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Trials of war criminals in Germany after World War Two. Belsen local trial.

"The Guilty." Animation depicts person being hanged. View of an angry crowd on a road. People beat war criminals and collaborationists. Mob of Italian partisans in Italy raising dead bodies of Mussolini and others up to hang from their heels in public after their execution. Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and British Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony Eden signing the Moscow Declaration in November, 1943. The declaration is signed to preserve the authority of law in Europe and to ensure fair and orderly trials for war criminals. Next scene shows Allied soldiers at a liberated Concentration Camp near the end of World War 2 in Europe. Military jeeps in the background. Officals tour the concentration camp. Man opens a creamatorium oven, revealing bones of a corpse inside. Pile of dead victims of a concentration camp. Elevated view of a room full of documents that are in review for war trials. Officials search documents to identify war criminal suspects. Nazi officers and officials who commited suicide are shown, including a German admiral, the body of Heinrich Himmler, and the bodies of the Mayor of Leipzig and his wife. War criminals being summoned for the various war crime trials. Scenes from the Belsen Trial in September 1945, held in a Lüneburg gymnasium, to decide the fate of German guards and SS officials from the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. A defendant being brought to trial on a stretcher. Soldiers guard the court room. View of defendants including many women SS-Gefolge members. German Commandant Josef Kramer during his trial, and German doctor Fritz Klein beside him. The court trial underway for the war criminals. Guilty war criminal brought to the gallows to be hanged, black cover placed over his head and he is hanged. View of dead bodies of concentration camp victims. View of a crowd amassed at a hanging execution of several German officers, possibly in the Soviet Union.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057512
U.S. Coast Guard vessels and personnel in operation during World War II

A World War 2 amphibious beachhead is seen with numerous ships offshore, and a barrage balloon aloft overhead. USS Landing Ship Medium number 553 is pulled up close to a transport ship from which an army truck is being offloaded. Numerous U.S. troops are seen on the transport deck. Another Landing Ship Medium (number 541) is c.lose to a transport ship. A Benham class destroyer is seen. A Coast Guard Captain smokes a cigarette as he looks out a porthole on his ship. A U.S. wartime supply convoy at sea. An officer sounds an alarm aboard a U.S. Combat Coast Guard Cutter. Crew responds and fires depth charges against a German submarine. The submarine surfaces and the Cutter fires at it using a deck gun. View of oil on the water.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058106
Various Allied soldiers and workers engaged in World War II

Close-ups of Soviet soldiers aiming their rifles. British soldiers, carrying Enfield rifles, advance in rocky terrain. Allied Colonial troops fighting in jungles. Paratroopers jumping from an airplane. American soldiers following an armored vehicle through heavy foliage, and then running through a street and taking defensive positions during combat in a battle damaged town. An American M3 Lee medium tank (with name “Andy” written on it) firing its heavy gun in the center of a town. Its Shell bursts in a building and blows part of it into the street. The troops continue advancing and walk over a sign on the ground,displaying a swastika. Scenes shift to home fronts of Allied countries, where people are working in machine shops, forges, welding shops, and war plants, fabricating weapons. Final scene shows two American soldiers firing a Browning M1917 water-cooled machine gun.

Date: 1943
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058396
Allied victory in Normandy, liberation of Brussels and election of President Franklin Roosevelt.

Headlines about Normandy victory, bombing of Tokyo, and Philippines during World War II. Worker in war plants, Allied planes drop bombs over enemy positions in Europe. Allied invasion of Normandy and victory. Celebrations in Paris and liberation of Brussels. Franklin D. Roosevelt reelected as President after defeating Thomas A. Dewey.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058483
Admiral Halsey inspects sailors and marines on board a ship in Europe (WW2)

'US Navy speeds fighting planes to war fronts'. Admiral William Halsey inspects sailors and marines lined up on board a ship in Europe during World War II. Deck crew places P 40 fighter planes in formation. Planes taxi along and take off. Planes in flight. 'Eagles quit RAF to fly with Yanks'. Pilots of Eagle Squadron stand in ranks on board a ship. Brigadier General Frank Hunter pins up insignia onto them. Pilot parade and American flag hoisted.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058486
United States 1st Infantry Division soldiers advance into French cities and fight for Aachen during World War II.

The role of United States 1st Infantry Division (Big Red One) in various campaigns in Europe during World War II. United States 1st Infantry Division men fight in France as they advance further inland into the country. Soldiers relax, get a haircut and write a letter back home to their families. On July 25th , 1944 German aircraft launch an air attack. Infantrymen fight in the streets of a city in France. Combat engineers plant land mines. 1st Infantry Division soldiers enter Coutance, Mortain, Etampes, Meaux and Soissons. Soldiers around a monument at the Belgium border. 1st Infantry soldiers advance towards Aachen. Tanks fire as soldiers fight against the Germans in Aachen. Men on a machine gun. On October 25th 1944 Aachen surrenders to the Allies. U.S. Army armored vehicle drives over Nazi flag lying in a street.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058746