We are building the Reich (1920-1929)

Germany.

Industrial landscape.

Chimneys of a closed factory.

Forty thousand people worked here.

Closed factory gates.

Factory buildings.

Residential "barracks" of workers.

Workers walking.

Yard of an apartment building.

Stunted greenery.

View from the apartment window of a closed factory.

Street.

Unemployed.

An unemployed man distributes leaflets.

A shoemaker in his workshop.

Labor exchange.

Police at the exchange.

A crowd of unemployed Germany.

Two young men on the street.

A third one approaches them.

He shows them a certificate entitling him to participate in the imperial meeting of the combat units of the Union of Catholic Young Men in Koblenz Germany.

Young people with backpacks.

They greet each other.

Riding bicycles.

Young people boarding the steamer "Glickauf".

Flag of the SKU of Germany.

Young people on the deck.

The steamer sails along the river, sails under the bridges.

A steamer sailing.

Landscapes on the shore.

Oncoming ships Germany.

Young people study the statutes of the Union of Catholic Young Men of Germany and the regulations on the combat units of the SKJ. Young people on the deck.

View of the shore: a train rushes along the shore.

Funnel of a steamship.

Banner of the SKJ

Germany.

Lunch for the meeting participants.

The Glückauf sails down the river.

Mainz.

Young people on the embankment.

They greet the meeting participants.

The meeting participants go ashore.

Catholic youths from southern Germany join the detachment.

Members of the LCY walk through the streets of the city.

A steamboat with a detachment of the LCY from the Saarland arrives on the Moselle River.

Members of the LCY on the streets with banners.

A procession of young people.

They enter a building.

Germany.

Summer camp of the LCY. Camp diagram.

Young people at the diagram.

Speech by one of the meeting participants.

He announces the program of the first day of the meeting.

Gathering of participants on the parade ground.

Formation.

Oath of allegiance to Jesus Christ.

Departure of participants of the imperial meeting of the LCY of Germany for the celebrations in Koblenz.

The detachment leaves the camp Germany. 30,001 meeting participants rehearse a chorale.

A Catholic priest speaks.

Banners of individual LCY detachments on a special stand, Germany.

Everyday life at the camp.

Tent.

Young men in the tent.

Washing at the washbasins.

Young men splash water on each other, wash and brush their teeth.

Putting their shoes in order.

Shaving Gremania.

The signal for morning prayer is given through the microphone.

Young men gather on the parade ground.

Divine service.

Priest at an improvised altar Germany.

Young men accept bread delivered to the camp.

Distribution of bread.

Young people reading newspapers, drinking lemonade.

Distribution of the newspaper "Schutzschar"/"combat squad"/ Germany.

The squad goes on a hike.

Formation in a clearing in the forest.

Singing religious-patriotic songs.

One of the leaders of the SKJ gives a patriotic speech.

The squads set off on their journey

Germany.

Speech by Reichsfuehrer of the SKJ Franz Stöber on the tasks of the combat units.

Units listen to the speaker.

The so-called "Black Hundreds" / Schwarz Hundertschaft /.

On the march Germany.

Young people on the parade ground.

Bringing in the banner.

Speech by a Catholic priest on the importance of combat units in the struggle to assert the ideals of goodness and Christianity.

Response speech by the chairman /Reichsfuehrer/ of the SKJ Germany.

Arrival of Bishop of Trier Dr.

Bornevasser.

Young people greet him.

The bishop and his entourage enter the gates of the summer camp.

The following arrived with the bishop: Chief President Dr.

Fuchs, representative of the Evangelical Society of Young Men of West Germany, Secretary General of the Union of Apprentice Craftsmen David Gaten, chairman of the church community Puchowski, Father Neppel.

They talk with the bishop Germany.

One of the leaders of the SKJ A. Steiner addresses greetings to the bishop.

Bishop Bornevasser's speech.

The assembled people greet the bishop.

The solemn procession.

The banners

Germany.

An instructor gives a talk to young people about the significance of the papal encyclical Quadragesimo Anno.

A Catholic priest speaks about the significance of cooperation between church leaders and youth leaders.

The youth disperse after the talk.

Germany.

Preparing lunch.

Line up for lunch.

Prayer.

Distributing food.

Lunch for the participants of the meeting.

Reading newspapers.

Rest after lunch.

Playing musical instruments.

The dishes are taken to the kitchen.

A sports duel between two priests.

The winner is carried by the youth.

Evening prayer

Germany.

The bugler sounds the assembly.

Beginning of mass sports exercises.

Squats, jumps, etc.

Fragments of a football match.

Throwing up, somersaulting, wrestling, fighting on one leg.

Leapfrog and other games.

Buglers.

Long jump competitions.

Mass gymnastics exercises.

Relay race.

First aid station.

Providing assistance to injured young men

Germany.

Fourth day of the meeting.

March to the monument of German unity in Eck.

Walking through the streets with banners.

Columns of young men.

Standard-bearers.

Young people at the monument-temple.

Solemn formation with banners.

Speech by a Catholic priest.

Fragments of the monument.

Listeners greet the speaker Germany.

Newspaper headlines with reports about the meeting of the LCY. Detachments leave the camp for the city.

Solemn "farewell" of the altar from the camp chapel back to the city.

LCY detachments in the city.

Standard-bearers.

Solemn bringing of the altar into the temple