Events and various war crime trials after World War I and II. Exterior view of Palais de Justice de Paris with some cars in front, in Paris, France. Courtroom views: Pietro Caruso, Fascist of Italy is seen in court. Next is Norwegian Army officer Vidkun Quisling in court. French General Henri-Philippe Petain in court in Paris. French politician Pierre Laval speaking in a court room. Views of lawyers and prosecutors speaking forcefully in courtrooms. Nazi Hermann Goering speaking in an outdoor setting. Nazi generals being arrested at end of World War II including Field Marshal von Rundstedt. Next scene shows Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II and General Staff during World War I. Next is Briitsh Prime Minister Henry Lloyd George, after World War I. Kaiser Wilhelm II, residing in Doorn, Netherlands, after World War 1. With his good hand, the Kaiser throws wood into a pile. A post-war aerial view of Nuremberg, Germany with massive bomb damage and destruction in the city. The court house of Nuremberg. U.S. chief prosecutor Robert Jackson walking outside the Nuremberg courthouse with a military officer on his right and a woman on his left. Next scene is a dramatization of a British Court scene, with justices wearing powdered wigs. Elevated, wide view of Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. View of a Soviet court in session, and civilian viewers of the trial seen in upper gallery viewing seats.
Film begins showing livestock in stalls eating hay. Next, an auction is seen in progress. The auctioneer signals a final sale by striking a board with a wooden mallet. The new owner leads the animal away on a tether. Adolf Hitler is seen in uniform speaking at a podium, extolling German workers, against a background of waving wheat and farmers using scythes to harvest it. The farmers continue, placing the sheaves of wheat into wagons. Scene shifts fo grains of wheat being smoothed with a shovel. A Nazi guard in black uniform stands before a structure displaying a sign reading: Aldolf-Hitler-Roog. A car carrying Hitler enters a rural village area, where a woman steps in front of it to stop it. She speaks to a smiling Hitler as she points toward her newly built neighborhood of homes.
Changes in Germany before during Adolf Hitler's leadership. View of German youth idle and in poor slum housing areas during great depression years of hyperinflation between the wars, and before Hitler's rise to power. German boy children stand outside their houses and are seen idle. They run in an abandoned warehouse. Scene shifts to Hitler youth marching in front of a camp in 1935, holding Nazi flags. Adolf Hitler speaks to a crowd in an outdoor mass meeting (likely 7th Party Congress in September 1935). A large crowd assembles at a stadium. Sign for a Adolf Hitler Jugendherberge (youth hostel). Girls and young women of Hitler youth dance in pairs in traditional German clothing. Tents in the background for the girls camping. Views of a boys encampment for Hitler Youth with tents in the background. Boys in uniform gathering in camp, shining shoes, and working. Children work seated on ground. Workers enter industrial factories. Young men working in a factory producing goods in Germany using machines. Young men of the Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst or RAD) march in formation carrying shovels.
Destroyed infrastructure in Berlin after World War II. Bomb damage at Tempelhof Aerodrome. German FW-190 fighter plane and a wrecked truck. Shows the tail of a Junkers Ju-52 3 engine transport plane next to the Fw-190. A trolley used to carry the wreckage. Buildings around the aerodrome. Heaps of debris. A parked C-47 Skytrain plane with a pool in the foreground. Part of a wrecked German plane with a Swastika emblem on it.
(Prisoner) General Field Marshal Gerd Von Rundstedt in Germany soon after the end of World War 2 in Europe. Gerd Von Rundstedt talks with German officers. Jeeps and aircraft in background. Rundstedt boards a American C-47 Skytrain plane. U.S. Army and German enlisted soldiers and officers. German officers stand around the plane.
Tet Offensive underway in Saigon, during the Vietnam War. U.S. Army UH-1B helicopters in flight over buildings. Vietnamse civilians on the terrace or rooftop of a building. Massive clouds of smoke rise from fires and bombed areas in distance. Explosions seen.
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