Streets scenes in Vannes, France. A street sign reads Vannes. Buildings and trees seen in the background. Streets show wreckage in the town. A military convoy moves through the town. The main street. Civilians walk through the streets. French women talk to GIs in jeeps. Streets filled with people. The people wave in the streets. Officers sit at a table with maps. A medical unit lined up. A man poses holding a flower. People sit in an outdoor cafe. An MP (Military Police) at the MP headquarter.
Our Lady of the Angels Parochial School in Chicago, Illinois. Footage shortly after the Catholic parochial school building suffered a basement fire that quickly spread upward. Clouds of smoke rising. Firemen and policemen removing wounded and dead on stretchers. A priest blesses bodies as they are brought out of the building. Large crowd gathered at a nearby hospital. A man weeps and another consoles. Debris seen in front of the demolished and burned school building.
Street fighting between U.S. soldiers and prisoners in Koblenz, Germany during World War II. The soldiers walk on the streets. Damaged buildings on either side of the streets. Two soldiers standing in a rubble filled street fire rifles. A patrol enters a damaged police headquarter building. The soldiers fire rifles through a window.
Police men and fire workers mend old toys for poor and needy children of New York on the occasion of Christmas. Firemen mend toys and make new ones at a workshop. A model of fireman climbs a long ladder. Other toys manufactured and mended by the workers. (World War II period).
Civilian Policemen paste Military Government notices on a wall in Cologne, Germany after World War II. Announcements about the dissolution of Nazi party and related message to all German civilians from the Allied Area Commander. A crowd gathers to read the notices.
Thousands of refugees cross the borders and flee Eastern Germany to Berlin in West Germany. A registration center in West Germany with long lines of refugees at registration center. The refugees checked for disposition for West Germany. Refugees kept at a refugee camp in an exhibition center. Men, women and children during their daily activities at the refugee camp. West German police officers supply milk and ration to the refugees. Women feed their children at the refugee camp.
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