French Marshal Philippe Petain in a French town in 1944 during World War II. Philippe Petain in a car flanked by motorcycle police drives on the streets as a crowd cheers. Damaged buildings alongside a street. Petain shakes hands with civilians. Petain speaks into a microphone and addresses the crowd.
The history of West Point Military Academy. Battle memorials in Europe are shown. U.S. Army General John J. Pershing talks to soldiers. A soldier reads books in an army library. 'The 1909 Howitzer' written on a book. Books on shelves in the background. He reads about various soldiers and their achievements. The soldiers fire artillery. U.S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower talks to the soldiers. U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur discusses with other officials. The soldiers march on a field.
Refugees and concentration camp victims return to Czechoslovakia after the World War II. Destroyed buildings and houses in a village in Czechoslovakia. Woman concentration camp victims, probably most of them Jewish Holocaust victims, leaning out of the windows of a bus after arrival in town. Close up of chalk written sign on bus reads, "Ravensbrück" to denote it as containing women from Ravensbrück concentration camp. Woman are greeted by their family members, who help them out of the bus. Several of those gathered are still wearing their striped concentration camp uniforms. A woman tearfully hugs a man. A steam locomotive with coal car reading, "U.S.A." moving slowly on train track. A Czechoslovakian soldier with rifle inspects tamper evident wire latch on train car. A man opens the door of a railroad train car, revealing bags of grain inside. Hand of inspector examining grain from shipment. Another railroad car door opened to reveal cotton or wool batting. Hand inspects wool or cotton fibers. Truck convoy through city streets. Man carrying crate marked "UNRRA" into building. Crate marked "Czechoslovakia" is placed on table. Hand shows small box of penicillin. Man walking with crutches enters building and is given warm coats. External view of "LAMPLOTA" building with "UNRRA" signs in windows, now set up as an UNRRA distribution center. A smiling Czechoslovakian girl hands a ration ticket to a woman behind the counter at an UNRRA distribution center. The woman cuts a part of the ration ticket off with scissors. Close up of UNRRA food supplies. View of a large wall of "UNRRA" crates.
A film on the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. Empty fields marking the site of Lidice, Czechoslovakia. Women survivors of the Lidice who had been sent to concentration camps. They place wreaths on the common grave of the people who were killed at Lidice. View of a lineup of captured Nazi SS soldiers and officers involved in the destruction of Lidice. Packed courtrooms at Nuremberg, Germany with German Nazi leadership present at Nuremberg Trial. Rubble and destroyed bombed-out Reichstag building in Berlin. Debris on the street. Past events show German Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses people and talks about the destruction of other cities. Ruins of buildings from war. A wrecked bridge and burned out fields of a farm from World War 2.
A film on the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. Rubbled buildings in the area. People walk on the street. Debris on the street. Rubbled houses and buildings. People work to clear out the rubble. A child seated on the ground. Supplies stacked on the ground. Children lined up for food. A man distributes equal amount of food to the people. Reconstruction of houses and the buildings. A man works on a farm. He digs out mud from shovel. A crippled man walks with the help of crutches.
A film on the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. A sign board reads: 'UNRRA dispensary'. Men distribute food, blankets and other supplies to people. People eat food. Men work for the reconstruction of houses and other buildings. Trucks of supplies pass on the street. Dead bodies in the rubble. Arm and leg of a corpse. Men bury the dead bodies into graves. Disabled and crippled children are seen, having lost limbs. A boy who suffered a double leg amputation from war injury is pushed in a wheel chair by another child. Amputee children in a group walk with the help of crutches. Children in a group, all suffering various disabilities from war wounds including vision impairment, disfigurement, and blindness.
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