Germany 1937 Video - Can you help identify places?
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A bit of detective work required, if anyone can help.
I've finally managed to get some old 16mm and 8mm film that was shot by my Grandfather onto DVD via VHS. Amongst lots of sea voyages and other stuff is footage of a holiday taken to Germany in August 1937.
It starts in the Rhine region and I think that one of the first towns (at 1.21) is Boppard - there's a clothes shop called HC Stammer that seems to still exist today. The castle at 2.34 on the river is I think Kaub. But the town or city at 2.47 is a mystery - Riart's Bodega doesn't throw anything up on Google. The Autobahn at 3.07 could be anywhere, as by 1937, it seems that quite a lot of the network was built.
At 5.03 there is a big city - Berlin perhaps? Or more likely a large city in the west of the country. At 5.45 there seems to be some very modern apartment complexes that must have been quite new at the time.
Amongst all the swastikas and nazi youth marches, my Grandparents and his other couple (best man I think) are driving a Ford V8 Station Wagon, that McNab inherited at a later date.
Anyway, video is here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rziUAFfoFaA . Enjoy!
I've finally managed to get some old 16mm and 8mm film that was shot by my Grandfather onto DVD via VHS. Amongst lots of sea voyages and other stuff is footage of a holiday taken to Germany in August 1937.
It starts in the Rhine region and I think that one of the first towns (at 1.21) is Boppard - there's a clothes shop called HC Stammer that seems to still exist today. The castle at 2.34 on the river is I think Kaub. But the town or city at 2.47 is a mystery - Riart's Bodega doesn't throw anything up on Google. The Autobahn at 3.07 could be anywhere, as by 1937, it seems that quite a lot of the network was built.
At 5.03 there is a big city - Berlin perhaps? Or more likely a large city in the west of the country. At 5.45 there seems to be some very modern apartment complexes that must have been quite new at the time.
Amongst all the swastikas and nazi youth marches, my Grandparents and his other couple (best man I think) are driving a Ford V8 Station Wagon, that McNab inherited at a later date.
Anyway, video is here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rziUAFfoFaA . Enjoy!
At 5:27 I think it may be Berlin as the building in the background looks like the with the "Neue Wache" building in the foreground (I lived there and walked past this building many times):
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&source=hp&...
But I may be completely wrong!
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&source=hp&...
But I may be completely wrong!
williamp said:
wonderful. Cant help with the lcoations. That woody keeps appearing, and in the shot at the bar the rh door is open, so it might be British and RHD. The numberplate is WS 743?
The car is a Ford V8 Station Wagon similar to this;
McNab inherited it 10 years later - ironically, probably around the time he was doing National Service in Germany!
Numberplate was WS7433, but DVLA doesn't seem to think it still exists.
inlovewithRWD said:
At 5:27 I think it may be Berlin as the building in the background looks like the with the "Neue Wache" building in the foreground (I lived there and walked past this building many times):
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&source=hp&...
But I may be completely wrong!
Looking at the surrounding buildings during and after the march, it does look like the Opera House perhaps, the the University? opposite. Many thanks!http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&source=hp&...
But I may be completely wrong!
Leithen said:
deviant said:
Absolutely amazing...Another PHer inheriting a car someone in the OP family owned!! Have you tried contact McNab to see if he can help you with the video and finding out what happened to the car?
Not so amazing I'm afraid - McNab's my father!
I feel a face / palm interface coming on!
Leithen said:
deviant said:
Absolutely amazing...Another PHer inheriting a car someone in the OP family owned!! Have you tried contact McNab to see if he can help you with the video and finding out what happened to the car?
Not so amazing I'm afraid - McNab's my father!
McNab fathered Children!!! :snigger:
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Been living here for 35 years so....... (all IMHO of course)
2.34 definitely Kaub (the castle in the river is the customs castle) and the castle on the hill has been rebuilt, but profile (tower etc) essentially the same.
3.15 Autobahn (very flat, possibly between Hannover and Berlin
4.58 1/2 timbered houses typical of central Germany
5.27 definitely Unter den Linden and Adlon Hotel
6.17 A berlin lake possibly the Teglersee and the Pfaueninsel (Pier looks familiar)and after that one of the Berlin canals from a tour boat
2.34 definitely Kaub (the castle in the river is the customs castle) and the castle on the hill has been rebuilt, but profile (tower etc) essentially the same.
3.15 Autobahn (very flat, possibly between Hannover and Berlin
4.58 1/2 timbered houses typical of central Germany
5.27 definitely Unter den Linden and Adlon Hotel
6.17 A berlin lake possibly the Teglersee and the Pfaueninsel (Pier looks familiar)and after that one of the Berlin canals from a tour boat
JMGS4 said:
Been living here for 35 years so....... (all IMHO of course)
2.34 definitely Kaub (the castle in the river is the customs castle) and the castle on the hill has been rebuilt, but profile (tower etc) essentially the same.
3.15 Autobahn (very flat, possibly between Hannover and Berlin
4.58 1/2 timbered houses typical of central Germany
5.27 definitely Unter den Linden and Adlon Hotel
6.17 A berlin lake possibly the Teglersee and the Pfaueninsel (Pier looks familiar)and after that one of the Berlin canals from a tour boat
Brilliant - many thanks!2.34 definitely Kaub (the castle in the river is the customs castle) and the castle on the hill has been rebuilt, but profile (tower etc) essentially the same.
3.15 Autobahn (very flat, possibly between Hannover and Berlin
4.58 1/2 timbered houses typical of central Germany
5.27 definitely Unter den Linden and Adlon Hotel
6.17 A berlin lake possibly the Teglersee and the Pfaueninsel (Pier looks familiar)and after that one of the Berlin canals from a tour boat
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