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Post World War I political issues in the U.S.A. including Red Scare, anarchists, labor strife, and KKK

A huge crowd on streets of New York City cheering and celebrating victory over Germany in World War I after signing of the Armistice. A cemetery of U.S. soldiers died in World War I. Cross burning and views of hooded Klan members at a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) ceremony, with several uniformed U.S. Army soldiers in foreground, dimly lit (possibly at Stone Mountain Georgia but location not confirmed). Palmer Raid victims: Suspected leftists, left wing, and anarchists seen being led away in a group by police after their homes were raided and searched without search warrants, and some were deported, under program led by U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, during 1919 and 1920. (Second group shown is likely in Paterson, New Jersey; note sign for J.T. Doremus Hardware on building in background.) Palmer Raid arrestees seen behind barbed wire fences where they were held without charges for three months and denied legal representation. Some arrestees being escorted by U.S. soldiers in uniform. Vigilante businessmen and town leaders enforcing 12 hour work days at Steel factories in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and Gary Indiana. Vigilantes (deputized and armed by local authorities seen with rifles and shotguns marching down streets enforcing business demands and countering steel workers on strike. They approach a striking worker on the road side and seize a stick he is holding. Together with police they begin to beat back the protesting crowd of men. Someone fires a gun in the crowd and shooting starts. An injured or dead steel worker on the ground is lifted up by a man and carried away.

Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036808
Americans capture Fort Obergentringen and turn its guns on Germans in Thionville, France, during World War II

American soldiers of the U.S. 90th Infantry Division, walking atop captured Fort Obergentringen, Near Thionville, on the west side of the Moselle River, in World War 2. Next, the Fort's German Krupp 105mm guns are seen firing numerous shells at German positions in Thionville, east of the river. American soldiers with binoculars observe the shell strikes from the fort. Smoke rising from the shelling. [Note: A September 17, 1944 wireless report about the fort's capture , to the New York Times, by Frederick Grahamby, stated that "The fort's name is Gingringen and from 1870 to 1919 it belonged to Germany." However, it is actually Fort Obergentringen (Fort Guentrange) on the hills of Guentrange, overlooking Thionville, and built in 1899.]

Date: 1944, September 16
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055086
German aggression against Norway in World War II; Comparison of Hitler to gangsters; Gangster shoot-out reeanactment

German soldiers goosestep march into Oslo,Norway, in World War 2. Flasback scene of German refugee children being fed by Norwegians circa 1919, after World War 1, during time of shortages and depression Germany. Animated map showing path of German invasion and area between Hamar and Elverum, Norwegian army resists. Norwegian troops firing artillery. Two Norwegian Army soldiers in snow. One aims a Krag-Jørgensen rifle (film is reversed). German bombers overhead. Norwegian troops taking cover. German He-111 bomber dropping bombs. He-111 diving. Norwegian soldiers run for cover. Bombs exploding on the ground. Me-109 fighter plane strafing. Norwegian soldiers fleeing North. Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers in formation. U.S. Army Captain, Robert M. Losey, in uniform.(He was military attache in Norway and killed during a German bombardment.) German troops occupying various parts of Norway. German paratroopers landing on snow in mountains. He-111s dropping bombs. Bombs bursting on ground. Norwegian civilians in city, flee bombings. Me-109 planes in flight. Two Norwegian women look skyward. German Luftwaffe Stuka dive bombers attacking. A woman running past burning wreckage. Bombs falling from He-111 aircraft. Huge bomb explosion. Junkers Ju-52 trimotor aircraft flying low. Women and children run for shelter. Civilians crowd into open truck to escape. Burning buildings. German troops occupying Norwegian forts. Allied troops landing in Norway, under air attack. Animated map shows limits of allied air forces. British troops carrying wounded. Allied bombardment at Narvik. Allied troops occupy the town. Allies defend against German counter-attacks at Narvik. British troops with German prisoners. Stuka dive bombers attack Allied warships that fight back with antiaircraft guns. Picture of Vidkun Quisling. Hitler on cover of Time magazine. Narrator makes comparisons between Hitler and Gangsters of the 1930s. Gangster John Dillinger being arraigned in the United States. Gangsters and mob firing guns and machine guns shooting from moving cars of gangsters in the 1930s. Dead body of John Dillinger laid out on a autopsy or mortuary table in 1934. Map show Nazi plans for total conquest.

