Hitler Assumes Bismark's Mantle (1933)

Behold the dawn of a dark reign in Hitler Assumes Bismark's Mantle (1933), a chilling British Pathé newsreel—titled in full: 'Berlin. Adolf Hitler ... assumes Bismark's mantle! As Germany’s Chancellor - once a Lance Corporal - he is now master of his adopted country’s destiny - and a wondering world awaits.......what?'—capturing Adolf Hitler’s ascent on January 30, 1933. This mid-century reel flares to life: Hitler, sharp in a suit, tips a salute as Nazi comrades—Rudolf Hess among them—greet him, a girl’s flowers trembling in her hands. Night falls—torchlights blaze, swastikas ripple, searchlights stab through cheering throngs hurling salutes, a blurry Führer basks on a balcony. The frame shifts—Hitler with his cabinet, Franz von Papen and Hermann Goering at his flanks, then Paul von Hindenburg waves faintly as ‘Deutschland über Alles’ rises. A mid-20th-century lens on a world tilting, Archival Moments revives this shadowed rite—subscribe to peer into more from the reels of history!