Ingenious and humorous floats in a parade during Mardi Gras at Camp New Orleans, Paris, France during World War II. Two men under blankets in a car with a banner 'Post War Plans'. A man dressed as Statue of Liberty. United States flag. On a truck a man poses on a bed as a photographer takes his picture. Women stand in and around a coffee mug on a truck. 'American Red Cross' written on the truck. Soldiers sing at a microphone. Soldiers stand near signboard of canal street watch the parade. On a truck men work on electric poles. Men hoist American flag on 'Shemper field'. Tents in the background. Soldiers watch the parade. An explosion occurs on a truck. A soldier rides a horse followed by a tram.
Hermann Goering questioned by Chief Prosecutor Robert H Jackson during the Nuremberg trials in Nuremberg, Germany. Prosecutor Robert H Jackson questions Goering about the German government. Goering describes the ways and means of arresting people and states: 'The government that Germany had was the only feasible type of government at that time and it succeeded in pulling Germany out of the depths.' Courtroom rises for the recess. Some of the defendants talk during the recess.
Chief Prosecutor Robert H Jackson starts opening address to court during the Nuremberg Trials in Germany, following World War 2. He states, "The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the people of the world is a grave responsibility. The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating that civilization can not tolerate their being ignored because it can not survive their being repeated."
Hermann Goering reads exhibit document during the Nuremberg Trials, Germany. Major Walsh, U.S. Prosecutor, reads the documentation on the removal of gold teeth and filling from the mouths of German Nad Russian Jews before their annihilation. He states that 516 Jews were killed. He starts to read the covering letter part of the document, consisting actions against Jews as subjects.
Fountain and pool in front of U.S. Capitol. Washington Monument in Washington DC, United States. Voice of America Headquarters, Wilbur J. Cohen Building, 330 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC. News editorial and newsroom staff busy writing materials for broadcast Teletype tapes being cut by journalist. Banks of teletype machines receiving news from all over the world. VOI staff person assembles incoming story from teletype machine printer. Vast files of VOI broadcast tape recordings related to many countries. One file rack is labeled: Lao, Thai, Cambodia. Staff member retrieves tapes while another signs for some.
Excerpt from United States Information Service film about the music school and festival at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute in Massachusetts. Maestro Serge Koussevitzky conducts the Boston Symphony orchestra and a chorus in an outdoor performance during the summer of 1951. Views of the conductor, orchestra, chorus, and audience including many listening while reclining on the grass on the grounds of the institute.
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