A Nazi concentration camp near Landsberg, Germany 10 days before the end of World War 2 in Europe. U.S. soldiers at the camp. Emaciated corpses of camp victims lying on the ground. Barbed wire fences and prison barracks at the camp. A U.S. soldier talks with liberated prisoners. (Note: A surviving prisoner of this camp, who was liberated at this time, adds that the front gate was on fire early in the morning as the U.S. Army entered the camp site.)
Jewish refugees arrive in Haifa, Palestine during World War II. Jewish refugees aboard a ship docked in Haifa. View from inside the ship, as they disembark. A wagon filled with baggage drives by the front of the ship. A group of young adults dance the Hora on the bridge of the ship. Jewish refugees walking across the pier, past British soldiers and officials, after disembarking from the ship.
A Communist party meeting held in Prague, Czechoslovakia after the parliamentary elections. Views in the lobby of the Communist Party headquarters shows people looking at photos of Vladimir Lenin and Czech personalities including Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Bedrich Smetana and others. A meeting of the Communist party after the elections. Members at long tables stand up and applaud. Party officials seated at a long table in the front beneath large hanging pictures of Stalin and Gottwald. Communist Interior minister Václav Nosek proposes Chairman of the meeting Klement Gottwald as their new Prime Minister. Closer view of the photos of Klement Gottwald and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin with two sentences written in Czech: 'With Gottwald we won' and 'With Gottwald we must achieve our plan'.
The Bodleian Library in Oxford, England. A young man sits at a stand holding a large bell and causes it to sound. A man, standing at a table, researching in a large book, looks back with annoyance. Interior of the library, showing a stain glass window. researcher removes a volume from a book shelf. Several researchers at work in a cubicle. Trees seen,outside the window. A researcher, or student, sitting at a table next to shelves of books. Another building visible through the window. A man and a woman working at a table next to book shelves, with many volumes in front of them. A decorative window glass.A woman, looks at, what appears to be, an ancient volume of hand lettered text, with elaborate decorations and illustrations, on its pages.
Protest against Nazi Germany held in New York City in the weeks after the Kristallnacht attacks on Jews in Germany. A sign reads "German Exposition Christmas Market Now Open." Anti-Nazi protesters march carrying picket signs along a sidewalk in front of the exposition of German goods. One of the signs reads "Boycott Nazi Goods." Another sign reads "German Exposition Christmas Market Dec 16-24". American and Nazi flags fly from the building.
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff exit the plane at Rheinman airport, Germany. Control tower at Rheinman airport. U.S. Army Air Forces C-54 Skymaster nicknamed 'Independence' taxis on airstrip. U.S. JCS (Joint Chiefs of Staff) get off the plane. JCS walk across airstrip. JCS descend the stairs of plane. U.S. Admiral Donfield, General Omar Bradley and General Hoyt Vandenberg descend the stairs and talk with other officers and civilians near the plane and walk away. JCS stand at attention before a color guard. Airport MPs (Military Police) at attention. Generals talk to each other and with the press. Crowd of army personnels in front of them. Chiefs get into a car. Motorcyclists escort the car.
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