Japan ; Burma (Myanmar)
221074 05:53:41 - 06:02:39 1944 - 1945 China; B/W SD
The Stilwell Road [Reel 6 of 6]
Story of the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations (CBI) during WWII. Narrated by Ronald Reagan [?] 11May44 Start of offensive - Columns of Chinese troops cross Salween River w/ US Operations staff - through mountains. Siege of Japanese stronghold at Tengchung - fighter planes & B-24 Liberator bombers fly over - enemy? plane crashes into hillside in distance - heavy gun fired - Chinese soldier on field telephone - infantry advance through destroyed landscape - fleeing Japanese machine gunned. Allied troops climb over city walls - street fighting w/ flamethrowers. Chinese wounded carried on stretchers over ruined city walls - dead Japanese & few prisoners / PoWs. Troops march off to capture second stronghold of Lungling. US & Chinese flags flying. 05:56:37 B-29 USAAF bombers taking off & in flight over Mount Fujiyama & Tokyo [?] - bombs away. Japanese fighting back - US air bases at risk of capture so destroyed - burning ruins. 05:58:08 Fleeing Chinese refugees - good shots train station, mothers & children, people crowded into goods carriages. Animated map showing path of offensive through China towards Liuchow. USAAF supply planes flying the Hump. Road sign 80.0.N. To Ledo. Engineers racing to complete both sides of road to link up Ledo & Stilwell Roads - bridge construction w/ heavy machinery. 06:00:18 Aerial view of completed road through jungle. Jan45 [?] Brigadier Pick, Commander of Ledo Road construction, meets up with Lt. Gen Sutton, successor of Stilwell - dialogue scene [possibly re-staged later] - General Sutton, the Ledo Road is open, we have a convoy formed, Id like your permission to take it through to China. Vars shots convoy of jeeps, trucks & medical vehicles down Ledo-Burma Road [re-named Stilwell Road] - one truck painted w/ First Convoy - Ledo Road. 06:01:28 Convoy arrives in Kunming w/ aid for Chinese, streets lined w/ people waving. CUs British, American, Indian & Chinese soldiers. AVs over winding road through mountains. Russian Drive on Berlin
220608 06:21:52 - 06:24:46 1945 Poland b/w Sd
Russian tanks at speed along road. Marshals Zhukov and Rosokofskey confer. Artillery opens fire on City. Nazi snipers kill man. Sniper killed by Russian machine gun. Bodies of dead Germans in road. 06.22.57 Russian soldiers with liberated prisoners of war in Poznan. Implements of torture / atrocities including guillotine. Mass of bodies of murdered prisoners, killed by Germans just before Russians arrived to liberate concentration camp. Bodies in coffins - weeping women. 06.23.41 Fat Nazi commander of Poznan - German prisoners marched through town and attacked by local civilians. Russian soldiers stop fighting. 06.24.08 Ruins of Warsaw - Broken sign Adolf Hitler Platz. Destroyed trolley bus with sign in German and Polish For Germans Only Chopin home. Civilian inhabitants of Warsaw return to destroyed city. Polish flag flying.
War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg - Judgement & Sentencing, Case No.1, The Medical Trial 221152 LN 501-523 01:17:01 - 01:27:38 1947 SD B/W
20Aug47
Munich [No.] 619 High angle shot Hitlers personal physician Karl Brandt into dock, flanked by MPs, puts headset on & listens to sentencing: Karl Brandt, Military Tribunal One has found and adjudged you guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and membership in an organisation judged criminal by the International Military Tribunal...Military Tribunal One sentences you, Karl Brandt, to death by hanging, and may God have mercy on your soul Brandt removes headset & adjusts hair then led away. 01:18:19 Siegfried Handloser, Medical Inspector of German Army, into dock & sentenced to life imprisonment. 01:19:22 Oskar Schroeder, Lieutenant General of Medical Services, sentenced to life imprisonment. 01:20:14 Karl Genzken, Chief of Waffen-SS Medical Dept., sentenced to life imprisonment. 01:21:10 Karl Gebhardt, personal physician to Himmler, sentenced to death by hanging. 01:21:56 Rudolf Brandt, personal assistant to Himmler, sentenced to death by hanging. 01:22:50 Joachim Mrugowsky, Chief Hygienist of the Reich, sentenced to death by hanging. 01:23:42 Helmut Poppendick, SS Colonel, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. 01:24:33 Wolfram Sievers, SS Colonel & Director of the Institute for Military Scientific Research, sentenced to death by hanging. 01:25:28 Gerhard Rose, Brig. Gen. of Medical Services for Luftwaffe, sentenced to life imprisonment. 01:26:24 Viktor Brack, SS Colonel & Chief Admin. Officer in Chancellery, sentenced to death by hanging. 01:27:09 Hermann Brecker-Freyseng, Personal Admin. Officer to Himmler, into dock - reel ends abruptly before sentencing completed.
