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Italian troops occupy Samos Island in Greece during World War 2
German General Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller visits with Italian troops of the 6th Infantry Division CUNEO, after they occupy the Greek Island of Samos, without any resistance, in May 1941. He and his staff members drink local wine with the Italians. Italian soldiers eating bananas at the port, and picking oranges from a local tree. Remainder of film shows 8 thousand surrended defenders taken as prisoners of war, marching in a long line. Next, they are seen crammed on the deck of a Greek ship and then, later debarking. They march in loose formation.
Montage of World War I scenes. Postwar French military preparedness. Tensions between Germany and France early in World War II.
German cavalry on horseback entering Belgium and Berman infantry marching in France, at the start of World War 1 (1914). The famed Taxicab army is seen carrying French soldiers in Paris. General Ferdinand Foch reviewing elements of the French 9th Army. French and British troops firing a British BL 8-inch howitzer. French troops rushing across no-man's land of trenches and barbed wire, as shells burst. German soldiers taken prisoners in trench. General Foch shaking hands with U.S. General Pershing, aboard a U.S. warship. Sketch of signing of the armistice, November 1, 1918 on a railway carriage at Compiegne. Monument to Marshal Foch. Monument to Minister of War, Andre Maginot. concrete being poured. French construction of the Maginot Line. Animated illustrated cross-section of the line.View of troops moving on rail cars in the Maginot line. Glimpse of Maginot line guns on surface. At outbreak of World War 2, French troops deploy to the Maginot line. French troops inside bunkers and tunnels of Maginot Line. Marshal Petain reviewing the troops as they deploy. Muzzle of a Maginot line gun. Hitler with Military Chiefs planning. View of French Foreign Minsister, Aristide Briand,during signing of the 1928 Kellogg-Briand antiwar pact in Paris.Frank R. Kellogg, U.S. Secretary of State at the table to Briand's left. His signature on the document. A field full of French Morane 406 airplanes. French airman poses with Potez 58 airplane. French AMC 34 tanks. Crowd milling about at Renault Building and unrest elswhere in Paris, France. Newspapers chronicle failure of the League of Nations. Movie cartoon about weakening of France by Nazi inspired social strife and sabotage. French Army troops in mess hall eat at long tables and pour wine with meal. Idle French troops across the Rhine River targeted by German propaganda and psychological warfare including banners; messages by balloons;German bands playing French tunes; large loudspeakers broadcasting in French.
Midshipman William J. Kane being shown duties of a signal man on board United States Navy ship Bon Homme Richard
Midshipman William J. Kane being instructed about duties of signalmen by Harold Albritton,a signalmen on board a United States Navy ship Bon Homme Richard. Kane looks on as signalmen puts a cover on signal light. Two signalmen take out signal flags from a bag and the hoist being hauled down. Signal man instructs Kane on use of a long glass. A Pilot Landing Aid Television System (PLAT) shows A-4E aircraft taking off on board Bon Home Richard.
Scenes of Nuremberg and its Hitler Youth camp during the 6th Nazi Party Congress in 1934
Camera pans over spires and rooftops of Nuremberg, early in the morning. Someone opens a window looking out on the city. Camera looks down at cascading cluster of buildings below. Man opens another window revealing flowers in pot on window sill. Nazi flag drops down in front of window. Other Nazi flags displayed on buildings. Smoke rising from chimney drifts over rooftops. German tricolor flags and some Nazi flags displayed from apartment windows, with Vestner Tower in background. Views from boat (unseen) moving along the River Pegnitz, showing apartment building with many Nazi flags displayed, and charming old homes along the river banks. The boat passes the Museum bridge and camera focuses on lower structure carrying inscriptions praising Emperor Leopold I and King Joseph I. As boat continues camera points to Nazi flags fluttering from buildings along the river banks. The twin towers of Sebalduskirche (Saint Sebaldus Church) are seen, followed by camera panning over tops of many rows of tents meticulously aligned at a Hitler Youth camp. Gradually the camp becomes filled with Youth as the morning progresses. Closeup of boys in a drum line, playing, as others sound long trumpets. Youth getting up and preparing for the days activities. Closeup of one shining his shoes, and of others shaving and getting washed and groomed. They engage in some hijinks too, with a water hose. Later, on a field, some are seen pulling a large wagon of firewood, unloading it, and placing the logs into a furnace to heat huge cauldrons and other things at an outdoor field kitchen. Views from inside the kitchen. Cooks stirring contents of the cauldrons. One tastes approvingly. Sausages being readied for cooking. Food being dispensed to the campers who enjoy eating. Next, a crowd of boys watches as two engage in a bare-fisted boxing match. Others compete in field games of various kinds. One camper writing a letter home, inside a tent. Outside boys compete in horse and rider wrestling competitions. Closeups of boys laughing. The final scenes show campers giving one boy a high blanket toss.
