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March of Time: refugees
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003183
- English
- 1938
- Updated 1 year ago
March of Time. 12:08:25 "Today in Europe, fleeing Nazi Germany into the border towns of Holland, Belgium, France, and Switzerland, is a new kind of refugee. Within the past five years out of Germany have come 200,000 thousands of these refugees fleeing the racial, religious and political persecution of Hitler's Nazi regime...evidence of increasing. Since that day in 1933....persecution upon Jews it has fallen hardest..." 12:09:50 Uses staged scene of Nazis emptying drawers of banned sheet music and tossing it to the floor. 12:10:29 "Because today in Germany every citizen must think only as ...
Promoting need for war crimes trials; bookburning
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003184
- English
- 1946
- Updated 1 year ago
Film promoting the need for war crimes trials in Nuremberg. Narration explains the various trials established to prosecute war criminals. Opening shot, statue of Thomas Jefferson in Jefferson Memorial, Washington DC. Ext CUs, Adolf Hitler addressing German people at Nuremberg rally (translated into English). CU, concentration camp victims; weeping relatives/civilians. Piles of corpses, atrocities. CU, documents. US soldiers shot in back, victims of Nazi persecution. Wagons loaded with corpses moving through streets. Marching with swastikas. 12:10:50 Book burning (all familiar images, good d...
Hitler; bookburning
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003185
- English
- 1933-1938
- Updated 1 year ago
WS, huge crowd, Hitler with Goering and other elite. Hitler giving Nazi salute, swastikas, Hitler in uniform, crowd, SA, burning books. "We thought he was funny that Nazi paper-hanger...and that Nazi salute, we thought that was funny too." CU, Hitler watches bookburning. Britain's Chamberlain and France's Daladier deplane airplane. "You saw the burning of the books, the non-Aryan books, remember? You thought that such hysteria wouldn't spread, that Chamberlain and Daladier would contain such poison inside Germany." MLS, defenses of France's Maginot Line. WS, Nazi rally at Nuremberg. VS, cro...
British counter-propaganda short
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003187
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Cartoon title: Official Films presents... "Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk assisted by the Gestapo Hep-Cats." Produced by Leslie Winik. Counter-propaganda film made to mock the Nazis by reversing and repeating newsreel shots of Adolf Hitler saluting and his troops goose-stepping from "Triumph of the Will" to create the illusion that Hitler and his gang were dancing to the popular British tune of the day, The Lambeth Walk. Uses reverse, stop motion, and jump cuts. Footage reproduced in rhythmic sequnces by an optical printer. Adds appropriate slide whistle and Bronx cheer sound effects.
Book burning
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003188
- English
- 1933
- Updated 1 year ago
Paramount News Issue 84. University students collect and burn "un-German" books. Various INT CUs as black-listed works are gathered. CU, books to be destroyed. 01:02:08 Night scenes showing torchlight procession and books being thrown into bonfire (familiar scenes). Various shots. At night, crowd gathered outside building. Lights directed at building, parade, crowd heiling.
German POWs
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003189
- English
- 1936
- Updated 1 year ago
Captured German POWs are marched in a column by American soldiers, who smile into the camera. Motorcycles drive past the column of prisoners. The camera pans across POWS, some of whom are wounded. POWs sit in a field. They stand in rows and are counted. POWs shown removing dead/wounded Allied soldiers from a field. A crowded shot of POWs shown lying or sitting switches to much smaller groups of three or four, who look at the camera. Wounded, including a man with a large bandage over his eye. POWs receiving medical treatment. Supplies being unloaded from a truck. Prisoners behind barbed wire...
Signing of Versailles Treaty
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003190
- English
- 1936
- Updated 1 year ago
Views of the Palace of Versailles and the gardens. The camera pans left to right across the exterior of the palace, showing the crowds lined up outside. More exterior shots - the fountain, crowds cheering, waving flags, soldiers marching in formation. One car after another drives through a large archway - the delegates arriving. Delegates and their wives embark from cars and are greeted and escorted inside: French Foreign Minister Stephen Pichon, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, American Secretary of State Robert Lansing, General Tasker Howard Bliss, Herbert Hoover, General Michel Maunour...
Festive scene in Berlin nightclub ("Casanova")
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003191
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Title on screen: "Festive Season in a Berlin Nightclub - The "Casanova" attracts a bright clientele in new city of gaiety." Crowds dancing, holding balloons that say "Casanova" Probably New Year's Eve. Camera pans up to mirrored ceiling, that reflects the scene below. The music ends and the dancers return to their seats. The scene switches to two dancers, a man and a woman, who perform a seductive (Spanish/Gyspy) dance, which includes some tap dancing.
Hitler renews bid for power
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003192
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Title: "Hitler Renews His Bid for Power - At Lustgarten in Berlin Nazi leader begins fierce campaign to supplant aged Hindenburg." Cars drive through huge crowds as Hitler arrives at Lustgarten. Hitler stand on the balcony preparing to speak - he steps forward and pats the cheek of a young girl, who gives him a Sieg Heil salute in return. Two young men step forward holding "Deutschland Erwache" banners. The point of view switches to that of the crowd facing the Lustgarten. Close up profile of Hitler starting his speech switches to a wider shot. Shot switches back to crowd giving the salute,...
Reichstag gutted by fire
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003193
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Title: "Reichstag is gutted by Fire by Red Incendiaries - Chamber, where Deputies meet in Berlin parliament, is destroyed as result of communist plot." Exterior shots of the damaged dome of the Reichstag, fireman with their truck on the street, shifts to interior scenes of the gutted building. Close ups of structural damage and still-smoking rubble. A policeman stands in the wreckage. Fireman spray water on the rubble. The British narrator tells of the fire, and says that after the imminent general election, Parliament will need to find a temporary home. He notes that Hindenburg's chair was...
