Second Inauguration of President Richard Milhous Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew at the U.S. Capitol, Washington DC. Senator Cook serves as Master of Ceremonies from the speaker's podium. Ms. Ethel Ennis sings the Star Spangled Banner as the large crowd gathered listens to it. The building of the U.S. Capitol and national flag on it. Nixon congratulates Ennis. Whole assembly standing for the national anthem. Nixon and Agnew with their wives pose for a photgraph.
Second Inauguration of President Richard Milhous Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew at the U.S. Capitol, Washington DC. Nixon and Agnew with their walk out of the swearing in ceremony. The large crowd gathered to witness the event. Distinguished guests and dignitaries walk out from the ceremony place. News anchors sitting in their studio in front of the U.S. Capitol speak about the ceremony.
Returning Heroes Parade on June 4, 1945, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Generals Carl Spaatz and Omar Bradley sit on either side of Pennsylvania Governor Edward Martin, in an open jeep. Spectators stand at road sides. Large number of school children waving American flags. A policeman on a motorbike with the American flag escorts the motorcade. . Spaatz and Bradley pose with Governor Martin and Philadelphia Mayor, Bernard Samuels, for photographs. The Generals and the officials march on a street. The Generals stand, with Governor Martin, in an open jeep. People standing on railroad platform.
Near the end of World War II, three freed inmates at a German concentration camp in Linz Austria (camp #3) discuss their treatment while at the camp. They speak in English but with varying accents including French. They speak in an open yard of the camp, with barracks in the background. The former inmates talk about lethal injections, cold baths, whippings, hangings, and extermination camps. They also talk about the joy when the camp was liberated by the Americans, which was preceded by the Americans bombing the Nazi forces in the area. They mention that the bombing cut off the water to the camp so the SS forces could no longer subject inmates to the cold baths. They discuss hangings of three prisoners from a scaffold in the yard behind them, and how all the camp inmates were assembled and forced to look at the hung inmates. One of the freed inmates talking is named Alex. They discuss how the jews in the camp had been rounded up and locked in a room with no food. They were in the room two days before being saved by the Americans. They also talk about the camp at Mauthausen where prisoners were subjected to hard labor, torture with heavy rocks, and executed by the SS after 5 days. Also they speak of inmates put in chains and dogs used at Mauthausen.
Hungarian Lieutenant General Vitéz Kassai Farkas László accompanied by his staff, talks to an officer of the U.S. Army in Linz, Austria towards the end of World War II. An American officer orders his sergeant (interpreter) to ask the Hungarian General for his correct name and rank. The sergeant translates the officer's question into Hungarian . He answers with his name, Vitéz Kassai Farkas László, and rank: Lieutenant General. The officer asks him more questions about his men and about the Nazi Germans. The sergeant translates the questions and their responses for both men. The General smokes a cigarette. The sergeant also smokes a cigarette. The officer states that the American Army will not take the General's men prisoner, and will help them to return back to their country. The General stands on the bonnet of a jeep for a thanks giving speech. He thanks the U.S. Army for their humane treatment. His men also join him and cheer the news from their General about the Americans' statement.
A court trial in session. Fascist Pietro Caruso of Italy in court. Norwegian Army officer Vidkun Quisling in court. General Henri-Philippe Petain of France. French politician Pierre Laval in court speaking forcefully. Prosecutors gesturing. Nazi Hermann Goering. Nazi generals being arrested at end of World War II including Field Marshal von Rundstedt. Germany's Kaiser Wilhlem II and General Staff during World War I. Henry Lloyd George of Britain, after World War I. Kaiser Wilhelm II, residing in Holland, after World War I. He smoke a cigarette and throws wood into a pile using his right hand. A post-war aerial view of bomb-damaged Nuremberg, Germany. The court house of Nuremberg. U.S. chief prosecutor Robert Houghwout Jackson on walk outside the Nuremberg courthouse. Enactment of British Courtroom scene. View from above of Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. View of a Soviet court in session.
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