This film is featured in the Ephemeral Films Project: National Socialism in Austria. Watch the historic film through an innovative film player showing contemporary images, geographical mapping, and shot-level analysis at efilms.ushmm.org.
Private film of a Nazi rally during Hitler’s journey from Linz to Vienna. Outdoor shots of a large home with painted swastikas and several Nazi flags. Tanks drive down a street. Nazi soldiers walking down the street. Hitler gives the Nazi salute from his car driving down the street with many onlookers on the sidewalks. Austrians shake hands and kiss cheeks. Nazi flags hanging from buildings. Trucks and tanks with swastikas on them driving down the street. Cut to women tending to plants in a greenhouse. INTs in a house, focusing on a cat. The women walk the cat on a leash. They hold and dote on the cat. A passenger train goes by; the women greet arriving passengers. Civilians at leisure in fancy dress. Outside in a garden with dogs. Greenhouse shots. Dogs and the cat. The people eat cake. They sit outside, smoking and talking. Dark indoor shots of people drinking tea. More shots of people outside socializing.
Amateur shots: Austrians welcome Hitler in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau and Austrian family life