Norway, Japan, Germany b/w Sd Yesterdays big story - post WWII crime trials
220516 09:39:14 - 09:41:30 1945-1946 France,
Exterior Palace of Justice, Paris. Guards let man through. Marshall Henri Pétain enters courtroom for treason trial re collaboration with Nazis. LS full courtroom.
Former Premier Paul Reynaud testifies. Pétain listening. Pétain found guilty, condemned to death then sent into exile.
Norways Quisling sentenced to death for betraying his country.
Japans former premier Hideki Tojo and 25 other defendants tried for war crime atrocities. Tojo arrives. With others in dock.
Soldier in Himmlers bedroom with Himmlers corpse. CU Bullet with which he committed suicide. MCU Heinrich Himmler dead.
Nuremberg trials: courtroom. Rudolf Hess, Ribbentrop. Defendants pleading not guilty (sound). Typing transcripts. Noose. Unid person being hanged. Potsdam
220444 11:36:02 - 11:45:59 1945 Germany B/W Si
Flags in Berlin of USSR, England & USA. Various VIPs at airport saying farewell. Clement Atlee with army officer getting into C-54 (4 motor) plane. Take off. Truman walks out and shakes hands with soldiers. Boards plane. Honour guard putting US flag on pole & running it up. More shots Attlee and Truman saying goodbyes. British man & Truman talking; Truman waves from plane entrance. Potsdam conference round table from above as Molotov comes in others sit down. Shots Stalin and Truman at round table. 11:44:55 Montgomery; Churchill arrival in military uniform down steps of aircraft shakes hands with Monty - other military officers, nice shot Churchills female aide smiling excitedly. Top shot as Churchill inspects troops. Sailors at attention. Beria Visits Hitlers Bunker
221087 13:19:43 - 13:21:03 1945 Germany col SIL
[- Colour]
Beria & Molotov in Potsdam? - various shots touring WWII bomb damage. Could be Berlin.
13:20:35 Beria & Molotov walking through ruined garden of Reichschancellery, Berlin & into Hitlers bunker - good shot of entrance to bunker. Beria & Molotov out of bunker entrance & away in open top car. Brief shot refugees? along road. The Nazi Plan Reel 15
220750 13:39:28 - 13:50:33 SD B/W
Goering Launches first Aircraft Carrier - Graf Zeppelin - 8Dec38: Goering greeted at shipyard, Huge crowds: Goering makes speech. 13:40:40 Hitler predicts Annihilation of the Jewish Race in Europe if war occurs 30Jan39
Indoor meeting Hitler takes stand and makes speech - no close ups. 13:41:36 President Hacha of Czecho-Slovakia arrives in Berlin as Guest of Hitler 14Mar39
Night shots Hacha met at Railway station - inspects Guard of Honour - into car 13:42:05 Occupation of Remainder of Czecho- Slovakia - Newspaper headlines; German troops on motorcycles and bicycles through snow: German troops enter Prague in blizzard. Troops march. Hitler on Hradzin, greeted by german students and representative of the German ethnic groups - bandages round heads etc.
Day of the German Wehrmacht, Aircraft flyover - military parade in Prague, Wentzelssquare 13:44:17 Occupation of Memel 22Mar39 German troops welcomed - flowers - banners welcoming across streets - locals giving Nazi salute. Aircraft flyover. Hitler arrives by boat. Hitler through streets in open top car - cheering crowds. Hitler on balcony. 13:46:12 Reply to Roosevelts (FDR) plea that Germany avoid aggression 28Apr39 - Interior hall - Hitler making speech - reeling off long list of nations - murmurs of laughter from hall. Animated speech but not in CU: Conquest by Air
221068 15:39:11 - 15:45:30 1942 - 1945
romania; france; germany B/W SD
[Reel 2 of 3]
Montage film re US Army Air Force activity in WWII - mostly brief shots.
Allied officers round table confer prior to the Normandy invasion [brief]. Diagram of Romanias oil fields. VS B-24 bombers raid Romania's Ploesti oil fields - air to air - series of large explosions on ground. Map of Germany showing oil fields / factories. Bombers in formation over Ploesti - captured German footage showing attempts to control raging flames & labour battalions clearing debris; VS destroyed refinery. Luftwaffe officer talks to camera [not heard]. German fighters taking off 15:42:26 Gun-camera footage records dogfights and the strafing of grounded German planes. Good air to air shots of B-24 bombers in formation. 15:43:39 Allied troops landing on Normandy beaches; Gens. Arnold & Marshall confer with British officers; CU bombs away. German troops in the Ardennes Forest ? Brief shot of Allies at meeting. 15:44:32 German tank production. Bombs fall on German tank factories. Shows the ruins of a factory in Bomark.
