Nazi rally in Nuremberg, Germany ca.1934. Massed Storm troopers and spectators salute Hitler. An artillery piece is fired. Hitler personally recognizing loyal Storm troopers. Animated map of Asia, showing Japanese occupation of Manchuria, and Italian occupation of Ethiopia. Newspaper headlines describe Britain and France hesitating to support League of Nations oil sanctions against Italy; and U.S. increasing its oil exports to Italy by 600% (ca. 1935). Hitler and Hermann Goering looking pleased in Hitler's private railroad car. Adolf Hitler at a planning table covered with maps. German citizens traveling abroad and Joachim von Ribbentrop visiting London, as ambassador to Great Britain, in 1936. View of Léon Degrelle and his Catholic-fascist, Rexist party in Belgium (ca. 1936). View of Colonel Francois de la Rocque speaking at a Cross of Fire (Croix-de-Feu) party night rally in France. Konrad Henlein, leader of the Sudeten German Party in Czechoslovakia. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian National Socialist official, seen in an automobile during a parade. Sir Oswald Mosley addressing followers and defending Hitler. Street scenes of public disorder attributed to Nazi sympathizers in France and Belgium. Mass meeting of the German American Bund in Madison Square Garden, New York City,1939. U.S. flags and picture of George Washington decorate stage. Fritz Julius Kuhn addresses the gathering and members rough up a protester. Views of heavy industry in Germany, especially steel manufacturing for remilitarization. Persons working at a German concentration camp. Dramatized execution by machine gun. View of Heinrich Himmler. German President Paul von Hindenburg. German national conscription of 1935 during military mobilization efforts. German youth training pilots with gliders. German paratroopers, Junkers 52 aircraft, German soldiers goosestep, views of German tanks. Ju 87 Stuka plane. German invasion of Rhineland, 1936. Construction of Siegfried Line. Antitank barriers, bunkers, dragons teeth. Hitler visiting Westwall. German military parade.
French troops repel the communists from Indochina during the Indochina War. Paratroopers drop in the Indochina Delta. They wade through water. The paratroopers fire guns. French troops advance under Vietminh fire. Machine-guns are fired. Dead soldiers on the ground. The place where the son of French Commander in Chief, Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny was killed. Vietnamese run looking scared. The French point guns at them. French troops raise the French flag. They return to a fort in trucks.
Under the glare of bright lights in otherwise pitch darkness, German prisoners of war are being taken aboard a British ship during World War 2. Some are wounded on stretchers. Change of scene shows a British Short Stirling bomber being "bombed Up" at an RAF station in the UK during World War 2. Closeup of bombs being transported on dollies. Closeup of a General Purpose 1000 pound bomb. British airmen raising bombs into the bomb bay of a Short Stirling bomber. British aircrew standing in full flight gear in front of their aircraft. One crewman holds up a toy monkey by the tail. Next the last few crew members are seen boarding the aircraft by a rear door. Pilots in the cockpit. Copilot looking back over his seat toward the camera. Tail gunner seen in his position with belt ammunition visible. The aircraft taxiing out from its parking place. Next a De Havilland DH102 (Mosquito II) with radial engines, is seen taking off. It appears to have a special sensor package fastened underneath it. View of the aircraft in flight directly overhead. A Hawker typhoon aircraft taking off and then performing aerobatics overhead. The De Havilland Mosquito II maneuvering overhead. A Supermarine Spitfire aircraft maneuvering overhead. Shift to gun camera footage from numerous British aircraft strafing German ships. Views of British submarines being welcomed as they return from missions. Closeup of the deck gun on one submarine. Battle damage on part of the submarine. The British Royal Navy White Ensign flying at the Conning Tower of a captured German submarine. Closeup of bearded German U-boat officer. Several sailors on deck of a British submarine. Men waving their caps and cheering on shore to welcome returning submarines.
VE Day (Victory in Europe) festivities in Paris, France during World War 2. A group of men and women carries a Pictorial banner as they march around the Arc de Triomphe circle. Men and women hold hands and make a circle as if to dance. Young people riding on top and sides of a car as they move past the Arch of Triumph and people in the street. Decorations strung in a park, including a poster of General de Gaulle. People stroll on walkway in the park.
Liberation of France from German troops during World War II. German half trucks, tanks and infantry move on the streets of Paris in France during la liberation de paris. Arc de Triomphe. French men put posters announcing the liberation of France from German control. Posters appeal to people for their cooperation in liberation efforts. FFI ( French Forces of Interior ) trucks in streets of Paris. Snipers fire from windows at the German troops.
Rail cars on the November, 1947 "Friendship Train," at a sea port in the U.S.A. Behind it is seen the funnel of the SS Exiria, of the American Export Lines. The camera moves around to show the Exiria, displaying a large American flag and words,"Friendship Food Ship," on her hull. A steam locomotive on train in France, delivering relief supplies, displays crossed American and French flags on it. Trucks on road in France, displaying French and American flags and pictures of the Freedom Train on their sides, with words:"Ravitaillement, offert spontanment au peuple de France à partir de peuple Americain." (Refueling, spontaneously offered to the people of France from American people.) The SS Exiria docked in an Italian port. A catholic priest and several nuns with a group of boys, standing on the pier, wave American flags. Another group of American girls enthusiastically wave American flags. A large crowd waves several large Italian flags. President Harry S. Truman, at his desk on the White House, Washington, DC, signs the Economic Recovery Act of 1948 (AKA Marshall Plan). Secretary of State Marshall speaking in support of the legislation before Congress. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, of Michigan, speaking in support of the bill.
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