Nuremberg trials in Nuremberg Germany. Scenes of the courtroom. Nazi war leaders in prisoner's dock behind the prosecution tables. Voice of Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence of Britain reviewing events of World War I. He speaks about the Peace Treaty of Versailles, German labor party, violation of Peace Treaty by Adolf Hitler and demands about racialism, land and unification of Germans by Nazi party leaders. Pictured prisoners include: Hermann Wilhelm Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder. Wilhelm Keftel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg. Albert Speer and Fritz Sauckel sitting behind them. Alfred Jodl, Hans Frank, Franz von Papen, Wilhelm Frick. Also Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Julius Streicher, Albert Speer, Walter Funk, and Constantin von Neurath
Dutch war court in the Hague, Netherlands in 1948. Hanns Albin Rauter, Nazi police leader on trial for his crimes in German occupied Netherlands during World War II. Dignitaries and people in courtroom stand up as the judges arrive and take their seats. Session of trial begins. Views of prosecution desk and tribunal seen in turns. Hans Albin Rauter is being questioned by judges. 1942, 1943, or 1944 flashback scenes of Jewish, Dutch civilians being rounded up and deported on railroad trains to forced labor camps and concentration camps, while in background audio the prosecutor reads the charges. The round up footage first shows Jewish families with women and children being directed onto trains at a train station. A subsequent shot shows Jews exiting cramped railroad train cars and being lined up under Nazi guard at concentration camp. Documents about crimes committed by the accused are shown. Another man enters the courtroom, takes the oath and is questioned by the tribunal. The man is a supervisor of slave labor prisoners working for the Germans, and at the time of the trial was detained at a Rotterdam Penitentiary.
Narrated feature on U.S. Army activities during the war in Korea. Focus on the United States Eigth Army. Newspaper cutting in background stating the involvement of UN Forces and U.S. Combat Team in war. 8th Army soldiers hold rifles and move forward. Narrator describes operation of the Army Combat Team starting with the Infantry, and supported by tanks, artillery, and aircraft. Various heavy artillery and tanks are also shown. Close up view of Soviet Russian soldiers marching in Red Square, Moscow, during a parade. U.S. Army soldiers are shown in battle in Korea, including in cold conditions on snow covered ground. Rapid sequence of images of various weaponry in action including flame throwers, M1 Garand rifle, Browning Automatic rifle, machine guns, bazookas, mortar (being fired by African American soldier), recoilless rifles.
Post war snapshots of Eboli, Italy in World War II. Signboard of Eboli is seen. Views of the Monumento Ai Caduti (Piazza della Repubblica, 84025 Eboli SA, Italy). A damaged building and an old woman walking in ruins. Destroyed buildings and people searching in ruins. Women carry water pots on their head walk through ruins. Scenes of wrecked buildings, people walking with their belongings and children sitting with old women in ruins.
Opening scene shows American soldiers gathered around a C-47 transport plane on a desert field in Oran, Algeria during World War 2. They walk away en masse from the plane. Another C-47 is seen with tail number tail number 42-23507 (Records show this aircraft was delivered to Oran on May 20, 1943 and supported Operation Torch- The Italian Campaign of World War 2.) Scene shifts to interior of a C-47 rigged as an air evacuation aircraft, with wounded American soldiers in stacked bunks on both sides of the aircraft. A nurse and corpsmen are attending to the wounded. Two soldiers carry one of the wounded soldiers on a litter to the aircraft door. View from the outside of the soldier being carried by others to a waiting field ambulance. More views of the wounded being transferred from the plane to waiting ambulances. Scene shifts to ambulances parked on the desert field with a large Red Cross flag above them. A Curtiss P-40 fighter plane taxis past the camera. A large open field tent with a large Red Cross flag flying above it. Nurses and medical corpsmen tend to wounded soldiers lying in ambulances. A nurse serves water to some wounded.
Wrecked village of Pompeii with views of Mount Vesuvius, in Italy during World War II. British soldiers passing through the destroyed village streets. Citizens looking out from the wrecked buildings. Soldiers standing near the graves of war correspondents killed in action. Graves of Mr. Sale, Mr. Austin and Mr. Munday are seen.
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