Keywords: World War Two, WWII, WWll, WW2, Hitler
221074 05:53:41 - 06:02:39 1944 - 1945 China; B/W SD
The Stilwell Road [Reel 6 of 6]
Story of the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations (CBI) during WWII. Narrated by Ronald Reagan [?] 11May44 Start of offensive - Columns of Chinese troops cross Salween River w/ US Operations staff - through mountains. Siege of Japanese stronghold at Tengchung - fighter planes & B-24 Liberator bombers fly over - enemy? plane crashes into hillside in distance - heavy gun fired - Chinese soldier on field telephone - infantry advance through destroyed landscape - fleeing Japanese machine gunned. Allied troops climb over city walls - street fighting w/ flamethrowers. Chinese wounded carried on stretchers over ruined city walls - dead Japanese & few prisoners / PoWs. Troops march off to capture second stronghold of Lungling. US & Chinese flags flying. 05:56:37 B-29 USAAF bombers taking off & in flight over Mount Fujiyama & Tokyo [?] - bombs away. Japanese fighting back - US air bases at risk of capture so destroyed - burning ruins. 05:58:08 Fleeing Chinese refugees - good shots train station, mothers & children, people crowded into goods carriages. Animated map showing path of offensive through China towards Liuchow. USAAF supply planes flying the Hump. Road sign 80.0.N. To Ledo. Engineers racing to complete both sides of road to link up Ledo & Stilwell Roads - bridge construction w/ heavy machinery. 06:00:18 Aerial view of completed road through jungle. Jan45 [?] Brigadier Pick, Commander of Ledo Road construction, meets up with Lt. Gen Sutton, successor of Stilwell - dialogue scene [possibly re-staged later] - General Sutton, the Ledo Road is open, we have a convoy formed, Id like your permission to take it through to China. Vars shots convoy of jeeps, trucks & medical vehicles down Ledo-Burma Road [re-named Stilwell Road] - one truck painted w/ First Convoy - Ledo Road. 06:01:28 Convoy arrives in Kunming w/ aid for Chinese, streets lined w/ people waving. CUs British, American, Indian & Chinese soldiers. AVs over winding road through mountains. Russian Drive on Berlin
220608 06:21:52 - 06:24:46 1945 Poland b/w Sd
Russian tanks at speed along road. Marshals Zhukov and Rosokofskey confer. Artillery opens fire on City. Nazi snipers kill man. Sniper killed by Russian machine gun. Bodies of dead Germans in road. 06.22.57 Russian soldiers with liberated prisoners of war in Poznan. Implements of torture / atrocities including guillotine. Mass of bodies of murdered prisoners, killed by Germans just before Russians arrived to liberate concentration camp. Bodies in coffins - weeping women. 06.23.41 Fat Nazi commander of Poznan - German prisoners marched through town and attacked by local civilians. Russian soldiers stop fighting. 06.24.08 Ruins of Warsaw - Broken sign Adolf Hitler Platz. Destroyed trolley bus with sign in German and Polish For Germans Only Chopin home. Civilian inhabitants of Warsaw return to destroyed city. Polish flag flying.
War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg - Judgement & Sentencing, Case No.1, The Medical Trial 221152 LN 501-523 01:17:01 - 01:27:38 1947 SD B/W
20Aug47
Munich [No.] 619 High angle shot Hitlers personal physician Karl Brandt into dock, flanked by MPs, puts headset on & listens to sentencing: Karl Brandt, Military Tribunal One has found and adjudged you guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and membership in an organisation judged criminal by the International Military Tribunal...Military Tribunal One sentences you, Karl Brandt, to death by hanging, and may God have mercy on your soul Brandt removes headset & adjusts hair then led away. 01:18:19 Siegfried Handloser, Medical Inspector of German Army, into dock & sentenced to life imprisonment. 01:19:22 Oskar Schroeder, Lieutenant General of Medical Services, sentenced to life imprisonment. 01:20:14 Karl Genzken, Chief of Waffen-SS Medical Dept., sentenced to life imprisonment. 01:21:10 Karl Gebhardt, personal physician to Himmler, sentenced to death by hanging. 01:21:56 Rudolf Brandt, personal assistant to Himmler, sentenced to death by hanging. 01:22:50 Joachim Mrugowsky, Chief Hygienist of the Reich, sentenced to death by hanging. 01:23:42 Helmut Poppendick, SS Colonel, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. 01:24:33 Wolfram Sievers, SS Colonel & Director of the Institute for Military Scientific Research, sentenced to death by hanging. 01:25:28 Gerhard Rose, Brig. Gen. of Medical Services for Luftwaffe, sentenced to life imprisonment. 01:26:24 Viktor Brack, SS Colonel & Chief Admin. Officer in Chancellery, sentenced to death by hanging. 01:27:09 Hermann Brecker-Freyseng, Personal Admin. Officer to Himmler, into dock - reel ends abruptly before sentencing completed.
