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Yugoslavian and Greek refugees of World War 2 leave for home from Sanai Desert in Egypt.

Documentary film 'Refugees Return Home' Yugoslavian and Greek refugees leave for home from Sanai Desert in Egypt. Yugoslavian and Greek men, women and children refugees at the camp. They depart in trucks. Refugees board the train which then proceeds towards the Egyptian Coast. Refuges embark the liner Tripolitania with baggages. Tripolitania arrives at Yugoslavia. Friends and relatives wave out to the refugees on board. An old woman disembarks carrying heavy baggage on her back. Red Cross nurses help people. Refugees get back home with their luggage on donkeys. Refugees meet their family members.

Date: 1945, May 14
Duration: 3 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064105
Greek soldiers look on as a man places explosives in a hole on mountainous terrain in Greece during World War II.

Greek soldiers look on as a man places explosives in a hole. Explosion occurs. Soldiers survey the blast site. Caravan of soldiers and pack mules moves along a hillside.

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074819
Lyndon Johnson meets locals and dignitaries during visits to Greece, Lebanon, Turkey and Iran

United States Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) waves at a crowd in Iran while standing in a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible during an official visit to the Middle East and Southern Europe. A huge crowd listen to a speech by Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) in Greece. Cameraman readies his camera to capture Lyndon B. Johnson’s speech. Lyndon B. Johnson delivers a speech behind the podium, about the hopes “…We, of United States have for the future in this broad area of the world”. On Lyndon B. Johnson’s right is his daughter, Lynda Bird Johnson. From his convertible, Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with people. United States Air Force Two, a Boeing 707 carrying Lyndon B. Johnson, arrives at Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport. Lady Bird Johnson alights aircraft with Lyndon B. Johnson. Airplane door showing the seal of the Vice President of the United States. Lyndon B. Johnson meets Lebanese Foreign Minister, Philippe Takla, after Johnson disembarked from Air Force Two. Photographers capture shots of Lyndon B. Johnson arriving at Golestan Palace in Tehran, Iran in a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible. Lyndon B. Johnson meets Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran aka Shah of Iran, and Iranian Prime Minister Asadollah Alam in the Golestan Palace. Lyndon B. Johnson in a meeting with Turkish President Cemal Gürsel, Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Cemal Erkin and Prime Minister Mustafa İsmet İnönü. Lyndon B. Johnson meets Makarios III, the President of Cyprus, during official visit to Nicosia, Cyprus. Cypriot Parliament in Nicosia. Vice President of Cyprus Fazıl Küçük attends. Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson pose together with King Paul of Greece and his wife, Queen Frederika of Hannover in Tatoi Palace, Athens. Lyndon B. Johnson confers with Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis. Turkish people with American and Turkish flags listen to Lyndon B. Johnson. View of Ancient Greek Acropolis ruins. Lyndon B. Johnson says in his speech, “Thousands of years before man set foot upon the shores of our New World, great glories of civilization have been wrought here in the lands of the Middle East”.

Date: 1962, August
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078544
Turkish civilians and Nationalist forces, led by Ataturk, battle to drive Greek invaders from Anatolia, after World War I.

The Greco-Turkish war, circa 1921. Men preparing ammunition, weapons, and explosives.Women sewing and knitting. Women carrying supplies. Stockpile of supplies. Women driving oxcarts loaded with supplies for the militia. One woman with baby on her back, as she leads oxen. Turkish Nationalist militia moving supplies up hills in Anatolia. Turkish Nationalist cavalry riding up steep slopes. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk with members of his officer staff, standing on mountain overlooking battleground. Shell explodes near entrenched Turkish troops. Turkish gun crew firing a Vickers machine gun, and others advancing in the field. Battle scarred buildings on side of a hill.

Date: 1921
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027163
German officers and Greek government officials participate in a ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (WW2)

At beginning the film shows a contingent of Greek Evzone military guards in formation, during World War 2, wearing traditional uniforms including short version of the fustanella. Other troops are at attention behind them. They are assembled in Syntagma Square (Pl. Sintagmatos Athina 105 63, Greece) in Athens, Greece. A group of German officers led by German civilian official, Dr. Günther Altenburg, overseer of the Greek puppet government, walks past the troops. A German Waffen SS General, walking close to Altenburg renders the Nazi salute. Directly behind Altenburg, in uniform of a Lieutenant General, is Greek Prime Minister Georgios Tsolakoglou. Camera pans across the square showing troops in formation. Closeup of German army troops in formation. Glimpse from the rear as the officials pass the German formation and their leader renders Nazi salute. A closeup rear view of Dr. Altenburg and the Waffen SS General with him. View of officials standing before the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier war memorial at the Syntagma Square. Front view as Greek Guards and German soldiers carries wreaths toward the tomb. View from rear as Dr. Altenburg participates in wreath laying. Next, he and the visiting officials stand before the tomb. All the uniformed military personnel render the Nazi salute. Greek Evzone military guards holding their unit flag. Then they march off the square.

Date: 1941
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: French
Clip: 65675065408
Greek soldiers fire artillery and transport wounded Turks following Battle of Bizani; Greek soldiers march in Ioannina.

Greek soldiers in the First Balkan War battle against Turkish forces for control of the forts of Bizani on the approach to Ioannina. The Greek soldiers under the command of Crown Prince Constantine fire artillery cannons at Turkish positions holding the Fort. Smoke rises up due to explosions. Tents are erected in the far background. The Greek soldiers march along a road leading into the Fort. The Greek soldiers transport the wounded and dead Turks following the battle. Stretchers with wounded are carried by hand, and horse carts carrying dead Turkish soldiers. The Greek soldiers marching on streets in Janina, Greece (Ioannina Greece; and also called Jannena). Greek soldiers carry rifles with fixed bayonets as they march following the battle.

Date: 1913, March
Duration: 5 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Swedish
Clip: 65675054358