Jews in Dombrowa, Poland during World War 2. People gather on a street in Dombrowa. All of them wear the star of David on their clothing to identify them as Jewish in the German-occupied city. Men discussing amongst themselves. Buildings along the side of the street.
Refugees and concentration camp victims return to Czechoslovakia after the World War II. Destroyed buildings and houses in a village in Czechoslovakia. Woman concentration camp victims, probably most of them Jewish Holocaust victims, leaning out of the windows of a bus after arrival in town. Close up of chalk written sign on bus reads, "Ravensbrück" to denote it as containing women from Ravensbrück concentration camp. Woman are greeted by their family members, who help them out of the bus. Several of those gathered are still wearing their striped concentration camp uniforms. A woman tearfully hugs a man. A steam locomotive with coal car reading, "U.S.A." moving slowly on train track. A Czechoslovakian soldier with rifle inspects tamper evident wire latch on train car. A man opens the door of a railroad train car, revealing bags of grain inside. Hand of inspector examining grain from shipment. Another railroad car door opened to reveal cotton or wool batting. Hand inspects wool or cotton fibers. Truck convoy through city streets. Man carrying crate marked "UNRRA" into building. Crate marked "Czechoslovakia" is placed on table. Hand shows small box of penicillin. Man walking with crutches enters building and is given warm coats. External view of "LAMPLOTA" building with "UNRRA" signs in windows, now set up as an UNRRA distribution center. A smiling Czechoslovakian girl hands a ration ticket to a woman behind the counter at an UNRRA distribution center. The woman cuts a part of the ration ticket off with scissors. Close up of UNRRA food supplies. View of a large wall of "UNRRA" crates.
A film on the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. Empty fields marking the site of Lidice, Czechoslovakia. Women survivors of the Lidice who had been sent to concentration camps. They place wreaths on the common grave of the people who were killed at Lidice. View of a lineup of captured Nazi SS soldiers and officers involved in the destruction of Lidice. Packed courtrooms at Nuremberg, Germany with German Nazi leadership present at Nuremberg Trial. Rubble and destroyed bombed-out Reichstag building in Berlin. Debris on the street. Past events show German Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses people and talks about the destruction of other cities. Ruins of buildings from war. A wrecked bridge and burned out fields of a farm from World War 2.
A film on the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. Past events show German Chancellor Adolf Hitler addressing the German soldiers for the destruction of the cities. Corpses piled up in a Nazi concentration camp in Europe, victims of Nazi atrocities. Ropes, cords, and whip that had been used for torture of atrocity victims are seen hanging on a wall. Bodies of children dead following attacks by Japan. View of crematorium ovens in a Nazi camp, with bones in doorway of an open oven door. Bones piled up in a concentration camp. A crucifix of Christ standing amidst church ruins. Hitler youth seen playing drums at a Hitler youth rally. Close up of Adolf Hitler giving hail sign to a group. Close-up of uniform of a German Nazi officer and uniform of an Imperial Japanese officer. Image of German General Gerd von Rundstedt and slate on screen displaying some of his words spoken at the beginning of World War 2, advocating for mass destruction of Germany's enemies and systematic malnutrition and starvation of the oppostion. Views of starved infant and toddler age children in hospital beds under care of physicians following rescue and liberation. Several of the infants are crying.
People undertaking measures to beat the heat in the United States during the 1937 heat wave. People gather in a large number near the swimming pools. Children dive in the water and swim. Fountains erected in city streets where children gather to play. People pass through the street as water being sprinkled with the help of fountains. A female secretary wearing a bathing suit sits at a desk and takes dictation from a man. Inventor Horatio Casterbilt (or Casterbuilt) shows and wears a hat with a fan motor attached to it to keep his head cool. From a August 1962 newsreel depicting events 25 years earlier.
Unrest due to riots in Detroit, Michigan. High altitude view of the city of Detroit at night. A car passing on the street. Soldiers standing on the street. The national guards patrol the area. Destroyed houses and buildings in the area. Buildings set on fire. People walking on the street. The interior of a destroyed house. Firemen dousing the fire with the help of hoses. President Lyndon Baines Johnson urges for law and order in Detroit.
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