Julien Bryan: Germany 1937

The American filmmaker Julien Bryan filmed in Germany in 1937: everyday life in Berlin and the countryside, the Jewish Goldschmidt School, the Degenerate Art show and the Nuremberg Rally.

Julien Bryan landed at Plymouth from the Île de France on 25 June 1937, an American lecturer with a film camera; on 9 October he boarded the Normandie at Le Havre.

His footage of Germany runs from a Woolworth on a Berlin shopping street to the Zeppelin tribune. Pupils of Leonore Goldschmidt's Jewish school race across the lawn at break; in Munich visitors crowd before the Dada wall of the Degenerate Art exhibition; in Nuremberg tanks wheel across the field on the Day of the Wehrmacht, and Hitler drives along the ranks in an open car.

The Great Anti-Bolshevik Exhibition, Nuremberg 1937

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SS tent camp at the Nuremberg Rally, 1937

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Wehrmacht Day on the Zeppelin Field, 1937

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The Reich Labour Service on the Zeppelin Field, 1937

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Hitler at the Zeppelin tribune, Nuremberg 1937

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Saluting crowds in the Zeppelin Field grandstand, 1937

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Himmler and the SS guard of honour, Nuremberg 1937

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Julien Bryan: Germany 1937

The Great Anti-Bolshevik Exhibition, Nuremberg 1937

SS tent camp at the Nuremberg Rally, 1937

Wehrmacht Day on the Zeppelin Field, 1937

The Reich Labour Service on the Zeppelin Field, 1937

Hitler at the Zeppelin tribune, Nuremberg 1937

Saluting crowds in the Zeppelin Field grandstand, 1937

Himmler and the SS guard of honour, Nuremberg 1937

Massed formations and flags on the Zeppelin Field, 1937

Bare-chested ranks and girls in white, Nuremberg 1937

Street crowds and Hitler's motorcade, Nuremberg 1937

Nuremberg's main synagogue and Der Stürmer, 1937

Market day on the Hauptmarkt, Nuremberg 1937

Crowds on the Zeppelin Field, Nuremberg rally 1937

Foreign guests at the Nuremberg rally, 1937

Rally-week streets and a colonial display, 1937

Saluting crowds on the Hauptmarkt, Nuremberg 1937

Hitler takes the march-past on the Hauptmarkt, 1937

Party leaders, officers and newsreel cameras, 1937

Feeding the crowd at the rally, 1937

Antisemitic books and anti-church propaganda, 1937

Berlin: a building site at the Funkturm, 1937

Gliding club on the heath near Trebbin, 1937

Night performances in the Olympic Stadium, Berlin 1937

Unter den Linden and the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin 1937

The Jewish Goldschmidt School in Berlin, 1937

Alexanderplatz and the department stores of Berlin, 1937

Haymaking near Berlin, 1937

Model aircraft and drawing at the Zinnowwaldschule, 1937

Café Kranzler, Berlin 1937

Newspapers on the streets of Berlin, 1937

Buses, broad streets and a gas works, Berlin 1937

Fasse dich kurz: public telephones and stamp machines, Berlin 1937

Infant care at the Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus, Berlin 1937

Tempelhof Airport, 1937

Salutes in the street and the Soviet embassy, Berlin 1937

The yellow benches for Jews at Olivaer Platz, Berlin 1937

Wreaths and a parade at the Neue Wache, Berlin 1937

Girls' athletics and gymnastics at a Berlin school, 1937

The Degenerate Art exhibition, Munich 1937

The House of German Art, Munich 1937

Jewish scouts cycling through Bavaria, 1937

Ploughing, sowing and the Battle for Production, 1937

Reich Labour Service: drill and sport in the Alps, 1937

Reich Labour Service: building a channel in the forest, 1937

Reich Labour Service: ditches in the mountain meadows, 1937

Reich Labour Service: camp life and the world map, 1937

Kayakers on the Rhine at Cologne, 1937

Loading coal onto Rhine barges at Cologne, 1937

A parade before Cologne Cathedral, 1937

A Strength through Joy trip on the Rhine steamer Hindenburg, 1937

The Schaffendes Volk exhibition, Düsseldorf 1937

Schaffendes Volk: Buna rubber and I.G. Farben fibres, 1937

The model housing estate of 'Schaffendes Volk', Düsseldorf 1937

New German materials at 'Schaffendes Volk', Düsseldorf 1937

Exhibition grounds, Horse Tamers and the Kruppstraße, 1937

Luther House and Bach House in Eisenach, 1937

Essen: schoolchildren below the smokestacks, 1937

Ruhr industry: smokestacks, railway and church spires, 1937

Essen: drillers, embankment and works railway, 1937

Essen street scene: air show posters and KdF, 1937

Sowing by hand near Fulda, 1937

Koblenz: Ehrenbreitstein and the Deutsches Eck, 1937

Leipzig: St. Thomas Church and the market square, 1937

Hay harvest at Oberau, Upper Bavaria, 1937

Rhine shipping: a bridge of boats, tugs and a harbour, 1937

The Rhine valley: freight trains and the grape harvest, 1937

Steam threshing in Saxony, 1937

Sunday market below the Welfenmünster, Steingaden, 1937

The zeppelin carousel at the Stuttgart fair, 1937

Roller coaster and Rocket Ride to the Moon, Stuttgart 1937

Crowds at the Stuttgart fair, 1937

Bumper cars on the Autobahn ride, Stuttgart 1937

Waffle seller and silhouette cutter, Stuttgart 1937

The monkey show at the Stuttgart fair, 1937

Sunday mass and the village churchyard, 1937

The Wartburg above Eisenach, 1937

Weimar: a children's party under the swastika, 1937

Weimar: a summer festival on the square, 1937

A festival day in Weimar, 1937