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German war criminals are executed by Allied occupying forces in 1945, in World War 2
View from above, of the surrounding walls and courtyard of a prison in Rheinbach, Germany. Ground view inside the prison yard, where German civilian Matthias Gierens is being escorted to the gallows by U.S. military police, and accompanied by a German Catholic priest, on June 29, 1945. They ascend the gallows and final charges and sentence are read to Gierens. Next scene shows bodies stacked up at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp operated by Nazi Germany. Scene returns to the gallows, and a hood is placed over Gierens' head. View of Allied army officer witnesses, in formation, at parade rest. Noose is placed over Gierens' hood. View of a a bird flying overhead, trapdoor opens, Gierens drops, and noose tightens. Next is an unrelated scene of several German soldiers being executed. They are seen hanging from four gallows in a line in a public square while a large crowd, possibly Soviet citizens, looks on. (Notes: Regarding the execution of Gierens in the opening scene: German civilian Matthias Gierens was a 37 year old railroad worker. He was executed for the August 15, 1944, murder near Priest, Germany, of a downed American airman, who was later identified as U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lieutenant Lester E. Reuss. Gierens and three other German civilians, Peter Kohn, Peter Back, and Matthias Krein, were convicted on June 2, 1945 in Ahrweiler, Germany, of the murder. Their trial was the first Allied trial in Germany of civilians charged with a war crime.)
The Sudetenland in an economic crisis followed by the flight of Sudeten Czechs as Germany invades
Animated map shows shows areas of Czechoslovakia constituting the Sudetenland. Scenes of numerous idle industrial plants in the region during period of economic trouble, high unemployment and the Great Depression. Some idle factories and businesses with chains and locks. Views of unemployed workers. More and more views of idle work places. Unhappy jobless persons. Scene shifts to hundreds of thousands of Czech people leaving their homes in the Sudetenland. Some are seen walking along a road carrying their belongings. Some use baby carriages and others use bicycles to carry their belongings. Some lead cattle on tethers. Others have carts. Views of weary refugee Czechs traveling and some at resting places. Many views of evacuees passing a Sudetenland border and moving across roads, fields, and in every imaginable manner as they leave and begin to seek new homes. Many are seen crying and weeping. Then suddenly, the film shifts to October 1, 1938, as German forces enter the Sudetenland and are happily cheered by German-speaking residents. Large formation of German troops marching along a street as spectators render Nazi salutes. A welcoming banner is stretched across the street. Many women wave and throw flowers at the rapidly passing German soldiers in vehicles. View from one of the German vehicles of the people crowding around them and cheering them. During a lull in traffic, a woman walks on the empty street (still surrounded by sidewalks full of spectators) and strews more flowers along the roadway. Crowds cheer with great enthusiasm as Adolf Hitler is seen riding in an open motorcar and entering the German occupied area at the Wildenau crossing on October 3, 1938. The car is mobbed by Sudeten Germans who shake hands with Hitler. A banner thanking Hitler for the occupation hangs across the roadway. Many views of Hitler saluting and waving to the enthusiastic population. At one point he stops the car and walks on the street, accompanied by Marshal Hermann Goering, who also meets and greets people in the crowd, including some children to whom he gives candy. Hitler also greets a small girl and gives her some candy.
Berlin women works on debris of buildings in a bucket brigade after World War II in Berlin,Germany.
Destruction of infrastructure in Berlin after World War II. Berlin women work in bucket brigade after. Damaged buildings in the background. Women use pick axe to remove the debris. They fill the buckets with debris using shovels. Elderly women pass buckets. Women pile bricks and passes buckets.
United States P-47 Thunderbolt plane strafes town and a tank and ammunition carrier
Destroyed infrastructure in Berlin during World War II. United States P-47 Thunderbolt plane dives in to strafe a town. U.S. P-47 strafes tank and ammunition carrier. Burning vehicles and town. U.S. P-47s strafes town. Mountains in the background.
American UH-1C Huey Gunships in action during Tet Offensive in the Vietnam war
View from atop a tall building, of Saigon, Vietnam, during the Tet Offensive by North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces. U.S. ambulances race down a street. A helicopter flies overhead. Camera pans over tops of buildings. U.S. Army UH-1C Huey Gunships (helicopters) from the 191st Assault Helicopter Company, attached to the 9th Infantry Division, fly back and forth over buildings. Scene shifts to an aerial view of the city from open door of a UH-1C Huey Gunship. Smoke rises from an area that the chopper approaches. View of the Huey's gun firing from an open door. view from inside cockpit of the gun ship. Three pairs of rockets are fired from the chopper into the area of smoke. A fighter jet aircraft flies overhead toward the area. Heavy smoke rises. A chopper flies high above as sun sets on horizon. View of rooftops in twilight, with smoke still rising in background and a UH-1C Huey Gunship flying very low over rooftops toward the smoke. Explosion and flame seen in center of the smoking area, followed by a heavy explosion. a fighter jet overhead and another explosion from the combat area.
Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard and officers at a naval shipyard and the Small Boat School in Vietnam.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard on a tour of Vietnam. David Packard walks at a naval shipyard in Saigon. Commodore Tran Van Chon, Chief of Naval Operations ;Vietnamese Navy, walks with Mr Packard. U.S. Vice Admiral E. R. Zumwalt, Comnavforces, Vietnam and Mr. Packard look at Ferro cement boats that were built by Vietnamese at Vietnamee Naval shipyard. Mr Packard looks at the boats from the edge of the dock. Commodore Chon in the background. Mr.Packard chats with E. R. Zumwalt and they enter a car. The official party looks at some of the ribs of one of the boats under construction. Mr. Packard signs a log book. E. R. Zumwalt stands in the background in a building at the shipyard. Mr Packard is introduced to an officer of the Republic of Vietnam. The official party walks at the shipyard. Mr Packard talks with B Donohue, Director of Small Boat School, Saigon. The party in one of the rooms at the boat school. The party departs from the school. A young Vietnamese girl runs through a hall at the school.
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