Date: 1940
Duration: 6 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038486
The 65th Congress opening its First Session in Washington DC.

Glimpse of the U.S. Capitol dome. Members of Congress and associated staff and other persons are seen gathering in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC , on April 2, 1917, for the first session of the 65th U.S. Congress of the United States (following a special session in March). Many people sit on the steps and others gather in clusters. Scene shifts to Jeannette Rankin, Republican representative from Montana, and the first woman elected to Congress. She and a man are trying to unfold a large American flag before the camera. Soon two more men help and they hold the flag spread out as Representative Rankin poses in front of it. Next, James Beauchamp "Champ" Clark, Democratic representative from Missouri (who would be elected Speaker of the House) shakes hands with James Robert Mann, Republican representative from Illinois, who served as House Minority Leader from 1911-1919. Elsewhere in Washington, Jeannette Rankin stands with suffragist Carrie Catt, in the back of an open car in front of the Washington D.C. headquarters of the National Woman's Suffrage Association. Rankin holds a bouquet of flowers. An American flag is displayed nearby. Next the car is seen pulling away, causing Rankin to fall back and sit, from where she was standing, in the back seat. Two more cars full of women follow. A cordon of police officers begins to move a crowd back, and two mounted policemen direct people away from the Capitol buildings. (Note: In this first session of the 65th Congress, on April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany.)

Date: 1917, April 2
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027188
Final days of WW I, and aftermath. Riots in Russia. Treaty of Versailles. League of Nations. Harding elected President

Final throes of World War I and postwar situation. German submarines sinking allied ships. American workers work in war plants. U.S. Army General John Joseph Pershing visits France. American soldiers disembark from a ship in France. Germans defeat Russians on Eastern front and divert troops to the Western front. German soldiers on horse drawn wagons and others walk carrying guns as they move. Riots in Russia after it collapses in war. American soldiers fire field artillery. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson writes letters to countries at war like Germany. Papers with the 14 points to maintain peace. The soldiers of Germany and America on battle field. Dead soldiers on ground. Soldiers carry another injured soldier on a stretcher. The people protest during a rebellion in Germany. Soldiers of America cheer signing of Armistice. Cemetery. .Americans on streets in the U.S. after the war. President Woodrow Wilson goes on a tour of Europe. He sails to different places. Prime Minister David Lloyd George of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy, Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau of France, and President Woodrow Wilson of the United States in France during the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Map shows the different nations formed after the war. The president returns after his visit. Henry Cabot Lodge, a U.S. senator. President visits different places to explain the peace treaty. Sketches show the President suffering a paralytic stroke and his wife takes his important decisions. Sketch depict the opponents of the peace treaty and the defeat of the league of nations. Warren Gamaliel Harding elected as the new President Harbinger of the future: views of Adolf Hitler on the rise in postwar Germany.

Date: 1919
Duration: 7 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032133
People and school children walk at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, demonstrating against the terms of the Treaty of Versailles

School children and teachers demonstrate against the Treaty of Versailles peace terms in Berlin, Germany. A group of women and children walks on path. School children walk, in-line from the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor, Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany). People walk in sidewalks of the Unter den Linden boulevard. Some vehicles pass through the Brandenburg Gate. The Victory column (Platz der Republik 10557 Berlin, Germany), then located in its former location in the Königsplatz (now the Platz der Republik), can be seen in the background from Pariser Platz.

Date: 1919, April
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675026325