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Period before U.S. formal entry into World War II. German submarines torpedo American ships and Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

Preface to U.S. in World War 2. German U-boat on surface. Crew climbing down into submarine and at duty stations while submerged. Torpedo trails bubbles underwater. Ship hit and explodes. Newspapers report torpedoing of American ships: SS Robin Moor, SS Lehigh, SS Sessa, SS Steelfarer, and SS Montana, by German U-boats. Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson calls on U.S. Navy to secure sea lanes. Wendell Wilkie agrees. U.S. Congress repeals Neutrality Act, November 17, 1941. Deck guns being placed on U.S. Merchantmen. Japanese warships docked and troops entering Indochina, as local people watch.Japanese troops by Dong Dang, near Chinese border. Situation described by animated illustrations.Japanese Special Envoy, Saburo Kurusu, is dispatched to Washington. Pan American Boeing 314 flying boat taking off. Japanese Naval Task Force of warships underway. Kurusu arriving in San Francisco, on November 14, 1941. He steps from the aircraft and makes statement to reporters. Japanese Ambassador, Kichisaburo Nomura, and Special Envoy Kurusu escorted into the White House by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, on November 17, 1941. Japanese troops in China bombarding Chinese city with artillery. November 26, 1941, View of Executive Office Building with statue of Victory atop U.S. Army First Division Monument. Secretary Hull announcing proposal to Japan.The Japanese representatives leaving the White House. Japanese aircraft carriers steaming toward Pearl Harbor. Japanese flight crews getting briefed on December 7,1941. Nakajima B5N (Kate) torpedo bombers taking off and in formation. Secretary Hull at his desk. The aloha tower and aerial view of Honolulu. Sailors at outdoor Sunday service, and relaxing at Pearl Harbor. Vehicle entering Hickam Field. Japanese airplanes bombing Pearl Harbor. Explosions on U.S. warships. USS Arizona (BB-39) suffers direct hit and explosion, as filmed from the deck of U.S. Navy Hospital Ship, USS Solace (AH-5). Shots of pilots and point of view from pilots inside Japanese bomber and attack aircraft, through a mix of dramatized segments from Japanese propaganda films about the Pearl Harbor attack, and real footage from the Pearl Harbor attack. View from Japanese planes bombing and strafing Ford Island. U.S. sailors firing antiaircraft and machine guns down Japanese planes. Secretary Hull describes memorandum from Japanese.

Date: 1941
Duration: 7 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046116
Post world War I scenes of Germany during the Weimar Republic period

Film starts showing Chief of Staff Paul Von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff surrounded by German military officers. German diplomats in formal attire including top hats standing outside a building. The German tricolor flag is raised over a building. Glimpse of the German Bundestag meeting in the Reichstag building. Political leaders seated around a table, include Gustav Noske and Philipp Scheidemann in the forefront. More politicians of the era seated at a table. Members of the German Communist Party (KPD – Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands) march slowly along a street carrying flags. Weimar Republic leaders dressed formally with top hats, stand together at an outdoor event. Gustav Noske and Philipp Scheidemann are in the center of the group. More political leaders gathered around a table. A professor speaking in a classroom with blackboard behind him and globe of world nearby. View from front of classroom showing it filled with attentive young men students. A gathering of Prussian soldiers in uniform including Pickelhaube helmets. They walk together. View of the Quadriga statue atop the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Well dressed men walking in an alley way between two buildings. Closeup of men gathered to read the latest news posted on a bulletin board. An animated map showing German, France, Belgium, and Holland. A line of demarcation is drawn between Belgium and France. Berlin citizens cheer German soldiers on parade past the monument to king Frederick the Great at the east end of Unter den Linden. Germans in 18th Century military uniforms slow step in a parade watched by spectators also dressed in civilian clothing of the early period. More views of the German soldiers parading on Unter den Linden. Businessmen sit together and converse. They read newspapers.

Date: 1919
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039553
Film juxtaposing German defeat in World War 1, with its defeat in World War II, and comparative postwar impacts.

