Rocket test site construction area in Peenemunde and Kummersdorf Germany during World War 2. Clip begins at Peenemunde and then continues at Kummersdorf at 45 seconds into the clip. Buildings under construction with various signs in German shown. Men enter a completed building. Construction materials, including pipes and bricks, are seen on the ground. Some signs on the building being entered (translated to English): "Police Auxilliary Registration Office"; "barber shop"; "Newspapers, magazines, stationery"
President Harry S.Truman is flanked by Brigadier General John Howell Collier, Commander, 2nd Armored Division, and a Major General to his left, and Brigadier General Harry H. Vaughan (in sun glasses) and other military officers and Secret Service agents to his right, as they salute the colors during a visit to the 2nd Armored Division while enroute to Berlin and the Potsdam Conference at end of World War 2. The President steps up onto a mobile reviewing platform, followed by General Collier. Scene shifts to a line of 2nd Armored Division M10 Tank Destroyers with their crews saluting as the President's reviewing vehicle passes. The President with Secretary of State,James F. Byrnes, and Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, riding in an open car toward Berlin on an autobahn highway.They are followed by several vehicles carrying military Police and a jeep filled with members of the press.
Berlin, Germany. Views of automobile traffic in street, woman wraps fish and sells to other woman, men waking in busy market streets, two men with wooden beer barrels loaded on a horse cart pass by the street. A man working on beer barrels in a manufacturing unit. Glass beer bottles pass through filling machines. A nurse plays with children in a garden. Tall buildings and complexes with glass windows, tram passes over the railroad bridge while small boats pass underneath. Streetcars, trucks, cars on a busy street. View of a police officer directing traffic. Brief moments of audio from the scenes accompany a few of the images.
Dutch war court in the Hague, Netherlands in 1948. Hanns Albin Rauter, Nazi police leader on trial for his crimes in German occupied Netherlands during World War II. Dignitaries and people in courtroom stand up as the judges arrive and take their seats. Session of trial begins. Views of prosecution desk and tribunal seen in turns. Hans Albin Rauter is being questioned by judges. 1942, 1943, or 1944 flashback scenes of Jewish, Dutch civilians being rounded up and deported on railroad trains to forced labor camps and concentration camps, while in background audio the prosecutor reads the charges. The round up footage first shows Jewish families with women and children being directed onto trains at a train station. A subsequent shot shows Jews exiting cramped railroad train cars and being lined up under Nazi guard at concentration camp. Documents about crimes committed by the accused are shown. Another man enters the courtroom, takes the oath and is questioned by the tribunal. The man is a supervisor of slave labor prisoners working for the Germans, and at the time of the trial was detained at a Rotterdam Penitentiary.
Trial of World War 2 Nazi war criminal Hans Albin Rauter in the Hague,Netherlands. Various witnesses are called on. Nazi German police leader is being questioned by judges and the man responds to them standing in the center, in front of the tribunal. Views of prosecution desk and tribunal seen in turns.
Dearborn,Michigan. Men from United Auto Workers(UAW)Organization standing with newspapers in hands at the Ford River Rouge plant. Several men reading papers while a policeman leads a man through the crowd towards the paddy wagon. Two women wearing UAW caps holding newspapers in hands and distributing. Several men standing behind a signboard which reads 'Congested Area,Hawking,Selling,Distributing Prohibited'. A row of vehicle in background. Men standing in line, distributing newspapers and few officers pass by them. View of buses parked in plant yard and newspapers scattered on ground.
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