Hitler conducts election tour
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003194
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Title: "Hitler Conducting a Rapid Election Tour - Nazi Leader Holds Review of Uniformed Followers at Waldenburg and Fires Audience of 35,000." Low aerial shot of huge crowds, a group of SA marches in formation, bearing German flags. Martial music plays. Closer shots of crowds; SA in front, civilians behind, give Nazi salute and sing the Horst Wessel song. Camera pans left to right as crowd sings (in sync) "Die Fahne hoch." 02:26:14 A segment of Hitler's speech: "Vierzehn Jahre lang..." [For 14 years...] Wild applause of the crowd. Intertitles in English, original sound in German.
Hitler reviews SA
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003195
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Title - "Fascists Hail Hitler - Thousands of Nationalists Opposing Compromises by Government are Reviewed by Leader in Thuringia." Crowds line a street as an SA band marches past (Steinitz department store (?) appears in the background). Scene of Hitler reviewing the parade, with Rudolf Hess behind him and Wilhelm Frick in civilian clothing in front of Hitler. The camera pans up to show people leaning out of windows (of a hotel?). Scene switches to Hitler in a car riding through the street - he stands and salutes the crowds lining the street.
Bruening speaks
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003196
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Title: "Germany can pay no more, says Dr. Bruening - Chancellor with dictatorship powers makes an important statement on reparations." Heinrich Bruening, seated at a desk, reads a prepared speech in English. He speaks of the hardships suffered by Germany and the punitive nature of Versailles. He ends with the statement that the war will never truly be over until "the account is closed and payment has been made in full." Bruening, the leader of the Catholic Center Party, served as German Chancellor from 1930 -- 1932.
Stalhelm troops with Hohenzollern and Seldte
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003197
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Title: "Editor's Note: For the last few months there have been rumblings of a revival of monarchistic sympathies in Germany. This picture, the first of the former Crown Prince deliberately accepting the spotlight, is confirmation of a situation which may have great influence on the immediate affairs of the embattled Reich." Crown Prince Wilhelm reviews Stahlhelm troops. Franz Seldte speaks: the Prussian and German future will be no accident but is dependent upon the Prussian race and Prussian blood, and is not possible without the King of Prussia. The camera cuts away from Seldte during his...
Hitler and Hindenburg reviewing troops
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003198
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Title: "Hindenburg-Hitler coalition grips all Germany - Leaders honor war dead on the eve of creation of Nazi dictatorship." Hitler, von Hindenburg, and von Papen are shown standing in a balcony of the Berlin opera house, on the annual occasion honoring German war dead. The narrator notes that Hindenburg has thrown his full support behind Hitler. A frail looking Hindenburg leaves the opera house and reviews troops as the narrator notes that Hitler has just asked the Reichstag for full dictatorial powers. The narrator states that Hindenburg is now 85 years old and wonders, "When his time com...
Hitler and Hindenburg in open car
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003199
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Fox Movietone News. Aerial shots of crowds at the Lustgarten on May Day. A car carrying Hitler and von Hindenburg drives through; they wave to the crowds of schoolchildren (identified by narrator -- children not especially visible). The view switches to Hitler speaking briefly at the microphone, then shows von Hindenburg at microphone. They both solicit cheers from the crowd.
Hitler speaking in stadium
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003200
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Title: "All Germany rises to Hitler's call - 120,000 Westphalians meet in stadium at Dortmund to cheer stirring appeal by the fiery Chancellor." Hitler arrives and gets out of a car. Aerial shots of crowds. The narrator states that a united Germany is Hitler's rallying cry as he tours Germany. Hitler speaks, beginning by saying that those enemies who laughed on the 30th of January are not laughing anymore. He speaks further and ends with crowds saluting.
Von Papen speaks
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003201
- English
- 1932
- Updated 1 year ago
Title: "Reich Chancellor talks to you - Count von Papen declares through Movietone that all Germany asks is justice from the other nations." A format very similar to story 3729, in which Bruening speaks. Franz von Papen is shown seated at a desk and reads in English from a speech that he holds in his hands. He first dons and then removes his glasses toward the end of the speech. The camera moves closer after the first couple of sentences. He says he is glad to have the opportunity of "addressing a few words to the American public" and speaks of the "discriminating provisions of the Treaty o...
Stalhelm parade, speeches
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003202
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Title: "German royalists recall war in military show - Stahlhelm reviewed by von Papen, Crown Prince, and Gen. von Mackensen." Scenes of the Stahlhelm marching with banners. Crown Prince Wilhelm shown watching the parade and saluting. Franz von Papen, Wilhelm von Gayl, and Kurt von Schleicher are also shown briefly. The camera then focuses on General August Mackensen, a well-known World War I field commander. He is shown wearing the uniform and large furry hat of the Death's Head Hussar regiment. The camera switches back to the Stahlhelm troops, panning left to right over them standing and ...
Hitler at cathedral; SA honor guard
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003203
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Title: "Hitler follower buried in state - Germany's new chancellor leads 100,000 Berliners in official funeral for Nazi killed in inaugural riot." Bells toll as the camera pans across huge crowds of SA men. Hitler (in a Brownshirt uniform) is shown leaving the Berlin Cathedral, surrounded by SS men, as the narrator notes that this is the first time a state funeral has been provided for a private citizen. A brief shot of an SA honor guard, holding Nazi flags, switches to a bird's eye view, which includes the cross atop the cathedral, of the funeral cortege.