Overview
- Description
- REEL 3. Arrival in Dresden, cathedral, Zwinger Palace with many classical sculptures. Boat on the Elbe. The train moves alongside the Saale River and enters Thuringia. The ruins of the Rudelsberg Castle on a hill. In Weimar, funeral wreaths with ribbons bearing swastikas at the base of the Goethe-Schiller monument with two bronze statues of the poets. The Schiller House. The students walk with a professor through the park in Weimar. The Nietzsche Archive with Nietzche’s sister on the steps to welcome the group of American students. They visit the Goethe House, where Goethe worked, lived and died. Hitler passes by in a car with other officials. People salute Hitler in the car. According to the notes of Herbert Davis Vogel (one of the men on the Schurz Tour and the donor of this film footage to the Library of Congress), Hitler was on his way to visit Nietzsche’s sister. The Americans tour a planetarium in Jena with a professor from the university. The Frommannsche House. Marketplace of Jena, sausages. They travel by train to Nuremberg and visit the castle. Nazi flags decorate the town. Nazi parade with RAD men. Fountains, houses, church at night in Nuremberg.
- Film Title
-
Germany 1934
- Film Collection Title
- Herbert Davis Vogel Collection
- Duration
- 00:10:50
- Date
-
Event:
July 7-August 9, 1934
- Locale
-
Dresden,
Germany
Nuremberg, Germany
Jena, Germany
Weimar, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Library of Congress
- Contributor
-
Director:
Otto Bothmer
Camera Operator: Erich Menzel
Music: Walter Winnig
Sound Contributor: Erich Dolle
Producer: UFA
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Film Format
- Master
Master 4263 Digital: ProRes SD 422 - b&w - sound - SD
Master 4263 Digital: ProRes SD 422 - b&w - sound - SD
Master 4263 Digital: ProRes SD 422 - b&w - sound - SD
Master 4263 Digital: ProRes SD 422 - b&w - sound - SD
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Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased high-resolution copies of amateur films and other footage from the Library of Congress in February 2017.
- Note
- Carl Schurz was a German emigre who became active in American reform politics in the post-Civil War era, and was President Hayes’s Secretary of the Interior.
- Film Source
- Library of Congress - Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS)
- File Number
- Source Archive Number: 1195062-2-3
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:51:36
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