Berlin during the National Socialist period, historical color footage of the German capital in the late ’30s.
The speaker leads through the main attractions of the city and presents Berlin as a modern cosmopolitan city.
This video partially contains , despite its publication as video of 1936, material probably dated from 1939.
Highlights in the video: Brandenburg Gate, Quadriga, Berlin Victory Column, Reichstag, Radio Tower, 1936 Summer Olympics, Unter den Linden, Changing of the guard at the Neue Wache, Berlin City Palace, Berlin Cathedral, Old National Gallery, Museum Island, Old Museum, Pleasure Garden, Spree, Alexanderplatz, Berliner Weisse, Berlin Zoological Garden, Wannsee, Ministry of Aviation, etc.
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Background: This article comes from Das Schwarze Korps, the weekly published by the SS. It appeared on the occasion of Hitler’s birthday in 1944. Hitler is presented as a superhuman figure, almost a god, though the article says he is not one… The best source in English on the Schwarze Korps is William L. Combs, The Voice of the SS: A History of the SS Journal ‘Das Schwarze Korps’ (New York: Peter Lang, 1986).
The Source: “Er ist der Sieg,” Das Schwarze Korps, 20 April 1944, pp. 1-2.