Farmers in Ukraine save crops from invading German forces in World War II Civilians prepare fortifications and defenses
Three Soviet harvesting machines in formation cut wheat in Ukraine before arrival of invading German forces during Operation Barbarossa, in World War 2. Several varying closeups of the harvesting operations and the farmers as they work. Tractor pulls a harvesting machine. Closeup of farmer teaching his wife how to operate the machinery. View of her at the wheel. People (mostly women and children) gleaning grain from the fields after the machinery has finished. Soviet soldiers carrying long handled scythes walk past the wing of an aircraft parked in a field, to join those in the harvesting. A windmill is seen in the far background. Civilians and soldiers work together with hand held tools to cut wheat. Closeup of woman twisting stalks to form a rope to bind the wheat sheaves. Views of soldiers carrying sheaves of wheat. People gathered around and atop a threshing machine. Workers,using pitch forks, toss wheat sheaves up to the threshers, who push them into the threshing machine. A tractor pulls a many wagons filled with flour, from a mill. Complete change of scene shows civilians hard at work building fortifications. Several ensuing scenes show civilians sandbagging and strengthening fortifications in other Allied countries, such as France, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Spain, and China. Soviet men with shovels digging deep antitank defenses. Many hundreds of Soviet women at work with shovels building defenses along a hillside. A cadre of Soviet women, in uniform, march under command of a military officer, at a square in Moscow. Some appear to be carrying rolled up stretchers or litters over their shoulders, reflecting their role as nurses or medics. Red Cross nurses train for an emergency. One practices bandaging the arm of another. Several Red Cross nurses line up in a formation to march
Steel manufacturing in Stalinsk and mining of coal and copper east of Ural mountains, USSR, during World War II
Map of Siberia and environs highlights the Urals, Magnitogors, and Stalinsk ( now Novokuznetsk) in Russia. Camera pans over industrial complex in the city of Stalinsk, Soviet Union, during World War 2. Numerous plants and smoke stacks are seen and narrator describes large increases in production and output to supply the Soviet war effort. Closeup of flaming coke being discharged from a coking furnace. Cooled coke being discharged into a large pile. Interior of a steel mill where workers have just tapped an open hearth furnace, amidst fire and smoke. Fiery molten steel pouring from the furnace. Hot ingots being moved to rolling mills. Russian steel workers controlling the mills. Large long ribbons of steel emerge from the top of a rolling mill. War production workers lift them up and place them back into the mill below the roller, this time, which then pulls them away in a second pass, moving away from the camera. Hot ribbon of steel moves in a circular path within a pathway atop a large machine. Men working at machinery with numerous valve handles. Closeup of a steel worker. Change of scene to a mine where a miner tends five drills boring into the ceiling of a mine cavity. He installs a shaft onto one of the drills. Small gauge rail cars transport ore out of the mine. Next, an open air copper mine is seen with Steam shovels digging the ore. A meeting of factory workers with a poster of Joseph Stalin displayed. A speaker extends thanks from Soviet leaders and from Soviet soldiers at the front. Closeups of speakers and listening workers. A woman operating controls to rotate a drum of crushed copper ore and empty it. Workers tending numerous banks of copper ore washing machines.
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