During Liberation of Paris. View of barbed wire enclosed area in Fort de Romainville (Nazi prison and transit camp) with bodies of civilians murdered by the Germans lying on ground (seen from a distance). View of main gate of Fort De Romainville with its inscription at the entrance. Elsewhere in Paris, a painter paints the French flag while children watch. Civilians on a street drinking wine. People bicycling on the street. A woman falls and people come to assist her. FFI (French Forces of the Interior) interrogating civilians on bicycles. (World War II period).
End of World War II in Europe. Piles of rusted bearings at Kugelfischer Factory in Germany. Bomb damaged buildings in the factory. Rusted damaged machinery. German prisoners of war work inside the factory. They lift wooden platforms.
United States 79th Infantry troops occupying La Haye Du Puits, France, during World War II. A World War I memorial used as a motor pool. An elderly man and woman show the victory sign with their fingers. U.S. Soldiers on army jeep with machine gun in back and two German prisoners seated on hood of the Jeep. At a square in the town, U.S. Army Engineer surveyor is seen with a transit on a tripod. The old couple seen earlier walk on road with baggage. Army vehicles drive past them.
Germany invades Poland. The view of a bridge with a damaged railway track in Poland. Ruins in the city after bombing. German soldiers on horse carts. Troops load and fire artillery. Rifles kept on snow covered surface. German ski troops advance in winter clothing. Soldiers load and fire artillery at Polish enemy on hillside. British and Polish prisoners of war march on street.
Two police motorcycles escort a black truck carrying Martin Insull, following his deportation from Canada. The truck displays "Atlas Bro Co" across its top. (Martin is brother of the famous fugitive, Samuel Insull who fled the country following the collapse of his various utility company holding companies, most notably Middle Western Utilities.) Martin Insull is being brought to the Cook County Courthouse in Chicago, to answer charges about his involvement in the matter. Scene shifts to Cook County Courthouse where Martin Insull is escorted by various officials. A group of men and women stand in the area. Some exhibit signs of distress. View from above of the Cook County jail. Smoke from stacks obscuring it somewhat. Change of scene shows heavily armed FBI agents escorting handcuffed and chained gangster George Francis Barnes aka “Machine Gun Kelly" at an American Airlines facility in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1933. They escort him past a parked airplane. Closeup of the "Lima News" of Lima, Ohio, with headline reflecting a national federal campaign against gangsters and criminals in the U.S. View of crowded courtroom. View of Alcatraz prison on its rock island in San Francisco Bay, California. Interior view of cell blocks in Alcatraz. Federal officials escorting arrested men in handcuffs who hide their faces as they approach the camera.
German soldiers surrender to United States soldiers in Turin, Italy during World War II. Convoy of motor carriages and passenger cars carry German officers to an assembly area. German soldier prisoner of war (POW) with bandaged arm. Soldiers wave.
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