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Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, speaks about continuing needs

Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, speaks about the continuing problem of refugees resulting from the upheavals of World War II. He speaks of the many refugee camps, both official and unofficial that are still occupied throughout the world, and the problems of people in them.

Date: 1952
Duration: 2 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056047
French colonial military veterans, holding flags, parade in the streets of Algiers, on a rainy day.

A contingent of French colonial military veterans, many wearing numerous medals on their coats, parade on wet streets in Algiers. They carry a variety of flags, some of military units. Aerial view shows dense crowds lining the sidewalk of a street as the veterans march past.

Date: 1956
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056063
Camp personnel provide medical care, clothing and food to displaced persons and refugees in Europe near end of World War II.

Activities of Displaced Person camp personnel and refugees in Europe around end of World War II. A sign board reads "Medicin" on a doorway. Doctors examine displaced persons and refugees in a hospital. Doctors perform physical examination of a woman and a boy. Woman applies lice decontamination powder agent to refugees standing in a line. The camp personnel, through the Red Cross and the UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) give shoes to an old man and clothing to a needy child. A man rings a large gong bell at a DP camp calling refugees to a meal. The camp personnel serve food to the displaced persons in a large dining hall. Women and children seen in line receiving bowls of steaming hot food and drink. A sign board outside an office reads "Office of Military Detachment D3FI". Officers at desks interview the displaced persons. A Russian man from a German camp is interviewed through a translator. He wears a star on his jacket. A displaced French woman is interviewed by an American soldier. Group of displaced Polish men sit together and smoke, relax and chat in quarters with their countrymen. A man fills details in a duty roster form assigning displaced Polish persons daily routine activities in their quarters. In a Belgian citizens area, people play and chat. A girl sits next to a woman relaxing on a bed. A doctor examines a baby.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056100
Russian displaced men and women perform a play on an outdoor theater stage in a camp in Heidelberg, Germany.

Activities at Russian Displaced Persons Camp in Heidelberg, Germany during World War II. Russian displaced men march at the displaced persons camp. Officers Charles McDonald and Pat Dunne wear United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration armbands. Russian men and women perform a play on an outdoor theater stage. Officers and the displaced persons watch the play.

Date: 1945, May 3
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056132
Views of German air and naval nighttime operations in World War II

Nighttime operations in World War 2, by German military air and naval units. German Air Force aviators discuss a mission. German armorers fastening large bombs under fuselage of a German Dornier 17 twin engine bomber, at night. The aircrew boarding the aircraft. Engines running and the bomber taxiing out for takeoff. Scene switches to a German coastal gun firing in the darkness. Next, the wake from a German torpedo boat, is seen at night. Interior of the boat, showing controls. A gun on deck, and face of sailor operating the boat. TWo torpedoes being launched. Explosion and fire from torpedo striking a ship, seen at night. Controls of a ship set to full speed ahead. A torpedo being launched from a surfaced submarine at night. A huge explosion from the torpedo striking a target ship.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675056331
British infantry and tanks push German Army back and free civilians from Nazi occupation in Holland, during World War II.

Allied forces free the civilians from Nazi occupation in Holland, during World War II. British infantrymen of the 9th Army and tanks advance in Holland and defeated German forces retreat. British artillery and tanks fire at the Nazis during a battle. Allied soldiers rescue civilians from the rubble of houses destroyed during battle. British tanks and flamethrowers attack German Army units. British Army and tanks advance on rubbled streets of a town in Holland.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056370