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The Vereinigung Carl Schurz presents "Germany 1934" directed by O. V. Bothmer. A pictorial record of the "Carl Schurz Tour" of American professors and students through Germany in the summer of 1934. The tour was designed to further "the friendly relations between America and Germany on the basis of mutual understanding and goodwill."

(The Vereiningung Carl Schurz presents "Germany 1934" directed by O. V. Bothmer. A pictorial record of the "Carl Schurz Tour" of American professors and students through Germany in the summer of 1934.)

Part I of the film includes footage of the trip on the liner "Bremen" to Bremen; View of Berlin and Potsdam; East Prussia: Danzig, (Anthushop, St. Mary, Townhall, Frauengrasse, Krontor), Zoppot, Gdinia, Marienburg Castle; Marienwerder Finkenstein Castle, Tannenberg monument to Hindenberg; Kant grave; Rauscen on the Baltic; Dresden-Zwinger, Weimar-Schillerhau; Goethe's Garden House, Nietzsche Archives; Goethe House; Adolf Hitler passing through Weimar in a car; Jena, Nüremberg Nazi Party parade.

Part II of the film includes footage of the trip from Rothenburg to Augsburg; Ammersee, Oberammergau, Scenes from Passion Play; Ettal Church; Munich, German National Museum; Heidelberg Castle, Speier Cathedral; Saarbrücken, Trier, Rhein, Bonn; Beethoven Museum Cologne-Cathedral; Hamburg Tiederhaus (modern architecture).