• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002447
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• 1947
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Welt im Film. Issue no. 89 01:01:02 International Conference in Minden, Ruhr District, Germany. Gen Robertson, Dep British Commander in Chief, Lt Gen Lucius D. Clay and Maj Gen Frank A. Keating at International Economic Council. Dr. Agartz, Director of German Bi-zonal Economic Office, addresses the assembly. Cut-ins, various delegates at the conference. 01:02:13 Today's Activities and Plans for Tomorrow, Emden, Germany. Pan, bomb wrecked buildings. LS, pan from giant cranes at dock to windmill. Locks, canals, dockyards of city. LS, loading coal in gondola. HS, ships at piers and moving out ...

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• irn1000433
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Libau in flames. Nazi officer with (moving) camera. Infantry moving into Schaulen. Lots of soldiers on shiny horseback prancing into town. Civilians hand flowers to soldiers. Soldiers given propaganda newspapers "Die Front" as they go by. Nazi soldier lying on ground. LS sunlight filtering through smoke. German soldiers arresting POWs in wheat field. Sparkly light. A few (Russian) POWs limping towards German soldiers. One is clearly injured, shirtless. Sign: "Jonava." LS rubble, church in BG. INT and EXT of synagogue. The narration indicates that this is the only building left undisturbed b...

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• irn1003370
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A harbor in Copenhagen, Denmark, with German ships, troops, and military vehicles. Troops raise a German flag atop a citadel. Germany invaded Denmark on April 9, 1940, meeting almost no resistance from the ill-prepared Danes. German planes fly overhead and drop leaflets stating that the Danish population should view the Germans "not as enemies, but as friends" and that the Germans are only occupying Denmark to protect Danish neutrality. This was the official reason given by the Germans for the invasion; they claimed they were protecting Denmark from an imminent British attack. An expanse of...

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• irn1003349
• English
• 1940
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Columns of German troops walking along a road in France. Destroyed buildings line the road. Tanks traveling along a road.

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• irn1003348
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Night scenes: sounds of mortar fire and burning buildings along the Maginot Line. Shots of German planes overhead, aerial views of the Maginot Line, German planes dropping bombs. Germans shooting cannons; soldiers crossing the Rhein in a small boat. More fighting, until the narrator states that Strasbourg, the old German city, is again in German hands. Organ music plays over a shot of a cathedral. German troops pass French civilians on a road. The narrator announces the entry into Metz. Civilians lining the road salute the passing German troops. Happy population of Metz out on the streets; ...

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• irn1003347
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German military vehicles winding down a road in France. Soldiers on bicycles pass a sign that reads : Sacy-Le-Gr__" The rest of the town name is cut off in the frame. Soldiers conduct house-to house searches in order to secure the town. The narrator makes reference to World War I and what that means to the soldiers as they fight in France once again. Soldiers get into a small inflatable boat and cross a river, under enemy fire. Scene switches to show a road sign indicating the direction in which Paris lies. German soldiers on horseback ride toward the camera, and the narrator states that th...

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• irn1001554
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• 1940
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CU, vehicle passing though wrecked town around bomb craters; destroyed buildings in BG. CU, German soldier driving pigs into barnyard. German troops marching through French village, in open country. Farmers cutting hay with scythes. German soldier feeding hay to horses. Soldier leaning against horse, sleeping. CU, German troops sleeping alongside road, in trucks and motorcycles. CU, plates being filled with food from large copper kettle. CU, tanks passing through large concentration of artillery guns. Shot of trees and forest showing truck hauling section of pontoon bridge onto trailer. Cou...

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The German invasion of Norway, which happened on April 9, 1940, simultaneous with the invasion of Denmark. The Norwegians offered much more resistance than the Danes, and they did not capitulate until May 9. Airplanes in the air. Interior of the plane with German soldiers, smiling and talking. The plane lands on an airfield on the coast of Norway and the troops disembark and gather their weapons and equipment. They march away from the airport, to "occupy the important military points in the area of the airport." View of Norway from an airplane. The planes drop bombs on targets near Oslo. Th...

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• irn1001546
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Pan, German ships and troops in Norway. Pan, city of Oslo, Norway. Bicycle troops at railway station. German DDs. German boat steaming at high speed in water. Captain on bridge. Guns firing off forward section of boat, plane catapults. German troops on deck, snow-covered hills in BG. Machine gun firing on British plane. German seaplane landing on bay. Harbor, many ships. High mountains on side of fjord. German troops passing baggage from ship to tugs. Tug loaded with troops. German seaplane taking off from harbor, city and hills in BG. German troops along road, disembarking from ship. Tanks...

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• irn1003362
• English
• 1941
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"Ufa" logo; "Nr. 57" appear on screen. The narrator says, "Die Inseln Oesel und Moon in deutscher Hand." [The islands of Oesel and Moon in German hands]. Map showing Oesel (Saaremaa) and Moon islands, located between Latvia and Estonia. Luftwaffe planes in the air over the islands. German ships in the ocean; mines detonating in the water. Soldiers on board ship receiving orders. Cannons firing from the ship at Soviet positions. Germans in small motorboats race toward the island while planes overhead cover them and fire at a lighthouse/watchtower on the island. Planes bomb the island. German...

