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Wounded people treated; bombed buildings and refugees flee for safety in Catalonia, Spain during the Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War in Catalonia, Spain. Aerial view of the region in Spain. Wing of aircraft seen while in flight. Troops on battlefield in battle between Republican and Nationalist forces. Troops walk in columns on road. The injured being carried into an ambulance. Injured men being carried on litters. Bombed out buildings. Ruins of the bombed out buildings. A wounded woman being treated by medics. Two guards in what appears to be a church guarding art works, paintings, sculpture and antiquities. Narrator mentions "Gaudi" (famous architect of the region). Refugees carry belongings and walk on a mountainous road. Car of Francisco Franco on road in a city being escorted by Moroccan Regulares cavalry soldiers (also called "Army of Africa") on horses. The troops wear traditional white cloaks and turbans. People cheer. Head of State of Spain Francisco Franco disembarks from a car. He waves towards people from balcony of a building.
Spain recruits and trains soldiers for the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War. Boy walks with his father, back from farm fields, to greet another son home on leave from duty with the Republican army. That son, in uniform, is seen surrounded by family members. He talks to a small boy wearing a soldier's hat, sitting in his mother's lap. The father and other son arrive and the soldier and his father embrace. Members of the family, from the very old, to the youngest, smile and listen as the soldier speaks about his adventures. Next, the soldier is seen drilling village boys after they return from work in the fields. Villagers watch from roadside. Scene changes to recruits in uniform marching in a square. The soldier and several of his village friends are also seen drilling. A large number of recruits are seen drilling in Madrid. Families and sweethearts say farewells as new soldiers prepare to depart for duty. Military trucks, displaying red flags, wait to carry the new soldiers away. Next, they are seen driving away with soldiers riding in back.
Madrid-Barcelona Express train derailed killing 30 and injuring 60.
View of train wreck site where Express train derailed and plunged down steep embankment in Catalonia, Spain. The event occurred on the Barcelona-Valencia railway line between Mora La Nueva and Els Guiamets. Reportedly, 40 persons were killed and 60 injured in the tragedy. Views of the fallen train and cars. Workmen repair track high above on the railroad bed. Communist sabotage is blamed
Damaged buildings and wrecked cars in Madrid after aerial bombings during the Spanish Civil War.
The Spanish Civil War. Loyalist troops parade in Madrid. Men and women gathered on the streets. Women march in streets. Aftermath of aerial bombing on Madrid. Damaged buildings. Damaged cars. Rubble spread on ground.
Opposing forces engaged close to Madrid, during the Spanish Civil War
Animated map shows the front line of battle, between Republican and Nationalist forces, running West of Madrid from West Park through University City, during the Spanish Civil War. Camera pans across landscape, from a high vantage point, and then focuses on buildings of University City, where Nationalist forces have taken up positions in a palace with two pointed towers, and near a ruined clinical hospital. Republican troops are seen entering through a gate at the hospital, where the bearded Brigade Commander Jesús Martínez de Aragón is seen consulting with his staff. (Narrator notes that he died in the attack on the Casa del Campo soon after this scene was filmed.) Views of sandbagged buildings inside the hospital compound. The Brigade Commander is seen with some of his soldiers, while rebels are trying to move further into the clinic compound. His soldiers take up defensive positions inside clinic buildings, carrying heavy arms up the stairs. Republican defenders firing machine guns from inside the building, and moving through rubble to other positions. Views inside the clinic and sound of glass breaking. Continuous sound of machine gun fire. Two soldiers fire through a small hole in a concrete wall. View, from Republican defensive position, of a battle-scarred multistory building across the way. One of the soldiers writing a letter home (dated May 4, 1937). Another soldier rolls a cigarette.
J.Edgar Hoover describes the problem of enemy agents and Nazi sympathizers in the United States in 1940.
Director of the U.S Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), J.Edgar Hoover, addresses Americans in military service in 1940. He speaks about enemy agents sent to the United States to undermine the war effort. Scene shifts to a 1940 nighttime view of New York City with lights on in its buildings. Sound of Benny Goodman's orchestra in background. Glimpse of water displays at the New York World's Fair. Brooklyn Dodgers Baseball team playing a game at Ebbets Field. A large field of wheat being harvested by a mechanical reaper, in an American western state. American soldiers putting on civilian clothes for weekend passes. Views of various American cities and towns with cars driving on parkways, shoppers and pedestrians walking in business districts. Closeup of a German agent, ostensibly being apprehended while beaming information to Germany via shortwave radio. German documents are on his desk. A submarine periscope tracks across surface of water. A torpedo races through the water leaving a trail of bubbles. An American ship, ostensibly being torpedoed in the Caribbean. Letters being mailed to so-called "mail drops" in Spain and South America. An intercepted letter with military information being highlighted. A brick house, outside Los Angeles, where an unidentified man is seen, whom narrator (J.Edgar Hoover) describes as " This self-appointed Dictator, who set himself up in the business of promoting Nazism." A picture of Adolf Hitler is seen on his wall. Near Chicago, a wooden sign reads, "Camp Hindenburg., Two miles." American Nazi youth are seen parading there. A newspaper shows a picture of Nazi youth at Camp Nordland, in New Jersey where young American Nazi girls are seen parading. In Yaphank, on long Island, New York, American Nazis are seen parading. The head of the German-American Bund, Fritz Kuhn, is seen at an outdoor podium giving a speech, while surrounded and guarded by uniformed Bund members. He is enthusiastically applauded by members of the audience. Several women with babies in carriages, cross at a corner in New York City. Some receive notices being passed out by a young man, announcing a "Mass Demonstration for true Americans" (to be held at Madison Square Garden). A swastika appears on each notice. View from a high point overlooking a crowd of 22 thousand American Nazis gathered in Madison Square Garden, on Feb. 20, 1939. An honor guard parades as drummers play from the stage. A mass of men holding American flags, and one holding a banner showing a swastika and words in German. Audience members all render the Nazi salute and shout "Heil." Files in the FBI offices labeled "German Agents." The file of Walter Kappe, one of the leaders of the Chicago Free Society of Teutonia and German American Bund is shown. Narrator, Hoover, says, " he was a Lieutenant in the German Army and the Leader of German sabotage in the United States." View of a vast array of desks and files in the FBI where men and women work on fingerprints. A man projects fingerprints on a screen, as Hoover speaks of the files revealing that "innocent appearing persons, applying for work in United States war plants, had been convicted of espionage in the last world war."Two men look over an FBI chart showing the location of every key spy and mail drop in North and South America
