Belgian troops after days of fighting in Belgium during World War I. Two soldiers seated on chairs. The soldiers get their beards shaved. Other soldiers watch them. Buildings in the background.
Refugees in Belgium near end of World War 1. Belgian people rebuild and repair houses. Two men on roof of the house. Women climb a ladder and assist in handing supplies back and forth. Men lay roof of a house. American soldier supervises as German soldiers (prisoners) carry sewing machine tables and other equipment and supplies out of a building. Civilian men and women carry supplies out of a different building. Two women assist girls and boys in sitting down to a meal at a long table in a school or orphanage. Belgian children eating food in the dining area. A United States Army soldier holding a dog and a mug. He smiles as he lets the dog drink from his cup. Two American soldiers talk to Roman Catholic Cardinal Mercier (Desire-Joseph Mercier) in a garden area. Close up view of Cardinal Mercier. (WWI; WW1)
German troops lead away captured U.S. soldier prisoners of war (POW) in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in World War 2. German Wehrmacht troops walk on a damaged street. Captured U.S. soldiers marching under German guard. A German soldier writes “Aus der Traum” (“From the dream” in English) on the base of an artillery gun. More camouflaged Wehrmacht trucks driving through muddy roads. German troops ride a vehicle pulling an artillery. Wehrmacht soldiers on top of a half-track. Snow falling and covering Panzer tanks. A Panzergrenadier infantry holding a Panzerfaust over his shoulder. A German Panzer tank moving. Snow covers forest.
Cold-weather warfare in the Ardennes (Belgium) during the Battle of the Bulge in World War 2. German soldiers trekking up a slope. Soldiers near a tank. A damaged United States Army aircraft in the snow. Anti-aircraft flak attacks American and British fighter aircraft over the Ardennes. A German soldier looks up to the sky. Smoke German soldier wearing a machine gun belt looks on. Anti-aircraft Flak firing at Allied aircraft. Flakwaffen (anti-aircraft gunners) fire at flying aircraft. A downed Allied aircraft fall. Narrator shouts “Abschluss!!” upon Allied aircraft crashing. Flakwaffen soldier looks up to the sky to search for enemy aircraft. German soldier uses binoculars. Smoke in battlefield. Destroyed U.S. tanks. German Panzer tanks moving. Soldiers climbing out. German soldiers walking through smoky field. Destroyed U.S. tanks and vehicles. A dead U.S. Army soldier.
Headlines in various New York and Belgian newspapers report the entry of Austria, Germany, Russia and Great Britain into the World War 1. A poster part of the recruitment campaign by Lord Kitchener, British Secretary of State for War. British troops in the streets of England, mobilize for the war. King George V, his son and uncle, inspect British troops. Turkey: The Sultan of Turkey and other military officials emerge from a building. The Sultan takes his seat in horse carriage and is driven away. Turkish troops at a port and soldiers seated in a ship. Belgium: Bombarded buildings and ruins in Louvain. People and soldiers on the street. People in carts on a road in search of new homes. Military officers study a map. Belgrade: Serbians bomb Belgrade. Soldiers fire artillery guns. Bomb explosions on a hill. British soldiers camp with French soldiers across the channel. Australian soldiers march ahead to join the war. Germany: Retired General Paul Von Hindenburg, commander of the Germans, and other military officers pose outside a building. The German emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II ascends from the sand dunes of Belgium to inspect his troops in a field. France: French soldiers on alert in trenches and bunkers, defend the borders of Paris. General Gallieni and his troops leave Paris for the front in taxicabs.
Events during World War I. Sketches : workers in a German arms factory. German soldiers advance towards France. Animation of a map shows the German invasion of France through Belgium. Kaiser Wilhelm II, the German Emperor. Buildings damaged by invading Germans. U.S. president Thomas Woodrow Wilson advises Americans to stay calm. American people read papers. Cartoon depicts the President about his domestic reforms. The German atrocities in Belgium. Man holds a dead person. Sketch depicts Germany crushing everything on its way. The apprehensive people of America. Sketches of American man against a German leader. Trucks and taxi cabs on the Orne river. A gun barrel. Bombs being dropped on the German ships. Worker at a factory in America. Sketch of a man standing beside a flag having the dollar sign shows the prosperous America. Sketch shows the various resources required by the American industries. An American ship carrying war materiel. Sailors in German submarines. German submarines target allied ships. Sketches of U.S. president Wilson warning Germany. On 1st May 1915 RMS Lusitania a British luxury ship at sea as it starts from New York. Paper shows a warning by the German government. A German sailor on board a submarine as it targets a ship. The RMS Lusitania ship sinks killing many, including Americans. The U.S. secretary of State William Jennings Bryan and Thomas Woodrow Wilson with other officials. The former U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt addresses people opposing President Wilson's policy. The President prepares a note for Germany. Sketch of U.S. Democratic Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan during his resignation. Sketch of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
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