Twenty four suffragist women (sometimes called suffragettes) arrive in San Francisco, California, on their 3-week tour across the country during February, 1919, in a last-ditch effort to urge passage of the 19th amendment, providing voting rights for women, which was being held up in the U.S. Senate. The women advocating women's suffrage are seen stepping from a railroad train coach, wearing uniforms like they wore when imprisoned at the Occoquan Workhouse (Run by the District of Columbia, the Workhouse, in Laurel Hill, Virginia, was later called Lorton Reformatory. Over 150 women suffragists were eventually incarcerated there.) (Note: The Senate later passed the 19th amendment which was ratified on August 18, 1920.)
The Nuremberg Trials in Germany after World War II. American lawyer Telford Taylor while speaking about Rostock, Handloser and Schroeder states that they held eminent position in international medicine. Backgrounds of some of the other defendants are also given. Defendants in a dock as Taylor's voice is heard reading the indictment. Defendants Brandt, Handloser, Rostock, Schroeder, Rose, Ruff, Brock, Romberg, Backer-Frysing and Weltz speaking to their lawyers during a recess. Herta Oberhauser leaves the courtroom. Cameramen with cameras.
Men and women stand and move around on a platform in Chicago. Gangster Al Capone along with officials arrives at the station and is seated in a train car. He tries to hide his face from the photographers present at the station.Several friends and family wave sorrowfully as he boards the train.
Defendants in the dock as Sir Hartley Shawcross delivers a speech during the Nuremberg Trials in Germany. Goering, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Doenitz, Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg seated in the dock. Shawcross finishes his speech. Shawcross, Rudenko and unidentified woman converse at the end of the trial.
End of World War II in Europe. A map shows Atlantic coast of France. American and German officers facilitate the repatriation of their soldiers at port of Dunkirk. Red Cross workers exchange papers with officers. Officers and soldiers in a boat. The soldiers stand in a group and talk. They stand at a road side. They happily board boats to take them home. German military high command consult and broadcast to the people of Germany about actions being taken to return their troops to their homeland of Germany.
General Eisenhower standing in front of a large wall map briefing officials in front of large wall map, view of newspaper headline of New York Post announcing D-Day Invasion of Europe in June 1944. Allied soldiers storming the beach at Normandy. U.S. soldiers fall to the ground after being hit by enemy fire on a Normandy beach on D-Day. German soldiers with hands up in surrender seen approaching Allied forces on beach. Body of a dead German soldier seen on the roadside as soldiers march by. Aerial views of gathering around Arc de Triomphe in Paris as Allies enter Paris and French citizens cheer during liberation of Paris in August 1944.Adolf Hitler seated with other Nazi soldiers listening to an unseen speaker. Views of French citizens lining roads in Paris and cheering as Allied forces enter the city.
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