Norway, Japan, Germany b/w Sd Yesterdays big story - post WWII crime trials
220516 09:39:14 - 09:41:30 1945-1946 France,
Exterior Palace of Justice, Paris. Guards let man through. Marshall Henri Pétain enters courtroom for treason trial re collaboration with Nazis. LS full courtroom.
Former Premier Paul Reynaud testifies. Pétain listening. Pétain found guilty, condemned to death then sent into exile.
Norways Quisling sentenced to death for betraying his country.
Japans former premier Hideki Tojo and 25 other defendants tried for war crime atrocities. Tojo arrives. With others in dock.
Soldier in Himmlers bedroom with Himmlers corpse. CU Bullet with which he committed suicide. MCU Heinrich Himmler dead.
Nuremberg trials: courtroom. Rudolf Hess, Ribbentrop. Defendants pleading not guilty (sound). Typing transcripts. Noose. Unid person being hanged. Potsdam
220444 11:36:02 - 11:45:59 1945 Germany B/W Si
Flags in Berlin of USSR, England & USA. Various VIPs at airport saying farewell. Clement Atlee with army officer getting into C-54 (4 motor) plane. Take off. Truman walks out and shakes hands with soldiers. Boards plane. Honour guard putting US flag on pole & running it up. More shots Attlee and Truman saying goodbyes. British man & Truman talking; Truman waves from plane entrance. Potsdam conference round table from above as Molotov comes in others sit down. Shots Stalin and Truman at round table. 11:44:55 Montgomery; Churchill arrival in military uniform down steps of aircraft shakes hands with Monty - other military officers, nice shot Churchills female aide smiling excitedly. Top shot as Churchill inspects troops. Sailors at attention. Beria Visits Hitlers Bunker
221087 13:19:43 - 13:21:03 1945 Germany col SIL
[- Colour]
Beria & Molotov in Potsdam? - various shots touring WWII bomb damage. Could be Berlin.
13:20:35 Beria & Molotov walking through ruined garden of Reichschancellery, Berlin & into Hitlers bunker - good shot of entrance to bunker. Beria & Molotov out of bunker entrance & away in open top car. Brief shot refugees? along road. The Nazi Plan Reel 15
220750 13:39:28 - 13:50:33 SD B/W
Goering Launches first Aircraft Carrier - Graf Zeppelin - 8Dec38: Goering greeted at shipyard, Huge crowds: Goering makes speech. 13:40:40 Hitler predicts Annihilation of the Jewish Race in Europe if war occurs 30Jan39
Indoor meeting Hitler takes stand and makes speech - no close ups. 13:41:36 President Hacha of Czecho-Slovakia arrives in Berlin as Guest of Hitler 14Mar39
Night shots Hacha met at Railway station - inspects Guard of Honour - into car 13:42:05 Occupation of Remainder of Czecho- Slovakia - Newspaper headlines; German troops on motorcycles and bicycles through snow: German troops enter Prague in blizzard. Troops march. Hitler on Hradzin, greeted by german students and representative of the German ethnic groups - bandages round heads etc.
Day of the German Wehrmacht, Aircraft flyover - military parade in Prague, Wentzelssquare 13:44:17 Occupation of Memel 22Mar39 German troops welcomed - flowers - banners welcoming across streets - locals giving Nazi salute. Aircraft flyover. Hitler arrives by boat. Hitler through streets in open top car - cheering crowds. Hitler on balcony. 13:46:12 Reply to Roosevelts (FDR) plea that Germany avoid aggression 28Apr39 - Interior hall - Hitler making speech - reeling off long list of nations - murmurs of laughter from hall. Animated speech but not in CU: Conquest by Air
221068 15:39:11 - 15:45:30 1942 - 1945
romania; france; germany B/W SD
[Reel 2 of 3]
Montage film re US Army Air Force activity in WWII - mostly brief shots.
Allied officers round table confer prior to the Normandy invasion [brief]. Diagram of Romanias oil fields. VS B-24 bombers raid Romania's Ploesti oil fields - air to air - series of large explosions on ground. Map of Germany showing oil fields / factories. Bombers in formation over Ploesti - captured German footage showing attempts to control raging flames & labour battalions clearing debris; VS destroyed refinery. Luftwaffe officer talks to camera [not heard]. German fighters taking off 15:42:26 Gun-camera footage records dogfights and the strafing of grounded German planes. Good air to air shots of B-24 bombers in formation. 15:43:39 Allied troops landing on Normandy beaches; Gens. Arnold & Marshall confer with British officers; CU bombs away. German troops in the Ardennes Forest ? Brief shot of Allies at meeting. 15:44:32 German tank production. Bombs fall on German tank factories. Shows the ruins of a factory in Bomark.
Keywords: World War Two, WWII, WWll, WW2, Hitler