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The Czech revolt to liberate city from German occupation and Czech President Benes returns after 7 years of exile in Prague.
Czechoslovakians fight for freedom in Prague uprising near the end of World War II. The Czechoslovakians revolt to liberate the city of Prague from German occupation. Civilians burn Nazi German flags. Police capture German ammunition. Armed civilians throw hand grenades and fire guns on streets at German forces. Explosions arise during the battle. Dead bodies of rebel civilians on streets. Czech police and citizens inspect the surrendered Germans. Civilians and defenders happily greet Soviet Army tanks as they enter the city following retreat of Germans. Men and women collaborators are marched through city streets toward incarceration in concentration camps. President of Czechoslovakia Edvard Benes disembarks a train. The President returns to Prague after 7 years of exile. An officer salutes the President. A large crowd of civilians gathered to greet the President. The President waves at the gathering from the balcony of a building.
German civilian Matthias Gierens is hung until death for murdering a downed American flier in Germany in World War 2.
German civilian Matthias Gierens, a 37 year old railroad worker, is hanged in Rheinbach Germany for the August 15, 1944 murder of a downed American flyer, who was later identified as U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lieutenant Lester E. Reuss, from Forsythe, Montana. Reuss was the navigator on U.S. Army B-17 bomber #42-31183 which was downed by German aircraft after it attacked the Airdrome at Wiesbaden, Germany. Gierens and three other German civilian men, Peter Kohn, Peter Back, and Matthias Krein, were convicted on June 2, 1945 in Ahrweiler, Germany, for the murder of the American airman after his parachute landing near Priest, Germany. The trial was the first Allied trial in Germany of civilians charged with a war crime. Military police are seen escorting Gierens toward the gallows in a prison yard in Rheinbach. A German Catholic priest performs the rites. U.S military officer reads charges as Gierens is readied for execution (the officer is possibly Lt. Col J.V. Roddy, of San Francisco, who was in charge of the hanging). Trap door opens and Gierens is hung. The U.S. Army executioners were Master Sgt. John C. Woods, a former Texas State executioner, and Staff Sgt. Thomas Robinson, of Bronx, New York. Witnesses present included seven U.S. Lieutenant Colonels and one British officer, a number of Military Police, news correspondents, and photographers.
General De Gaulle tours city and snipers fire artillery on the crowded streets in Paris,France during World War II.
General De Gaulle visits Paris,France during World War II. Aerial view of the Arc De Triomphe. French General Charles De Gaulle places wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. De Gaulle leads on the procession and tours the city. Notre Dame De Cathedral. Large crowd of civilians gather at the street square. Snipers fire artillery on the crowded streets. Civilians escape and hide beneath vehicles. Buildings in the background. Wounded people are carried on litters to hospitals. Soldiers fire back at snipers. Police capture Germans. Angry civilians beat the Germans as the Police drive them away through streets.
Dramatization depicts: actors play and place a man in hole during picnic at a sea beach in the United States.
Paper print. Early motion picture from turn of 20th century. bathers gather at a sea beach for picnic in the United States. Dramatization depicts: actors playing at a sea beach. Men dig a hole and place a man in it and cover him with sand. A woman angrily pulls man from hole. A couple fully dressed sit on sand. Bathers sit with them and then knock them over. Man and woman retrieve a baby from hole in the sand.and man steals baby. Couple helps baby walk on sand. Many people act rowdy on the beach and policeman intervenes. Bathers push policeman down.
Dramatization: Boy gets job. Employer is killed and boy accused. Criminals apprehended and brought to court and justice
Paper print. Early motion picture made in the United States. Dramatization: Couple takes leave of elderly gentlemen in parlor. Woman enters carriage outside the house and man leaves. The woman returns to the elderly gentleman and introduces a boy who agrees to work for him as a bellboy. The woman watches as the boy fights with another on a street in bad neighborhood. Clothes hanging out in alley. The elderly man lies on floor as the bellboy and others gather around. One calls police. The bellboy is arrested and loses his job. He is home with his mother and criminals listen from next door. Police break in and arrest the criminals. Scene in courtroom: woman testifies against the real criminals.
Two boys and two girls present charges to Desk Lieutenant in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Two boys and two girls charged with vandalism in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Police officer bring in the two boys and two girls. A police lamp. Girls and boys present charges to Desk Lieutenant. Two girls and Desk Lieutenant. Girls and boys reply to Desk Lieutenant. Officer writes on a booking card.
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