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Growth of the German Nazi party and military might (German remilitarization) during the 1930s leading up to World War II

Nazi rally in Nuremberg, Germany ca.1934. Massed Storm troopers and spectators salute Hitler.An artillery piece is fired. Hitler personally recognizing loyal Storm troopers. Animated map of Asia, showing Japanese occupation of Manchuria, and Italian occupation of Ethiopia. Newspaper headlines describe Britain and France hesitating to support League of Nations oil sanctions against Italy; and U.S. increasing its oil exports to Italy by 600% (ca. 1935). Hitler and Hermann Goering looking pleased in Hitler's private railroad car. Adolf Hitler at a planning table covered with maps. German citizens traveling abroad and Joachim von Ribbentrop visiting London, as ambassador to Great Britain, in 1936. View of Léon Degrelle and his Catholic-fascist, Rexist party in Belgium (ca. 1936). View of Colonel Francois de la Rocque speaking at a Cross of Fire (Croix-de-Feu) party night rally in France.Konrad Henlein,leader of the Sudeten German Party in Czechoslovakia. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian National Socialist official, seen in an automobile during a parade. Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, addressing followers and defending Hitler. Street scenes of public disorder attributed to Nazi sympathizers in France and Belgium. Mass meeting of the German American Bund in Madison Square Garden, New York City,1939. U.S. flags and picture of George Washington decorate stage. Fritz Julius Kuhn addresses the gathering and members rough up a protester. Views of heavy industry in Germany, especially steel manufacturing for remilitarization. Persons working at a German concentration camp. Dramatized execution by machine gun. View of Heinrich Himmler. German President Paul von Hindenburg. German national conscription of 1935. German youth training pilots with gliders. German paratroopers, Junkers 52 aircraft, soldiers goosestep, tanks. Ju 87 Stuka plane. German invasion of Rhineland, 1936. Construction of Siegfried Line. Antitank barriers, bunkers, dragons teeth. Hitler visiting Westwall. German military parade.

Date: 1939
Duration: 8 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043608
British firemen work to control fire in buildings in London, England following German Luftwaffe Blitz attack (WW2)

War damage in London, England during blitz or blitzkrieg over London in World War II. People walking on the street. Parts of the city of London are on fire. Flames engulf buildings. Firemen at work extinguishing the blazes. Narrow streets filled with debris. The dome of Saint Paul's Cathedral is dimly visible through smoke and glare in the sky. Smoldering ruins and debris on the streets. A postman rummages through the debris for a letterbox. The destroyed church of Saint Lawrence Jewry (Guildhall Yard, London EC2V 5AA, United Kingdom) next to the Guildhall.

Date: 1940, December 29
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062257
Battle of Britain. British fighters challenge German bombers. German blitz destroys much of London.

The battle of Britain. German aircraft bomb British ships near Dover, England. Explosions on ships. British Spitfire fighter airplane seen in flight. Gun camera views of British fighter aircraft shooting down German bombers. Tower of London and surroundings on Thames River. British antiaircraft guns firing. Huge swath of London ablaze from German bombing. Destroyed buildings and rubble from bombing in London. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit with citizens in the bombed areas. Winston Churchill (smoking cigar) tours bombed area of London. Smoking ruins and destruction in London. Remaining shell of the destroyed Coventry Cathedral. (World War II period).

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043461
Debris & mud being cleaned from streets and water & food being distributed during flood relief operations in Pennsylvania.

Flood relief operations of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Pennsylvania during the Great Depression. Flood relief operations by WPA and flood devastation becomes headlines of newspapers. Flood-damaged goods being shoveled out of stores in Sharpsburg. Debris and mud being cleaned from streets and dumped in the Allegheny River. Safety instructions being pasted on telephone poles in McKees Rocks. Water being distributed by tanker trucks to people who need fresh water. People standing in queue to receive water. Salvation Army units dispense food andhot drinks to WPA workers and to lines of affected homeless and unemployed citizens. Interrupted highway and roads due to flood water. Flood-battered furniture being removed from homes in the New Kensington area.

Date: 1936
Duration: 5 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045141
Regent Street, Great Smith Street and Bank Station in London, England. Signs at Oswald Mosley book stand and at Charing Cross.

The Regent Street in London, England near start of World War 2. A tailor shop. A poster in the shop reads 'Order now, prices may rise, so why wait'. Pedestrians walk along the street. A Fascist book shop in Great Smith Street, Westminster. Sign on the shop reads 'The Greater Britain, by Oswald Mosley'. Sign at shop reads, in part, "Declare with Mosley that Britons will fight for Britain only. Mind Britain's Business! The parties want war to save Czechoslovakia for a politicians' quarrel. Mosley says: Save Britain for Peace & People." People buy newspapers on streets in Central London. British civilians entering the underground at Bank Station tube entrance by the Bank of England. Sign above stairs says, "Public subways lavatories and Waterloo Line." Double decker buses and Central London buildings in background at Bank Junction. Royal Exchange building is seen. People buy newspapers. Headlines of the newspapers read 'To-day's Cabinet on Czech crisis'. Vehicular traffic and buildings in the background. Near Charing Cross station, with Eleanor Cross in background, newspaper vendor sells papers. Placard advertisement reads 'What Hitler Said'.

Date: 1938
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053807
Operations of United States 8th Air Force 492nd Bomb Group in England during World War II.

Operation Carpetbagger by the 492nd Bomb Group of United States 8th Air Force during World War II. View of automobile traffic on a London Street. London "Carpetbaggers" personnel working at the London headquarters of United States Army Air Forces 8th Air Force. At Harrington field men load supplies on trucks for French resistance forces (Maquis, FFI). Men workout the daily packing schedule. Men pack guns, grenades, machine guns and other ammunitions. Special H containers and C containers for loading 303 ammunition. Boots, socks being packed. Gasoline Jerry cans being put in containers. Men place guns in containers. Instructions in French also placed with the supplies for the French resistance forces. Men pack explosives and radio sets. Medical supplies put in baskets. Harness and parachute shops in Holmes where men attach parachutes to containers. Packages being transported to airfield for dropping to the targets. A man on a telephone informs about the daily supplies to Special Forces headquarters in London. S-2, an intelligence officer forwards the list received from London. A man plots the target area on a map. In the weather room detailed map of the area is being prepared. Officers make a selection of the targets. S-2 informs the headquarters about the route of the planes. Supplies being loaded onto United States B-24 aircraft specially configured to carry and drop the containers using the bomb rack system in the aircraft. Flight crew is briefed before the operation. Chief Navigator talks about the course to be taken by the planes and the targets to be hit. Pilots work on a flight plan. Aircraft take off. An officer reports about the take off of the aircraft to the 8th Air Force headquarters.

Date: 1945
Duration: 15 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049535