The footage shows the parade of the riflemen's festival in Wetzlar in 1914, with participants of the '27th Verbandsschiessen Wetzlar' among others. The procession consists of festively decorated cars ...
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...
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...
Bathing in the Lahn River Men in swimming trunks jump one after the other from a wooden jetty into the Lahn. From the second half on, the shot runs backwards. The film ends with a close-up of Günther...
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...
Oskar Barnack