Opening slate “U.S. Moves Chinese Troops”. In Shanghai, American Navy Personnel spray insecticide, probably DDT, on Nationalist Chinese soldiers using hand pumps after World War II, probably as a delousing measure. The DDT insecticide powder is sprayed into the uniforms and heads of the soldiers. The 26,000 Nationalist Chinese soldiers, part of the United States-trained Nationalist Sixth Army, are mostly bald. Chinese soldier carries supplies in his shoulder and a puppy left arm. 26,000 Chinese Nationalist soldiers, carrying equipment, are led to ships heading to Manchuria to deter Soviet invasion.
Opening Slate “Houseless vets take over hotel”. View of Hotel Vancouver (The Pacific Centre and TD Tower Vancouver stands on the site today. 700 and 701 West Georgia Street Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) after the end of World War II. Banner says “ACTION AT LAST VETERANS! ROOMS FOR YOU! Come and Get Them”. A Canadian serviceman, sitting in the information desk, points to his right to a veteran. Men and women line up to register. A white sign says “Please! Register Here”. A Canadian veteran speaks to a woman holding a baby. Canadian veterans lining up. Canadian veteran speaks to a hotel personnel behind the front desk. Veterans, neatly dressed in coats and neckties, pose together. Veterans and their wives have breakfast together. A veteran and his wife read a “Month” magazine together as they sit in a mattress on the floor. Veteran reads a book and smiles as he lies on his side in bed.
Opening Slate “Snowshoe Carnival”. The “Snow Queen” of the first Snowshoe Carnival after the end of World War II in Lewiston, Maine holds two large keys marked “Congres International”. Crowd gathers to watch the first snowshoe marathon of the Carnival after the end of World War II in Lewiston, Maine. Snowshoe marathon contestants jump through hurdles. Snowshoe marathon contestants run toward the finish line. The winning contestant, Pierre Chalato, crosses the finish line.
Winston Churchill walks with a retinue in Cuba during his tour of the country as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and after World War II. Winston Churchill, smoking a Cuban cigar, climbs with his wife, Clementine, and his retinue. Churchill puts on his hat and waves quickly in a terrace. Winston Churchill uses a pair of binoculars as he sits beside his wife while they watch a horse race. Churchill exits the grandstand. Winston Churchill smokes a Cuban cigar as he walks with his retinue. Winston Churchill is photographed. Churchill enters a Cadillac Fleetwood Series 75 limousine, before the car drives off. Winston Churchill, with cigar in his mouth, gets off the car. Winston Churchill shakes hands with United States military officers before he and his wife boards a United States Naval Air Service Bomber (Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress).
Image of Justice Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice who advised the President of Howard University to make a fine law school for Black Americans. Artists impression of a Black American lawyer defending a case in court after World War II. Dramatization shows female African American in school bus exclaiming “South Carolina’s run out of time, run out of courts!” Frank Jackson explains to his client how Howard University-trained lawyers completely changed the roles of the Black Americans. Image of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. View of Howard University (2400 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20059, United States). An image of Thurgood Marshall with fellow lawyers, some of them Black Americans. Artist impression of Thurgood Marshall defending client in a Jim Crow Court hearing. Dramatization...African-American Lamar High School Student says “And when the courts say “go!”, you go! That’s the law!”
United States Army jeep arrives in Hadamar Clinic (also known as Hadamar Euthanasia Center), a Nazi institution seized by First Army troops in Germany during World War II. Flag of United States drapes over the front of the Hadamar Euthanasia Center after being seized by the Americans. The locals referred to the building as the "house of shutters." United States soldiers get out of jeep and enter the building. United States soldier walks through ward and talks to a patient in bed. Patient in bed talks to United States soldier. United States soldier inspects the rib area of an emaciated, bald male patient. Soldier uncovers the bedsheet of patient and touches patient’s skeletal legs. Bald patient in hospital bed. Soldier sees a patient sitting on bed. Soldier inspects emaciated, shirtless patient. Gravediggers with gas masks exhume corpses from graveyard attached to the Nazi institution. Gravediggers digging for corpses. Gravedigger drags an emaciated, naked corpse out of the soil. A gravedigger unearths a corpse. Gravediggers drag a corpse by her limbs from the earth. Gravediggers pull out a naked corpse. Gravediggers line up corpses for later inspection by WCIT (War Crimes Investigation Team) officials. Major Bulker performs an autopsy of the corpses found in the Hadamar Euthanasia Center graveyard. One soldier takes notes, and another soldier takes photographs of the autopsy. Soldier taking notes while smoking a pipe. United States soldiers interrogating Hadamar Euthanasia Center Chief Administrator, Alfons Klein, and male nurse, Karl Willig. Soldier shows bottle of morphine, used by nurses to euthanize patients. Alfons Klein and Karl Willig leaves the interrogation room.
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