American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) relief efforts in Germany following World War 1 during a time of food shortages and economic devastation. Virchow hospital building seen. Children form a ring and sing in garden. Lyrics to the song they sing are shown on a printed page. It is a song of thanks to the Quaker people who provide them assistance. Two children seen sitting on a bed. Nursing and expectant mothers are seen sewing to earn income. Children sit on a table to eat, in a Kindergarten school.
River front and the Royal Castle of Saxony seen in Dresden. The offices of 'American Friends Service Committee' (Quakers) located in Royal Castle of Saxony. American staff seen entering past barbed wire entanglements which are for protection of the castle. Physicians examine hungry, undernourished and malnourished German children during time of economic calamity and food shortages in Germany following World War 1. Several children sit on benches. A doctor examines a girl using a stethoscope. Boys file into a room for weight and height examination, confirming undernourished children.
Relief activities of Quakers, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in postwar Germany (after World War 1). A dog helps his owner to pull cart loaded with milk cans, in Dresden, Germany. The Dog, "Sultan" is seen. Point of view shot from a railroad train, looking forward toward other train cars and the locomotive, as it carries AFSC food relief supplies to Southern Saxony Erzebirge village of Heidelberg-Seiffen. Group of thin, undernourished boys and girls walking on road in village where food is being delivered for hungry children. Views of the Village, (described in a slate as the town of Santa Claus due to all the toy makers living there) seen from a moving vehicle driving along a road. A bullock cart moves along the road. Boys run about, excited by the presence of cinematographer in their village. Children watch a toy maker working outside his home in Heidelberg-Seiffen.
American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) relief activities in Germany after World War I. Children gather in school yard in Old Dresden to eat white rolls and bean soup. Hungry children sit in rows to eat . Children seen sitting in pram. Officials receive contributions of clothing and read letters of thanks from children and citizens in Headquarters offices of the American Friends Service Committee in Berlin, Germany. A letter of thanks from a girls school. A nurse examining and massaging a girl patient afflicted with rachitis from malnourishment. Concerns about Tuberculosis and rickets in the children. A woman seen with a child in her arms.
Ex-German cruiser Ostfriesland taking direct bomb hits by United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). Smoke seen. Four bombers in flight over USS Alabama. USS Alabama enveloped in smoke from direct bomb hit. Ship completely obscured by smoke. Plane lays smoke curtain. Plane continues over water. Plane continues laying screen.
USS New Jersey battleship used as bomb targets for Army bomb tests. Water shot high enveloping the ship. Fire on after part of the ship. Stern of the ship seen. Ship on its side in water. Keel seen as ship flips completely over and sinks below waves.
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