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Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen, Warren Christopher and Sir Robert Jackson talk about Campuchian people in Geneva.
The plight of South East Asian refugees, with focus on role of international organizations in Geneva. Views of buildings. Representatives and delegates at meeting. Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen, Foreign Minister of Malaysia, talks about assistance and relief to people of Campuchia. Warren Christopher, Deputy Secretary of U.S. State Department, starvation, diseases and deprivation of Campuchian people. He talks about U.S. contribution in relief work, humanitarian efforts and distribution of supplies for Campuchian. Sir Robert Jackson, Special Representative United Nation Secretary General, talks about refugees of Afghanistan, South East Asia, Africa and Campuchia. He says that solving the problem of refugees is a very difficult task.
Soviet Officers visit British artillery unit, where they are shown British guns and munitions.British fire BL5.5 inch field gun
Soviet officers climb down from tracked military vehicle in which British soldiers are explaining something to other Soviet officers. Artillery shells piled on a shelf in the vehicle. British soldiers explaining an artillery gun to the Soviets. British gunners fire BL 5.5 inch field gun, while one of the Soviet officers covers his ears. Soviet Officers step out of a mobile command post and walk around to the side where they converse with a British officer.. (World War II period).
U.S. troops of the AEF engaged in trench warfare on the Western Front during World War I in France.
U.S. troops of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) wearing gas maskes as they occupy trenches on the Western Front, in France, during World War 1. One soldier using a large hand-held "Ayrton" fan to clear lingering gas from a trench. A shell bursting in air above a fort, as a French FT 17 tank moves across the area. American infantry in gas masks, firing rifles from a trench, as gas drifts over them. A camouflaged French rail gun firing from a railroad siding. Two other views of French rail guns firing. Smoke rising from a nearby shell burst. More views of AEF troops firing rifles from trenches during gas attack. Soldiers moving across no-man's land as shells burst. A mammoth explosion from a demolition charge or siege mortar shell. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
German surrender, UN founding, and Chiefs of Counsel meet before conducting Nuremberg and other trials after World War 2.
A film on preparations that are made for prosecution of axis war criminals following World War 2. Ratification of the surrender documents (from surrender two days earlier at Reims) held at Soviet headquarters in Karlshorst, Berlin, on May 9, 1945. German officers Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine enter room and are seated. View of Keitel signing the surrender document. Scene change to Hall of the United Nations Conference, held in San Francisco from April 25 to June 26, 1945, with delegates from 50 Allied nations creating the United Nations. This was officially the United Nations Conference on International Organization (UNCIO). Leaders of various United Nations countries address delegates present in the War Memorial Opera House of San Francisco, including Edward Stettinius Jr of the United States. Next: A meeting of the military tribunal Chiefs of Counsel of many nations, including France, Russia, Great Britain and the United States, held in London, England, United Kingdom. They sign the International Military Tribunal Charter governing how the major war criminals from World War 2 would be tried.
Historical images illustrating the growth of communism in Soviet Russia and East Germany. The Berlin Wall.
Camera pans along a portion of the "Berlin Wall" made of rough concrete blocks topped by barbed wire. Next, a large group of East German people are seen lined up along a fence topped with barbed wire. They look through the fence. More views of the rough concrete block wall. Scene shifts to Asia, where large numbers of refugees are seen moving along a dirt road. Glimpse of Soviet military on parade in Red Square. Refugees and displaced persons in various places and conditions. Some are barefoot. Huge crowds filling Red Square in Moscow,Soviet Russia. The Kremlin wall and old Russian Senate building and Senate Tower in background. Glimpse of Felix Dzerzhinsky giving empassioned speech in Soviet Russia. A baby with an angry expression throwing a tantrum. Glimpse of fallen refugees beside a road. The film displays a rotating globe of the earth and slate identifying "The Big Picture." A statue and photograph of Karl Marx, the philosopher who espoused Communism. Communists marching during early days of the Russian Revolution in Russia circa 1917. Series of One-way road signs in various languages. Large gathering of German people carrying signs reading "Frieden" (Peace). View of a person apprehended attempting to escape across the barrier separating East and West Germany. Closeup picture of East German citizen, Bernt Leuton, who was shot by East German border guards, after successfully swimming to West Germany.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg attend a wedding at Habsburg House in Austria.
Artillery mounted on rail cars. United States President Theodore Roosevelt addresses a crowd. In London, King George V and Queen Mary arrive in the royal carriage for the King's coronation ceremony at Westminster Abbey (Dean's Yard, London SW1P 3PA, United Kingdom). Royal guards among the large crowd gathered to witness the ceremony. Queen Mary leaves the palace in a horse carriage. Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary inspects troops in Vienna. Members of the Habsburg royal family. Archduke Franz Ferdinand attends the wedding of Archduke Karl to Princess Zita at the Schwarzau Palace in Lower Austria. His wife Sophie Chotek, Duchess of Hohenberg, stands beside Emperor Franz Joseph during the ceremony. Royal family members and other dignitaries, such as the Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (mother of Princess Zita), Prince Xavier of Parma (brother of Princess Zita) and the Spanish Infante Don Jaime Duke of Madrid, are present for the wedding.
