Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie gets aboard an aircraft in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Emperor in the cockpit. The aircraft taxis. Natives carrying rifles watch the aircraft as it takes off. It lands after a short flight. Emperor Selassie gets off the aircraft. Officials greet him. The Emperor watches a demonstration of hand grenade throwing. Men throw grenades and explosions occur in woods. The Emperor looks through a camera and smiles. Two dogs. The dogs run towards a car and get into it. The Emperor also gets into the same car.
May Day celebrations in Rome, Italy during World War II. A large crowd gathered at the Piazza Del Popolo. A podium with dignitaries on it. People carry flags and banners. People clap as they listen to the speakers. A man addresses the crowd from the podium. Banners bearing signs in Italian. A girl in the crowd faints and is being attended to. An Egyptian obelsik at the center of the Piazza. A statue in the foreground as people walk past it. People walk down a street as they carry flags.
Crowd cheers at the center of Milan, Italy during World War II. Many people gathered at a square in Milan as they celebrate after the Germans surrender. United States Army tanks and trucks move past a large crowd along a street. The Milan Cathedral (Duomo di Milano, P.za del Duomo, 20122 Milano MI, Italy) is seen in the background. A large billboard for Chlorodont, a German toothpaste, is seen in the Milan Cathedral piazza. Location is incorrectly slated by camera man.
Benito Mussolini arrives in a German Junkers Ju-52 aircraft, at an airport serving Adolf Hitler's Eastern Front headquarters (Wolf's Lair) near Rastenburg, Poland, a month after being rescued by German commandos from imprisonment in the Campo Imperatore Hotel, high in the Italian Apennine Mountains, during World War 2. He is warmly greeted by Adolf Hitler (who personally ordered the rescue mission). Mussolini's son, Vittorio, also greets him. Hitler escorts Mussolini to a staff car bearing both the Italian and German (Swastika) flags. The car arrives at the Wolf's Lair, and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop greets Mussolini as he steps from the car. Hitler escorts Mussolini into the building. Next, Reichmarshal Hermann Goering is seen pointing out something to Mussolini. Change of scene shows Mussolini in hat and overcoat being escorted by Hitler, out to their waiting staff car. Back at the airport, Mussolini says his goodbyes to German officers and Hitler. He boards the Junkers Ju-52 trimotor aircraft which taxis out as Hitler waves goodbye.
German Army troops along the Finnish-Soviet Front during World War II. A map of Finland and the surrounding regions. German ski soldiers and horse pack trains move through snow along the Soviet-Finnish Front. Ski troops stand at attention and then advance. Horses being fed. The soldiers fire at Soviet positions. The soldiers in trenches. They advance as they pull small sleds along.
German Army troops arrive in Italy during World War 2. A map of Italy. German armor and mechanized units roll into a port on the Italian Riviera. German troops advance in a town with houses in the background. Naval guns aboard a ship anchored at the coast. The German flag being raised over an Italian ship in a harbor. Italian troops pledge themselves to fight with the Germans. German and Italian soldiers smoke cigarettes.
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