Freed slave laborers in Wurzen, Germany towards the end of World War II in Europe. A U.S. soldier on horseback escorts a column of freed Hungarian-Jewish slave laborers along a street. Many of the laborers are wearing striped uniforms like those worn by concentration camp inmates. A group of women fighting over a loaf of bread.
Efforts for additional cultivation in London, England during World War II. Men set up fencing at Richmond Park as a part of effort to put an additional million and a half acres into cultivation. A horse-drawn carriage loaded with fence sections moves ahead. Men set up fencing at Richmond Park. London suburb dwellers on their new allotments to produce their own vegetables. The dwellers pass by women standing at doorways of a building.
Efforts for additional cultivation in London, England during World War II. Suburb dwellers on their new allotments to produce their own vegetables. The dwellers carry their agricultural equipment and get on a truck. Children get on the truck. Men unload iron scrap from a cart. A pile of scrap. Signs read 'Clear Out Scrap - It All Helps To Win The War' and 'WHO WASTES WASTEPAPER HELPS THE ENEMY'.
Efforts for additional cultivation of food crops in London, England during World War II. Richmond Park being plowed up to grow potatoes during an effort to put an additional million and a half acres into cultivation. Group of children examining a tractor on a field. Farmer starts the tractor and the children run along beside as the tractor plows a field. Other civilians walking on the field and two dogs playing. View of tractor approaching low camera position and stopping just before the camera. View of new furrows plowed in land as seen from camera looking backward on moving tractor. The farm being plowed by the tractor at night. London suburb dwellers on their new garden allotments for production of their own vegetables. Families and children help planting gardens. (Similar to "Victory Garden" program in the United States.) The sites are in Brockwell, Dulwich, and Battersea Parks in the southeast suburbs of London.
Views in London, England after the declaration of war by Italy during World War II. Workmen take down 'KINGSTON' station sign off a platform. A train passes in the background. The workmen take down another sign. A workman paints out another sign. A sign of Quaglino's restaurant being put up after the declaration of war by Italy.
Views in London, England during World War II. A barricade on a road. A British sentry stops a passenger car to check papers. A Lewis Gun on a road. An officer stops the car. The driver of the car hands over papers to the officer. A Red Cross ambulance passes along the road. Cyclists being stopped by sentries at barricades.
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