Footage Truth and justice. (1920-1929)
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0:08:10Truth and justice (1920-1929)
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Germany.
An old man in a toga, the leader of the Masons, delivers a speech to them about how world domination can be achieved by promoting democracy, a "new" morality, supporting the Versailles dictate, inciting hatred between different parts of Germany, and undermining financial stability.
Masonic agents give instructions to "their people." Financial chaos in Germany.
Inflation caused by stockbrokers and speculators.
Astronomical rise in prices.
Speculators on the stock exchange.
Luxurious toilets of the speculators' ladies.
The title contains attacks on Scheidemann, who promised a life "in beauty and dignity." A new aristocrat in a luxurious bed.
A ball of nouveau riche speculators.
Keywords
Germany, propaganda, money, entertainment, personalities
Reel №2
Germany.
Demonstration of workers trying to save the fatherland.
Orator-lawyer Winter speaks, demanding that the Reichsbank pay its debts.
Workers listen to him.
The crowd supports the orator.
Winter makes speeches around the country.
Listeners vote and support Winter.
Announcement of Winter's lawsuit against the Reichsbank.
Session of the Imperial Court.
Judges.
Text of the document sent by the Masons to the judges.
Winter's lawsuit is rejected by the judges-toys in the hands of Freemasonry.
People leave the courthouse.
Winter declares that now the word is up to the people
Keywords
Germany, demonstration, workers, State, figures, personalities, banks, court
Reel №3
Germany.
Winter is being pursued by "unknown enemies." Winter is in a cell.
Winter is being tried for fraud.
The prosecutor mocks Winter.
Winter orders his cash reserves to be brought in - a whole machine of money - a million in one-mark bills.
The prosecutor demands the death penalty.
The lawyer demands an excuse, so as not to create martyrs.
The verdict: one year and three months in prison, a fine of 20,000 marks.
Winter is led out of the courthouse.
Winter is in a car.
Winter is arrested after his appeal is rejected.
Workers are outraged by Winter's sentence.
The Dikèretsia announces the closure of half the enterprise.
The workers discuss this decision in the yard.
A group of workers led by Wilhelm goes to the director.
They demand that Winter's "savior" be called in.
A worker asks: what have the parties achieved?
Caption: "The socialist economy is once again destroying Germany, no matter who is in power - liberals or radicals." Newspaper report: Winter released"
Keywords
Germany, court, personalities, press, workers, public organizations
Reel №4
Germany.
Pictures of the ruin of the German people.
Confiscation of the last cattle from the peasants.
The peasants are in despair: the bank has taken everything from them.
A peasant wants to commit suicide.
His wife takes him to the priest.
Together they discuss the situation.
The priest says that the day will come when the deception of the people will end.
The wife of a man killed in the war asks for help.
She is refused.
She tells her children that they will be thrown out on the street.
Germans abroad are going broke, losing their savings
Keywords
Germany, peasants, clergymen, women, children
Reel №5
Germany.
On the deck of a ship.
A German man tells a woman about the loss of plantations in Bombay.
The ship's captain demands that the woman exchange her pounds for depreciated German marks.
She is accused of deception.
In her homeland.
Hamburg.
A shelter for homeless Germans.
People on beds of straw.
A man dies.
It is Count Bodner.
The woman, the widow of the deceased, asks the Countess for help: after all, on the Count's advice, she put all her money in the bank.
The Countess replies that the Count's family is also ruined.
The Count tells his sister that he took off his officer's uniform because of persecution and became an artist.
He complains about the persecution of the nobility.
The Count's sister asks not to get involved with counter-revolutionaries, because now "the saviors of the Motherland are called traitors, deceivers and warmongers." The lawyer Winter ponders, looking for a way out.
He leafs through the books
Keywords
Germany, crisis, water transport, unemployment, shelter
Reel №6
Germany.
Winter speaks at a rally in front of the Imperial Court.
He calls for the shackles to be torn off, demands that the "real deceivers" be put in the dock.
The Masonic conspirators deliberate.
A social drawing room.
The plutocrats demand Winter's destruction.
This is entrusted to a certain young man.
The young man arrives at the factory, where he meets another Mason.
They decide to mine Winter's train car.
Their conversation is overheard by an old garbage man.
He goes to Karl Müller, a trusted person of the Truth and Right union.
The old man tells him about the assassination attempt being prepared against Winter.
The conspirators are at the train car, Müller detains one of them.
Winter at his desk.
He receives a threatening note.
A meeting of the Masonic lodge.
The young conspirator is laid in a coffin according to the ritual.
Keywords
Germany, rally, industry, State, figures, personalities, workers
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Germany.
Winter says that inflation was caused by dark international forces - "Mason lodges, behind which stand the Jews".
The Masons are deliberating.
Winter accuses ministers and high-ranking officials of belonging to Freemasonry.
A Masonic ceremony.
The Masons carry a coffin out of the door.
They lift the lid.
A young Mason-terrorist rises from the coffin.
The head of the order greets him.
The young Mason takes an oath.
The head of the lodge knocks him down with a sword.
The young man is dressed in a hooded robe.
Illustrations for Winter's speeches about annexations.
A map of Germany showing the territories torn away.
Destroyed industrial enterprises.
Winter talks about German customs.
A procession of people in national costumes, musicians.
The Stock Exchange.
Stock speculators.
A fashion show - the luxury of plutocrats.
The needs of the people: a queue at the pawnshop.
People hand over their belongings.
Among the things is a wedding dress.
A woman throws herself into the water.
Commotion on the train: someone jumped out
Keywords
Germany, crisis, Jews, State, figures, personalities, industry, music, population, stock exchange
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Germany.
A young man fainting from hunger.
The body of a drowned woman on the shore.
A hospital.
Winter talks about the dominance of marches and processions.
An SPD procession, a conservative procession, a communist procession.
Winter says that marches and festive celebrations do not provide bread.
Arsons in Oldenburg.
The Völkischer Baobachter issues announcing the murder of a National Socialist.
The people are indignant: a popular demonstration.
Winter demands peace and a popular referendum to establish a "dictatorship of reason". 1926. A demonstration against the Treaty of Versailles.
Thousands gather.
Winter gives a speech demanding "our old Germany be returned".
Members of the Steel Helmet, the Erhard Brigade, and the Freikorps - extreme right-wing militaristic organizations - are demonstrating.
Winter continues his speech.
The audience applauds.
The slogan: "People, state, system".
Dispersal of patriotic demonstrators by "Rot Front". 1927. Rally.
PNR on those sitting in the hall.
Arrest of Dr.
Winter.
He is dragged out of his own bed.
Three weeks later.
Winter receives news of the death of his wife, Anna Winter.
Prison in Bautzen.
Winter behind bars.
The question appears on the screen: "Who will save Germany?"
Keywords
Germany, strike, demonstration, rally, population, personalities, jail, State, act, press, propaganda, public organizations