Crowd gathers after the death of a boy as he was shot dead by the East German guards along Berlin Wall in Berlin, Germany. People gather on the street. Policemen guard the people. East German police establish a barricade from barbed wires to control the crowd. Soviet troops as a bus passes on the street. People throw stones at the bus. Ambulance patrol to rescue the wounded refugees. Buildings in the background. A guard stands on the street. A board on a building reads: 'U.S. Army Checkpoint Charlie'. Guards standing outside the building. A sign outside building reads: 'Kommandatura Berlin'. Cars parked outside a building. A man enters a car.
The Stateville Prison in Crest Hill, Illinois. A police vehicle drives up to the Stateville Prison building. The police van is followed by a car. A number of cars parked in front of the building. Stateville written in the garden with the building in the background.
Police destroy gang guns off Sandy Hook in New Jersey, United States. New York Police officials dump thousands of weapons taken from gangsters, into the ocean. The weapons being dumped in the ocean to ensure their removal from the reach of criminals.
Riots in Rome, Italy. A huge crowd of civilians on streets. Rioters with flags in hand. Italian police officers control the crowd. The rioters battle with police officials on the streets.
Execution of German spy Stephan Kortas in Toul, France during World War 2. A soldier's uniform near a tree. A box lies near the tree. U.S. Military Policemen (MPs) walk across the items. Military Policemen (MPs) bring German spy Stephan Kortas to the execution point. From Poland, Kortas was drafted in the German Army and sent behind American lines posing as a Polish slave laborer, where he was caught by U.S. Army forces. A clergyman offers prayers for Kortas. The face of the spy is covered using a cloth. The MPs tie the legs and hands of the spy. Firing squad fires at Stephan Kortas from a distance. Kortas' body leans forward and falls to the ground. The marks of gun shots on the chest of the German spy. MPs pick up the dead body, cover it with a white sheet and carry it on a stretcher.
In response to an uprising of Polish miners and sympathizers in Upper Silesia, German police are seen taking large numbers into custody, in Kattowitz (Katowice). One Polish-Silesian resident being arrested by a German policeman.
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