Commander of the German 18th Army, Colonel General Georg Lindemann, arrives to personally recognize Spanish Army General Emilio Esteban Infantes, commanding officer of the Spanish "Blue Division" (German 250th Infantry Division) for successfully repelling attack by the Russian 55th Army, in the Battle of Krasny Bor on the Eastern Front in February, 1943. Other officers help General Esteban Infantes to place an Iron Cross decoration around his neck. Scenes of German General Field Marshal Albert Kesselring reviewing Italian and German troops in Italy at an airfield and presenting award to some of the soldiers. In next scene, Benito Mussolini enters a room and then is seated in the first meeting of the leaders of the new Fascist Republican Party, including Alessandro Pavolini and Italian Minister of War Rodolfo Graziani. Next segment covers arrival of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to Italy, touring fortifications and inspecting defenses in Italy. He is seen reviewing port lookouts and defense points with German artillery. In once scene he passes an elderly Italian civilian and gives him the Nazi salute, which is returned weakly by the Italian. Next segment covers further expansion of Italian defenses, with the laying of barb wire by troops, including one soldier cutting his pants knee on the barbed wire. Also shows demolition of trees using dynamite. Explosions as trees are blown up. Then shows placement of new artillery guns and positions. German soldier reviewing a map while on phone receiving enemy position information. German soldiers in hills fire artillery at enemy position in a valley.
Queen Elizabeth II on an official state visit to Rome, Italy and the Vatican City. The Arch of Constantine (Via di San Gregorio, 00186 Roma RM, Italy) in Rome, Italy. Queen Elizabeth waves to the Italian crowd. Queen Elizabeth’s motorcade reaches the Quirinal Palace, to meet the Italian President Giovanni Gronchi. Italian crowds follow Queen Elizabeth’s motorcade outside the Quirinal Palace. With President Gronchi and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Elizabeth II waives from the Quirinal Palace balcony.
Street scenes in Rome, Italy. People seated in a streetcar. Pedestrians cross the street. Men in Vespa motorcycles and cars on the street, crossing the streetcar tracks. Buildings and churches in the background. Italians riding bicycles. An Italian carabinieri directs the traffic. Scene changes to Milan, Italy. Street scene with police directing traffic along Via del Corso. Policeman raises his hand to give directions to the traffic in Milan, Lombardy. The Milan Cathedral (P.za del Duomo, 20122 Milano MI, Italy) in view. Streetlamps in view. Traffic of vehicles and pedestrians near square in front of Milan Cathedral.
A narrow road through a formal Italian garden in Italy. Urns and statues in the garden. Aquatic plants in a pond. A view of Hotel Lido (Via Nazionale, 175, 98030 Taormina ME, Italy) in Taormina, Italy. People bathe in the swimming pool. Tables and chairs near the pool. Trees in the background.
Montage of scenes with soldiers returning to Italy and France at end of World War 1. A large troop ship docked at a port in Italy, carrying returning Italian soldiers. Huge crowd assembled on the wharf. Supplies being unloaded from a ship. A few U.S. soldiers are seen. A field kitchen set up on the wharf and Italian troops being fed. American and Italian flags fly above the wharf shelter roof. Crowds on streets in France. French General Petain enters a car and is given a large bouquet of flowers (which he promptly gives to an officer accompanying him in the front seat of the car). French President Poincare joins Petain in the back seat of the car and they drive away. Scene shifts to the port in Italy, again. Men wave the Italian Naval ensign flag.
Events in Italy and the United States during the Great Depression. Italy, 1933: Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini at a ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of his march on Rome, Italy. Fascists gathered at the ceremony. Mussolini hugs and greets a fascist officer. United States: During the Great Depression, men of the Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC at their first training camp cut trees. Men of the CCC sit and eat food in a forest. Men and women participate in a walkathon during the days of the economic depression in 1933 (the scenes look also like those from a dance marathon, with exhausted couples clinging together late in the marathon). From a August 11, 1958 newsreel giving a retrospective look at events 25 years prior.
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