KRUPP ARMAMENT AND POLITICS 1933-1940 NO 4 [Main Title]

Sections of film show Krupp-manufactured heavy calibre guns and a Krupp-Daimler armoured car from the First World War period, as well as Goebbels' visit to Krupps during the August 1934 referendum campaign regarding Hitler's decision to combine the offices of Reich President and Chancellor.

I. Firing of 42cm Gamma Moerser howitzer at Meppen, probably in 1916.

II. Firing after loading of 42cm howitzer [ca 1915].

III. Firing of 38cm railway gun at a testing range [Meppen?]. Pre-1918.

IV. Firing of heavy calibre fortress gun on "disappearing" mounting [ca 1915].

V. Firing, after elevation of barrel, of 42cm Gamma Moerser howitzer [ca 1915].

VI. Exercise of a Krupp-Daimler 'Platformwagen' (1909-1911 model with solid front wheels) with gun mounted on rear rotating armoured platform drawing up on an open plain, a soldier getting out to operate a viewfinder and the gun being fired.

VII. [Film incorrectly titled 'Goering and his wife visiting the Krupp Works 1935'.] Nazi officials, including SA and SS members and the white-bearded Deputy Gauleiter of Essen, Unger, file through a crowd inside the Krupp factory complex in Essen. Goebbels arrives by car, his path being cleared by Brownshirts. He steps out of the vehicle and preceded by Director Goerens meets a group of Krupp workers. View of a large crowd of workers outside the Schmiedepressewerke listening to a relay from inside of Goebbels' speech. [Officials all wear black armbands, in mourning for Hindenburg who died on 7 August.]

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