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Post-WWI - 1920s , Germany: Weimar Republic Scenes Pt 1 of 2

Reel Number: 221093-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1920s,1930s

Country: Germany

Location: Berlin,Duisburg,Prussia,river ruhr,Ruhr District,Weimar

TC Begins: 18:20:10

TC Ends: 18:29:11

Duration: 00:09:01

Post-WWI - 1920s (?), Germany: Weimar Republic Scenes Pt 1 of 2 High pans across railway goods yard at Duisburg, Germany - loaded goods wagons in sidings - armed soldiers patrolling tracks. Deserted railroad station w/ Duisburg sign. Troops waiting on platform; steam locomotive w/ coal wagon backs out of station slowly, watched by soldiers - during occupation of Ruhr district. Soldier serving up food to civilian women. 18:22:40 High shot across river to unid. town. Street scenes. Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor (1923), Foreign Minister (1923-1929) & Nobel laureate (1926) & unid. man. Graduation ceremony? - men down stairs & talking outdoors - Stresemann poses for camera w/ two men wearing ceremonial robes & one other. 18:23:21 Parade through streets w/ cavalry, open-top car w/ Hindenburg past crowds & German ‘Black-White-Red’ flags ? hanging from buildings - German policeman in FG. Hindenburg meets children & drinks from gold cup - signposts inc. ‘Stadt Duisburg’. Packed stadium - Hindenburg gives speech - crowd wave hats - unid. flags white w/ dark cross & emblem of some kind. 18:24:46 Berlin - policemen forming human chain to hold back crowd; top shots crowd around Victory Column in central Berlin - CU Politician / President of Prussia Wilhelm Marx on balcony - during election battle w/ Hindenburg (1924 ?). 18:25:44 Officer reviewing troops on snowy wasteland - troops march past w/ rifles. 18:26:15 Crowds in square opposite Reichstag building, Berlin - top shot waving hats in unison. Line of police, some on horseback, holding back crowd. 18:27:24 High shots cavalry & troops parade through streets of Berlin? Huge crowds. Night torchlight parade - only flames visible. Sign spelled out in candles re ‘Black-Red-Gold’ flag of Republic - ‘Hoch die Deutsche Republik Reichsbanner Schwarz Rot Gold’ - eagle symbol lit up in center. Germany 1920s. Occupation of the Ruhr. Post-WW1; Political Activity;

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