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Prelude To War: Reel-4
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keywords: wwii, dam construction, generating electricity, book burning in germany, kids on playground, hitler youth
Synopsis: American workers building dams and bring electricity to millions, books burned in Germany, American kids on playground, young boys in Germany, Italy and Japan doing military training...(read more)
- Date: 1942
- Duration: 00:08:40
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States, Germany, Italy, Japan
Prelude To War: Reel-4
Americans were put to work building dams and bringing electricity to millions. Shows a large hydro-electric dam, electrical transmission lines and towers. Shows books being burned in Germany. Young boys singing in a church choir in America. Kids on playground gym set, seesaw, sliding board, swing, drawing pictures, skating, and a boy pumping up bicycle tire. Shows young boys in Germany, Japan, and Italy doing military activities.
German, Italian, and Japanese military parades all designed to tell their people they would rule the world and the Pacific is ours. Map illustrates the countries Mussolini wanted to be under Fascist control, countries to be enslaved by the Japanese as set down in The Tanaka Memorial, and countries Hitler wanted under his control.
