Older men and youth, formed by the Nazis into a Home Guard (Volkssturm),late in World War 2, parade with regular army and SS units in Braunsweig, Germany. Young school children walk along a cobblestone steet and sidewalk in the historic district of the city, ahead of the marchers. Medieval style structures line the street. (This is shortly before the devastating bombing of the city, by the RAF, in October, 1944.) Nazi Gauleiter (who is also SS Gruppenführer) Hartmann Lauterbacher, reviews the marchers. Citizens line the sidewalks and render the Nazi salute. Some of the home guard march shouldering axes. Guards flank a banner with swastika in the center and the words: "Germany Awake." The banner pole is topped by a swastika, in a metal wreath and a plaque bearing the word,"Harz." Camera pans upward to Gauleiter Lauterbacher speaking to the assemblage from behind a wall overlooking the scene. Closeup of old men with white armbands reading:"Country Awake." Views of helmeted soldiers.
Scenes from an assembly hall meeting in Germany. Kurt Georg Kiesinger is sworn in as the Chancellor of West Germany. Attendees stand up and applaud. Dignitaries exit the hall. Photographers take pictures of the dignitaries including, Kurt Kiesinger, Karl Heinrich Lübke, Willy Brandt.
Scenes from the Nuremberg Trials being held at the Palace of Justice (Fürther Str. 110, 90429 Nürnberg, Germany) in Nuremberg, Germany. Chief Justice Robert Jackson sums up the ideas of the tribunals. One by one the defendants come into the dock and are being questioned about their testimony. Defendants are found guilty of all the acquisitions made on them. All the attendees disperse.
German soldiers march into Passau, Germany on their way to occupy Austria (Anschluss) prior to World War II. German soldiers and horses walk on a bridge over the Danube River in Passau, Germany. Cavalry units and vehicles also move across the bridge. People gather on a street. They cheer and wave. Soldiers march in formation. Children cheer. Civilians perform the Nazi Salute and chant “Sieg Heil” repeatedly.
Red Cross women with Allied soldiers in Wiesbaden, Germany. Exteriors of Wiesbaden Kurhaus (Kurhauspl. 1, 65189 Wiesbaden, Germany) in World War II. A fountain in a lake. A band plays music. Soldiers and Red Cross workers are seated. A crowded dance floor. A member of 3rd Infantry Regiment Band sings into a microphone. People dance to the music.
United States soldiers in Wiesbaden, Germany during World War II. Two soldiers play ping pong in a lobby of Wiesbaden Kurhaus (Kurhauspl. 1, 65189 Wiesbaden, Germany). Side view of servicemen playing. A fountain in foreground.
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