Following World War 1, U.S. Army African American soldiers posing in front of a fountain at an official building. At about 10 feet above the ground, there are many small carved elephants encircling the fountain. Group of American Army officers poses in the same place, including Colonel William Hayward, commander of the African American 369th Infantry, 93rd Division (also known as the 15th New York National Guard or Old Fifteenth or "Harlem Hellfighters." A bigger group of American officers poses in front of what looks like a memorial with bas relief carvings. They hold a long banner reading "The Stars and Stripes forever."
Journalists and photographers loitering in hope of seeing Duke of Windsor (former King Edward VIII, who abdicated). Group of reporters, photographers, newsreel cameramen and children, being kept under control by a friendly armed policemen, who has to make a photographer with camera and tripod move back a bit. A little girl is amused by this. A car arrives. The policemen politely refuses it entrance, and it turns to go back. A photographer peeps out of a small window. Cameramen run out of house. Cars parked in a village street. A villager with oxen pulled cart.
The Orient Express luxury railroad train stopping over at Nazi German-occupied Vienna (Anschluss). View of Vienna as seen from inside a moving railroad train. Train slowing down near its arrival at the train station. The Colonnade Gloriette of Schoenbrunn Palace (Schönbrunner Schloßstraße 47 1130 Vienna) is seen far in the distance. Passengers disembark and embark on the Orient Express train in Vienna. Conductor checks tickets of passengers before allowing them to board. The Orient Express train begins to move, departing from the station. An elevated view of a train at a station platform. Train number reads "01-089", identified as DRB - Deutsche Reichsbahn [D] locomotive "01 089". Conductors complete final preparations for departure and the Deutsche Reichbahn train pulls away from the station platform.
Palace and gardens at Schönbrunn Palace. Three women pose for a photograph. A man poses with two women in the Schönbrunn Palace Park. Tourists walk around. High hedges and statuary seen in the gardens. Schönbrunn Palace garden gloriette seen in distance. (Amateur home movie.)
French military police with motorcycles stand near a crowd of French civilians outside a church in France near the end of World War 2. U.S. Army personnel with handheld cameras take pictures of services. Parisian girl standing with a U.S. Army soldier. Military Police lined up in front of the cathedral entrance. Bishops emerge from the church. General de Gaulle leaves the church in a motorcade. French car with a military official seated inside and four stars on the pIate. French soldiers as they give rifle salutes. Church cleric talking to a French officer. Gendarmes standing among civilians and American officer standing with a WAC (Women's Army Corps) officer. British guards lined up as people emerge from the church. Guard of Honor in the fore ground. Elderly French woman and man leave the church. GIs enters the church. Russian Bishop emerges from the church and enters car. French civilians around the church including children and a young boy on the shoulders of a man.
Two trucks and a bus full of liberated French prisoners drive down an avenue in Paris. A large Parisian crowd including young girls watch their arrival. People wave out to welcome the prisoners as they wave back. Sign on bus stating 'Repatriated Prisoners'. Shots of French prisoners as a civilian offers them cigarettes. A Parisian volunteer nurse. Trucks of prisoners pull up before a building. A liberated Algerian prisoner drinks from a bottle of wine. View of a French soldier. (World War II period).
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