80 Jewish families banished by the Nazis in Brunn, Czechoslovakia, flee Nazi German persecution. Jewish people at No Man's Land near the border. Jewish woman wipes tears. Naples, Italy: Thousands of colonists, comprising 1800 families, are brought from farms to colonize the Italian possession of Libya in North Africa. They board the steamship, SS Piemonte,for voyage to Libya. Family groups are seen moving across the pier and boarding the ship. Passengers wave from the ship and well-wishers wave from the shore as the ship leaves the pier. View of the ship's captain on the bridge. A warship in the harbor fires a gun in salute. Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, in military uniform, stands on the pier and bids the colonists farewell. Several ships bearing colonists are seen underway, leaving Naples.
Refugees dwell in caves near Naples in Italy. Men, women and children outside their houses in caves. Children aligned to collect food from United States soldiers. Soldiers give out flour and other provisions to women refugees. Oil pipelines running from ship to shores. Canadian artillerymen attack Ortona in Italy. Dead soldiers. Canadian soldiers place land mines in ground. Tanks fire. Troops patrol in the town. Prisoners held. (World War II period).
United States sailors visit the ruins of Pompeii near Naples, Italy. United States sailors strolling around Pompeii’s ruins (Via Plinio, 26, 80045 Pompei NA, Italy). United States sailors walk around the Ionic stone columns of Pompeii.
'Italy's sleeping giant wakes up after 7 years'. Two men climb up the Mount Vesuvius in Naples, Italy. Volcanic eruption takes place as white smoke emerges from the mountain.
Italian troops leave for Ethiopia from Naples, Italy during World War II. Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. Italian troops embark onto a ship as they leave for Ethiopia from Italy. Soldiers aboard the ship as they wave. The ship begins to pull away as the soldiers wave.
Relief activities of the Allies in Italy during World War 2. Opening scene shows a sailing Schooner under Allied Navy control, docked at a port in Italy following the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943. This schooner is being loaded with Allied Military Government (AMG) medical supplies. Closeup of wooden crates containing the supplies. American medical corpsmen checking a stream of water for mosquitoes, and then spraying the area from a DUKW. A hospital building and interior with Italian women holding their infants as they await checkups and innoculations against disease. Italian citizens in a street anxiously seeking food from the AMG. Local Italian police work to control the crowd in which some persons become unruly and have to be removed. American troops of the U.S. 5th Army marching along Italian roads. Troops riding on a Sherman tank and on a truck pulling an artillery field piece. Supply yard stacked high with food supplies for U.S. troops. (Narrator states it required 750 tons a day to feed the 5th Army.) Views of Naples harbor cluttered with 30 large ships and 300 smaller ones blown up or scuttled by retreating German forces. Firemen manning hoses to fight fires at the waterfront. Smoldering ruins in the port. Three months later, U.S. forces are seen operating supply missions through the port. View from a hill of the port with barrage balloon overhead. Closeup of flour being offloaded from holds of ships by derricks. Italian soldiers unloading the flour bags and placing them aboard trucks for transport to Italian commercial food companies. A U.S. Army Captain at a table with Italian businessmen who purchase the flour from AMG at a fair market price. Italian purchasers examining the flour. Flour being transported to bakers who bake it into bread. Young men busy making and baking loaves of bread. Loaves stacked up at the bakery. A big tray of fresh loaves being sampled by Italian officials and distributed to local Italian civilians who enjoy it.
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