A documentary film titled 'The Netherlands' on the geography and the people in the Netherlands. The map of Europe. The map outlines Netherlands. Germany and Belgium also located on the map. Another map locates North and South Holland. Windmills in an area. A man and woman walking on a street with children. The woman with a child in a stroller. Traffic passing on the street. Buildings along the sides of the street. A steam boat underway on a river.
Opening scene shows Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. Newspaper swirls into the image, with headline announcing their assassinations. Glimpse of railways guns firing. View of a ship's bow as it sinks beneath the ocean, is covered by newspaper headline announcing the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, by a German submarine. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson at his desk. Newspaper headline reads: "U.S. Declares War !!" U.S. soldiers marching in Washington, DC, with U.S. Capitol building in background. Newspaper announces: "Yanks are Coming!" American General John Pershing on horseback leading a contingent of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). American troops going "over the top" (charging out of their trenches) in France during World War 1. Troops firing French 75 artillery pieces at point blank range. A formation of Allied Airco (de Havilland) DH9 aircraft in flight. Bombs bursting near trenches on the front lines. Renault FT-17 tanks accompanying American infantry on the Western Front. Persons playing roles as employees in the Department of Labor when they served as the War Labor Administration in World War 1. Women in the War Labor Administration working with long paper rolls of personnel records. Women in various war effort endeavors including airplane and arms manufacturing. Men working in a wartime steel plant. Marchers and a band demonstrating for the rights of workers to organize. People celebrating the at the end of World War 1, by gathering in the streets, throwing tickertape, dancing in the streets and waving effigies of the Kaiser. Stern view of the U.S. Army Transport Ship, President Grant filled with American soldiers returning from France at the end of the war. Lettering on stern reads, "U.S.A.T. President Grant" (The ship, AP-29, was originally the German ocean liner Konig Wilhelm II, and seized from Germany on 6 April 1917.) Views of United States soldiers returning home, disembarking, and assembling on a wharf home on American soil. Department of Labor persons assisting returning soldiers and prospective employers. Views of workers on farms, and in factories.
French civilians and a convoy of camouflaged German army vehicles on a street in Paris, France during its occupation by Germany. Army vehicles drive past on the street. A camouflaged army truck on a road. French civilians on the street. Flower vendors sell flowers. A group of people stands in front of the Bohemina Restaurant. French resistance rioters on the Champs Elysees. A torn picture of Marshal Petain being trampled underfoot.
Battle of Westerplatte as Germany invades and occupies Poland in World War 2. Railway track by the port of Danzig with a German Battleship Schleswig-Holstein in the background. The battleship fires at the coastal area of the Westerplatte. Explosions with smoke rising at the Port. Officer looks through binoculars. German sailors load and fire artillery. Polish soldiers show peace flags and surrender to the Germans. A German officer offers cigarettes to Polish soldiers. 'Marynarka' written on Polish soldier's cap.
Germany invades Poland at start of World War 2. German soldiers march with rifles in hands. Troops march with ammunition loaded carts and bicycles on dirt road. Explosions on Polish territories at night as seen from ship in harbor. Number of camouflaged German artillery pieces fire at Polish positions. Explosions on hillside. German soldiers fire and advance in occupation of Poland
German invasion and occupation of Poland at the start of World War 2. Horse drawn covered wagons driven by German soldiers advance on roads in Poland. Captive Polish soldiers POW (Prisoners of War) under German guard march in front of Polish citizens on streets in a city in Poland. Prisoners drink soup standing in line and rest on field. German soldiers give food to Polish children and their mother. Polish women and children stand in line to get food in a town square while a band plays music. Polish elderly women, elderly men, and children receive soup on various bowls and pitchers in soup line. They drink soup seated at long tables. German soldiers march into city of Chorzow (German name Konigshutte), bordering Germany, as Polish residents there cheer their arrival enthusiastically and raise their hands in Nazi salute. (Many residents there identified as "Volksdeutsch" with German heritage. Clip ends with brief scene of military honors funeral, showing German troops in Saarbrücken burying two French pilots, Lieutenant Jean Sueur and Captain Jacques Rosignol of 2 Escadrille de Reconnaissance 551, who were shot down September 11, 1939.
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