Events and various war crime trials after World War I and II. Exterior view of Palais de Justice de Paris with some cars in front, in Paris, France. Courtroom views: Pietro Caruso, Fascist of Italy is seen in court. Next is Norwegian Army officer Vidkun Quisling in court. French General Henri-Philippe Petain in court in Paris. French politician Pierre Laval speaking in a court room. Views of lawyers and prosecutors speaking forcefully in courtrooms. Nazi Hermann Goering speaking in an outdoor setting. Nazi generals being arrested at end of World War II including Field Marshal von Rundstedt. Next scene shows Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II and General Staff during World War I. Next is Briitsh Prime Minister Henry Lloyd George, after World War I. Kaiser Wilhelm II, residing in Doorn, Netherlands, after World War 1. With his good hand, the Kaiser throws wood into a pile. A post-war aerial view of Nuremberg, Germany with massive bomb damage and destruction in the city. The court house of Nuremberg. U.S. chief prosecutor Robert Jackson walking outside the Nuremberg courthouse with a military officer on his right and a woman on his left. Next scene is a dramatization of a British Court scene, with justices wearing powdered wigs. Elevated, wide view of Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. View of a Soviet court in session, and civilian viewers of the trial seen in upper gallery viewing seats.
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.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at Yalta conference in Ukraine. American and Russian troops meet at Elbe River in Aerial views of destroyed buildings in Berlin, Germany. German officers sign surrender documents in Rheims. President Harry S. Truman, Stalin and Churchill meet at Potsdam conference in Germany. American troops fight in Iwo Jima, Japan. American flag raised. Aerial views of ruins in Tokyo. (World War II period).
A film about U.S. response to the activities of the Axis powers Italy, Germany and Japan during World War II. U.S. Army Chief of Staff George Marshall praises the United States Military offensives in Europe and Africa. George Marshall narrates rest of the clip. Animation of a globe depicts the Allied forces in the middle east planning to isolate China and Russia. The animation depicts the German Forces crossing the British allies, joining Japan and then attacking America. It depicts U.S. plans to stop the collaboration of Germany and Japan. Scenes of American shipyards are shown, with workers building new war ships. Some workers welding. A sign reads, "Work must continue during launching. Positively." The animation depicts the shorter routes to the European Theater. Aerial footage of a large fleet of U.S. Navy Ships at sea, underway during World War 2. Next scenes shows smoke pouring from ships at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii following attack by Japan. View of Soviet Russian horse cavalry forces charging toward enemy German positions during a battle in World War 2. Scenes of Allied artillery being fired at night in North Africa. Animation depicts the need to establish American air bases closer to Japan before launching successful air attacks. Footage of U.S. soldiers running out of landing crafts and coming ashore at a beach head during World War 2. Animation depicts U.S. plan to defeat Japan. Animation depicts strong German Army. Animation depicts U.S. plan to defeat the Nazi and the Fascist power in Europe.
The troopship USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176) is seen being guided by tugboats as she makes her way to the pier, while carrying U.S. troops back home from Europe at end of World War 2. View of the upper deck jammed with soldiers, waving happily. A large banner is displayed showing Division patch of the Tenth Armored "Tiger" Division and the key places they operated in Germany as the first im General Patton's Third Army in Germany, during the war. More views of soldiers waving. Many stand in the ship's lifeboats. Troops carrying their gear in dufflebags as they disembark from the ship. Friends and relatives standing behind a fence waiting to greet the returning soldiers.
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