Nazi leaders, other fascist leaders
Creator(s)
- WPA Film Library
Scope and Content
REEL 2: The rise of fascist dictatorships. Some of the Nazi leaders: Hess, Goering, Goebbels, etc. collecting money for charity outside a theater, and cheerfully chatting with the theater-goers. Giant Nazi rally. Hitler speaking to huge crowd who sit listening while being snowed upon. Italian politician Balbo visits Goering's Karinhall, shooting party includes Ernst Udet. Series of CUs of different fascist types making speeches. Various scenes of Germany showing popularity of Nazis and the whole Nazi ideal. One group includes Gen. Rommel. 01:46:38 Mussolini as farmer, helping with the threshing during visit to state-run farm. Italian army maneuvers. 01:48:27 Blackshirts, Whitechapel Road. London's East End, rioting in the presence of Oswald Mosley, leaders of the British Union of Fascists. 01:48:56 Haile Selassie. Pres. Benes of Czechoslovakia in New York after having lost his country to the Germans. 01:49:38 Emigration of German Jews, including Einstein debarking from ship, to rah-rahs from cheerleaders. 01:50:25 Einstein speaks at microphone: "Without such freedom, there would have been no Shakespeare, no Goethe, no Newton, no Pasteur, and no...." FDR gets his dog to do tricks. Gandhi. George Bernard Shaw speaking, against Miami.
Note(s)
Recalled by Anthony Quayle. See Story 3459, Film ID 2565 for Reel 1 of this documentary.
Subjects
- GERMANS
- GOEBBELS, JOSEPH
- HITLER, ADOLF
- FARMERS/FARMING
- EINSTEIN, ALBERT
- BENES, EDVARD
- JEWS
- RALLIES (NAZI)
- UNITED STATES
- EMIGRES/EMIGRATION
- NAZI PARTY
- THEATERS
- ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D.
- RALLIES
- MOSLEY, OSWALD
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (ITALIAN)
- ETHIOPIA
- GOERING, HERMANN
- NAZI OFFICIALS
- FASCISTS (ITALIAN)
- CROWDS
- FASCISTS (BRITISH)
- CZECHOSLOVAKIA
- MUSSOLINI, BENITO
- FASCISTS
- HESS, RUDOLF
- UDET, ERNST
Places
- , Germany
- , Italy
- London, England
- New York, NY, United States
Genre
- Documentary.
- Film