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President Roosevelt addresses graduates of University of Virginia and talks about U.S. decision to aid the Allies.

U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses graduates of the class of 1940 at the University of Virginia, before the U.S. entrance into World War II. Speaking in Memorial Gymnasium, the President speaks into a microphone and addresses the University community and graduates, including his son Franklin Roosevelt Jr., who was graduating with a law degree. He speaks about the United States' decision to aid the Allies by extending to them the material resources of the United States in the war. He says that the U.S. took the decision after Italian Government's back-stab decision to engage in the war, after having earlier worked for the preservation of peace in the Mediterranean area. (Roosevelt had learned that morning of Italy's declaration of war on France.)

Date: 1940, June 10
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077093
Volunteer Fascist Youth march to war on streets in Genoa, Italy (WW2)

Volunteer Fascist Youth march to war in Italy during World War II. Gioventù Italiana del Littorio (GIL) members march on streets with packs on their backs in Genoa, Italy. Groups of Fascist youth gather in front of the Arco della Vittoria (Piazza della Vittoria, 1, 16121 Genova GE, Italy) in Genoa. An Italian speaker gives a speech. Civilians watch standing on sides of the street. A group of Italian women clap their hands and cheer.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675043840
Brigadier-General Antonescu and Prrince Sturdza arrive in Rome, Italy and meet Benito Mussolini during World War II.

Relations between Italy and Romania during World War II. Romanian Brigadier-General Petre Antonescu and Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Mihail Sturdza, arrive at the Roma Termini Station (Piazzale dei Cinquecento 00185 Rome Italy) in Rome, Italy. They are greeted by the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Count Gian Galeazzo Ciano. The two Foreign Ministers give each other the Roman Salute. Romanian and Italian flags festoon the train platform. Romanian Brigadier-General Petre Antonescu and Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Mihail Sturdza, and Count Ciano exit Termini Station together. They review soldiers. They get in a car and drive toward Villa Madama, near the Foro Italico complex. Antonescu and Prince Sturdza arrive in Villa Madama (Via di Villa Madama, Rome, Laz. 00135). Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini receives them in the Palazzo Venezia (Piazza Venezia, 3, Rome, Laz. 00186). Benito Mussolini poses with Petre Antonescu, Prince Sturdza and Count Ciano.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675050568
A large crowd greets German Chancellor Adolf Hitler in Florence, Italy during World War II.

German officers tour Italy during World War II. Buildings in the background at a sea shore. Men seated at a desk type documents. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler with German officers in his private railroad car. People gather at a railroad station in Florence, Italy. They wave towards Hitler. The crowd cheers and applauds. Hitler is greeted by officers. Soldiers stand at attention. Italian citizens gathered cheer him and applaud. Hitler seated in a car passing on a street of Florence. People gather along the sides of streets. Buildings along street sides. Hitler and officials enter the Palazzo Vecchio. Scenes inside the palace, where German and Italian officials shake hands and discuss. Prime Minister of Italy Benito Mussolini and Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa Rodolfo Graziani at a station and later at a reception. Headline of Italian newspaper Il Barcello reading "Mussolini e Hitler a Firenze!" People gather in a large number and cheer on the Piazza della Signoria. Elevated view of the crowd from roof or a high balcony of the Palazzo Vecchio. Trumpet players on balcony play to crowd before Mussolini and Hitler appear. People cheer as the Italian and German leaders appear on the balcony.

Date: 1940, October 28
Duration: 4 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675065459
Adolf Hitler arrives in Brenner railway station to meet Benito Mussolini for a brief Germany-Italy dialogue (WW2)

Italian Prime Minister and Il Duce Benito Mussolini welcomes German Chancellor and Führer Adolf Hitler upon his arrival in the Brenner railway station (39041 Brenner, South Tyrol, Italy), the border station of Italy and Austria. Adolf Hitler gives the Nazi salute while Benito Mussolini extends the Roman Salute to honor guards while it snows outside the Brenner station. Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and Nazi German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop follow behind their leaders. Hitler shakes hands with Mussolini and Count Ciano, greet each other with the Nazi and Roman salutes, before boarding train back to Germany. Joachim von Ribbentrop greets the Nazi salute to Mussolini before the latter shake hands with him. Hitler speaks to Mussolini while leaning on train window before departure. Hitler’s train departs from Brenner station. Mussolini gives a final Roman salute to Hitler as his train departs for Germany. Mussolini, Count Ciano and other Italian fascist officials leave the platform. “Brennero” (Italian for Brenner) station sign in heavy snow. Italian fascist officials salute to Mussolini’s snowy train departing Brenner station after Hitler's visit to Italy during World War II.

Date: 1940, March 18
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078730
People gather at the Palazzo Venezia in Rome as Italy enters World War II and soldiers fight in France.

Italy enters World War II. A large number of people march on the streets in Rome, Italy. People gathered outside the Palazzo Venezia in Rome as Italy declares to enter World War II. Italian tanks advance in France. A wrecked tank on a field. Italian soldiers fire and aircraft in flight. Citroen Kegresse P19 half-track vehicle drives by. Artillery being fired and explosions occur.

Date: 1940, June 24
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059013