Joe Louis wins the world heavyweight boxing championship in Chicago, Illinois. A large crowd and a large number of vehicles are on the road in front of Comiskey Park. Police gathered at the stadium for the bout. Stadium sign : 'Comiskey Park, Home of the White Sox'. Spectators enter into Comiskey Park. View of enthusiastic celebration among a throng of people in Harlem on news that Joe Louis, AKA the Brown Bomber, had defeated James Braddock. Pan view from feet to head of Joseph Louis Barrow (Joe Louis), the heavyweight boxing champion of America, after winning the world championship crown on June 22, 1937 against James J. Braddock (opponent) in round 8 in Chicago. View of James Braddock (nicknamed "Cinderella Man") seated with his family in an interview after he defeated Max Baer for the title, but before the fight with Louis. Braddock asks his son, "Now that Daddy is champ, what do you want him to get for you." His son replies that he'd like a bike. Braddock answers, "A big bicycle" and his son says yes. View of Braddock alone, with a bandage on his left ear. (Audio present at end of clip only during Braddock interview.)
Families are resettled by the resettlement administration in the Great Plains, United States. Animated map show the Great Plains with an area of 4,00,000,000 acres. It shows 4,00,000,000 acres of destroyed and 2,00,000,000 acres of badly damaged land. 5,800,000 acres is retired from use, 65 land projects, $21,400,000 loaned to 155,000 farmers and 4,500 families are resettled by the resettlement administration. Farmers move to the Great Plains. New houses and buildings are built by resettlement administration. Homes of the farmers on farms. View of the Great Plains.
Acting Military Governor General Timofei Dudarjov is interviewed in Germany. The seat of Soviet Military Government for the state of Saxony. The Acting Military Governor of the States of Saxony is interviewed by U.S. correspondents. A Russian aide and a Russian girl interpreter present. Acting Military Governor Major General Timofei Dmitrievich Dudarjov. Insignia of the Guards Regiment. His aide Colonel Ivan Feodorvitch Karnautchenko. The name of the girl interpreter is Eugenia Vasilievna. Next to the aide is Victor Bernstein of PM. Next to the interpreter is Kendall Foss of the New York Post. The General talks.
Iceland becomes a republic during World War II. Tents set up for citizens of Iceland to vote in a referendum outside the city of Reykjavik. Citizens gather for the ceremony marking the proclamation of Iceland as a republic. President Sveinn Bjornsson and the Bishop of Iceland as the new republic is formed. American commander on Iceland General William Key watches the ceremonies.
Displaced Jewish orphans in Weimar, Germany soon after World War II. Jewish orphans who had been imprisoned at Buchenwald Concentration Camp by the Nazis, board a railroad train. Some of them saying goodbye. Allied soldiers stand around. The train pulls out as boy and girl orphan children wave from windows. Jewish flag hanging from a train window. Flowers adorn the train windows. One boy waves an American flag. Polish, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian and French, Jewish orphan prisoners liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp board a train with their belongings. Signs on a side of the train: 'Recommencons une vie nouvelle et libre'. (Our beginning of a new life in liberty). The train pulls out from the station.
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp near Weimar, Germany towards the end of World War II. The group includes Frances E. Walters from Pennsylvania, Eugene Worley from Texas, Carter Manasco and Albert Rains from Alabama, Henry W. Jackson from Washington, Earl Wilson from Indiana, Marion Bennet from Missouri, Gordon Canfield from New Jersey, Major General Vanier of the Canadian Army and Major Walter Mosmiller of SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces) who is in charge of the tour. The group views piles of dead bodies and crematoriums. The group poses in front of a memorial.
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