Irish flag on an official Irish Government building. Irish Prime Minister Eamon de Valera working in office. Exterior of Fianna Fail-The Republican Party building in Ireland. Officials in a meeting, de Valera addressing. Pictures of important historic political leaders who struggled for independence of Ireland can be seen. Narrator discussing Ireland's decision to remain neutral in World War 2. A statue on the top of a building. Children filling water from a communal hand pump for a town. Views of country side, sheep grazing in Ireland
Cornelius McGillicuddy, better known as "Connie Mack," was manager and co-owner of the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team for 50 years. He is seen here at age 84, sitting alone in the dugout at Shibe Park, making motions as if he were repositioning his fielders during an actual baseball game. In other scenes, he poses in the stadium with his sons Earle (in uniform) and Roy (in civvies), and his grandson, Connie Mack III (not the future U.S. Senator) also in uniform. (Note: There were two Connie Mack III's -- one was Roy Mack's grandson and the other was Connie Mack, Jr's son, the future Senator.)
Student life in Frankfurt, West Germany after World War 2. Young men and women listen to a uniformed American soldier conducting class inside a classroom. A young woman asks the soldier a question. Various drawings are displayed on a wall behind students. Inside an elementary school classroom, a young German girl wearing braids stands up from her seat. Young girl reciting with her book in class. Young girl raises her hands inside classroom. A hand flipping through pages of a German book. College students follow a professor in a university corridor. German college students, some talking, waiting for class to start inside a lecture room.
Industrial factories along the river valley of the Rhine River. Shots of idle steel and munitions plants along the riverbank. Views of steel mills with no activity. Views of the British Occupation Zone in Western Germany.
Aerial view of factories in the Ruhr valley in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (British Occupation Zone) after World War 2. Electrical power cables, installations and smokestacks can be seen. Idle industrial plants. Steel and metal works shows damage from bombing.
War damage of an industrial district in the British Occupied Zone, Germany after World War 2. British flag waving in front of smokestacks and damaged factory buildings. Smoke coming out of a damaged factory. View of damaged steel and metal works at Buer, a suburb of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia (British Occupied Zone). A coal mine in the background. Interior of a factory show its wreckage and debris from an aerial bombing attack. Some bombed factories show heavy damage that only the building framing and piles of debris remain.
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