Honor burial for riot victims in Berlin, Germany. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, officials of the Reich, Nazi officials and large crowds gather to attend a funeral. Dead bodies of a Nationalist Socialist storm troop leader and a state policeman are carried down steps and placed in caskets. The crowds give Nazi salute as the carriages carrying the caskets pass along streets. Troops follow the cortège.
Crisis in Lagos, Nigeria. Buses lined up on streets to carry civilian volunteers to Nigerian Army Recruiting Centers. Nigerian men protest and spread violence after the eastern states,Biafra declares its independence. Policemen control the crowd. Women also join the men volunteer for military service.
Bottles of beer on an assembly line at the end of Prohibition. Barrels of beer rolling down a ramp outside a brewery. A bartender and his patrons greet each other with raised mugs of beer. A bartender slides mugs of beer down the bar. Barrels of beer are rolled into the former West Highland State Bank on Ashland Ave at 79th Street, which was closed June 9, 1931 and has now been converted into a bar. A sign above the cash register reads, "This Bank gave 3% We give 3.2%" Sign outside the bar reads, "Ladies Entrance." Three women dressed in evening attire are greeted by the doorman as they enter the bar. From a 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years prior.
Clean Air Car Race in Pasadena,California. Trucks and buses spewing diesel fumes in a crowded city street. Cars gathering for the Clean Air Car Race include Stevens Institute of Technology Electric Vehicle...an electric car, or EV. Other cars have signs on them noting "Powered by Alcohol" , "Powered by Clean Burning Natural Gas" , "San Diego State College" , and "Diesel powered by Wilcap". Mechanics check engines and batteries cars. Drivers at electric vehicle charge station. The clean air car race begins. Cars move one by one. They drive through streets. Driver repairs the engine on a Volkswagen beetle car. Man rides a customized motorbike or motorcycle with a large aerodynamic windscreen. Animated map shows the route of the race. Sign board on the street reads Pasadena. Spectators gathered at the finish line in Pasadena
German civilian Matthias Gierens, a 37 year old railroad worker, is hanged in Rheinbach Germany for the August 15, 1944 murder of a downed American flyer, who was later identified as U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lieutenant Lester E. Reuss, from Forsythe, Montana. Reuss was the navigator on U.S. Army B-17 bomber #42-31183 which was downed by German aircraft after it attacked the Airdrome at Wiesbaden, Germany. Gierens and three other German civilian men, Peter Kohn, Peter Back, and Matthias Krein, were convicted on June 2, 1945 in Ahrweiler, Germany, for the murder of the American airman after his parachute landing near Priest, Germany. The trial was the first Allied trial in Germany of civilians charged with a war crime. Military police are seen escorting Gierens toward the gallows in a prison yard in Rheinbach. A German Catholic priest performs the rites. U.S military officer reads charges as Gierens is readied for execution (the officer is possibly Lt. Col J.V. Roddy, of San Francisco, who was in charge of the hanging). Trap door opens and Gierens is hung. The U.S. Army executioners were Master Sgt. John C. Woods, a former Texas State executioner, and Staff Sgt. Thomas Robinson, of Bronx, New York. Witnesses present included seven U.S. Lieutenant Colonels and one British officer, a number of Military Police, news correspondents, and photographers.
Instant rehabilitation of housing in New York City. A demolition crew take out floors, walls and windows of a East side tenement in Manhattan. Instant rehabilitation is a joint city, state, federal private project. Officials give keys to habitants of the instant apartments. A woman inspects her new apartment.
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