A French soldier walks through bomb craters and devastation in a Battle of the Somme World War I battlefield in France. Wrecked trees in the field. Shell wrecked trenches. View of trenches from above. Ruins of a building and ruins of the bombed out church at Esnes France. Wide shot of barren landscape scarred and devastated by bombing and battle of World War I.
Anti-communist propaganda piece in the 1950s: A Communist parade in Paris, France. Communist demonstrators chant slogans like 'Stop the War in Indo-China', Down with warfare',' Unite with Russia for world peace'. People carry signs and banners reading 'France', 'US Go Home' and many more. A mock attack by a boy on another boy dressed up as an American Military Police. A union of French women with banners reading phony title for a communist front organization. Big replica of Stalin's party line novel. Main body of procession includes parade by Communist-led trade unions. A parade of French military might in an other part of Paris. Thousands of French soldiers armed with rifles march on a tree-lined street. People gather in great numbers to witness the parade. A parade of French military trucks, artillery, and tanks.
Anti-communist propaganda: Narrator speaks popping out of his car in the Communist slums of Paris, France. Clothes hang on the balcony of a house. A woman stands on a fire escape balcony. Back alleys of the Communist slums. Men and women do their daily chores. Four kids, arm-in-arm, walk in an alley. A boy sits near a box of firewood. Children play ball near fence plastered with Communist slogans. 'US Go Home' written on a wall. A wall with several anti-Communist posters pasted on it. One poster shows Stalin's cartoon holding a peace sign in one hand and a club in another. Another poster depicts an armor plated dove with its beak symbolizing a gun. A poster shows Stalin's cartoon dancing above the satellite states and his dagger pointing at the heart of France.
The eve of signing of the Peace Treaty of Versailles. View of the gardens and fountains at the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France (Place d'Armes 78000 Versailles France). People gather in large numbers at the palace gardens, around water pools and fountains.
Shows U.S. Army troops at the war front in France during World War I. U.S. 39th and 58th infantry Regiments advance under machine gun and artillery fire at Montfaucon and Nantillois in Meuse, France on September 28,1918.
Scenes of German artillery shelling of Rambucourt, France during the German attack on Seicheprey in France on April 20th,1918. Distant smoke arises from a shelled building. (World War I. World War 1. WWI. WW1)
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