Trial of Pierre Laval charged with high treason in France. View of the Palais de Justice courthouse (10 Bd du Palais, 75001 Paris, France) in Paris, France. Pierre Laval defends himself during the trial. Many people gathered to watch the trial. He is sentenced to death after he is found guilty on October 9.
Strategic Secret Intelligence teams operating with the 7th Army in the southeast France during World War II. Mountains in the eastern France. Animated map of France shows U.S. 7th Army driving in Bourgoin. Secret Intelligence teams and motor cars. Teams set up missions. A radio jeep makes a contact with Strategic Secret Intelligence headquarters. 7th Army officers look at a map. 7th Army soldiers drive along streets. People standing on both sides wave at them. Soldiers seated in a jeep surrounded by French people. The soldiers talk to citizens. Officers standing outside a building smoke. Large crowds gather and wave at the soldiers. They try to get autographs of the soldiers. Children run behind a jeep.
Documentary tilted 'Rolling To The Rhine'. On the "Red Ball Express." Bronze Star medal is displayed. Montage shows a pilot, infantryman and a paratrooper. The bronze star is awarded to a truck driver in France for heroism. Railway station in Pennsylvania, boxing match in Oklahoma, and Chicago subway train. Red Ball railroad express underway. Trucks are gassed, driven through slush, and carry supplies to the war front. ' We Deliver' written on trucks. Us troops and convoy in France. An 8-tire trailer, several disabled trucks, and Military Policemen direct traffic in France.
Victory in Europe Day festivities in Paris, France after World War II. A crowd gathered in front of the Arc de Triomphe (Pl. Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France). Large flags of United States, Soviet Union, and France are displayed under the Arch.
Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain's trial session at the Palais de Justice in Paris, France during World War II. A view of the Palace of Justice (Palais de Justice 10 Bd du Palais, 75001 Paris, France). French General Henri Pétain enters a courtroom. People in the courtroom watch as Petain enters. The judge reads a document. Petain removes his cap and walks. He places his cap on a table and sits in a chair in the courtroom. The Chief Justice enters the courtroom. Spectators stand and welcome him. The trial starts. Petain speaks in his defense. Few spectators write the minutes of the trial. Petain reads a document and speaks. The Chief Justice argues with the defense lawyers. Many officials at the trial session. Petain sits back in his chair as the trial continues. Many French officials speak during the trial session of Petain. Officials including chief witness of the prosecution Paul Reynaud, former Prime Minister of France Edouard Daladier, French politicians Albert Le Brun and Leon Blum, French Military Commander General Maxine Weygand, French radical politician Edouard Herriot, French politician Marcel Paul, French General Maurice Gamelin and French politician Pierre Laval testify against Petain. Petain is sentenced by the Chief Justice after the trial session.
French soldiers return to Paris, France towards the end of World War II. Draped British, American, and French flags at Place Vendôme in Paris. Flags with mourning bands on the day of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral. Allied flags on Galeries Lafayette (40 Bd Haussmann, 75009 Paris, France). Crowds at a station and along a street as they wave to buses loaded with American soldiers and repatriated French soldiers. French civilians waving to truckloads of returnees. French soldiers and women workers loaded on a truck as they wave to French civilians. Repatriate French soldiers loaded in trucks as they move past civilians. The civilians gather around a truck loaded with returnees at the Musee d' Orsay (1 Rue de la Légion d'Honneur, 75007 Paris, France). Soldiers get off a truck and women run towards it to greet them.
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