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Hitler over Germany. Images from the Führer's Propaganda Flight
before the Elections on March 5, 1933.
Intertitles:
This third flight across Germany by the Führer and the two that
preceded it were a work of national education of such enormous
proportions as had never been seen before in the history of political
propaganda. It was a self-imposed challenge to the utmost capacity of
both a physical and mental nature, which no one before Adolf Hitler had
dared to set themselves.
This film aims to convey a piece of this
commitment, but also of this experience and this awakening of the
nation, to the German people.
In 16 days and nights: 50 meetings,
8000 km by plane, 4000 km by car, 3 million listeners
The
achievement of one man: Adolf Hitler
Shortly after 8 am, the
three-engine Rohrbach D 1720 takes off for the Führer's third flight
across Germany.
Tilsit. 400,000 East Prussians had gathered in the
city, which was decorated with flags. They came from as far away as the
Memel region, traveling in trucks, special trains and special
steamboats.
Hitler: "Look at present-day Germany, see the
catastrophe and recognize the forces that really exist today, and then
make up your mind as a German man and woman and don't be half-hearted
and cowardly!"
And during the night, the journey continued to
Gumbinnen to 50,000 further East Prussians.
Day 2: To Lötzen at a
speed of 100 km per hour [footage shot from driving car]
Twenty
thousand Masurian peasants left the fields to hear the
Führer.
Driving through the Masurian battlefields of
1914.
Commemorating the dead at the heroes' cemetery at
Hohenstein
Parade! Storm troop after storm troop, standard after
standard, that's how East Prussia's farmers and laborers, among them
5,000 men from the Danzig SA, march past the Führer.
The factory is
closed today; its entire workforce is marching in the SA parade
today.
The SA of the future: the Hitler Youth
And finally, the
grenadiers of East Prussia: the SS
The people's enthusiasm is
boundless
And now the Fuhrer speaks to the 150,000 people of
Königsberg.
Day 5: Back into battle!
Schneidemühl: 40,000 from
the border region – Kottbus: 50,000 workers and farmers – Stralsund, 2
a.m.: 25,000 in the pouring rain
And on to the 30,000 farmers in
Lüneburg and at night to Bremen, where there are another
60,000.
Day 10: Heading for the Ruhr region.
Here, too, we see
the image that announces the people's awakening everywhere: 120,000 in
the stadium in Elberfeld.
[...]
Hitler: "I declare that
if you fulfill your duty, you will personally have the feeling of
reward, in that you will be able to say of yourself in the most decisive
hour of the German nation and its destiny: I, too, joined the fight back
then.”
Heading to the 70,000 waiting in Nuremberg
The final
night flight to Munich
Like the fire that the Führer ignited in
millions of hearts during these days, the torches of the Munich SA and
SS men now glow symbolically towards the star-studded sky
On the
next day, the swastika banners went up, to herald the victory of the
fight, faith and will! 13,752,777 votes for the National Socialists. 24
hours later, the Führer issued the new slogan: The fight continues until
the final victory.
"We all belong together for life and death,
and nothing in this world can tear us apart."
"The people
have come together across all classes and ranks in our movement. This is
no longer a party, this is the people!
"Our movement will only
come to an end on the day that it becomes the German nation."
Source: Hitler über Deutschland, dir. Alfons Brümmer, NSDAP Hauptabteilung, 1932. Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv Filmwerk ID: 1248 https://digitaler-lesesaal.bundesarchiv.de/en/video/1248/666746