Various Polynesian people and everyday life in Hawaiian Islands before American involvement in World War 2 and the attack on Pearl Harbor. Women from dominant ethnic backgrounds in Hawaii introduce themselves, including women from Korea, Portugal / Portuguese, China, Phillipines / Filipino, Native Hawaiian, Caucasian / Anglo, Japanese. Narrator describes it as a melting pot. Polynesian children on a long staircase in a village. Group of Hawaiian school children walking to school with some girls wearing Japanese style clog sandals. Diverse crowd of citizens walking on sidewalks of a downtown area of Honolulu near stores and shops. Hawaiian police officer directs traffic. 1930's cars seen on streets. Children in scout uniforms including Girl Scout and Boy Scouts salute. Groups of Hawaiian children playing and relaxing, and seen at desks in school classroom. Graduation ceremony at a high school in Hawaii as graduate young men and women walk by on a stage. Colorful traditions and customs of various cultures in Hawaii are shown. People wearing leis. Women doing various dances including hula and other dancing styles. The Aloha Tower in Honolulu Harbor and scenes of various women from different backgrounds each saying Aloha.
War damage in Sicily, Italy after bombings done by USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) 86th Fighter Bomber Group airplanes during World War II. Damaged buildings in a Sicilian town. Two men of Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories (AMGOT) walk past abandoned buildings. An arm patch of one man reads 'Civil Police Permit Passage AMGOT'.
Nazi Storm troopers, aka Sturmabteilung (SA) carry torches as they march past a huge bonfire, during celebrations the night of Adolf Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany. Scene from earlier that evening, shows SA Sturm 33, headed by their Leader, Hans Eberhard Maikowski, and Berlin Police Sergeant, Josef Zauritz, as they march with flags and swastika banner, through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. (A slate appears alluding to the fatal shootings of Maikowski and Zauritz, soon afterwards, when they decided to march through Wall Strasse, a known Communist area, where a melee broke out.)
The National Socialist Factory Cell organizations (NSBO) gathered in the Berlin Lustgarten, for a large protest march through the formerly Marxist areas east of Berlin. Men carry banners for various worker groups, including some German Government workers from the Defense Ministry. Many carry signs showing affilitation with the NSBO. Uniformed Berlin policemen are seen in the crowd. At start of the next sequence, a slate states that the day before the election, the entire Berlin Sturmabteilung (SA) Stormtroopers marched by Hermann Goring, Prussian Minister of the Interior. They are seen marching past Goering, who reviews them from a balcony.
French civilians during the liberation of Paris, France in World War II. A French crowd enters a building. French civilians loot German trucks of food and pilfer luggage. French policemen control the crowd. Official cars arrive. French civilians climb on tanks. The civilians look on as German prisoners are marched along a street.
Large crowd assembled in Japanese student-organized protest at the British Embassy in Tokyo, Japan. They protest against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, following Britain's second test of a Hydrogen Bomb, at Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean. Groups involved include Japanese Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, and the student organization, Sengakuren. Protesters carry signs bearing image of British Prime Minister Anthony Eden, and images of Queen Elizabeth. Numerous Japanese police are seen maintaining order. British diplomatic staff are seen at the entrance to the British Embassy.
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