Committee for Hemisphere Defense and Economic Solidarity holds a meeting at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Members seated at the Conference table. Documents in front of the delegates. Chilean delegate as President of the Committee. Newspaper men gathered at the end of the room. Cameramen take pictures. Uruguayan Representative Guani reads newspaper. Senhor Aranha, Peruvian delegate, Ruiz Guinazu and Chilean delegate give their views on severance of relations with the Axis. The U.S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles seated in the conference. (World War II period).
Trial of French spies in Cherbourg, France during World War 2. Gendarmes (French national police) stand outside a building. Jeep in view. Spy handcuffed to Gendarme. The spies hide their faces by hand. Crowd gathered in building. French spies stand. Court in session. Spies seated and shield their faces. Spies in custody of Gendarme.
Chartres captured in France. Men locate and mark mines on road. A land mine is blown. Smoke rises up. Two engineers bend down and mark mines. Engineers prepare to detonate mine. Jeeps and other Allied soldiers in the background. A land mine is blown. (World War II period).
Gestapo torture chambers in Paris, France. Walls of torture chambers of Gestapo (German Secret State Police). Members of victim's family wait to enter. Huge crowd gathered. Interior of the chamber. Burning chamber in view. Hand prints on wall around stakes to which victims were tied for execution. French soldier and policeman look at riddled post. (World War II period).
Gestapo torture chambers in Paris, France. Interior of torture chambers of Gestapo (German Secret State Police). French soldier and policemen near boxes. French soldier and policemen hold a cloth. Ropes and blind fold used on victims. A Nazi prisoner. French men with Nazi prisoner look at post. Burial posts. French soldier stands in a burial pit. Policemen stand in the background. (World War II period).
German forces engage in live fire exercises as they prepare to defend against anticipated Allied invasion. German gun crew fires artillery piece. Concealed German soldiers look through binoculars toward coastal terrain. .Soldiers climb hilly terrain behind bushes. Soldiers, in trench, hold their ears as they fire a mortar. Artillery guns beinf fired. Heavy smoke rises up due to explosions. Soldiers communicate through radio. View of Atlantic coast from camouflaged defensive position. Sky is filled with German paratrooper chutes. Paratroopers organizing on the ground and moving as a group. Firing a machine gun. German gun crew fires from concealed position. Crewman wipes shells clean before they are placed in gun. German officer looks through periscope. (World War II period).
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