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• irn1004205
• English
• 1939
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An American female narrator speaks over German newsreel footage showing the bombardment of the port of Danzig by the German ship Schleswig-Holstein. Polish and German officers confer as the Polish garrison surrenders. German soldiers hand out cigarettes to Polish POWs. German infantry advance on foot into Polish territory, accompanied by horse-drawn artillery. German troops advance across a field, under cover of artillery fire. Large numbers of Polish POWs marching and then eating in a large enclosure. Some look suspiciously at the camera. Polish refugees (probably Volksdeutsch) receive sou...

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• irn1004211
• English
• 1943
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Title: War Department Film Bulletin: Issue No. 48 Restricted. Title: Invasion of Poland in 1939 by the German Army. German footage of the invasion of Poland. Wide shot of German tanks massed in a field. Tanks roll across the field and down a dusty road. German soldiers riding the tanks smile at the camera. Shots of the port of Danzig. The narrator notes that this is where the fighting began, where "Nazi secret agents had long plotted the revolt against law and order." Germans fire at Polish loyalists holed up in the post office. They spray gasoline on the building and set it on fire. Well-k...

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• irn1004363
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German soldiers lift the barrier between Germany and Poland as they invade the country. The narrator says: "So one eliminates borders that the hate-apostles of Versailles imagine can separate the German people from the German Reich." More shots of the barrier being pushed aside. Motorcycles with sidecars carrying German soldiers speed toward the camera and turn off the road. This is accompanied by fast-paced music and the sounds of gunfire. Soldiers sheltering behind trees, riding by on horseback, setting up a howitzer. Wide shot of a large field filled with tanks and trucks. A tank bearing...

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• irn1004362
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Funeral in Gdansk of Gauleiter Joseph Wessel, who was shot by a "Polish gang," followed by footage of ethnic German refugees fleeing alleged persecution by the Poles. CUs of women and blond children with tear-stained faces. Extreme CU of an older man wearing glasses and an older woman in a head scarf. Burning houses supposedly set on fire by the Poles. The newsreel cuts off abruptly.

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• irn1004212
• English
• 1943
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German planes on an airfield loaded with bombs. Shots of bombing, including a Stuka as it bombs a railway junction. The narrator tells the story of the siege of Warsaw, which started when the Germans were 31 miles outside the city. German troops load and fire artillery shells. Aerial shots of burning Warsaw. Germans enter the city on tanks and other vehicles while Polish civilians watch. Polish POWs surrender their weapons. Victory parade in Warsaw.

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• irn1003747
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• 1939
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Title on screen: Ozaphan 11/39 Monatsschau; Krieg in Polen (Loosely, November monthly report on the war in Poland). View from a low-flying aircraft of smoke and destruction on the ground, including a bridge collapsed into a river. Title on screen: Brennende Haeuser kennzeichnen den (?) Rueckzugsweg der Polen [Burning houses indicate the retreat of the Poles]. Aerial shot along a line of burning structures on the ground. An explosion; soldiers walking through burning and smoking rubble. Title on screen: Hier sassen Heckenschuetzen [Here sat the snipers]. German soldiers climb over rubble tow...

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• irn1003366
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German soldiers on horseback and in vehicles on a dusty road, moving east, on the march toward Schaulen (Siauliai). The camera focuses on one soldier who has his foot soaking in a bucket, riding on a horse-drawn cart. The music is upbeat and slightly comical. Three soldiers carry radio or telephone equipment between them as they walk. The music changes as the soldiers engage the enemy with automatic weapons and rifles. A few Soviet soldiers, with their hands in the air, surrender to the Germans. More fighting, surrender, burning vehicles. Close-ups of POWs, including one woman, described by...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1004213
• English
• 1941
• Updated 1 year ago

Title: Universal Newsreel Nazis War on Russia. Compilation of German and Soviet footage. Sound intermittent. Germans marching on parade, tanks, airplanes in formation, paratroopers parachuting out of planes. Brief shot of von Ribbentrop speaking. Happy peasants harvest crops, probably in the Ukraine. Tanks in Red Square, Soviet planes in the air, Soviet paratroopers, Molotov and Matsuoka sign the Japanese-Soviet non-aggression pact in April, 1941. Stalin stands in the background. In Washington, DC, at the embassy of the USSR, the Soviet Ambassador (?) makes a speech to the camera. He says t...

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• irn1004497
• English
• 1941
• Updated 1 year ago

R. 2 of 4 Volksdeutsch help German Pioniere (equivalent to the Army Corps of Engineers) lay boards to serve as a new bridge where one was destroyed. The civilians and the Pionere share water and food. A column of German soldiers passes a column of Serbian POWs walking in the opposite direction down the road. Good CUs of POWs, who gaze at the camera with hostile expressions. Among the POWs is a group of Serbian soldiers who wear black uniforms (perhaps officers). Shot of a crowd of POWs and German soldiers, including at least one officer. April 8, 1941: General von Weichs, Generaloberst of t...

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• irn562221
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No. 634. Part 1, Italian Fascist symbols and flags as fascists celebrate Mussolini's 1922 march on Rome. Mussolini poses with Italian King Victor Emmanuel III, speaks from a balcony, and breaks ground for a new building. Scenes of highways, schools, Italians in Libya, and the Italian Army, Navy, and Air Force show Italy's progress under Mussolini. Gen. Badoglio poses. Part 2 maps the German front in N. Russia. German Gen. Keller decorates an officer, Gen. Krauss inspects troops, and Gen. Eicke plans a campaign. Part 3, German troops move up and attack Russian positions with the assistance o...