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Prince Bernhard is welcomed and greeted by Haile Selassie in Ethiopia.
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, the husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, visits Ethiopia. Traffic on the streets and buildings in the foreground. The Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie welcomes Prince Bernhard inside the Guenete Leul Palace. Empress Menen Asfaw, wife of Haile Selassie, is also present at the arrival of Prince Bernhard. The Emperor and the Prince seated in chairs. Prince Bernhard and Selassie stand with an official. The emperor greets the Prince. Emperor Haile Selassie awards Prince Bernhard with the Knight Grand Cordon with Collar of the Order of the Queen of Sheba. The Prince and the Emperor seated around a table with other dignitaries and officials. A close up of both talking. A view of traffic and buildings.
Princesses Beatrix and Irene skiing along Tyrol mountains as a man takes picture in Austria.
Dutch royal princesses skiing during a holiday in Austria. Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands and her sister Princess Irene are wearing white ski jackets. The two princesses walk up to a mountain. A man guides Princess Irene as she skis. A man assists Princess Beatrix while skiing along the Tyrol mountains. Princess Beatrix and Princess Irene climb up the mountains with skis. The two sisters skiing together. A man takes a picture of the two princesses. Beatrix and Irene skiing. People on mountains skiing in the background.
Recovery and improved economic conditions during the beginning of the Marshall Plan in Europe.
A documentary 'The Years of Decision' reviews the beginning of the Marshall Plan in response to recovery needs of the European people following World War 2. Busy streets and sidewalks filled with pedestrians in London as people walk in the city. Double decker buses and other vehicles driving past on a road in the background. People in France walking on streets of city, sitting in cafes, and buying food, produce, textiles and other items from market vendors with stalls and carts. Men and women buy things from shops. Scene changes to the Netherlands, with many men riding bicycles arriving or departing work at Heineken Brewery in Amsterdam (Heineken Brouwerij on Stadhouderskade). The Dutch words “Stoom Bierbrouwerij” (Steam Brewery) are seen on the building. A Dutch man in a textile factory works at a weaving machine. Scene changes to a coal mine area in the United Kingdom. British coal miners sitting in a train headed into a mine. A worker at the Fiat factory in Turin, Italy measures a small steel part used in manufacturing cars. Cattle on a farm walk near barns. A French farmer in France driving a tractor.
People face drought, rations, closed factories and black marketeers during post-war period in Europe and UK.
A documentary depicts life of people in the post-war ( World War II) economic challenges and hard times in Europe and the United Kingdom. (Before Marshall Plan of 1948). Animated map of Western Europe. Ruins and debris of buildings in cities of Europe damaged during the war.Two women walk past rubble. The damaged buildings. People cross a damaged bridge. A man at work during the construction of a bridge. Men make boats. Smoke comes out from a factory. In the Netherlands, a man in a textile factory works with weaving machinery. Another man paints a machine part. Men at work in the factory. A man and a woman eat food. A French farmer plows a field with the help of two horses. Scene in Norway of boats in a harbor. Norwegian fishermen at a dock. A fisherman untangles a fishing net. People buy food from shops. They walk on a street. People wait in a line for bread ration because of drought of 1947. Loaves of bread on display in store window. A coal processing plant exterior. A small steam locomotive moves on tracks at the factory yard. Close up view of two British coal miners with black soot on faces and bodies as they dig out coal from a mine using a pick axe. Queue of British citizens walk in a line to get coal. A man distributes equal amounts of coal to the British men and women in the queue, who receive a coal ration loaded into a bag. A power plant. A man operates factory controls (controls made in Liverpool), reducing output to lower levels due to power rationing. Different machines at work. View of a large industrial cog wheel slowing to a stop, and a large compressor in a factory slows to a stop. A view of a city. People walk in a street. British men and women enter a food shop in England, with a sign at the doorway indicating that bread is being offered only by ration. A woman feeds hens in a yard. A farmer negotiates with another farmer to sell livestock, but he shakes his head to refuse the offer. People in a city purchase food and other goods in a black market. A woman buying food from a black market seller. She hands him a pile of cash bills in payment. Italian women picking olives beneath olive trees in grove in Italy. A man enters a food shop and speaks to a woman; the shelves in the store are almost empty. A railroad train freight car moves on tracks. A railway freight car factory in Belgium. Men at work in the factory. A man checks a line of completed rail car wheels in the factory. Freight cars lie unused in the factory yard as French customers cannot buy them since the company in Belgium will not accept French Francs in payment. An unemployed Italian man sitting on a wall collects cigarette butts. Weavers in Holland dig in a peet bog as that their weaving jobs are not available.
Kaiser Wilhelm II in exile in Holland
Kaiser Wilhelm at his villa (Huis Doorn, Langbroekerweg 10, 3941 MT Doorn, Netherlands) in Holland, where he resided in exile. He stands on a bridge and throws food to ducks, from a basket held by an assistant. One of his 5 dachshund dogs is at his feet. View of ducks swimming around retrieving food. Closeup of the Kaiser smoking a cigarette and nodding to his assistant as they empty the basket. The exiled Kaiser holding a cane with his withered hand, as he strolls with a visitor. Later he is seen in his garden smoking a cigarette, as an assistant rolls a wheelbarrow of split firewood to him. Using only his right hand, He throws chunks of wood from the wheelbarrow to a pile in a shed nearby. Men in the background are spitting more firewood. Next, the Kaiser is seen arm in arm strolling with his second wife, widowed Princess Henriette of Schönaich-Carolath, whom he married in 1922. Close-up of the couple as they pause momentarily for the camera.
The Dutch submarine O 19 stranded on Ladd Reef in the South China Sea, near the end of World War II
Low altitude aerial views from an aircraft circling the Dutch submarine, O 19, stranded on Ladd Reef, in the South China Sea, with bow raised high above water and stern submerged. Note: According to Klaas van der Veen,of the Netherlands, whose father was second in command on the O 19, the boat went aground while on the way to Subic Bay, Phillipines, on July 8, 1945 (July 7th East of the International Date Line). After three days trying to free the O 19 using full reverse power at high tide, blowing air, firing torpedoes, and jettisoning ballast, the crew was rescued by the U.S. submarine, USS Cod, which torpedoed the O 19, after all critical equipment had been removed.
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