• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003749
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Title on screen: Ozaphan 1/40 Monatschau; Durchsuchen genommener franzoesischer Stellungen [Search of captured French trenches]. Armed German soldiers walk along a muddy road and among destroyed buildings. They search the banks and interior of a trench. Title on screen: Ein Fesselballoon wrid zum Aufstieg fertiggemacht [A captive balloon (? dictionary translation) is prepared for its ascent]. German soldiers run up a small hill toward a dirigible, which is docked among some trees. Two Germans are shown climbing into flight suits, while others prepare the dirigible for flight by leading it o...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1004641
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Banner welcoming soldiers returning home by train reads a Hearty Welcome to you Brave Soldiers. Women, children and old men wave joyfully, and soldiers descending from railway cars hug girls, who offer flowers, to sound of song including Herrlich ist die Heimat. Tank crews lift children onto their flower-garlanded tanks to play. Cheering Germans in garrison town welcome back tank regiment as it parades by. Hitler Youth boys wave white handkerchiefs and young members of the BDM throw flowers at the tanks passing by. CUs of Germans.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003363
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

"The Great Encirclement in the Ukraine" Map showing Kiev and surrounding areas, where a great German victory occurred on September 26, 1941. A triangle appears on the map around Kiev as the narrator describes the size of the area and the defeat and surrender of five Soviet armies. Footage of German soldiers and tanks taken during the "decisive hours of the battle." Quality somewhat grainy and contrast-y. Destruction, vehicles burning, burning oil in the streets. Masses of damaged war material. Troops and tanks moving across a field. German antiaircraft gunners aim and shoot down a Soviet pl...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001542
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

CU, Hitler Youth applauding. LS, Heinrich Himmler enters hall, youth stand and salute him. CUs, faces of HJ. MCU, Himmler handing out medals. MSs, two boys pinning medals on. LS, Goebbels speaking (not heard). CUs, audience. LS, flags. CU, German soldiers and machine guns in foxholes. CU, machine gun fired. LS, explosions. German soldiers retreating. German engineers standing in depression. German soldiers on pontoon, drinking. LS, snow-covered mountains. CU, German mountain soldier climbing up mountain. LS, German soldiers descending from mountain. MS, men peeling potatoes. CU, German offi...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1004146
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

Cameramen listed on screen: Ammer, Berna, Garms, Grigoleit, Groeninger, Jaeckisch, Kilian, Lempert, Mahla, Pahl, Ritter, Selbach, Stollsteimer, Zeiss. Close up on an announcement requiring both women and men to register with the employment office. Women in an office page through piles of registrations while the narrator says that women must now enroll in the total war effort. Women must fill positions so that men can be free to go to the front. Shots of women operating drill presses, working in an armaments factory, and being trained as streetcar conductors. Women serving in the police and ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003359
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

"The victory is achieved" announces the narrator, as a wounded German soldier is loaded onto a truck to receive medical care. He is given a cigarette to smoke and a pat on the head as he lies on the table, waiting for treatment. More wounded on stretchers transported from ambulances in the field to trains that will take them home. They smile out of the train window and sit up in their beds inside the train. Heroic music plays.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1004380
• English
• 1940
• Updated 1 year ago

A large group of German officers and military attachés from countries including Japan and the USSR watch German army exercises taking place in heavy snow. LS of German soldiers running through the snow with the sound of gunfire. A German officer points out features on a map. Closer views of soldiers in action. (Site is Doeberitz outside Berlin.)

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003449
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Exterior of Madison Square Garden with police lining the street. The marquee reads: "To Night: Pro American Rally." The German narrator notes that the German-Americans are celebrating the memory of George Washington but that Jewish and Bolshevist elements tried to disrupt the celebration. Shots of protesters holding signs and being pushed by police. Interior of Madison Square Garden showing a huge crowd. Fritz Kuhn, head of the German-American Bund, which organized the event, speaks from a stage in front of a huge poster of George Washington. Kuhn pledges allegiance to the US flag, in Engli...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000287
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 11, No. 754, Part 2. Release date, 02/23/1939. 841 Jews arrive in Shanghai on the SS Conte Biancomano. View from dock as passengers wave from rail of boat (mostly men). CU women and men waving. MLS women and men walking down stairs, departing boat (nicely dressed). Refugees at desk, exchanging papers. 02:13:10 Hedrig Callman with her grandson Rolf Eis. Man in "window" dropping bread into a woman's bag. At rough table; men eating soup in CU, then MS. Newsreel footage also includes the following parts: 02:11:01 Port Washington, NY "Yankee Clipper in Test Flight for Oc...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003152
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

[Rangee de SS aplaudit a une reunion, Paris] German units advance in Yugoslavia. Bombing. Wounded soldier. Captured men (Serbians/partisans?).

