Newsreels of the Third Reich (1933-1945)

Nazi stormtroopers with torches and flares during a night rally and march, a panorama of the stormtrooper formation from behind.

The face of one of the stormtroopers (in profile).

An SA leader speaking from the podium.

Faces of stormtroopers standing in formation (panorama).

The podium with a speaker in the darkness of the night and clouds of smoke.

The speaker continues his speech, a panorama upwards, to banners with swastikas.

Silhouettes of stormtroopers in clouds of smoke and the reflection of burning torches.

The leader of the stormtrooper unit on the podium raises his hand in a Nazi salute.

View of the podium.

Banners with swastikas flutter, the leader of the stormtrooper unit steps down from the podium.

Rally participants greet the speaker with a standing ovation.

Stormtroopers continue their ovation, preventing a car from passing.

Fireworks in the night sky.

A panorama of a site with stormtroopers standing in formation and a bonfire burning in the center (top).

Fireworks in the night sky.

A burning bonfire.

Faces of rally participants huddled together and singing the party anthem.

Members of the Hitler Youth beat drums and blow bugles during a rally at the stadium in Nuremberg in September 1934. Faces of flutists in the orchestra of one of the Hitler Youth sections.

The orchestra plays, members of the Hitler Youth await Hitler's arrival.

Members of the Hitler Youth climb on each other's shoulders.

Members of the Hitler Youth raise their arms in the Nazi salute.

The arrival of Hitler and his entourage at the rally, one of the Hitler Youth members greets Hitler, climbing a pole.

Hitler walks to the podium.

A bugler sounds a signal.

Hitler greets the rally participants, faces of members of the Hitler Youth.

Goebbels's arrival at the rally.

Hitler stands on a dais, views of the stands of the stadium where the rally is taking place.

Hitler and Hess are among the leaders of the stormtroopers, members of the Hitler Youth enthusiastically greet Hitler.

Drummers beat the drums.

Hitler stands on a dais.

The faces of Hitler and members of the Hitler Youth, musicians beat the drums and cymbals.

The faces of Goebbels and Hess.

Goebbels looks at the stands of the stadium through binoculars.

The Hitler Youth orchestra plays.

Flags with swastikas hang above the stands of the stadium (panorama).

Hitler, Hess, and their entourage stand on a platform, a view of part of the stadium during the rally.

The Gauleiter opens the rally, members of the Hitler Youth stand to listen to the speaker (panorama).

Panorama of the stadium with members of the Hitler Youth standing in formation.

The faces of the speaker and members of the Hitler Youth.

The face of the general.

The face of Hitler.

The Gauleiter finishes his speech and hands the floor over to Hitler.

Hitler addresses members of the Hitler Youth, the faces of German youth.

A German assault gun moves into position.

A German tank crew camouflages the tracks.

Wehrmacht units fight in Italy in 1944. A self-propelled artillery gun crew fires, explosions appear on the ground.

The face of a spotter transmitting corrections over a field telephone.

A self-propelled gun changes its firing position.

German officers with a map assess the combat situation, the officers' faces.

The road leading to the town of Cisterna.

Ruins of houses and a church.

The faces of German paratroopers and anti-tank gunners.

A German machine-gun crew in position.

German soldiers rest between battles during the Battle of Anzio, the faces of sleeping soldiers.

A German long-range gun opens fire on the enemy.

View of the meeting room of representatives of the ROA, the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR), and Russian collaborators.

Speech by an SS general.

Participants in the meeting room.

Speech by General A.A. Vlasov.

SS and ROA officers, and representatives of the Russian émigré community listen to Vlasov.

Vlasov and his entourage walk through the hall to the podium during one of the ROA rallies.

An anti-Stalin slogan is on the balcony of the auditorium.

Views of the presidium of the rally, Vlasov speaking from the podium.

Participants of the rally listen to his speech, stand, and applaud.

Flags above the presidium.

Map of part of Italy.

