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Events in career of Chester W Nimitz. The end of World War II and postwar years.

Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is met by General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur, as he arrives by airplane in Manila, Philippines. Japanese diplomats and military officers board the U.S. Battleship, Missouri, to sign surrender documents. Admiral Nimitz is one of the signatories. Nimitz is given a hero's welcome, in Washington, DC, replete with a military parade. He addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress. Admiral Richard Byrd briefs Admiral Nimitz (now Chief of Naval Operations) about the 1947 expedition to Antarctica. Admiral Nimitz receiving an honorary degree from Columbia University, in New York. (Others present during this event include General Dwight Eisenhower and General George Marshall.) Nimitz, appointed as UN Plebiscite Administrator for Kashmir. He is visited by members of the Japanese Diet and signs autographs for them. Nimitz standing with President Truman, who appoints him to a special commission on internal security. Retired Admiral Nimitz at home in his garden at Berkeley Hills, California. Weather vane at his house contains 5 stars and replica of a submarine.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 5 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042988
Senator Wagner leads a victorious fight for the enactment of the Social Security Act in Washington DC.

After Social security act is signed by both houses of Congress in Washington DC. Senator Robert Wagner of New York leads a victorious fight for the enactment of social insurance. Senator Wagner stands in front of the U.S. Capitol and announces to the camera that the Social Security Act has been signed by congress and will soon be signed into law by the President.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1935, August 16
Duration: 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043310
Growth of the German Nazi party and military might (German remilitarization) during the 1930s leading up to World War II

Nazi rally in Nuremberg, Germany ca.1934. Massed Storm troopers and spectators salute Hitler. An artillery piece is fired. Hitler personally recognizing loyal Storm troopers. Animated map of Asia, showing Japanese occupation of Manchuria, and Italian occupation of Ethiopia. Newspaper headlines describe Britain and France hesitating to support League of Nations oil sanctions against Italy; and U.S. increasing its oil exports to Italy by 600% (ca. 1935). Hitler and Hermann Goering looking pleased in Hitler's private railroad car. Adolf Hitler at a planning table covered with maps. German citizens traveling abroad and Joachim von Ribbentrop visiting London, as ambassador to Great Britain, in 1936. View of Léon Degrelle and his Catholic-fascist, Rexist party in Belgium (ca. 1936). View of Colonel Francois de la Rocque speaking at a Cross of Fire (Croix-de-Feu) party night rally in France. Konrad Henlein, leader of the Sudeten German Party in Czechoslovakia. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian National Socialist official, seen in an automobile during a parade. Sir Oswald Mosley addressing followers and defending Hitler. Street scenes of public disorder attributed to Nazi sympathizers in France and Belgium. Mass meeting of the German American Bund in Madison Square Garden, New York City,1939. U.S. flags and picture of George Washington decorate stage. Fritz Julius Kuhn addresses the gathering and members rough up a protester. Views of heavy industry in Germany, especially steel manufacturing for remilitarization. Persons working at a German concentration camp. Dramatized execution by machine gun. View of Heinrich Himmler. German President Paul von Hindenburg. German national conscription of 1935 during military mobilization efforts. German youth training pilots with gliders. German paratroopers, Junkers 52 aircraft, German soldiers goosestep, views of German tanks. Ju 87 Stuka plane. German invasion of Rhineland, 1936. Construction of Siegfried Line. Antitank barriers, bunkers, dragons teeth. Hitler visiting Westwall. German military parade.

Location: Germany
Date: 1939
Duration: 8 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043608
General Laurence Kuter and other official at North American Aerospace Defense Command control room in United States.

Animation shows NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) using SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) directed Bomarc IM-99B missiles to repel an attack by hostile aircraft. Animation shows Bomarc IM-99B missile on launch pad. Civilians walk on streets in Washington DC and New York City. The Texas tower. RC-121 aircraft in flight. Radars move at station. Board reads 'NORAD Operations Center' with names of Officials with their designations. Officials seated inside the NORAD center look at map on screen. They speak over phone and converse with each other. General Laurence Kuter in the NORAD control room. Animation of area defense concept and an attack by enemy bombing force. Bomarc IM-99B missile launched from launch pad.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1958
Duration: 14 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043620
Following Kristallnacht, former President Hoover and others make nationwide plea for Jews facing Nazi brutality in Europe.

President Franklin D Roosevelt leads the nation's protest against prosecution of Jews in Germany. Roosevelt during a recording of the plea. In Germany, Jewish owned shops with broken windows following Kristallnacht (night of broken glass) depict Nazi brutality in Germany. Palo Alto, California: Former President Herbert Hoover expresses indignation at the brutal intolerance of the Nazis and predicts their 'moral isolation'. He also expresses American support for Jews and Christians in Germany and compares their brutality to the destruction of religious worship by the Bolsheviks in Russia. New York: Reverend RI Gannon of Fordham University and Methodist Bishop Edwin H Hughes raise their voices against the outbreaks of violence and hate against Jews in Europe. They compare the Nazis to the original Huns and make a plea for the Jews.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1938, November 16
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043734
Pope Pius XII attends a gathering of American Bishops at the Pontifical North American College, in Rome, Italy

View of the Janiculum campus of the Pontifical North American College (Via del Gianicolo, 14, 00165 Roma RM, Italy) in Rome, Italy. Francis Cardinal Spellman, of New York, stepping from a car accompanied by Bishops. Other American Bishops arriving. Pope Pius XII arriving with entourage of officials and Vatican guards. The Pope enters a sanctuary and proceeds down an aisle to the altar, where he prays momentarily, then turns around and blesses those in attendance. Views from high above in rear of church. Group of young priests kneel at the altar. The Pope and entourage proceed down the halls of the College. Cardinals and Bishops mingle with one another and with priests and nuns, some of whom stoop to kiss Cardinal Spellman's ring. Pope Pius XII continues his walk along the halls, blessing those around as he passes. Vatican guard salutes as the Pope departs in a car.

Location: Rome Italy
Date: 1953, October 14
Duration: 3 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044039
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