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1004378
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Polish tanks and other weapons destroyed or captured by the invading Germans. A pile of captured gas mask and a pile of rifles. Panning shot of dead horses and wrecked military vehicles in and near the Vistula River. German and Russian forces meet at Brest-Litovsk. Junior officers of both Armies salute and shake hands, while German soldiers hand out cigarettes to the Soviets. A Sovier officer hands a German officer a document written in Cyrillic. Soviet and German troops line a road and watch formations from both armies drive past. General Heinz Guderian and General Semyon Krivoshein salute...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003874
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

CU of sign indicating the town of Radomyschl (German spelling for Radomysl or Radomyshl, Ukraine). German officials and Ukrainian civilians inspecting tractors and other equipment at a German agricultural show in the Ukraine. Ukrainians look at models with German and Russian labels. A row of different sized sheaves of grain. Small swastika flags decorate the exhibit. CU on bees on a honeycomb. A young boy inspects fish in tanks. 01:19:57 Horses gallop across a field at a stud farm in Italy. The horses drink from a large trough. Footage cuts off abruptly. (Not ordered by USHMM)

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn562230
• English
• 1939-1940
• Updated 1 year ago

German workers construct a bridge over the Rhine. Buildings, including a children's hospital, in Hamburg demolished by Allied bombing. Italian Alpine troops advance through the snow against French positions on Mont Blanc. German troops occupy either Jersey or Guernsey. Coastal defenses. Stuka and Heinkel bombers take off, fly over ships in the Channel, and dive upon Dover.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1004398
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

Hitler Youth on bicycles riding down a road. Shirtless boys with shovels jump into a trench and start digging enthusiastically. Civilians, including women, also dig. The narration says that members of Hitler Youth (HJ), Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD) and civilians are helping to dig anti-tank trenches at the Eastern front. An old man smoking a pipe wipes his brow. Views shot from the window of a low-flying plane show the extent and zigzag pattern of the trench.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn632578
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Crowds of people travelling through the snow and elements, ocean, freight ships, fire.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002167
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Germans takeover all Danish military installations and personnel and declared Martial Law. Two German soldiers marching up street lined with trees, in front of castle. CU, Martial Law document introduced on August 29, 1943 posted in window, reading "Militaire Undtagelsestilstand ihele Danmark." HAS street scene with German soldiers and Danish civilians, some with bicycles, around Town Hall Square in Copenhagen. HAS German military vehicle entering square. Automobiles, more bicycles. HAS men and women gathered around central building in square. German soldiers trying to keep a well-dressed m...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001547
• English
• 1940
• Updated 1 year ago

UFA Newsreel with German narration and triumphant music. Light tank on village street. Tank barriers on Maginot Line. Troops running through street. German soldiers tearing down stone wall. German soldier leading prisoners. Cars on village street. Mobile artillery pass through with motorcycles. Trucks towing anti-tank gun and artillery through streets. Barbed wire. Train. German troops traveling at high speed. German troops marching down street, smiling, laughing, receiving food from civilians. Marching through village, civilian cools them off with water hose. Horse-drawn cart towing guns. ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001548
• English
• 1940
• Updated 1 year ago

CU, pushing down tank barrier. MCU, armored vehicle passing through gate crossing bridge. CU, pan bridge with dead Allied troops. CU, attending wounded. CU, German troops loading motor tackle into boat, destroyed bridge in BG. MCU, paddling rubber boat, Allied troops disembarking from rubber boat going up bank on side of river. CU, prisoners marching down street of town. CU, Panzer division on move through Luxembourg, barbed wire entanglement in FG. CU, bicycle troops hide in ditch on side of road. CU, German troops crossing river on foot bridge. CU, German troops jump, board rubber boat, c...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001278
• English
• 1940
• Updated 1 year ago

LS, tanks spread out over fields, waiting for artillery barrage to lift. Shells burst in distance. LS tank advances. VCU, tanks. Shell bursts close by; burning French tanks. CU, showing shell holes, dead. Tank crews eating after battle. Hitler visits front, looking over map with staff officers, including Raeder and Goering. Receiving news of French capitulation. Boarding train for Munich to meet Mussolini. Pan, Berchtesgaden. Hitler meets officials in train station, German children and Mussolini giving Nazi salute. CUs, Hitler and Mussolini in car, crowd in BG.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000279
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 712, Part 2A. Release date, 10/19/1938. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Germans Take Over Sudeten" Czechoslovakia. Almost on the heels of the Czechs as they withdraw from areas ceded to Germany by the Four-Power Accord, the German leader and his troops take over, inspecting former Czech defenses and feeding hungry refugees. Czechs depart from the Sudetenland as German tanks takeover. Village scene. Various MS, carts lined up in village. Soldiers? Nazis towing through bunker? MS, Nazis strolling in field. Quick shot of armband. Nazis feeding...