Overview
- Description
- Parade of Nazi soldiers marching on Unter den Linden in Berlin. Crowds line the streets waving Nazi flags. They stop in front of the Neue Wache building. 01:01:22 Dignitaries arrive and walk from right to left (perhaps including high Nazi officials). Wreath-laying ceremony (possibly February 25, 1934/5 for National Mourning Day or Heroes Day).
- Film Title
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Untitled -- Theodore Roeckle -- home movies
- Duration
- 00:01:34
- Date
-
Event:
February 1934/1935?
- Locale
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Berlin,
Germany
- Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Keith Roeckle
- Contributor
-
Camera Operator:
Theodore Roeckle
- Biography
-
Theodor Röckle (1896-1976) served in World War I and received the Iron Cross. He married Berta Doerr in 1923. Theo was a waiter by trade and worked on the German railway service. He went to the United States in 1928 seeking work since Germany was in difficult economic times. He ended up in Atlantic City, and soon sent for his wife and son Gerald. In 1931, Berthold was born, but mother Berta died in childbirth. Having no work, a 6 year old son and a newborn baby, no family, and no means to support them, Theo decided to return. He paid a courier to take the baby back to Germany to be raised by family members. Theo remarried in 1934 to Elfriede Gerth in Philadelphia, PA. Back in Germany, the young Berthold Roeckle became a Hitler Youth (despite his American citizenship) and served as a bicycle messenger during World War II. Berthold returned to the US in 1946 and enlisted in the U.S. Army. Theo and Elfriede lived in NYC and Berlin after the war. Theo's hobby in film resulted in thousands and thousands of feet of film material, mostly of family events from the late 1940s to 1960s.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Amateur.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:00:09:00 to 01:01:43:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 3916 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - acetate - Kodak AG - Gevaert
Master 3917 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - acetate - Kodak AG - Gevaert
Master 3916 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - acetate - Kodak AG - Gevaert
Master 3917 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - acetate - Kodak AG - Gevaert
Master 3916 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - acetate - Kodak AG - Gevaert
Master 3917 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - acetate - Kodak AG - Gevaert
Master 3916 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - acetate - Kodak AG - Gevaert
Master 3917 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - acetate - Kodak AG - Gevaert
Master 3916 Video: HDCam - NTSC - large
Master 3917 Video: HDCam - NTSC - large
Master 3916 Video: HDCam - NTSC - large
Master 3917 Video: HDCam - NTSC - large
Master 3916 Video: HDCam - NTSC - large
Master 3917 Video: HDCam - NTSC - large
Master 3916 Video: HDCam - NTSC - large
Master 3917 Video: HDCam - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 3916 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Preservation 3917 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Preservation 3916 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Preservation 3917 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Preservation 3916 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Preservation 3917 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Preservation 3916 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Preservation 3917 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
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- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Conditions on Use
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum places no restrictions on use of this material. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this film footage.
- Copyright Holder
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Source
- Keith Roeckle
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 5798
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:06:54
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A collection of 8mm black and white home movies depicting the life of a German non-Jewish family in Nazi Germany. The films were taken by Theodor Röckle who received the Iron Cross during World War I, was a waiter by trade, and worked on the German railway service. He briefly sought work in the United States in 1928 but returned to Germany in 1931. Scenes include prewar Germany, a Nazi torchlight parade, the wedding of Theodor’s brother Gerald, who was a soldier for Germany and POW of the Americans, planes flying over Berlin, and the daily lives of family members.
Postwar wedding of a German soldier and American POW
Film
EXT, couples with flowers walk towards camera to celebrate the wedding of Theo's eldest son Gerald, a soldier for Germany and POW of the Americans. INTs, celebration, gifts, and the couple dancing. Family gathers around the bride and groom for portraits. Woman (bride?) in sequined jacket and top-hat dances with balloons labeled "Ratskeller Steglitz" in the Berlin area. Others dancing drunkenly. Little girl turns and dances and uses potty. Family continues to celebrate. Girl plays outdoors.
German civilians demonstrate and collect funds
Film
MCU, street scenes in winter. Small demonstration. Man in top-hat collects donations in a tin can. Horse-drawn float. Civilians and soldiers observe a costumed man dragging a costumed "cow". Mostly illegible white banner in BG, "....Handwerk". Illegible sign around the neck of the "cow". Sign for the Carpenter's Guild - "Die Holzwürmer Tischlerinnung". 01:02:17 Berthold Roeckle poses before the horse-drawn float. He feeds birds. CU, a toddler boy dressed up in a white apron and hat with a tin can. Berthold stands behind him along with older men in white with musical instruments. Several German soldiers in the crowd. Side-view of a woman depositing a coin in the can (Theo's wife Elfriede?).
German military training
Film
At a military site (possibly Berthold's school), a large gun is fired several times.
Roeckle family celebrations over the years
Film
INT, people eating and dining on Christmas. Gerald and Berthold play with a toy train set. MS, decorated Christmas tree, Elfriede lights the candles. Theo plugs in electrical lights and smokes a cigarette. 01:08:28 Several shots of men shoveling the snowy streets with a pharmacy and other shops or residences behind them. 01:09:06 The two boys set off a toy plane in a snowy park (Gerald was a model plane enthusiast his entire life). 01:09:18 Back inside the family residence, couples dance (camera on tripod). Family dines. 01:10:36 EXT, garden, child approaches camera "goose-stepping". Two women look at plants. INTs, elder woman cooking, others eating. 01:11:28 EXTs, formally dressed family members pose for the camera. 01:11:40 CU, man lights a cigar from the candelabra. The family celebrates, good CUs. CU, centerpiece with photographs, liquor bottles, and the number 50 (perhaps for Theo's birthday in 1946?). Pan to Theo, his wife, and boys. Another family celebration inside a home with an infant. CUs, baby. Adults toast. Man with cigarette looks closely at a photograph on display. 01:15:49 MS, woman and man. Another woman lounges. Christmas tree. The matriarch carries Traudie, a toddler girl adopted by cousins, followed by other family members, walking towards the camera. Pan, happy family, kissing. Toddler at play.
Postwar Berlin; theaters in Steglitz; US Air Force planes landing
Film
Four men operate a machine to demolish a city building. Men at work. 01:34:49 Train. Men at work again. Airplane lands. Rubble. 01:35:44 Street scene in Berlin with traffic, trams, and pedestrians. Max Kuehl sign. Couple walks towards camera, woman returns with flower bouquet. Outdoor market. Street scenes. EXT, "Ratskeller Steglitz" and "Albrechtshof Lichtspiele" (a theatre). "Titania Palast" theatre. Red Cross vehicle passes by. More street scenes. Café tables. 01:38:40 Dog walks towards camera. Puppies. 01:38:53 Women with aprons. Older couple with hats. Man in back of pickup truck waves. The Dresdner Bank in Steglitz. Sideview of the "Albrechtshof Lichtspiele" and "Ratskeller Steglitz". 01:40:07 Airplane taking off at airfield. HAS, train, arriving at station. 01:41:36 American flag, probably in the American zone of Berlin. Military trucks. #40 tram marked "Steglitz". More street scenes. Airfield runway, smoke in distance. US Air Force airplanes landing, "72" on tail followed by "43", "25", and "90. Building ruins. Group of Roeckle family members in park, and at outdoor market. 01:45:50 Good CU of Elfriede Roeckle. LS, housing with train passing by in FG.
