A film "The Occupation Soldier" depicts the efforts made by U.S. soldiers to bring back German civilians to normal life in Germany after World War II. A mass gathering of the members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. German people accept the propaganda of their leaders and give Nazi salute with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Hitler addresses the gathering from a dais. A swastika sign on a stone. German civilians wave. Officers at a briefing. Dead bodies hanging and a pile of dead bodies. War scenes: Bombarding during the war. View of a city after the bombardment. U.S. soldiers walk along a road. The soldiers talk to German civilians. German civilians standing and smiling. German women and children. A pile of rifles on the ground. Newspaper headlines: 'Armistice', 'German Decree Republic'. The soldiers march on a road. Hitler addresses a throng.
Training film for U.S. soldiers during occupation of Germany after World War 2, guiding them on their role of "reeducation" and restoring normal life to civilians in Germany after World War II. U.S. soldiers seated and Germans standing around them talking to the solders. A German MG Police officer outside a building. A German police officer monitors citizens in a line. Germans talk to U.S. soldiers outside the Office of Military Government for Bavaria, in Munich. The U.S. soldier reviews their identification papers and questions them. German children at play. A smiling American soldier seated with a group of young German children around him. A group of German boys plays baseball on the lawn in front of the largely destroyed Altes Armeemuseum in Munich (later home to the Bayerische Staatskanzlei or Bavarian State Chancellery) in Greek architectural style with six prominent ionic columns. A U.S. soldier talks to German civilians. Soldiers talking with German men , women and children. A soldier frisks men and women entering a secure area. German police grab and restrain a German citizen for some offense and escort him away. Young children seated and learning at an outdoor class. The children standing and smiling.
The Malmedy War Crimes Trials in Dachau, Germany. The defense counselor talks to the court about the "Bill of Particulars". The prosecutor quotes in part German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's order to his commanders to disregard the Geneva rules as to the treatment of Allied prisoners in the coming "the Battle of the Bulge". He goes on to tell how "German soldiers sang the sword and blood songs thus releasing them from any regulations as to the treatment of prisoners".
An elementary school teaches English in Vienna, Austria. Austrian children in a classroom recite their first lines of newly learned English. They come to the front of the class and speak English words by indicating the drawings on a blackboard.
Activities of men aboard USS Mount Olympus (AGC-8) in the Atlantic Ocean during Operation High Jump. A sailor paints a landing craft on starboard aft aboard USS Mt. Olympus (AGC-8). The sailor paints metal aboard the ship. Men make cargo nets with 2" manila rope. Men milling about and taking sun bath on the deck.
Activities of men aboard USS Olympus (AGC-8) in the Atlantic Ocean during Operation High Jump. Men hold a Christmas tree on the deck. The Christmas tree is hoisted into air. Men heave on the line attached to the tree. They secure lines. USS Sennet en route to Antarctica. USS Sennet (SS-408) in rough seas, bow pitches. USS Mt. Olympus in the foreground. Men on Mt. Olympus look out at USS Sennet pitching in rough seas.
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