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biographical history: Gauleiter Karl Roever
date: 1939, June 3-4
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note: Handwritten on film can label:"Nazi Germany pre-wa". Transferred at 15fps. Detailed notes about the camera used to film the event and the date codes on the original film are located in the files.
note: NSDAP-Kreistags [Nazi Party Convention] on June 3 and 4, 1939 (Saturday and Sunday) in the town of Bad Zwischenahn, included a mass rally, morning celebration, speeches by State Professor Willy Borger and Gauleiter Karl Roever, the swearing-in of 500 NSKK men, youth sport competitions and events, and fireworks. See extensive details, articles, and a program of the event in the Archive's files. The Stedigsehre (Nydam boat) was built in 1934 at the behest of former Gauleiter Carl Röver at the shipyard Aheking & Rasmussen (Lemwerder). The model was an original discovered in the Nydam Moor, which is on exhibit in the Gottorf Castle. The boat builders had only one month to complete it, as written in a document of the 100-year anniversary of the shipyard. In Röver's view, there was a direct lineage of the Vikings to the people of Stedingen. The rebuilding of the ship was to be one way to secure this lineage in the minds of the public. The ship was finally launched in Sept. 1934. The ship was rarely used by the Marine Hitler Youth. There were 14 to 16 youths, but the boat needed at least 31 men to row it. It was launched on the Zwischenahn Lake in 1936.
scope and content: Aerial view of Zwischenahn Lake filmed from the water tower on the south bank. The town of Bad Zwischenahn is located south of this land-locked sea. Windy with bright sunlight and full trees in early summer. 00:00:12 Title"Bad Zwischenahn im Festschmuc" The town of Bad Zwischenahn is decorated with Nazi symbols including flags, banners, garlands, and posters for the NSDAP convention. View of a gray stone building with columns, the NSDAP headquarters of the District Leader, Johann Schneider, in the Villa Windmüller located on Peter Street (also appears in Film ID 3930). Bathouse and boat docked in the lake - the Stedigsehre, a rowing boat meant to serve as a training for the Marine Hitler Youth. Decorated buildings in town, including Kino Willi (a cinema in the house of Wilhelm Grambart on Bahnhof Street at 00:01:08), the Post Office building on Bahnhof Street (00:01:15), the train station (00:01:27), and a grocery of Justus Fischer on Mill Street (00:01:38). 00:02:09 Title,"Die Grosskundgebung im Festzel" Mass rally in the marquee at the marketplace. Men from various German military branches congregate in a square outside a tent decorated in red and gold. They speak casually with civilians from the town. The men are in dress uniforms from the Wehrmacht, SS, and other military and paramilitary branches. A musical band of Hitler Youth play their instruments in the square at the arrival of a Nazi party member, possibly Kreisleiter Johann Schneider or the Gauleiter. Staatsrat Professor Willy Börger speaks within the tent at 5:30pm on June 3 before returning outside. 00:05:15 Official opening of the tent camp at 7:30pm on June 3. Hitler Youth play instruments near a row of tents. Kreisleiter (District Leader) Johann Schneider speaks to a crowd at attention at the tent camp. 00:06:26 Performances at the festival grounds and rifle range at Eyhauser Avenue. Women in blue and white dresses dance in the round on an open area of grass before a set of bleachers. The surrounding…
title: NSDAP convention of the Ammerland district