German troops moving along the roads of Italy.

German troops are fighting in Italy against the allies.

Artillery and mortar crews are firing at the enemy.

A machine-gun crew is firing.

German officers are observing the enemy.

Faces of prisoners (panorama).

German troops are fighting in Italy.

An anti-aircraft gunner is firing at air targets.

Panorama of the terrain in the foothills.

The face of a German anti-aircraft gunner.

The burning wreckage of a downed aircraft.

A view of an ancient castle in Belgium.

A German staff car crosses a bridge.

German cavalry moves across the bridge.

A German horse artillery unit enters the castle gates.

Views of central Brussels.

A parade of German troops on the main square of Brussels on May 28, 1940 (above).

The palace building is decorated with banners bearing swastikas.

Hitler greets the troops from one of the palace balconies.

Hitler and Mussolini during a military parade in June 1940. A parade of Italian troops and Blackshirt units.

The arrival of Goering's train at Hitler's headquarters, the Wolfsschanze, in December 1941. A soldier at the post salutes.

Officers greet Goering as he exits the carriage.

The arrival of Field Marshal von Bock at Hitler's headquarters; von Bock exits the car.

Von Bock, accompanied by a headquarters officer, walks down the path.

Hitler greets von Bock.

General Sepp Dietrich and his entourage walk to the bunker at Hitler's headquarters.

Hitler greets Dietrich and presents him with an award, December 31, 1941. Hitler's conversation with Dietrich.

German pilots, recipients of the Knight's Cross, leave the hunting lodge.

Von Friedeburg greets the arriving pilots.

Von Friedeburg invites the pilots to the table for breakfast.

Pilots during breakfast.

The face of Major Weiss.

Pilots conversing with the SS-Oberführer, the faces of the pilots.

Hitler at the Reich Chancellery during a reception for Slovakian President Tiso.

Hitler greets Tiso.

Interior views and rooms of the new Reich Chancellery, designed by Speer in 1939. Guests in the courtyard of the new Reich Chancellery.

The faces of the guests.

Guests enter the doors of the new Reich Chancellery.

Hitler, Goebbels, and their entourage enter the reception hall.

The face of a young woman.

Hitler walks around the guests and greets them.

Representatives of foreign diplomatic missions in dress uniforms enter the reception hall.

SS soldiers stand guard at the entrance to the main hall, a chandelier hangs from the ceiling.

Hitler enters the hall.

Hitler receives foreign diplomats and ambassadors.

Hitler converses with diplomats.

Hitler meets with the Mufti of Jerusalem in the new Reich Chancellery.

The Turkish ambassador arrives at the Reich Chancellery.

Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano gets into his car.

Ciano's motorcade moves through the streets of Berlin, accompanied by a motorcycle escort.

The US ambassador is welcomed. V.M. Molotov is met at the Berlin train station on November 12, 1940. Molotov is talking with Ribbentrop and the interpreter Hilger at the station.

Molotov, Ribbentrop, and their entourage walk toward the exit of the station building.

Molotov, Ribbentrop, and their entourage exit the station building.

Unloading mail bags from train cars and loading them onto trucks.

A German military column moves along the road.

View from the truck cabin.

German military vehicles move off-road during the rasputitsa (muddy road).

Distribution of letters from home to German soldiers.

A truck moves through the mud.

Soviet prisoners of war repair a road; faces of prisoners of war working with picks and shovels.

Unloading stone from a truck for paving a section of the road.

Soviet prisoners of war pave the road with stone.

One of the prisoners of war rolls a cigarette.

A prisoner of war gives a light to his comrade.

Prisoners of war pave the road with stone; face of one of the prisoners of war.

A prisoner of war smashes stones and bricks into rubble with a hammer.

Face of a German soldier guarding prisoners of war.

Women with shoulder yokes pass by.

A car drives along a new road built by prisoners of war.

The face of an elderly standard-bearer of the German Volkssturm in the dress uniform of a stormtrooper.

