• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1004489
• English
• 1941
• Updated 1 year ago

Belgian volunteers enlist to fight the Soviets on the side of the Germans. Men stand outside a building with a big sign that reads "Wallonie pour la lutte contre le Bolschevisme". They look at a poster on the building. Inside the building, men hand over their identity cards to a clerk, who records their information.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000184
• English
• 1945
• Updated 1 year ago

Scenes of the Belsen Concentration Camp, and the Belsen Displaced Persons Camp. LS, barracks at far side of road, woods in BG. Displaced persons are fed and treated. MSs, dining hall, with tablecloths, survivors eating soup. INT, hospital barracks, beds filled, woman in lower bunk receiving medical care. German POWs remove dead DPs. Soldiers carrying corpses wrapped in blanket to truck. MLS, truck bed. Another body is carried through doorway. Distributing identity cards to DPs, women clustered around tables outside, writing. CU, "Allied Expeditionary Force / DP index card." MLS, men, women,...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003235
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Berlin workers leave factory.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002105
• English
• 1967
• Updated 1 year ago

CBS News correspondent Alexander Kendrick interviews the first Prime Minister of Israel David Ben Gurion on the Bible and his individual religious ideology.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001483
• English
• 1945
• Updated 1 year ago

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 418, Part 5. Release date, 07/23/1945. According to UN advance information: "Big Three Parley Begins." President Truman and his party are greeted by cheering crowds in Antwerp, after the USS Augusta docks them at this Belgian port. The US 2nd Armored Division stands at attention on the famed autobahn as the presidential party rolls into Berlin. After President Truman confers with Gen. Stalin at the "Little White House" in Berlin, all of the conferees adjourn to the Kaiser Wilhelm palace in Potsdam for the official opening of the Big Three Conference. Winston...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001514
• English
• 1944-1945
• Updated 1 year ago

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 371.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001513
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 371.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1005081
• English
• 1945
• Updated 1 year ago

"Frauenschönheit der Südsee" Water lily, family bathing/washing clothes in a river, possibly in Southeast Asia. CUs of women's faces. A group of people carry baskets. More CUs of women sitting in a field. Women perform a ceremonial dance, men play the drums. CU of man smoking pipe along with other CUs of men and women. 01:03:50 Degeto logo. Animated title with characters sledding, "Bobrennen." A bobsled race. Large group of spectators looks on in the stands. One competitor falls off his sled (slow motion). Large ski lift brings small group and sled up to a platform. More shots of the race. ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000121
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

Hitler confers with leaders of Bohemia and Moravia. MS through door of hotel or guesthouse come two men in suits and two German officers. They greet Hitler, salute and shake hands. One man hands Hitler an envelope, which Hitler hands to aide. Shake hands again.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn724389
• English
• 1941
• Updated 1 year ago

Degeto Schmalfilm-Schrank. "Bomben Auf 'Engeland'" Luftwaffe bomber crew gets ready for a mission over the UK. German aircraft and artillery. Artillery was under camouflage. Artillery is loaded onto bombers. Very large bomb is moved by a tractor and loaded on bomber. German bombers take off and in flight. City on fire. Fires doused with water. The aftermath of the fires. (4:05) Film ends.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002853
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

"Four Freedoms Set Key for Bond Drive" Arlington, VT; Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands; Denver, CO; Winter Park, CO; Washington, DC. America digs in to complete $13,000,000,000 second war bond drive, greatest financial undertaking in history of the world. Paramount news presents inside story of first sales of new issue, human-interest pictures of Mr. Roosevelt and White House staff. Start of the campaign! Artist Norman Rockwell's paintings of America's great four freedoms, background theme of second war bond issue. Vermont: Norman Rockwell with models and paintings of "Freedom from Want"; "Free...

• 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.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003233
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Book burning outside Kroll Opera House.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000588
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

Beginning of the destruction of Jewish literary products. Mihaly Kolozsvari Borcsa, State Secretary, throws the first book in the pulp mill.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000934
• English
• 1943
• Updated 1 year ago

(01:27:22) Part 3, "We Guard Britain's Books." 01:27:31 Berlin bookburning. Crowds at night, burning pyre of books, people tossing books onto the pyre [May 13, 1933 is date given by narrator.] Staged scenes of German book title pages (including H.G. Wells) being stamped with a swastika (swastika is reversed image). 01:27:50 AVs of England, aftermath of Nazi firebomb raids. CUs of books. VS of archivists photographing books on microfilm in England for shipment to the US. VS, crates of microfilmed books being loaded onto a freighter. VS, librarians at Library of Congress in Washington, DC cat...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003426
• English
• 1933
• Updated 1 year ago

The boycott of Jewish businesses in Berlin. [Rare views, not the oft-repeated scenes] Exterior scenes of Berlin streets, which, the narrator notes, are calm and orderly on the eve of the boycott. Scene opens on the "e v. Grunfeld" store; in the next scene shop names of "Rosenberg", others, are visible. Shot of "Leiser" store; heavy pedestrian traffic in the street, streetcars passing. Shot of "Kaufhaus des Westens," "Hermann Tietz" Sign in a window reads, in English and German: "Germans, defend yourself against Jewish atrocity propaganda!" People on the street, conscious of the camera. Clos...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000216
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

VAR LS ship in harbor; people board ship as those on dock wave; people are nicely dressed.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000112
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

British Nazi John Amery speaks to Union Des Forces Revolutionnaires on Allied "terror bombing" in French. Front of Gaumont Palace, MS interior 2 guards in uniform, LS of Amery at podium with banner above him and first few rows of audience. MS of Amery at podium speaking [sync sound begins] alternating shots of speaker and audience including CU low angle of guy in uniform with peculiar armband. [Portuguese narration takes over] Amery gives fascist salute. LS of audience applauding. Additional unrelated footage at 03:51:07 to 03:51:58, Men of Feldherrnhalle Division invited aboard submarine.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001156
• English
• 1945
• Updated 1 year ago

Part 3: British MPs Investigate Atrocities (06:40:03-06:43:12) Shows bodies of persons killed in German concentration camps and devices used for killing and torture. Camp officials are arrested. Shows the bodies of the mayor of Leipzig and his family who took poison to avoid arrest. Unrelated footage: Part 1: Allied Drives Split Germany; Part 2: Army Day in Coblenz

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn633789
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Posters for the American Jewish Congress Elections on June 25,26,27 - "Register in Defense of Jewish Rights!" "Vote for Justice and Equality to Jews". People queue outdoors and place ballots in boxes "Vote Here". INTs, synagogue, group of people reviewing ballots at a table, CUs. Crowds outdoors on a busy street, man delivers speech from vehicle, banner on automobile: "Stand Up to be Counted... Hitlerism". Elderly couples place ballots in box. INTs, women speaking German gather around radio, read newspapers. CU, Rabbi Stephen Wise, "American Jews are resolved, together with all other racial...