Crisis in Poland after the imposition of Martial Law by its Military Government. World wide demonstrations and protests against the military rule in Poland supported by Soviet government. A large crowd of demonstrators in Tokyo, Japan protests on roads carrying banners and their leader addresses on a microphone. A solidarity leader addresses an assembly of demonstrators in Lisbon, Portugal. Protesters assemble at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia. Girls with Polish flags sing freedom songs. Hans Dietrich Gentscher from Federal Republic of Germany addresses the people assembled. U.S. Senator Henry Jackson and Dr Jerzy Milesewski support the solidarity and Polish people. A huge demonstration in London with people holding banners and placards in support of solidarity in Poland. Civilians demonstrate on the snow covered roads of Ottawa in Canada. People shout for freedom of Poland. A leader reads his speech. A large crowd assembled to support solidarity in Washington DC, United States. U.S. Ambassador to United Nations condemns the Soviet supported military rule in Poland. German Confederation Labor leader supports Polish solidarity during a summit in Germany. A crowd demonstrates in Philadelphia and marches for Polish solidarity. People in a church pray for freedom and prosperity of Polish people.
A court trial in session. Fascist Pietro Caruso of Italy in court. Norwegian Army officer Vidkun Quisling in court. General Henri-Philippe Petain of France. French politician Pierre Laval in court speaking forcefully. Prosecutors gesturing. Nazi Hermann Goering. Nazi generals being arrested at end of World War II including Field Marshal von Rundstedt. Germany's Kaiser Wilhlem II and General Staff during World War I. Henry Lloyd George of Britain, after World War I. Kaiser Wilhelm II, residing in Holland, after World War I. He smoke a cigarette and throws wood into a pile using his right hand. A post-war aerial view of bomb-damaged Nuremberg, Germany. The court house of Nuremberg. U.S. chief prosecutor Robert Houghwout Jackson on walk outside the Nuremberg courthouse. Enactment of British Courtroom scene. View from above of Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. View of a Soviet court in session.
Germany responds to the Russian attack near Breslau, Lower Silesia, Germany (Now part of Poland) during World War II. StuG III's move on the road. Soldiers stand with Panzerfaust recoilless antitank weapons and guns. Sdkfz 251/21 Drilling half-tracks advance. Two soldiers look through binoculars. A stationary Panther (Panzer) tank. Soldiers sit on a Hetzer Jagdpanzer 38 light tank destroyer (Sd.Kfz. 138/2). A tank gun is fired. Soldiers sit holding small arms in the battle field.
'Nuremberg it's a lesson for today ', Destroyed buildings and houses all over Europe in aftermath of World War II. Children running and groups of boys playing on rubble of destroyed buildings in a European city. Hungry people in despair. A hungry boy asleep leaning against a building. People make a fire to stay warm, atop rubble of wrecked buildings. Face of a young boy in despair. A young girl walking amid ruin. An old woman looking upset. People walking through rubble on street in Germany with Brandenburg Gate in the distance. Children seek relief at in a breadline or food relief area asking for food, with some taking cups offered and others reading hands forward. An hungry and upset young boy beside a military truck shows the motion of holding an item and eating it in order to ask a person (unseen) for food. A distraught looking woman with disheveled hair cradling a young girl in her arms and walking away from a group. Crucifix standing alone amid rubble. Scene changes to the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany as Military Police guards the palace. A document shows the names of Nazi leaders who will be tried at the Palace of Justice for war crimes during the Nuremberg Trials.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers a speech in Washington DC, United States, before the entry of the United States into World War II. During the speech he warns the Americans of the consequences if Germany wins the war. He says that if Britain loses the war Nazis will take over the whole of Europe, Asia and Africa, and gain control of the seas. Such a situation would endanger the freedom in American continent as well. He clarifies that the U.S. does not intend to send its military forces to Europe to fight against Germany. He also assures the citizens that the Nazis are not going to win the war.
A sign board reads: 'Border Operations'. Sign board along the side of a road in Germany for an inner-Germany border at Ronshausen in the Rotenburg district. A U.S. Army jeep drives past on the street. Soldiers advance along supply lines to protect them. Soldiers in training during Cold War receive training in firing a Browning M1919A4 .30 caliber machine gun. Aerial view of snow covered arctic mountain region. A sign board reads: "Army Arctic Training Center, Big Delta, Alaska." U.S Army soldiers training in Alaska are seen on skis, firing rifles in prone position on the snow. Scene changes to a sign board that reads, "Organized Reserve Corps U.S. Army." An officer briefs U.S. Army Reserve soldiers (wearing civilian clothing) about ammunition and equipment in a briefing room. U.S. Army soldiers exercise for their physical fitness. They are seen doing synchronized callisthenic drills including pushups on a large field. Men in a radio room receiving a transmission. One of the men presses a button to ring an alarm bell. View of an alarm ringing. U.S. Army soldiers in a dining hall or mess hall hear the alarm and scramble and run to battle stations during a Cold War aerial attack drill. Soldiers running toward outdoor gun positions, past a rotating radar position. U.S. Army soldiers taking positions, with some entering communication vans and some that man an anti-aircraft gun. Soldier plotting positions on a clear, erasable wall board. Wide view of soldiers manning a 90-mm Anti-aircraft gun M1 on mount M1A1.
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