Volunteers enlist in the Volkssturm.

A monument on the field of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig.

The figure of a knight on the monument.

A ceremonial meeting of representatives of the Volkssturm.

Volkssturm soldiers in formation, with armbands on their sleeves.

The face of a young man.

Himmler addresses the Volkssturm soldiers from the podium.

Faces of Volkssturm soldiers.

View of the hall of the ceremonial meeting of the Volkssturm.

Faces of the military present.

A German road sign.

A ceremonial formation of one of the Volkssturm units.

Soldiers in formation.

A soldier awarded the Iron Cross.

Volkssturm officers carry banners with a swastika.

Volkssturm units lined up in the town square.

A view of the hall during the swearing-in of allegiance to the Führer by civil servants in 1935 at the Sports Palace in Berlin.

Nurses during the swearing-in ceremony.

Views of the hall and podium during the swearing-in ceremony, and the faces of the nurses taking the oath.

A view of the Sports Palace hall in Berlin.

Rally participants greet Goebbels during his speech on total war on February 18, 1943. Goebbels speaks from the podium.

A panorama of the balconies is visible, along with views of the hall during the rally.

Rally participants stand, raising their arms in the Nazi salute, and give an ovation.

The entire hall sings the anthem.

Views and a panorama of the hall.

Rally participants' faces, an ovation for Goebbels.

The podium and presidium of the rally, Goebbels continues his speech, views of the hall.

Hitler and Goering in a train compartment.

Hitler and Goering conversing.

Photograph of Rudolf Hess.

Hess at a party event.

Photograph of Alfred Rosenberg.

A view of a Nazi rally.

Hess delivers the oath of allegiance to Hitler from the podium.

Rally participants stand with their arms raised in the Nazi salute.

Hitler takes the podium at a rally in the Sports Palace.

The rally participants take their seats.

Hitler quickly reviews the text of his speech; wounded soldiers are among the rally participants.

Hitler talks with the rally participants, including Göring and Goebbels.

Hitler greets participants of rallies in 1942-1944. Hitler walks his dog.

Hitler at a funeral in Munich.

Hitler expresses condolences to the relatives of the deceased.

Hitler and Göring at the funeral.

An honor guard of SS soldiers stands at the coffin.

Map of the Atlantic Wall, from Sweden to France.

Gun barrels of the Atlantic Wall's coastal batteries.

Concrete emplacements for machine guns and cannons.

A torpedo crew loading a coastal torpedo tube.

Aiming the cannon at the target.

The barrel of one of the coastal guns.

Sailors training to use a rangefinder.

Field Marshal von Rundstedt and his accompanying officers during an inspection of defensive fortifications.

A view of one of the concrete bunkers under construction.

Installation of the metal section of one of the bunkers.

Panorama of one of the defensive nodes with concrete gun bunkers.

Construction of gun bunkers.

Permanent concrete emplacements on the coast of France.

Panorama of part of a minefield.

A mine warning sign on barbed wire.

Gun barrels of one of the coastal batteries, camouflaged by netting.

German weightlifters lift the barbell during competition, the faces of fans and judges.

The faces of German soldiers during combat.

Book burning by Nazi stormtroopers and students at Leipzig University in 1933. Fireworks in the night sky in the form of a portrait of Hitler.

Stormtroopers dancing with girls.

Distribution of soup to participants in a folk festival in 1941-1943. People eating soup.

Cooks distributing soup from a field kitchen.

People eating soup while sitting at a common table.

Assembly of artillery guns at a military factory in Germany, production processes.

Transporting a tank at a military factory using a crane beam.

A blind worker assembles a bearing by touch, the worker's face.

A worker inspects a finished rifle stock.

Ship construction at a shipyard (above).

Panorama of an aircraft assembly shop.

Installation of a wing console.

Launching a submarine.

Airplanes flying by.

The barrels of new artillery guns rise in sync.

Hitler speaking at a rally.