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The factory gate of the Leitz company at two different times: 1953 and around 1915. The openning credits state "A factory gate study by Oskar Barnack. Revised and set to music by Paul Görnert". As in...

Arrival of returning German POWs at Wetzlar train station. The soldiers are greeted at the station by a crowd of people. Since the train is arriving from the direction of Cologne, it can be assumed th...

The Flood of Wetzlar 1920 The Wetzlar Flood Disaster of 1920. The film shows the old Lahn Bridge at high water and a view from the bridge down the river. The street Am Mühlgraben is flooded. In the L...

Since the 1910s, Oskar Barnack, the inventor of the Leica, has captured events around Wetzlar on film with his self-constructed film camera. He documented flood disasters, city festivals, medical expe...

Arrival of the NCO candidates in Wetzlar. The soldiers are expected at Wetzlar station by the gendarme Otto Wallenreich, among others. After the arrival of the train, dignitaries, including the admini...

March of French soldiers into the camp. The soldiers who got off the train are escorted to the camp by the gendarmerie and the Landsturm. One can see the gendarme Wallenreich. Since the 1910s, Oskar B...

Views of a boat trip in the Spreewald. The camera follows a boat in subjective perspective. Since the 1910s, Oskar Barnack, the inventor of the Leica, has captured events around Wetzlar on film with h...

Ukrainians in Wetzlar, 1919 Footage of the prisoner of war camp Büblingshausen. The Ukrainian soldiers march up to the consecration of the flag. They are dressed in new uniforms in Ukrainian style an...

Documentation of the model flight competition in Frankfurt am Main, probably the event organized by the Frankfurter Flugmodell-Verein (at that time the presiding club of the Verband deutscher Modellfl...

The "Reich Banner Black-Red-Gold, Federation of Republican War Participants" was founded in Magdeburg in February 1924 as a non-party alliance of the SPD, the liberal German Democratic Party and the C...

Haemodialysis on a Dog Documentation of an early dialysis experiment by Prof. Georg Haas at the Medical Clinic Gießen. Using collodion tubes, Prof. Haas and two colleagues perform a "blood purificati...

Since the 1910s, Oskar Barnack, the inventor of the Leica, has captured events around Wetzlar on film with his self-constructed film camera. He documented flood disasters, city festivals, medical expe...

Since the 1910s, Oskar Barnack, the inventor of the Leica, has captured events around Wetzlar on film with his self-constructed film camera. He documented flood disasters, city festivals, medical expe...

French Prisoners of War II - Belgian Civilian Prisoners of War Since the 1910s, Oskar Barnack, the inventor of the Leica, has captured events around Wetzlar on film with his self-constructed film came...

With this filmic documentation, Oskar Barnack paid tribute to the Lumière brothers by also recording workers leaving a factory. In Barnack's case they were workers exiting the Leitz factory in Wetzla...

Portraits of women taken in the early 1920s and a portrait of a woman and a man taken on June 16, 1924. The latter portrait possibly shows Alfred Träger and his wife. Since the 1910s, Oskar Barnack, ...