Buildings, roads and compound of Nazi concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany after its liberation by Allied forces during World War II. A loud speaker atop a wall of the concentration camp. Liberated surviving camp inmates walk on ground and on roads near barracks of the camp. Large number of barracks for prisoners. A large clock near the horn of the concentration camp.
Slate refers to March 17, 1917, when Russian Tsar Nicholas II abdicated, and a Provisional Government was formed in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) during World War 1. It is followed by a few scenes from what appears to be a staged film enactment of a mob storming a palace. Soldiers and citizens, carrying sticks and clubs, rush up a stairway inside, while others are seen charging an entrance and beating on palace gates. A statue of the Russian Imperial Seal is seen with one eagle head broken. Next, actual footage shows a prison courtyard littered with debris. Bars on the doors and windows are bent and broken. Several persons are seen moving about in the debris. Later a group of people are seen at work cleaning up debris, placing it into a horse-drawn wagon. Slate compares this event to the fall of the Bastille during the French revolution. Russian soldiers loyal to the Bolsheviks and the Soviet cheer in streets of Petrograd. Armored cars and an artillery field piece are manned by the revolutionary Russian soldiers. A street is filled with Russian soldiers and some civilians.
Former Soviet leader Leon Trotsky, in exile visits Naples, Italy. Trotsky sees the nations of Europe as paroled prisoners of Joseph Stalin. He and his wife visit the ruins of historic sites in Naples. Trotsky with other dignitaries watches the remains of ancient civilization. The party walks and observes the sculptures and remains of ancient Roman civilization. (World War II period).
U.S. Military Mission visits Communist headquarters and meets its leaders in Yenan, Shensi province, China during World War II. Chinese soldiers read a map and plan strategies to capture a fortress under Japanese. They advance and hide in a trench. Soldiers climb hill and fire from their hideouts. Chinese soldiers reach the outpost, climb its boundary and overpower the Japanese soldiers. They are seen taking two Japanese soldiers as prisoners. The Chinese soldiers stand atop the tower and celebrate and cheer after victory. Chinese CCP officer seen viewing the tower area with binoculars. Next, Chinese forces set the interior of the tower on fire. View of soldiers standing to the side of the main tower at the fort while it burns. After the fire, they are seen digging and using pickaxes and shovels to destroy and level the fortress.
U.S. Military Mission visits Communist headquarters and meets its leaders in Yenan, Shensi province, China during World War II. Chinese soldiers capture a Japanese outpost. Mules carry the weapons and equipment seized from Japanese outpost. Large number of rifles, machine guns, mortar launchers, radio stations and supplies seized during battle displayed by soldiers. Japanese prisoners captured by Chinese soldiers during the battle.
The 1956 uprising in Hungary (also called the Hungarian Revolution). Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenthy is freed from prison on October 30, 1956, on November 3, he made a radio broadcast praising the revolution. (He is seen, possibly at that event.) Smoke rises from a tugboat in a harbor, where relief supplies are piled on a dock. People read about the rebel triumph in newspapers distributed from a truck, in Budapest. Soviet-built Li-2 airplanes (similar to DC-3) airlift relief supplies from Poznan, Poland. Convoy of ambulances and medical teams and supplies from International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) cross into Hungary at a border control point. Revolutionaries get medical treatment in hospitals. Sacks of relief supplies are seen.
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