Allied Military Government ( AGM ) activities in Germany after World War II. Training film for U.S. Army soldiers occupying Germany after the war. A flashback shows a Hitler Youth parade. People gathered in large numbers as they salute in Nazi style. Contrast with a peaceful German people is shown: German men gathered at a bar or pub drinking as they sit around a table. A man and woman in traditional German dress dance. Men work in a farm. Two girl children eat cherries from a basket. Contrasting again: Scenes show young German boys during World War 2 climbing atop an artillery piece and raising its barrel as German soldiers look on. A teacher in a school classroom stands beside the Nazi flag and demonstrates Nazi salute. Boys in the Hitler Youth beat drums and march in a parade. An Allied military police officer questions a German man at a door. The man shuts the door. A sign on the door reads ' Off limits. Occupied by civilians '.
United States High Commissioner for Germany John J. McCloy arrives in Germany. John J. McCloy being greeted by Robert Murphy and General Clarence R. Huebner as photographers take pictures. A motorcade moves past Military Police honor guards. McCloy sits next to General Huebner during a press conference. He speaks to the press as correspondents take notes.
View of the Main gate and guard posts of Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, on Eglin Boulevard (State route 397). Traffic moving in and out unimpeded (official vehicles and those with decals). Air policeman steps to center of entranceway holding hands up to stop a vehicle. After checking occupants, he waves them through. The traffic light at the guard post is orange. Numerous vehicles of various types enter and the MP waves them through, and salutes those containing officers. A large sign, on approach to the main gate, identifies the Air Force Systems Command and Air Proving Ground Center as organizations on the base
Funeral ceremonies of the former United States President Calvin Coolidge in Northampton, Massachusetts. President Herbert Hoover and his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, walking rapidly from a railroad train, accompanied by several officials and military officers who escort them to a waiting automobile. Police controlling the small crowd gathered on local residential sidewalks. The President's car is next seen wending its way through a huge crush of spectators in downtown Northampton, Massachusetts. Several views of the crowds. People massed at the front of the Victorian-era Edwards Congregational Church. The church entrance is adorned with black draping. Official visitors enter the church, with some difficulty due to the crowds. View shifts to inside the church, where the former President's bier sits flanked by a military honor guard of two soldiers. Garlands of flowers cover the casket. Scene shifts, again, to the huge crowds outside, and to pallbearers carrying the casket of former President Coolidge through the crowd, followed by President and Mrs. Hoover and their party. The President and First Lady enter their car. A sign on a pole near their car reads: "Elm St." and points toward Pittsfield. Another reads: "Main St." and points toward Greenfield. The President's car drives away through the crowd. Other officials also leave the church and proceed towards their cars. A stalled motorcade is seen in the center of the city.
Survey of potential site for the Democratic National Convention of 1936. People along the beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey. A building with American flag hoisted on it. Democrats look at the building as they consider it the site for the Democratic Convention of 1936. Two policemen hold a scroll in front of the men and they look at the picture on the scroll. Mayor Harry Bacharach and others discuss about the site for the Convention. (The convention was ultimately held in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, in 1936)
Protestors carry banners as they rally and demonstrate against the German occupation of Austria (Anschluss) shortly before the outbreak of World War 2. Signs seen include, "Help Democratic Spain," "Stop Fascism," and prophetic sign "Hitler Murders Catholics and Jews." An effigy of Adolf Hitler with a large Nazi swastika is carried by protestors. Police arrive on horseback to control the crowd. Various neon lights of Times Square in background.
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