Imperial German Army troops marching into the middle of Berlin, to maintain order, as crowds of civilians mill about, watching them. German populace going about ordinary daily affairs, as the troops bivouack on the city streets. Soldiers on a street corner, eating a meal from a field kitchen set up on the sidewalk. The carriage wheels of an artillery field piece is seen on the sidewalk,in the background, along with the Imperial military flag. In another scene, soldiers sit and rest, idly, on the sidewalk of a boulevard. Their arms are stacked, and some are trying to nap. In the background, a crowd has gathered to listen to a speaker (unseen). A monument and statue stands in center of the scene. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
A French railroad gun captured by the Germans during World War 1. German soldiers stand near a damaged French railway gun. "Against the Big Bertha" is written on the gun, in French. Two soldiers sit on the gun barrel. Other soldiers stand on the railway gun and pose for the movie camera. (This is a German film with English caption describing the gun as one of the heavy rail guns intended to silence our long range guns firing on Paris.)
Russian Crown Jewels. A display of the Czar's jewelery on a table. A crown embedded with jewels in view. Faberge eggs. Various other precious jewelery like bracelets, rings and a sword embedded with diamonds.
U.S. Army soldier and others hand out bread to Czech Legion troops looking out from railroad cars on Trans Siberian Railway during Russian Civil War (and World War 1). Czech Legion soldiers pose in front of a Red Cross Railroad train. A squad of U.S. infantry march past a Czech soldier guarding a parked Czech Legion train carrying military supplies. Refugee families with their belongings. A refugee family poses in an open railroad box car.
Intervention by Entente Powers in Siberia, Russia during Russian Civil War and World War I era. Activities of Czech Legions and Japanese Imperial troops, who had been dispatched as part of a larger effort by Western forces to support the White Russian forces against the Bolshevik Red Army . Czech Legion troops drilling in various settings. Japanese troops drilling in formation on railroad platform, and then at attention with rifles and fixed bayonets. Japanese Army forces in uniform marching with a band in front ot the train station building on Trans Siberian rail line. Czech flag flying over the train station complex. People coming and going at front of station and some crossing tracks at railroad platform. Czech Legion barracks with wood stacked nearby. Czech Legion train with military vehicles and supplies loaded on it.
Japanese troops in Vladivostok, during Russian Civil War and World War 1. Opening scene shows Japanese soldiers in a bayonet sparring exercise using wooden rifles and Samurai style protective gear. They engage each other in pairs. Next scene shows Japanese soldiers in front of railroad cars serving as their housing. Some of them are cooking food. View along the rail platform where many Japanese soldiers are walking about. A Japanese soldier is seen inside on of the boxcars, smoking a cigar. Several others are seen inside their boxcar home, where they have a stove to heat it. A soldier stands guard atop war material stacked in low open rail cars. Views of vast rail yards filled with train loads of supplies of all kinds. Smoke issuing from steam locomotives in the distance. Another view of boxcars used as "barracks" for troops. Camera pans over the rail yards.
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