United States soldiers treating five poor Chinese children to Christmas dinner during World War II. They are seated around a restaurant table. Soldiers and children take noodles from a common plate. A Chinese boy eating noodles from a small bowl. A Chinese woman puts some noodles on American soldier’s bowl. The soldiers and Chinese children eat with chopsticks. After the meal steaming hot towels are brought. A soldier wipes the face of a Chinese boy with the towel.
A view of an art museum in Munich, Germany during World War II, featuring Romantic Realism art favored by the Nazi government. Joseph Goebbels arrives at the museum. People greet him and shake hands with him. Military officers in the background. He tours the museum and is followed by other officials. A view of various paintings and sculptures in the museum. “Durch die russische Steppe” by Rudolf Lipus. A painting of Adolf Hitler hung on the wall.
A map of Russia. View of Voronezh, Russia. Buildings in the street. Smoke rises up in the background. Dead bodies lay on the ground. Wrecked buildings and rubble all over the building. Cars near a street. A view of waterfront. Horses and German munitions carts. Soldiers sit near the horses. Planks lay across a stream. Troops on motorcycles and bicycles. Russian prisoners walk. Prisoners carry their belongings and walk across the fields. (World War II period).
German troops advance on fields in Voronezh, Russia. Tanks move across the streets. Buildings in the view. A man looks through binoculars. Trees and houses in view. Troops march in front of buildings. Artillery loaded and fired. Tank guns are fired. Enemy installations are bombed. Smoke and explosion. Camouflaged tanks and trucks move along a road. (World War II period).
Two women stand near a coal furnace in United States. They open the upper door of the furnace. Burning coal in view. A woman adds coal from a bucket. She turns the coal with a poker. A woman checks ash from a tray in the bottom. A man checks the furnace. Another man shows that no smoke is in stove pipe above the furnace. Students gather around as designer explains the parts and the functioning of the furnace with the help of a diagram. The designer and another man demonstrate how the smokeless fire box can be retrofit into existing furnaces. (World War II period).
A man, with only one arm, prepares wallpaper. He takes water from a bucket and wets the wallpaper paste with a brush. He takes a stool and puts wallpaper on the wall. The wallpaper is printed with a design and pasted to a wall as a decorative covering. He presses the wallpaper. He puts back the stool on the side and presses the wallpaper on the lower part of the wall.
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