Nazi Germany (1933-1944)

The courtroom of the trial of those accused of the assassination attempt on Hitler, July 20, 1944. A bust of Hitler is seen against the backdrop of a swastika in the courtroom.

Military personnel in the courtroom.

Accused conspiracy diplomat von Hassell answers the judge's questions (still image); microphones are on the judge's table.

A view of a city square with troops lined up on it (above).

Soldiers line up before the ceremony of taking the oath of allegiance to the Fuehrer.

Officers taking the oath.

Views of the square and soldiers in formation during the oath-taking ceremony.

Hitler takes the podium and begins his speech in September 1934 in Nuremberg.

A view of the rally, standards with swastikas.

Hitler continues his speech.

Hitler's speeches at Nazi rallies and rallies in 1933-1939. Rudolf Hess speaks from the podium during the 6th NSDAP Party Congress in Nuremberg.

Participants at Nazi rallies greet Hitler and his entourage as they pass by.

Hitler, standing in his car, returns the greetings.

Hitler's car drives through the grounds of an industrial plant.

Views of a mass Nazi rally.

Rally participants raise their arms in the Nazi salute.

Hitler speaks from the podium (with his back to the ground).

Panorama of the rally.

Hitler reviews a military parade.

A Wehrmacht motorcycle unit at a parade in Berlin.

An officer approaches Hitler, seated in his car, and Hitler greets him.

Photographs of military and political figures accused of plotting against Hitler, including Bonhoeffer David, General Beck, and Admiral Canaris.

British Prime Minister Chamberlain returns greetings after arriving in Germany in 1938.

British Prime Minister Chamberlain returns greetings upon arriving in Germany in 1938. French Prime Minister Daladier gets into a car.

Greeters wave Nazi flags.

Hitler and Daladier meet.

Mussolini, Hitler, Goering, Daladier, Ribbentrop, and Chamberlain during negotiations in Munich in September 1938. Residents of the Sudetenland welcome incoming German troops.

A woman scatters flowers on the pavement.

Wehrmacht operations in Poland in September 1939. Tanks, artillery, and machine guns fire.

Photographs of the first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels, and Hitler speaking from the podium.

Photographs of the destruction of the Reichstag building after the fire.

Jews being checked for documents in occupied Warsaw.

A tram in one of Warsaw's Jewish quarters.

Three rabbis walking down the street.

A Reichswehr unit marches in parade formation along a city street.

Hindenburg inspects the formation.

An airplane in the sky.

Views of central Berlin (from above).

The burning Reichstag building (staged).

Photographs of the Reichstag building damaged by fire.

Photographs of German politicians and Hitler.

Photographs of Goering, Goebbels, and Streicher.

A photograph of Hitler in his prison cell by the bars in 1924. Photographs of Hitler and Hess in the 1920s.

Hindenburg inspects the Reichswehr unit.

Berliners on a square.

Hindenburg returns greetings from a palace window.

Hindenburg walks with children.

The Berlin Cathedral.

Views and panorama of the square filled with people.

Views and panorama of the funeral rally during Hindenburg's funeral in August 1934. Rally participants greet Hitler as he leaves the building toward his car in 1933. Hitler among German industrialists after his election as Reich Chancellor, with Goering and von Papen sitting in chairs nearby.

Panorama of a mass rally in Berlin during the arrival of Hindenburg and Hitler (top).

Hindenburg speaks from the podium.

Hitler speaks from the podium.

View of part of the rally (top).

The burning Reichstag (film fragment).

Van der Lubbe, accused of setting the Reichstag on fire, sits in the dock.

The defendants in the dock.

The process of making barbed wire on an automatic machine.

Coils of barbed wire stacked in a stack (panorama).

Members of the Hitler Youth during a tactical exercise on a terrain model.

Loading a cannon for firing on a terrain model.

Photographs of Hitler among Wehrmacht military personnel and commanders.

Photograph of General von Fritsch.

Article in a German newspaper from 1939. Wehrmacht units entering the Sudetenland in 1938. Photograph of Colonel General Beck.

SS troops parade in Berlin in the second half of the 1930s.

A train of ore wagons leaves a tunnel.

Construction of anti-tank barriers with concrete "teeth".

Garrison personnel from one of the defensive fortifications enter the underground fort.

Soldiers of the fort garrison take their positions on alert.

A view of the lines of concrete anti-tank fortifications on the Siegfried Line.

Map of Germany and Czechoslovakia.

Chamberlain and Ribbentrop drive through the streets of Munich in a car, greeted by local residents.

Chamberlain and Daladier sign the Munich Agreement on September 30, 1938. Map of Czechoslovakia with territories ceded to the Third Reich (animation).

A truck on the road at the entrance to the outskirts of Prague in March 1939. People and public transport on a Prague street.

