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Holiday shopping, busy streets filled with shoppers, and Germans buying Christmas trees in Berlin

Holiday vendors and shop keepers in Berlin selling wares and gifts to shoppers at Christmas time, 1919. A man buys a wooden clapping toy from a boy street vendor. A fruit vendor sells fruits from his wooden cart. Germans lined up to buy Christmas trees from a vendor beside a public square area. Pedestrians fill the sidewalks, passing by tents with holiday vendors, as seen from elevated position in a moving vehicle traveling on a main street in Berlin. Happy children and adults seen shopping and walking in the crowd. Children and adults gather at a store window that sells toys, and watch a vendor showing a toy zeppelin that flies back and forth, and a wind-up, mechanical car toy.

Location: Berlin Germany
Date: 1919, December
Duration: 3 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039644
Scenes of American forces in France at conclusion of World War I, Christmas gifts, and immediate postwar period

Several u.S. Army soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) stand near three French children, outside a church building in France, during World War 1. A large relief of Christ on crucifix is displayed on the wall behind them. One soldier kneels down next to the children and gives them some chocolates. He talks with them. Closeup of the children eating their candy. A boy wipes his hands on his sweater. The children make circles on their tummies, indicating that the food tasted good. New sequence shows American Army of occupation troops celebrating Christmas, 1918, at Montabaur, Germany. They are assembled at a hillside, around a platform holding a monument and statue. A large decorated Christmas tree is set up on one side of the monument, and an Army brass band stands on the other side. Captain William A. Turner, of the Salvation Army, dressed as Santa Claus, hands out gifts to some of the soldiers, assembled in the foreground. There also appear to be some local German people gathered to the far right, of the brass band. Next, "Santa Claus" is seen throwing gifts out to the gathered soldiers. Scene shifts, again, this time to several U.S. Navy dreadnought battleships that might be returning troops from Europe back to the United States. The first seen is a two-stacker, Florida-class; the second is the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) and the third is the two-stacker USS New York (BB-34). Final sequence shows U.S. Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, and Secretary of War, Newton D. Baker, in top hats, stand on deck of a ship with with its Captain (a U.S. Navy Commander) to review U.S. Battleships returning from service with the British fleet in World War 1. The dim image of a battleship is seen in the background. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Location: France
Date: 1918
Duration: 3 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039777
Civilian internees at a Christmas party at the University of Santo Tomas internment camp in Manila (WW2)

Civilian internees (prisoners) in Japanese-occupied Philippines at a Christmas party at University of Santo Tomas, Manila civilian internment camp during World War II. View of the university’s main building. Christmas tree visible. A man dressed as Santa Claus distributes gifts to children. Children playing with toys.

Location: Manila Philippines
Date: 1945, January 2
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040433
Airmen eat Christmas dinner at decorated dining hall in Bien Hoa Air Base, Vietnam.

Christmas decorated dining hall at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. Food trays placed on tables in the dining hall. Airmen get meals. They take seats and eat at dining hall in Bien Hoa Air Base. Christmas decorations in the dining hall. View of Airmen eating food and talking to each other.

Location: Vietnam
Date: 1965, November 18
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025017
United States Atlantic ship sailors and officers celebrate Christmas and rides camel in Constantinople, Turkey.

United States Atlantic ship sailors and officers celebrate Christmas and ride camel in Constantinople, Turkey. Vice Admiral A T Long rides on camel and holds its harness. Santa Claus waves on a boat. Sailors and officers around Christmas tree on the dock. People board on the boat. Two dignitaries stand and talk. People board on boat. Admiral and sailors ride on camels.

Location: Constantinople Turkey
Date: 1922
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675026006
Battle of Stalingrad during Christmas and New Year, 1942, and continuing until February 2, 1943

The final struggle for Stalingrad during World War Two. Christmastime, 1942 in Moscow. Russian civilians obtaining fir trees for Christmas celebrations. A large beautifully decorated Christmas tree set up in the Hall of Pillars, in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Men and women couples dancing in the hall to music from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. Smiling Russian children at play indoors, on slides, on a carousel ride, and playing hand games with one another. New Year's eve is different. World War 2 Soviet war production workers in a munitions factory greet each other but continue working without stopping. On the Stalingrad front lines, the Soviet Army marks the New Year, 1943, by launching artillery barrages, through the night and continuing unabated well into the next day. Russian Sukhoi Su-2 light bombers drop incendiaries on German positions. Brief partial glimpse of a Russian Sherman tank. Soviet Army soldiers using flame throwers. Soviet troops moving across ice and snow on armed Aerosan ice gliders. Batteries of Soviet Katusha rockets fire barrages. Soviet infantry and tanks advance across vast barren snow-covered terrain. Animated map depicts Nazi German military forces being pounded on several fronts. A solitary horse standing in midst of Stalingrad destruction and ruins. Scene from February 2, 1943 as Soviet soldiers, symbolically, fire the last shot in the Battle of Stalingrad. A smiling Soviet soldier then places a cover over the muzzle of the field artillery piece. Scenes of the battle's aftermath. Russian officers hug one another. The Soviet Union flag is hung from a city building. Numerous German soldiers surrender under a white flag of truce. Many surrendering German Generals are seen.

Location: Russia
Date: 1942, December
Duration: 4 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041529
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