U.S. President Warren G Harding visits the homestead of former President Rutherford B Hayes in Fremont, Ohio. Colonel Webb Hayes (James Webb Cook Hayes), son of former President Hayes, greets them at Spiegel Grove house. Dignitaries proceed for the unveiling ceremony of Sandusky County war memorial on the portico of the Rutherford B Hayes Museum Library. They approach the ceremony area followed by a military band. Colonel Hayes in Army uniform and his wife, Mrs. Hayes (Mary Otis Miller Brinkerhoff Hayes), in YWCA uniform, standing near President Harding. Mrs Hayes does the honor of unveiling the Sandusky County Honor Roll that lists war dead from the region, including those lost in the recently ended World War 1.
Audio only. Nazi war leaders on trial in Nuremberg Germany. Decisions on how the charges will be grouped. The speaker focuses on major issues during trial: Violation of International law of war, charges for participation in common plan of conspiracy, charges for planning and execution of war and territory loss by Germany.
Battle of Grosswardein, precursor to Battle of Debrecen, in World War 2. In late September, 1944, the German 23rd Panzer division was ordered to clear Grosswardein (aka Oradea or Nagyvárad) and environs occupied by Soviet and Romanian forces (who had switched sides a month earlier). In late September, 1944, the German 23rd Panzer division was ordered to clear Grosswardein (aka Oradea or Nagyvárad) and environs occupied by Soviet and Romanian forces (who had switched sides a month earlier). This was prelude to the World War 2 Battle of Debrecen, in October, 1944. Map shows areas of interest and reflects German treatment of Grosswardein and Debrecen as part of Hungary (Northern Transylvania), A German 88mm artillery piece is seen being towed uphill by a SdKfz 6 half-track. Battery of German 15 cm schwere Feldhaubitze 18 cannons being fired from high ground. Their shells striking at edge of wooded area. View of shells being loaded. Chalk writing on one "trotzdem siegen win" or in English "We will win despite all this". German Panther medium tanks move at the head of a column that includes Stug III and other armor. A Stug III camouflaged with tree branches. German armor advancing across and open field. Two tanks parked, and their crew members watching the battlefield. Explosions in the field. German machine gunners firing against Soviet infantry. Romanian soldiers surrendering in a grove of trees, are searched and processed as prisoners of war. German infantry moving through field of corn stalks, along with armored personnel carriers (Schutzenpanzerwagen SdKfz 250/10 Neu). A truck burning in the field, with a field piece attached on a towbar.
Trial of Nazi German war criminal Hanns Albin Rauter in the Hague, Netherlands, after end of World War 2. Closing statements. One among the attorneys, K.T.M. van Rijckevoorsel, LLM, stands up and reads out some documents. Judges in tribunal listen to the statements. Accused Hanns Albin Rauter stands up and makes a speech, saying that he concluded he was not a war criminal having studied his conscience. The court is then adjourned with the announcement that sentence will be passed in a few weeks and the policemen escort Rauter out of the building and take him to a waiting police van.
Famous actor Charlie Chaplin dramatizes four bonds for Canadian audiences, in a short feature called, "Some Bonds I Have Known." It was originally created in 1917 for the Canadian Government and re-released in 1942 as an incentive for Canadians to purchase War Savings Certificates in World War II. The presentation includes four skits with Chaplin describing the bonds of friendship, love, marriage and most importantly the Victory Bond. It concludes with a view of a War Savings Certificate and an appeal to viewers to buy them to "win this one."
A meeting of the America First Committee at the Manhattan Center in New York CIty. A large crowd inside the Center. The Committee members on stage. Colonel Charles A Lindbergh on the podium. He addresses the meeting. Photographers take pictures. He talks about idealistic and practical view points regarding the World War, balance between the two, potential entry of U.S. into the war, how ill-prepared the U.S. is to wage war, and the welfare of Americans. People wave U.S. flags and applaud.
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