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German forces enter Latvia during their offensive on the Eastern Front in June, 1941

A German soldier sits on churned up earth and rubs his face, as thunderous sound of heavy artillery fire is heard in background. He moves down an enbankment and joins numerous infantry spread out across a wide plain advancing slowly forward. Some motorcycles and other vehicles are seen. The troops move very slowly. Exploding artillery shells raise smoke in the distance. German gunners fire a 105mm howitzer ( 10.5-cm L.F.H. 18). German tanks are spread out across the broad farm plains. A large barn is nearby. Next, troops are seen sheltered amongst trees. Several are hunkered down behind stacked equipment, as they watch tanks advance amidst smoke in the distance. A panzer III tank sits in wooded spot. soldier watches as smoke rises from a building struck by gunfire. View from anti-tank obstacles, as German infantry in background, pass through a defense line as smoke rises from nearby explosion. A building ablaze billowing smoke. German soldiers walking cautiously. Two Soviet soldiers walk forward to surrender, with hands held up. Several Soviet prisoners being processed and some sitting on the ground. (World War II period).

Location: Latvia
Date: 1941, June
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675047186
Rabi Schnayerson, head of Orthodox Church, comes to New York from Latvia.

Head of Orthodox Church, Rabi Schnayerson is helped out of vehicle after arriving to New York. Rabi Schnayerson escorted by officials. He gets into a car. Car pulls away.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1929, September 21
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052215
Aerial view of Riga from descending plane, a woman drops letters on air mailbox

Early civilian air travel with Junkers passenger aircraft in Northern Europe. A Junkers F 13 plane in flight. Aerial view of Riga as seen from an aircraft approaching for landing. Bridges, palaces, and lakes are also seen. Horse drawn carriage cross a bridge in Riga (present day capital of Latvia). Boats docked along Riga port. A Latvian mailbox for airmail reads “Gaisa pasts. Correspondence.”. A woman drops letters on the mailbox outside a building.

Location: Riga Latvia
Date: 1923
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080068
Soviet Minister Molotov welcomes a number of dignitaries in Moscow, Soviet Union

Molotov, Foreign Minister, welcomes a number of dignitaries at airport and railway station in Moscow, Soviet Union. Dignitaries including representatives of Estonia, Latvia and Czechoslovakia review honor guards and parades.

Location: Moscow Russia Soviet Union
Date: 1954
Duration: 4 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675037995
Dead bodies at Leipzig Concentration Camp in Germany.

Nazi concentration camps in Germany during World War II. Animated map of Europe shows locations of concentration camps in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Danzig, Denmark, France, Germany, Isle of Jersey, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland and Yugoslavia. Dead bodies at Leipzig Concentration Camp. Living Russians, Czechoslovakian and French prisoners narrate horror stories. Bodies of prisoners who the Nazi German guards had placed in a building and then set on fire. Dead bodies of those who fled and escaped from the burning building, but were then either shot by the guards while fleeing, or electrocuted by live wire fence. Russian woman looks at dead bodies through a fence.

Location: Germany
Date: 1945, August 28
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064110
Post-World War II scenes in Communist occupied areas of Europe and Asia

Animated map shows thrust of German forces during invasion of Soviet Russia in World War 2. Stalingrad is highlighted as a turning point. Another animated map shows Soviet territorial gains at the end of the war, as narrator discusses the disposition of those places and their respective populations, as in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. He also discusses Soviet zones of occupation. Animated map shows "Iron Curtain." Soviet troops on parade. Soviet ZSU-57-2 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns (SPAAG) on display during a parade in 1945. A stadium filled with people in Soviet-occupied East Germany, in 1949. Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck, the first President of the German Democratic Republic, is seen in the stands. Young East German women parade in traditional costumes, clapping their hands, in the stadium. Waterfront scenes show Soviet trade activities with post-war occupied entities. Scenes of conflict as Chinese communist forces expel Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Chinese forces (ROC) from mainland China to Formosa (Taiwan), in 1949. A litter-borne casualty and a refugee mother and small girl are seen.

Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1949
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064331
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