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German civilian Matthias Gierens is hung until death for murdering a downed American flier in Germany in World War 2.

German civilian Matthias Gierens, a 37 year old railroad worker, is hanged in Rheinbach Germany for the August 15, 1944 murder of a downed American flyer, who was later identified as U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lieutenant Lester E. Reuss, from Forsythe, Montana. Reuss was the navigator on U.S. Army B-17 bomber #42-31183 which was downed by German aircraft after it attacked the Airdrome at Wiesbaden, Germany. Gierens and three other German civilian men, Peter Kohn, Peter Back, and Matthias Krein, were convicted on June 2, 1945 in Ahrweiler, Germany, for the murder of the American airman after his parachute landing near Priest, Germany. The trial was the first Allied trial in Germany of civilians charged with a war crime. Military police are seen escorting Gierens toward the gallows in a prison yard in Rheinbach. A German Catholic priest performs the rites. U.S military officer reads charges as Gierens is readied for execution (the officer is possibly Lt. Col J.V. Roddy, of San Francisco, who was in charge of the hanging). Trap door opens and Gierens is hung. The U.S. Army executioners were Master Sgt. John C. Woods, a former Texas State executioner, and Staff Sgt. Thomas Robinson, of Bronx, New York. Witnesses present included seven U.S. Lieutenant Colonels and one British officer, a number of Military Police, news correspondents, and photographers.

Date: 1945, June 29
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072726
Berliner Dom, Altes Museum, Imperial Palace, Reichstag Building, University Of Berlin and Unter Den Linden in Berlin, Germany

Scenes of famous tourist destinations and architecture in Berlin, Germany. Views of Berliner Dom also known as the Berlin Cathedral (Am Lustgarten, 10178 Berlin, Germany), and the Altes Museum (Bodestraße 1-3, 10178 Berlin, Germany), also known as the Old Museum in Museumsinsel (Museum Island) Berlin, Germany. The Löwenkämpfer (English: The Lion Fighter) bronze equestrian statue by Albert Wolff in front of the Altes Museum. Double decker buses move in front of the Former Imperial Castle, also known as the Berlin Imperial Palace or City Palace Berlin (Stadtschloss Berliner, Schloßpl., 10178 Berlin, Germany). View of the Reichstag (Platz der Republik 1, 11011 Berlin, Germany). Trams pass by in front of the Brandenburg Gate (Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany). A crowd around the statue in front of the Humboldt University of Berlin (Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin, Germany). Police officers stand near cars on Unter Den Linden boulevard. Trams, vehicles and people on the streets of Berlin.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055454
British Wartime General Election gives control to the Labor party in 1945

Opening slate of this film reads" Churchill Defeated." It goes on to show Winston Churchill attending his last meeting with wartime allied leaders at Podsdam, Germany in July, 1945. He shakes hands with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. His replacement, Clement Attlee who is also there. View from above of Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin greeting the new British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, who is accompanied by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and U.S. President Harry Truman, accompanied by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. The wartime leaders gather around a large round table. Closeup of Marshal Stalin and Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov. Closeup of U.S. President Harry S. Truman at the conference table. View from above of the principals at the table. Film shifts to scenes of Major Attlee campaigning for votes. People in street listening to Ernest Bevin campaigning. Views of Winston Churchill being given a hearty farewell by a crowd, as he rides through on an open vehicle. Closeups of him he picks up a microphone to address the throng. Scene shifts to views of British voters casting their ballots. King George VI strolls with new Prime Minister Attlee and Winston Churchill. He poses with the new Prime Minister (Attlee) and Ernest Bevin on his right. At his left is Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden. Closeups of Clement Attlee.

Date: 1945, July 26
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072722
U.S. Army Air Forces Fair at Wright Field in October, 1945

Views of the U.S. Army Air Forces fair hosted at Wright Field, near Dayton, Ohio, in October, 1945.The highlights of the event were exhibits of captured German and Japanese aircraft, rockets, and equipment. A German V-2 Rocket Motor on display. Soldiers observe the rocket. A German Junkers Ju 388 Störtebeker multi-role aircraft on display. A German Messerschmitt ME-262 Schwalbe fighter on display. A German pilot's victories recorded on the side of a plane. Two soldiers take a look at a Japanese Kamikaze bomb. One of them gets into the bomb seat. American officers and soldiers view the exhibits. 'Alles Kaputt' written on the side of a German Junkers Ju-290 bomber (one of the candidate aircraft, with further development, in Germany's Amerika Bomber project for a long-range bomber capable of striking the United States). Soldiers walk under the plane. 'Transient Aircraft' written on the control tower building in the background. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020923
Fireworks in Red Square. Tehran, Iran, conference in 1943. Potsdam conference, 1945.

A crowd enjoys fireworks in Red Square, Moscow, Soviet Union, at night. Past events show Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom in Tehran, Iran for the Tehran Conference of 1943. U.S. President Harry S. Truman in Germany during the Potsdam Conference of 1945. The Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Soviet Union. Soviet people along a street in Moscow. Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, Vyacheslav Molotov with others applauding at the Bolshoi theater, in Moscow. Anti-soviet disorders. Street cars being overturned. (Hungary?).

Date: 1945
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075170
Four Power Allied Control Council meeting after defeat of Germany 1945

Allied Control Council meeting in Berlin-Schoneberg, attended by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, of United Kingdom; Marshal Georgy Zhukov, of Soviet Union; General Lucius D. Clay, of the United States, and General Jean se Lattre de Tassigny, of France. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052081