Scenes after the meeting of Preparatory Commission for Disarmament Conference at the League of Nations building in Geneva, Switzerland. Delegates leaving the assembly hall pose outside for cameras.. The posing delegates possibly include Von Bernstroff, Germany; Henri De Jouvenal and Aristide Briand, France; Sir Alexander George Cadogen and Robert Anthony Eden, Great Britain; Japanese Delegation; Ethiopian Delegation; Maharajah of Kapurthala, India; Turkish Delegation; Egyptian Delegation. Some delegates wear bowler hats as they pose for the cameras. One delegate wears a Fez.
The founders of the League of Nations. Shows Woodrow Wilson reading newspaper.; Lord Arthur Balfour; M. Branting, Sweden; Gustav Stresemann, Germany; Fridtjof Nansen, Norway; Aristide Briand, France; Count Albert Apponyi, Hungary; Vittorio Scialoja, Italy; and Ignaz Seipel, Austria.
Turkish peasants (refugees) en-route to Greece during World War 1. Destroyed homes in Germany. Devastated plains of Poland. Pre war scenes of Poland showing farm fields in snow. Polish peasant civilians flee an area due to war. They walk across a snow covered field towing a sled with a woman on the sledge. A group of Polish children stand together with English children outside a simple hut in the snow. The boys and girls smile. Pre-war scenes of France: View of a French village from high on a hill side overlooking the valley, town, and farmland. Scene from French village streets in the 1910s, before World War 1, with people shopping in busy food markets and market square area. A woman selling grapes at a stand holds up the grape bunches and smiles for the camera. French children and adults seen shopping in the market. Buyers inspect wares being held in wicker baskets by French women. Contrasting view of war torn France shows barren land with all trees destroyed, wrecked and destroyed towns and villages caused by battles in World War 1.
Eve of League of Nations Seventh Assembly's special session in Geneva, Switzerland on admission of Germany into the League. Exteriors of Beau-Rivage Hotel. Public, press and photographers gather outside the Hotel, as the delegates arrive.
A U.S. Army training film titled 'Teamwork' from 1946. Several actors portraying Nazi officers. Nazi officer briefs his officer on their 'Divide and Conquer Policy' for the Americans in a German Headquarters looking building. Actual World War 2 footage is seen at start of film showing the building of the German Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda in Germany. After that, actual combat footage begins at TC:02:34,with views of the German defenses on the Western Wall, at the coast of France. German soldiers man an anti-aircraft gun in a hill, as others march loosely along the shoreline. Several Allied warships are seen in formation headed toward the camera, during the D-Day invasion, June 6, 1944. Next, numerous warships fire their guns, bombarding the Normandy coast. Numerous landing craft (Higgins boats) swarm toward the coast. View from bridge of a LCI(M) (landing craft, infantry - mortar) as it fires its mortars approaching the beachhead. Explosions from the mortar fire. Rockets being launched from Landing Crafts Tank (Rocket). Higgins boats reaching the shore and troops leaving them for the beach. American troops running from the shore after landing, and taking up positions firing small arms. A soldier placing a demolition charge at a German bunker and running from it as it explodes. Famous footage of American troops being shot as they advance on D-Day. Medics tending to wounded on the shore. Medic caring for a wounded African American soldier as they shelter under chalk cliffs at Normandy beachhead. U.S. troops moving inland from their beachhead.
Some 2000 Germans, interned at Fort Oglethorpe and Fort McPherson, are being repatriated after the end of the war, in 1919. They arrive by train at the port in Charleston, South Carolina, where they assemble with their personal belongings. They are assisted and supervised by U.S. Army soldiers. They board the USS Martha Washington transport ship. Another large ship is seen behind her at the pier. U.S. Navy officers and sailors are seen watching as the passengers board. Among the passengers are civilians who had been detained as suspected spies. They are boarding the ship with members of their families. A small child and a babe in arms are seen as well as other children. After boarding, passengers and crew line the deck of the ship. "USS Martha Washington," is clearly displayed on her side. She is seen moving slowly away from the pier and getting underway. to Germany.
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