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Various WWI events: German submarine Deutschland leaving US; sinking of SMS Szent Istvan; survivors of Lusitania
Variety of events in World War I years. German merchant submarine Deutschland (a British blockade buster) in 1916 in the United States (then neutral), departing New London, Connecticut on November 21, 1916 headed back to Germany carrying silver bullion. The submarine had just completed repairs following a collision with the tugboat T.A. Scott Jr. when first attempting to leave New London on November 16, 1916. The North German Lloyd Shipping Company submarine Deutschland is seen leaving the dock at New London, Connecticut. The officers on the submarine Deutschland wave. Periscope of submerged submarine is seen slicing through calm water. Sailor on an Italian destroyer blows general quarters call on bugle. Another sailor brings a telescope on deck. Next, crew members fire their deck gun at periscope in the water. Change of scene the shows the destroyer making way, leaving visible wake, astern, as crew members load and fire depth charges from the ship's stern. View of a submarine underwater. Exploding depth charges raise huge columns of water. Underwater view of submarine shows columns of bubbles nearby. View of Austro-Hungarian Battleship SMS Szent Istvan (Saint Stephen), capsizing and rolling after it is torpedoed off the Dalmation Coast of the Adriatic Sea by Italian torpedo boats on June 10, 1918. Survivors being rescued in small boats. View of a merchant vessel at dock and in a harbor. View of survivors of the May 1915 Lusitania disaster, with belongings, arriving in a harbor. Men and women with children posing. Two small girls pose among the group of Lusitania survivors.
The Black Forest wooded mountain range in Germany and snow capped mountains in Austria.
Famous tourist destinations and architecture in the Black Forest, Germany and Innsbruck, Austria. Views of the Black Forest, a wooded mountain range. Trees on either side of the Rhine valley. The Rhine River. Farm buildings seen. Skyline of Innsbruck, Austria. The Hofkirche is seen. Snow-capped mountains in the background. View of the Clock Tower building or Stadtturm (Herzog-Friedrich-Straße 21, Innsbruck, Österreich). Buildings on either side of a street. People and vehicles on the street.
German artillery fired and bombing at installations in Southeastern Russia on the Eastern Front of World War II.
The Eastern Front of World War II. German soldiers load and fire artillery in Southeastern Russia. Many soldiers naked from waist up due to the heat. Grasslands and mountains in the background. Few soldiers in tunnels. Soldiers holding guns walk through woods. Barbed wires seen. Massive explosions. German infantry advances. German Messerschmitt bombers take off on bombing mission. Aircraft in flight. Pilot at controls. Bombs dropping on the enemy targets..
Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, speaks about continuing needs
Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, speaks about the continuing problem of refugees resulting from the upheavals of World War II. He speaks of the many refugee camps, both official and unofficial that are still occupied throughout the world, and the problems of people in them.
Views of German air and naval nighttime operations in World War II
Nighttime operations in World War 2, by German military air and naval units. German Air Force aviators discuss a mission. German armorers fastening large bombs under fuselage of a German Dornier 17 twin engine bomber, at night. The aircrew boarding the aircraft. Engines running and the bomber taxiing out for takeoff. Scene switches to a German coastal gun firing in the darkness. Next, the wake from a German torpedo boat, is seen at night. Interior of the boat, showing controls. A gun on deck, and face of sailor operating the boat. TWo torpedoes being launched. Explosion and fire from torpedo striking a ship, seen at night. Controls of a ship set to full speed ahead. A torpedo being launched from a surfaced submarine at night. A huge explosion from the torpedo striking a target ship.
European Heads of State review their respective forces mobilizing for World War I. Glimpses of trench warfare.
German Kaiser Wilhelm II walks among German troops assembled for inspection in Berlin, Germany at outbreak of World War 1. The Kaiser and senior commanders review the troops on parade. The last contingent in the parade comprises civilian officials in top hats. French Prime Minister, Alexandre Ribot, is saluted by a military honor guard as he exits a building. He doffs his hat and turns in deference, as Raymond Poincaré, President of France exits behind him. They both enter a waiting car, followed by the French Minister of War, Jean Brun., who joins them. As they are being made comfortable in the car, French General Ferdinand Foch, exits the building (wearing a great coat) and is escorted by another General. In Russia, Emperor, Tsar nicholas ll, leads military commanders as they review a contingent of Russian guards in formation on the platform of a train station in Moscow. Camera pans across crowds filling the Palace Square, St. Petersburg, upon the declaration of war on 20, July, 1914. Base of the Alexander Column visible in center of crowd. Russian troops file into well established trenches. Huge explosions raise tons of earth amongst the trenches. Troops flee for safety. Many take cover in large shell craters. Several fall to machine gun fire, near barbed wire. A book is opened to a page entitled: "Military Program Proletarian Revolution" (in Russian). German troops are seen from above and behind sheltered in a trench with a desolate battlefield in front of them. Closeup of the troops. Next, Russian troops who died are seen in a water-filled trench. One is holding an M1891/Mosin–Nagant firle. Closeup of another soldier, covered in mud leaning against sandbags. Bodies of two soldiers at a pond of water in their trench. One is immersed, with face up, in the pond and the other is reaching down into it. What appear to be the bodies of soldiers entangled in barbed wire at edge of trench..