Film begins stressing the historic aggressive military traditions of Germany. A brief view of thousands of Adolf Hitler's Nazi troopers assembled in dramatic formation at the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg, Germany. The Nazi eagle, with swastika, atop the Zeppelintribüne grandstand, being blown up by Allied soldiers at end of World War 2. Germans celebrating the armistice ending World War One. German soldiers captured, in unconditional surrender, ending World War Two. Huge open field filled with defeated German soldiers in the second world war. German armies parading through Berlin at the end of World War One. American troops occupying the entire country of Germany after the second world war. A Nazi eagle being destroyed on a German government building at end of the second world war. Old photograph of the German general staff, led by Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, that was still intact, after World War I. In contrast, after World War 2, the entire Nazi military was held and subject to trials at Nuremberg. Großadmiral Erich Raeder seen being taken in custody. Closeup of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel. German industry unimpaired by World War I, contrasted with utter destruction in the second world war. American officer coordinating resumed operation of of a postwar plant. View of German diplomats remaining in office after WWI. Proclamation barring Nazi party members from all offices after WWII. German Kaiser Wilhelm II in peaceful exile in Holland after the first world war. A Nazi officer war criminal, is taken in custody by American Military Policemen, and executed by a firing squad. World War 1 did not affect German schools and curriculums. After World War 2 all Nazi doctrines were destroyed. New text books and curriculums were prepared by the Allies for German use. Map shows small area of post World War 1 occupation, in contrast the the entire Germany after WWII. Weimar Republic government, post WWI is contrasted with post World War 2 government by the Allied military powers. British Marshal Bernard Montgomery, American General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Soviet Marshal Zhukov, and French General Charles de Gaulle, are shown. Views of American soldiers interacting with German citizens during their occupation of Germany. Images of Germans: Frederick the Great, Otto von Bismarck, and Kaiser Wilhelm. Views of German farmer sowing seed, postman delivering mail, policemen escorting children. Normal activities resumed in Germany, in areas of culture such as orchestral concerts, etc.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035996
Battle of Crete May 1941: German Junkers Ju 52 drop supplies and landing troops on Maleme Airfield

German airborne campaign against Crete in May 1941. German soldiers scan mountainous terrain through binoculars. German Junkers JU-52 transport aircraft in flight. Paratroopers descend. Supplies and equipment dropped from an aircraft. German soldiers open boxes. Junkers JU-52 parked on ground at Maleme airfield with soldiers in foreground. A German officer speaks to soldiers. Wounded German soldiers loaded aboard Junkers JU-52. (World War II period).

Date: 1941, May 20
Duration: 4 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675043854
President Franklin D Roosevelt delivers fireside speech about the threat of war in Europe becoming a World War

President Franklin D Roosevelt delivers a fireside speech from inside the White House in Washington DC, United States. During the speech he expresses concern over the national emergency and the need to defend the freedom of American republics. He expresses concern over the European War turning into a World War (World War II) and the increasing threat to countries in the American hemisphere. He condemns Adolf Hitler's policies and stresses upon the need to check Nazi German expansion to the west. He says that the only way to stop Adolf Hitler is to prevent him from gaining control of the seas. Toward this end he stresses the need to speed up the ship building program.

Date: 1941, May 27
Duration: 8 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048966
President Franklin D Roosevelt declares National Emergency during a speech in White House, Washington DC, United States (WW2)

President Franklin D Roosevelt during his speech at White House in Washington DC, United States declares America's decision to actively resist Adolf Hitler's expansion and to provide Britain full assistance to check Nazi German expansion. Excerpts from his "We choose human freedom" radio address as America nears direct involvement in World War 2. Roosevelt refuses to accept Adolf Hitler dominated world and promises to use armed forces to repel any attack on American republics. He upholds the freedom of all kind as their objective. President Roosevelt declares National Emergency and emphasizes on the need to strengthen their defense and asks all the Americans to cooperate towards the cause. Audiences clap in appreciation after the speech ends.

Date: 1941, May 27
Duration: 8 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048969