A view of damage caused by German air raid in city of Alexandria, Egypt during World War 2. Wrecked buildings in view. Rubble on the streets. People stand on the streets. Native refugees sit in groups. People move to other parts of the city with their families. They carry their belongings with them. Several men carry their belongings on carts.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated in an aircraft in flight over the Atlantic Ocean during World War 2. He takes the controls of the flying boat, with a cigar in his mouth. Men seated in the cockpit. A huge crowd gathered at a British railway station as Prime Minister Churchill arrives back in England, United Kingdom. Crowd cheers. Prime Minister Churchill sits in a car and leaves.
A view of the badly damaged freighter USS Absaroka at Pacific Coast in Los Angeles. The ship damaged by a Japanese submarine in World War 2. Men stand on the freighter. A man carries a banner. The banner reads "A slip of a lip may sink a ship" urging confidentiality during the war The freighter undergoes repairs. Officers inspect the work.
A huge crowd of 66,000 seated in the spectator area of a stadium in Wembley, England, during World War 2. The teenage King Peter II of Yugoslavia is shown standing in the spectator viewing area for the soccer (football) match played between teams of England and Scotland. Mrs. Winston Churchill arrives. Clementine Churchill shakes hands with the players of both teams. The crowd cheers. Views of the match underway. Mrs. Churchill is seen shaking hands with dignitaries and departing. Two goals are shown being scored. Another scene shows dignitaries including the Yugoslavian King Peter II again in the stands. England defeats Scotland by three to zero.
Propaganda museum of Nazi ideology in Germany, early in World War 2. A German sign on the National Trade building (Landesgewerbeamt) advertising the "Eternal People" exhibit. Close-up views of various exhibits in the museum. Some track German history, others track the German rulers, Aryan race, and ethnicity over time. A man observes a map in the museum. Groups of people visit the museum, including a group of school girls. Nazi ideology and German history explained by means of charts, pictures, models and exhibits. Some exhibits extol ideal German workers and how labor and national production leads to the power and health of the individual and the country. An anti-Jewish exhibit discusses Nazi German anti-Jew population policies and blood purity laws and emphasizes eugenics (from the Nuremberg Laws; seeds of the holocaust and Jewish persecution), and depicts a Jewish man beside a road intersection with one direction pointing to Germany and the other to Palestine. Children look with curiosity at the exhibits. Several paintings on the wall. Exhibit of movement of people from farms to cities and Nazi ideology that earlier Germans were consumers and not producers is demonstrated.
Scenic view of Paris, France in spring. Pedestrians on Avenue Foch. Arc de Triomphe (Pl. Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France) in the background. Buildings on the side of the streets. Trench diggers eat lunch. (Trenches were being dug in various parts of the city for civil defense and bomb shelter purposes, with World War 2 looming). The trench diggers sit on the roadside. A sign reads 'Marie Louise'. A two-wheeled cart and rubble lay on the side of the road. Bicycles parked in front of the shops. Cafe du Coliseon at Champs Élysées. Chairs arranged in the cafe. View of traffic at 'Rue de Marignan' and Champs Élysées.
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