Hitler's arrival in Prague on March 15, 1939. Hitler reviews a military parade in Berlin, motorized infantry in trucks, tanks on parade.

Trucks with infantry and artillery on parade.

View of Unter den Linden during the parade (perspective).

Motorcycle units of the Wehrmacht on parade.

Tanks pass in parade formation.

Panorama of one of the squares of Madrid in 1936-1937. Residents of the city look at the sky.

Airplanes in the sky over Madrid.

Residents of Madrid run to bomb shelters.

Burning houses and collapsing walls.

People leaving a bombed-out neighborhood.

Men and a crying woman at the entrance to an apartment building.

Members of the Hitler Youth with banners with the names of German soldiers killed in Spain.

Concentration of Wehrmacht personnel, military equipment, and vehicles at a crossroads before the offensive into Polish territory in September 1939. A tank column advances.

A Wehrmacht motor column and infantry unit move along the road.

A Wehrmacht tank unit on the march (top).

A German soldier tears the Polish coat of arms from the wall of a building.

The torn coat of arms lies on the pavement.

Panorama of a burning village.

German soldiers in a burning city block.

A burning village house.

A Wehrmacht artillery piece fires.

German mortar men fire from a trench.

German artillery fires.

Panorama of a part of Polish territory with burning villages (top).

Residents of a Polish city put out fires.

Firefighters at work.

The collapse of a burning house.

Burning buildings.

A column of Polish prisoners of war moves along the road.

Documents are checked among the Polish population, people are searched on the streets.

German soldiers and Polish collaborators detain Jews and communists, beating them on the street.

Female prisoners in a concentration camp barracks.

The face of a woman lying on a bunk.

The bodies of prisoners, killed and those who died of starvation.

A meeting to mark the opening of the ship lift in Niederfinow in 1934. A speaker speaks from the podium.

Panorama of the meeting and the ship lift.

Metal structures of the ship lift.

View of a section of the ship lift.

A speaker speaks from the podium.

The face of Hess, present at the meeting.

Faces of the local stormtrooper commanders.

Views of the meeting (from above).

The speaker continues his speech.

Goering and his entourage walk along the gangway to the deck of a passenger ship.

Views of the ship lift, Goering on the deck waiting for the ship lift to begin operating.

Hess looks from the deck at the ship lift.

A passenger ship enters the ship lift lock.

Interior view of the ship lift.

Goering's face.

Ship lift structures.

A ship enters the lock (from above).

The ship is being lifted.

The operation of the ship lift components and assemblies.

The ship lift lock shield is raised.

Participants in the event greet the first ship to pass through the boat lift from the shore.

A ship with passengers on board enters the lock canal.

Hitler's arrival in the Saarland for a rally in August 1934. A boat with Hitler and his entourage on board travels along the river.

The boat passes a steamship, passengers greet Hitler.

View of the pier.

A bridge filled with people heading to a rally in support of Hitler.

Hitler's arrival at the rally in a car.

Views of the mass rally after Hitler's arrival.

Hitler walks to the podium, greeting the military as he goes.

Children present Hitler with flowers.

Hitler greets athletes.

View of the mass rally (from above).

Hitler stands on the platform, greeting rally participants, panorama of part of the rally.

Hitler's speech at the rally in the Saarland, views and panorama of the rally (from above).

A fire engine arrived to extinguish the fire in the Reichstag building on February 27, 1933. The building's windows glow in the night.

A photograph of the main entrance to the Reichstag with a fire escape attached.

The aftermath of the Reichstag fire, destruction of the premises.

Police officers at their post at the broken door.

A broken door handle.

Destruction inside the Reichstag as a result of the fire, a police officer at a broken window.

Metal structures collapsed as a result of the fire.

The aftermath of the fire in the Reichstag building.

Part of a smoking wooden beam.

Destroyed ceilings and metal structures.

Fire engines with their crews at the Reichstag building after the fire was extinguished.

A view of the damaged roof of the Reichstag.

The fire engines leave for the depot, a panorama of the Reichstag wall (bottom to top).

The Reichstag building after the fire, the Reichstag dome with broken glass.

Traces of a break-in on the door.

A hole in the door.

Police officers and passersby on the square near the Brandenburg Gate.

A photograph of the burning Reichstag building and its chambers, firefighters inside the Reichstag.

Fire trucks near the Reichstag building at night.

A stormtrooper in uniform on a Berlin street.

Hitler approaches the microphone before speaking at a rally, with Ernst Röhm standing behind him.

Hitler speaks at a rally.

Goebbels at a rally with his arm raised in a Nazi salute, 1941-1943. Hitler salutes stormtroopers during one of the events (still frame).

Trial participants on their way to the hearing, with Goebbels among them.

A stormtrooper in uniform on a Berlin street.

Hitler approaches the microphone and begins his speech at a rally, with Ernst Röhm standing behind him.