The Marial Congress in Lyons, France. French crowd walks with umbrellas in hand. Children and women take part in the procession. Decorative floats on the street. The procession advances over a bridge. Priests perform religious rites during the ceremony. Large crowd gather in front of the Cathedral.
Air raid victims and bomb damaged buildings in German-occupied Lyon, France during World War II. A motorcade moving on a road. An open car with motorcycle escorts and several cars following in the motorcade. French Marshal Philippe Petain standing in an open car and saluting. A number of people gathered on either side of the road watch the motorcade. A huge crowd gathered in front of a building. Several nuns outside the building. Marshal Petain and a few officers entering a hospital. Marshal Petain meets air raid victims in the hospital. The Marshal and the officers walking through the bomb damaged city. Damaged buildings on a street. The Marshal talking to the civilians.
Shows an apartment building collapsed due to landslides caused by heavy rainfall and melting snow in Lyons France. Police and firemen work to dig out the buried causalities. 40 people were buried alive.
Nazi rally in Nuremberg, Germany ca.1934. Massed Storm troopers and spectators salute Hitler.An artillery piece is fired. Hitler personally recognizing loyal Storm troopers. Animated map of Asia, showing Japanese occupation of Manchuria, and Italian occupation of Ethiopia. Newspaper headlines describe Britain and France hesitating to support League of Nations oil sanctions against Italy; and U.S. increasing its oil exports to Italy by 600% (ca. 1935). Hitler and Hermann Goering looking pleased in Hitler's private railroad car. Adolf Hitler at a planning table covered with maps. German citizens traveling abroad and Joachim von Ribbentrop visiting London, as ambassador to Great Britain, in 1936. View of Léon Degrelle and his Catholic-fascist, Rexist party in Belgium (ca. 1936). View of Colonel Francois de la Rocque speaking at a Cross of Fire (Croix-de-Feu) party night rally in France.Konrad Henlein,leader of the Sudeten German Party in Czechoslovakia. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian National Socialist official, seen in an automobile during a parade. Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, addressing followers and defending Hitler. Street scenes of public disorder attributed to Nazi sympathizers in France and Belgium. Mass meeting of the German American Bund in Madison Square Garden, New York City,1939. U.S. flags and picture of George Washington decorate stage. Fritz Julius Kuhn addresses the gathering and members rough up a protester. Views of heavy industry in Germany, especially steel manufacturing for remilitarization. Persons working at a German concentration camp. Dramatized execution by machine gun. View of Heinrich Himmler. German President Paul von Hindenburg. German national conscription of 1935. German youth training pilots with gliders. German paratroopers, Junkers 52 aircraft, soldiers goosestep, tanks. Ju 87 Stuka plane. German invasion of Rhineland, 1936. Construction of Siegfried Line. Antitank barriers, bunkers, dragons teeth. Hitler visiting Westwall. German military parade.
U.S. troops in cities in France during World War II. Equipment on docks in Naples. A few dirigibles in flight over the dock. Several aircraft in flight. Paratroops of U.S. 7th Army coming down over Southern France. The soldiers advancing and firing. Smoke and flames rise from explosions. The soldiers on tanks advancing and firing. German prisoners being led by U.S. troops. The prisoners walking in columns on a path. The civilians of Marseilles on the streets welcome U.S. troops. U.S. troops marching on the streets. People waving to the troops. A large crowd gathered on the streets waving to the tanks moving past on the streets. Prisoners with their hands behind their heads are led. German soldiers in Lyon firing at U.S. troops entering the city. A hospital building catches fire. Patients being evacuated on stretchers from the building. U.S. troops on trucks moving along a road. People shaking hands with soldiers on trucks. View of the crowd on the streets.
A railroad yard demolished by retreating German forces, in Vallon, France, during World War II. U.S.Army Combat Engineers are machine-gunned as they attempt to build a bridge across the Rhone River, in Lyon, France. They return fire as civilians seek cover. Allied soldiers in trucks enter the city as huge crowds welcome them. U.S. troops riding in M4 Sherman tanks. Knocked out German tanks and 88mm guns mounted on half tracks. Captured German Panther tank of 11.Pz.Div in Meximieux, abandoned Pz.III and Hummel 150mm SP Howitzer. General Patch's Army and the United States 3rd Army troops enter the city of Bourg. Thank You banners are displayed at two windows.
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