First Lady Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt at a painting raffle from Jack Benny, radio and screen comedian in New York. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Hollywood movie stars look on the paintings. Mrs Roosevelt lends a helpful hand to Jewish refugees from Germany (fleeing persecution early in World War 2), buying the first chance painting. Jack Benny and Mrs Roosevelt talk while others look on.
A new lighter than air blimp, built at Goodyear plant for the U.S. Navy takes off for its debut in Akron, Ohio. The dirigible takes off from the field. Flight commanders in the cabin of dirigible. 'US Navy K-2' written on the side of dirigible. It glides over hanger in the sky.
The liberated Nazi concentration camp in Majdanek, Poland (also known as Maidanek) during World War 2. Surviving prisoners inside the barb wired fences of the concentration camp, near time of liberation by Soviet Russian Allied forces. Tattooed prisoner number on chest of a victim prisoner. Evidence of Nazi atrocities: Main chimney of crematorium. Ashes of human corpses that were burned at the camp. A group of seated German SS soldier prison guards, now POW, after capture by Soviet forces. Soviet Russian officials examine the clues from the concentration camp. Close up views of electrical sources and parts powering the barbed wire enclosures. Warning signboard on the fences. Guard towers and electrically charged barbed wire fencing. German guard pro-Nazi graffiti carved on a wooden fence post. Aerial view of large number of barracks in the camp at Lublin Poland, also known as KL Lublin. Clip is part of Nuremberg Trials prosecution exhibits 228, 229.
People rummage through dump and buildings of a Displaced Person's Camp at the city of Frankfurt in Germany, soon after the end of World War 2. A building, part of Displaced Person's Camp at Zeilheim. People rummage through dump at Bad Vibel. Tin cans in the dumped waste. Children's Center building and children outside it. Refuse in the dumped waste. Trucks empty loaded garbage near a lump of garbage. Men rummage through in garbage. A two way road. Signboards by the side of road. The drawing room's interior of a prosperous farmer, with table lamps and sofas. Plantation in the fields of the farmer. A girl in the farms.
Clip opens with very brief image of buildings at Mauthausen concentration camp during World War 2. Next, scene changes to Lambach, Austria, on the banks of the River Traun, on a large open field in which German prisoners of war (POW) are seen camping and cooking food over open fires. They are German soldiers captured in the Austrian Alps by U.S. Army infantry soldiers of the 80th Division, 3rd U.S. Army, at the time the unconditional surrender was signed. The weather is warm and many are lightly dressed. Some men are lined up behind a truck carrying a tank of fresh water. A section of the camp has been cleared as a football (Soccer) pitch and men appear to be trying to organize a game. Scene shifts to a far end of the encampment, bounded by many trees. Everyone at the camp seems occupied in adjusting their tents and other matters related to their shelters. More views of men at the football pitch. Closeup of a man with stove and cooking gear under an unusual shelter. Closeup of a man eating soup as a group of young soldiers stand behind him. Closeup of three very young German soldiers, two of who are wearing German uniform caps. Closeup of an older man smoking a pipe. Another young man wearing a German soldier's cap.
German radar antennas at a military base near the end of WW2 in Europe. Various large and small radars. Smoke rising in distance beyond partially wrecked buildings from allied bombing in a German city.
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