Funeral for SA men at which Goebbels speaks.

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.64.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4221 | Film ID: 2767

Overview

Description: The cortege and funeral of three SA men: Walter Apel, Robert Gleuel, and Franz Klein, who were purportedly shot and killed by members of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) in June 1933. People are shown laying flowers at the location of the murder in Berlin-Köpenick. The funeral cortege leaves the hospital and passes crowds of mourners, who line the street and give a Hitler salute to the passing hearses. The heavy-handed narration is accompanied by mournful music. The coffins are taken to their local SA headquarters for some sort of ceremony, attended by Joseph Goebbels. Low aerial shots of the cortege as it winds through the city. SA men, police, and Stahlhelm men march in the procession. Hitler Youth hold back the crowd. Lots of shots of SA and others entering the cemetery. In Goebbels' speech (original sound) he talks of the revolution for which these men died, and says that if men didn't die in the name of the revolution then Bolshevism and "dirty blood from the east" would overrun Germany. The ceremony ends with a twenty-one gun salute.
Film Title: Drei Opfer eines marxistischen Mordschützen [Three victims of a marxist assassination]
Duration: 00:05:45
Date: Event: 1933
Censor: 1933 July 22
Locale: Berlin, Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
Contributor: Producer: NSDAP-ROL
Subject: Robert Gluel

Language: German
Genre/Form: Propaganda.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 01:06:46:00 to 01:12:31:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2767 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2767 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2767 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2767 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Preservation
Preservation 2767 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2767 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2767 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2767 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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Keyword: BANDS CEMETERIES COFFINS CROWDS FLOWERS FUNERALS GERMANY GOEBBELS, JOSEPH HITLER YOUTH NAZI PARTY POLICE (GERMAN) PROPAGANDA PROPAGANDA (ANTI-SOVIET) SA (STURMABTEILUNG) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this footage from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, Germany in February 2005.
Note: USHMM clip is 164 meters; film at Bundesarchiv is 181 meters in length.

Gleuel's name appears variously as Robert, Ronert, and Norbert on the Internet. During the "Koepenick Week of Blood" at least 23 people were killed in public. It was the peak of public violence during the Nazi takeover. According to one source, Apel and Gleuel were killed on the evening of June 21, 1933, when they attacked the home of SPD member Johann Schmaus, who was killed by the attacking SA men. Anton Schmaus, son of Johann, shot at the SA men and fled. Franz Klein died on June 27, 1933, as a result of his wounds. This film footage narration says the cortege started at the hospital.
Copied From: 35mm
Film Source: Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
File Number: Legacy Database File: 4502
Source Archive Number: 778 (K.25299)
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive