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Actions of Axis and Allied powers on brink of World War II in period 1937-1939.
Japanese troops parade for Emperor Hirohito, mounted upon a white horse. Italian troops goosestep and German troops goosestep on parade. View of an Austrian town with snow-covered Alps mountains in background as German troops enter Austria on March 13, 1938 during the Anschluss. Local citizens welcome them, displaying swastika flags and giving Nazi straight arm salutes. Troops, military vehicles, tanks, motorcycles, and horse-drawn artillery comprise the German invading force. Shifts to Spain, where war torn buildings reflect effects of German and Italian intervention during the Spanish Civil War. A donkey standing near field artillery piece. Artillery being fired from an urban park in Spain. Artilleryman using a range finder. German gun crew with heavy artillery piece. Soldiers wearing Adrian steel helmets, firing a two-wheeled water-cooled machine gun. Spanish carrying wounded on stretcher. Spanish civilians inadvertently slain during civil war conflict. Starving dog walking in street. Huge poster of Francisco Franco and view of him on reviewing stand saluting marching Nationalist troops. Repeat of Hirohito reviewing troops and Italian and German troops goosestep. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini stand together in open car heading to Fuhrerbau in Munich, Germany, for signing of Agreement between Germany, Italy, Britain, and France in 1938. Neville Chamberlain, and Edouard Daladier riding in car to Fuhrerbau. Views of the principals signing the accords. First is Adolf Hitler, followed by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini, and Edouard Daladier. After the signing, the principals, plus Hermann Goering, mingle and converse. Change of scene to nighttime in Rome, Italy, where Benito Mussolini addresses a huge throng gathered near the Victor Emmanuel Memorial to cheer him after his return from Munich. Next, German troops are seen entering Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) greeted by joyous ethnic German inhabitants. Banners are stretched across a street. One gives thanks to the Fuhrer. Several scenes of cheering population. A woman strews flowers in a roadway. Hitler arrives, standing in an open car, and is met with cheers of adulation. A military brass band plays from the open beds of two moving army trucks. Signpost points to Prag (Prague), Eger (Cheb), Joachimstal (Jáchymov), and Komotau (Chomutov) after German annexation. Scene shifts to Prague, where German troops are seen occupying the city. High ranking German officers in a car are seen coming through the gateway from the Court d´honneur of the Prague Castle into the Hradčany Square. The next sequence shows an Italian Freccia-Class destroyer in the Albanian Port of Durrës. An Italian L3/35 Tankette is driven off a large cargo ship. Italian troops on bicycles ride in a city street. A German 88mm antiaircraft (flak) gun is shown, mounted at a fort overlooking a river and city. Final scene shows Adolf Hitler addressing a meeting of the Bundestag in the Kroll Opera House (alternate meeting place after burning of the Reichstag). He reads, contemptuously from an April 14, 1939 letter sent to him by U.S. President Roosevelt, asking him to give "assurance that your armed forces will not attack or invade the territory or possessions of the following independent nations: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Russia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, the Arabias, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Iran." As Hitler reads through the litany of nations, the Bundestag erupts in laughter.
Nazi leaders speak. Faces of Allied soldiers.Nazi massacres.Victims mourned.German troops surrender. American life.
Nazi leaders in Germany giving speeches during World War 2. Soldiers from various countries like England, Poland, Greece, America and Norway. View of young boy soldiers in Germany at end of World War 2. Earlier scene of Nazi Waffen SS soldiers as they march with goosestep on parade. Victims executed in Nazi massacre in Italy shown with hands tied behind their backs. Nazi victims mourned in France. Bodies of women and children slain by the Nazi SS in Belgium. A large crowd of civilians gathered to pay homage to the dead in Lublin, Poland. Allied military vehicles and personnel trample and walk on Nazi flags and posters in Germany. A pile of Nazi flags burning in the street, as men, women and children walk past. German prisoners of war assembled in a large outdoor enclosure, and moving out in a line. German soldiers surrendering, with white flags displayed. American soldiers look at open mass graves of persons shot dead by Nazis. Boy children inmates of Buchenwald concentration camp stand behind barbed wire fence around the time of its liberation. Scenes of ordinary life in the United States. A boy retrieves a ball from a pond, and throws it. Children ride on see saws. A baby take first few faltering steps. A girl hangs from monkey bar. A man and two women share a newspaper article.
