Fascism is taking over Europe (1927-1939)

German financial and industrial leaders during a reception.

Policemen armed with rifles clear a street for Nazi stormtroopers to pass.

Panorama of a Nazi rally in Germany in 1927-1928. Nazi party stormtroopers with swastika banners ride in the back of a truck through the streets of Berlin.

People on the sidewalk of a Berlin street.

An anti-Semitic poster on the glass of a door in the entrance of a building on Unter den Linden in Berlin.

Berliners walk past an anti-Semitic poster on the door of an entrance to a building.

Nazi stormtroopers on a street in Berlin.

Nazis at a Jewish-owned store before an anti-Semitic action.

Nazi posters with announcements, posters of A. Hitler's speeches and headlines of German Nazi newspapers, texts of articles with statistical data published in newspapers.

Headlines of German Nazi newspapers, poster of the Nazi party.

Goebbels speaks from the rostrum.

Hitler A. speaks before the Reichstag deputies (synchronously, in German).

Hitler A.'s speech to the Reichstag deputies (synchronously, in German).

A new four-engine transport aircraft at the airport.

Representatives of German industrial circles at a rally in front of the airport building to mark the introduction of the new aircraft, named "Hindenburg".

A speaker tears the cover off the nose of the aircraft.

View of the rally in front of the airport building.

Hitler A. speaks from the rostrum at a party rally in Thuringia (synchronously, in German).

Panorama of the rally.

Panorama of part of the rally, view of the rostrum with Hitler speaking.

Stormtroopers stand with banners during Hitler's speech at a rally in Thuringia on June 18, 1933. Hitler's face as he delivers the speech (simultaneously, in German).

Marching SS men in front of Hitler's face.

Hitler's face.

Franco F. hands Hitler a symbolic sword to applause and ovations.

German troops marching through a city street during the occupation of the Rhineland Demilitarized Zone on March 7, 1936. Schoolchildren salute the troops from the sidewalk.

German troops marching through the city streets, residents salute the German soldiers.

A mounted brass band on the streets of the city, residents surround it from all sides.

German cavalry and horse artillery cross the bridge over the Rhine.

Changing of the guards at the bridge.

An honor guard at the monument to King Friedrich II. German troops marching through the streets of the city, residents of the city applaud the passing troops.

Hitler A. speaks from the rostrum to the workers of the Krupp factories (synchronously, in German).

Views of the rally taking place in one of the factory workshops, the presidium of the rally, Hitler speaks from the rostrum.

Views of the workshop during the rally.

The Völkischer Beobachter newspaper.

Raising the barrier on the border between Germany and the Sudetenland, German troops crossing the border on October 7, 1938. An officer in a car responds to greetings from Sudeten Germans.

A German cavalry unit moves along the road to the border.

German cavalrymen cross the border.

View of the bridge with a welcoming slogan (top), German troops cross the bridge.

Hitler A. drives through the streets of the city in a car, responds to greetings.

View of part of the rally on the occasion of the entry of German troops into the Sudetenland.

The leader of the Sudeten Germans Konrad Henlein gives a speech, Hitler stands next to him.

Hitler and the leadership of the Third Reich (faces indistinguishable) watch from a glass cockpit the launch of the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin on December 8, 1938 in Kiel.

View of the stern of the aircraft carrier.

Banner with the name on board the aircraft carrier.

Hitler delivers a speech on the extermination of the Jewish population in the event of war on January 30, 1939 (synchronously, in German), views of the rally hall, rally participants give Hitler an ovation.

The Völkischer Beobachter newspaper.

Czechoslovakian President Emil Hacha inspects the Wehrmacht honor guard during a visit to Germany on March 14, 1939, at the invitation of Hitler.

The honor guard company in formation.

Hacha gets into a car.

Headline in a German newspaper.

A Wehrmacht unit on bicycles moves along a road during the operation to occupy the remaining territory of Czechoslovakia on March 15, 1939. A German anti-tank gun crew stands on the side of the road.

Wehrmacht units move along the roads of Czechoslovakia.

German soldiers and residents of Prague greet Hitler as he enters Golden Prague.

Hitler inspects the formation of a military unit.

A motorized unit of the Wehrmacht moves along a road during the operation to occupy the remaining territory of Czechoslovakia in March 1939. Residents of the city welcome the incoming German troops.

German planes fly over the city.

German planes fly by.

Hitler A. during a visit to a naval base.

Hitler drives in a car through the streets of occupied Prague, responding to greetings.

Residents of Danzig read German leaflets and posters pasted on the walls of their houses.

German poster announcing the occupation of Danzig on September 1, 1939. Gauleiter of Danzig Burkhard leaves the city hall.

View of the city hall building and a rally of pro-German residents of Danzig.

A sign with a warning in German.

A German armored car on a city street.

Putting out a fire.

German troops are exchanging fire on one of the city streets.

View of part of a damaged building.

Hitler arrives at a ceremonial event to mark the occupation of Danzig.

Views of the hall of the ceremonial event.

Residents of Danzig greet German troops moving along the streets of the city, soldiers return the greetings.

View of the bow of a German warship (top).

The deck gun crews are at their stations.

A German officer looks through binoculars.

The deck machine gun crew watches the enemy.

Officers watch the coast from the deck of a ship during the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. The crew is at the side.

The Kriegsmarine flag flies.

Panoramic view of the area.

A soldier of the Wehrmacht propaganda company makes sketches at a heavy artillery firing position.

German artillery fires during the invasion of Poland.

Officers at an observation post.

German bombers fly over.