from the rostrum in March 1932. The Berlin Symphony Orchestra playing.

The Berlin Opera building (panorama).

The building of the cathedral.

A fountain in the square.

Elements of sculptural decorations.

Examples of German architecture of the 19th century, museum buildings.

The symphony orchestra playing, the conductor at the podium.

The Brandenburg Gate, decorated with the flags of Japan of the Third Reich.

View of the Brandenburg Gate at dawn.

One of the participants of the motor rally in Berlin in 1926 near his car.

The start of the motor rally.

Hindenburg meeting the foreign delegation.

Views of the ceremonial event on the occasion of the arrival of the delegation, a guard of honor on the station square.

People on the square (top).

A cavalry escort accompanies the car of the head of the delegation.

An intermediate finish of the luge race in the Alps.

A view of the field from the stands of the Berlin stadium during the opening of the youth festival in 1926. Children and teenagers participating in a theatrical performance run out onto the stadium field.

Flags above one of the stands.

View of the stadium during a theatrical performance.

A children's choir performing at the stadium, the conductor on the platform.

Fragments of a theatrical performance at the stadium.

Spectators in one of the stands.

Youth procession along the stadium track (top).

Fragments of a theatrical performance on the stadium field.