UNWCC officers look at a crematorium at the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany.
UNWCC (United Nations War Crimes Commission) officers visit the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany towards the end of World War II. Officers including Mr. Oldham from Australia, Mr. Staurvopolos from Greece, Wing Commander Hopkins from Canada, Lieutenant Colonel Hodgson from the US, Commander J. Latta and Lieutenant Prowse of Admiral Stark's staff arrive at the Buchenwald camp. UNWCC officers look at wooden tiers used as berths for the sick of the camp. Officials enter a crematorium.
UNWCC officers examine ovens used to burn bodies of inmates at the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany.
UNWCC (United Nations War Crimes Commission) officers visit the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany towards the end of World War II. Officers including Mr. Oldham from Australia, Mr. Staurvopolos from Greece, Wing Commander Hopkins from Canada, Lieutenant Colonel Hodgson from the US, Commander J. Latta and Lieutenant Prowse of Admiral Stark's staff arrive at the camp. UNWCC officers examine ovens used for cremation of victims. A pile of dead bodies of Jewish victims. The ovens in which the bodies were burned. Human bones inside an oven. A monument commemorating 51,000 Jews who died in the camp.
Royal Hellenic air force aircraft takes off from Seoul air base in Seoul, Korea during the Korean War.
Far East Air Force operations in Seoul, Korea during the Korean War. C-47 (DC-3) aircraft parked at Seoul air base (K-16) airfield. A sign on the aircraft reads 'Royal Hellenic Air Force'. Officers stand near the aircraft as they talk amongst themselves. Patch on left shoulder of uniform reads 'U.N.Hellenic Flight 13'. Greece bullseye ensign painted on aircraft fuselage and tricolor on tail. Officers walk away from the aircraft and wave at one of their Greek Flight C-47s taxiing past. Airmen enter a quonset hut having a tall striped flagpole in front of it. A sign reads 'RHAF 13th Greek Flight'. A sign on a bullet pockmarked building reads 'Seoul City air base'. Two Republic of Korea airmen and a small boy, converse with an American airman. A Jeep and a truck pass in background. The Korean airmen walk away, eating something and the boy follows them, with hands in pockets.
Germany invades Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria during World War II.
German invasion of Eastern European countries during World War II. Maps of Manchuria and Ethiopia. Newspaper headlines. Maps of various European countries conquered by Nazi Germany including Poland. Newspaper printing press running. Newspaper headlines declaring war against Germany. Herald newspaper headline reads, WAR. Animated map of Germany shows the Nazi symbol spreading across Europe with fire. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and officers at a map as they confer. Maps of Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. Hungarian pheasant farmers gather grain in Hungary. Ore car heaped with bauxite in Hungary. Aluminum sheet rolling down conveyor belt. German aircraft parked in line with propellers spinning. Hungarian soldiers marching in parade with crowd giving Nazi salute. Grain pouring into holding bin. Oil derricks in Romania. Romanian soldiers marching in parade. Animated map depicts the importance of cities of Varna and Burgas in Bulgaria for their submarine bases in the Black Sea. Admiral Miklos von Nagybanya Horthy of Hungary, Prime Minister of Romania General Ion Antonescu, King Michael of Romania and King Boris of Bulgaria. Newspaper headlines include 'Bulgarian King Joins Axis', "Bulgarian Revolts Bring 1200 Arrests', 'Riots Sweep Romania', and 'Hungarian Revolt Brewing' German motorcycles with sidecars driving into Hungary. German artillery being towed into Hungary. German soldiers driving halftracks drive into Romania and Bulgaria. Animated map depicts the plan for invasion of Greece.
