• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000424
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Nazis enter Poland. POV front of truck into barricaded street in city of Gdynia, side view. Men (holding hands up in surrender) are searched and ID-checked by German soldiers. View of sandbagged building guarded by German soldiers. Poster reads: "Do Braci Polakow...Twierdza musi nam byc kazdy prog." Former state president speaks with and surrenders to commander of German troops. Men in civilian dress, some wearing white armbands, leave sandbagged building and march past camera (VO indicates they are Polish troops who had taken off their uniforms). VAR shots: masses of German troops in the s...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001315
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Slow pan of rooftops of Krakow. In regiments, German soldiers march into Krakow, passing a group of citizens who watch silently. VAR shots: stone dome, vertical pan of ivy-covered building, CU soldier, officers walking up steps to enter building; ornamental cast iron gates open to display of crossed gun and sword emblem (in a vault-like setting).

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001501
• English
• 1945
• Updated 1 year ago

"Nazi officials visiting the Krupp Firm" Soldiers marching, holding flags with swastikas, delivering speech, distributing Hitler's book, "Mein Kampf."

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002667
• English
• 1929
• Updated 1 year ago

NEMYRIV (Nemirov): Fifth Anniversary. Pioneers. 250 children, some homeless, survivors of pogroms. Shtetl view, VS, children painting and drawing with an instructor's guidance. Images of metal tools, furniture, paintings and drawings, clothing. The children's work is displayed on walls in a makeshift gallery type setting. There are also sculptures in stone, in the round and in relief. Several framed drawings, portraits of historical figures. Sculpture of Lenin with young man posing next to the statue. Title in Ukrainian: "Nemyriv. The fifth anniversary of a Jewish children's colony of 250 c...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001201
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Nighttime march of SS, SA, and stormtroopers. Hitler spotlit in upper window of Reichstag. Soft, murky tracking shots of crowd, torches, flags. A little hard to see, but creates an interesting atmosphere with the sounds and the swarming spotlight. Inside the Hotel Kaiserhof, before the Cabinet meeting begins. Everyone in suits, gathered around, mingling, a bit disorganized. Posing for their first official photograph. Cabinet members include (according to BA documentation): Hitler, Goering, von Papen, Seldte, Gerecke, von Schwerin Krosigk, Frick, von Blomberg, and Hugenberg. More shots of cr...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003206
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Title in German identifies the new cabinet. Sitting from left: [Hermann] Goering, [Adolf] Hitler, [Franz] von Papen; Standing from left: [Franz] Seldte, Gerecke, [Lutz] von Schwerin Krosigk, Dr. [Wilhelm] Frick, [Werner] von Blomberg, and Dr. [Alfred] Hugenberg. Scene opens inside the Hotel Kasierhof, before the cabinet meeting begins. Everyone wears suits, they mingle and talk to each other. Hitler, Goering, and Frick speak briefly. Hitler escorts von Papen to sit in the chair beside him, while Hugenberg stands behind von Papen's chair. Flashbulbs go off as people off-camera take photograp...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003220
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Quick, soft, nighttime march of SS, SA, and stormtroopers with torches, flags. Inside the Hotel Kaiserhof, before the Cabinet meeting begins. Everyone in suits, gathered around, mingling, a bit disorganized. Posing for their first official photograph. Cabinet members include (according to BA documentation): Hitler, Goering, von Papen, Seldte, Gerecke, von Schwerin Krosigk, Frick, von Blomberg, and Hugenberg. EXT, Reichstag, Nazi elite spotlit in window. Murky shots of nighttime parade with torches.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1004640
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

In Paris, people gather to hear news of the armistice. Loudspeakers in a square relay live "hard but not dishonorable conditions". "The German government solemnly declares that it does not intend to use for its own purposes of war the French [naval] units in the control ports, apart from coastguard and minesweeping vessels". CUs, of the listening crowd, including some individuals who appear Jewish, a black man in a suit, women, people talking to each other, and one wiping away a tear.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002993
• English
• 1942
• Updated 1 year ago

Paramount News Vol. 2, No. 36. 01:36:36 "Africa - Fighting French and American Drive" (Voice of Gregory Abbot) US and Free French troops march in Tunis. Shows the Sultan of Morocco. 01:37:12 "Fighting French Manpower" French prisoners join the free French forces. 01:37:54 "The Yanks Still Come Home" US soldiers disembark. 01:38:30 "Holiday Train Wreck" (Voice of Henry Gladstone) The wreckage of two trains in Dixon, IL. 01:39:05 "United Nations Condemn Nazi Mass Slayings" (Voice of Gregory Abbot) Includes views of German persecution of Jews, book-burning, and concentration camps. 01:39:41 "T...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002660
• English
• 1938
• Updated 1 year ago

PRAVO. Right to Education, Dnipropetrovsk. Sign: In Yiddish and Ukrainian. Classroom: Blackboard with Yiddish writing. College age students, female and male. Translation: [Soviet propaganda newsreel] Opens with the title "Right to education." The tablet on the wall reads: "Dnipropetrovsk Jewish Metal Manufacturing Technical College," (Jewish technical college in Dnipropetrovsk). "Would it have been possible just to dream about such a thing for Jewish youth in capitalistic tsarist Russia? Only in the Soviet country did Stalin's constitution provide every nationality with a right to education."

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003109
• English
• 1941
• Updated 1 year ago

TIME weekly newsmagazine: "Crisis in the Atlantic", 1941. The March of Time, "The Atlantic 1941" LS, three warships in convoy. One sends blinker signal. INTs, captain and two attendants in ship's cabin. Aircraft carriers, battleships and destroyers in Atlantic Ocean. Full screen view, US fighter planes depart. LSs, MSs, Navy Dept building in Washington DC, as civilian workers enter. Sec of Navy, Frank Knox exits from car. Knox at naval dedication ceremony. Animation: comparative shipping tonnage of US, British, and Axis powers. US operators in code room send messages. CU, newspaper clipping...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002845
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

"Nobel Prizes Presented in Sweden" - newsreel fanfare. In Stockholm, Sweden, amid traditional regal pageantry, the Nobel Prizes are awarded by King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden. Brief shots of Max Born, German professor, receiving Nobel Physics Prize. Five Americans are Nobel Prize recipients: Dr. Linus Pauling of the California Institute of Technology in the field of chemistry; Drs. John F. Enders of the Harvard University Medical School, Frederick C. Robbins of Cleveland's Western Reserve Medical School and Thomas H. Weller of the Harvard School of Public Heath in Medicine-Physiology. Famed ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003451
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Newspapers with headlines about the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which was signed by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in Moscow on August 23, 1939. Nighttime shots of von Ribbentrop at the airfield preparing to leave Germany for Moscow.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000096
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

Narrator explains (in English) that this item was released in Portugal. Portugese narration heard under English commentary. Interior, family sitting around table eating. Close-ups of family meant to show that Germans are not suffering from lack of food, despite war. Women working in railroad and postal occupation. Narrator states that "Germany's postal system... increased its employment of women after the July 25th total mobilization announcement." Upbeat music as smiling women drive postal truck. Men working in factories; woman welding. Miners working underground. "Several sequences here h...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000452
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

05:31:01 NSV pupils training for employment as Red Cross nurses: caring for babies in nursery, cooking in kitchen, uniforms, classroom instruction on anatomy, giving massages, hospital care, doctor and nurses seen at patients' bedsides. calisthenics, playing chess, medical care, with families. 05:33:32 Women entering Palais du Sports for French youth demonstration against Bolshevism. Military officers in uniform (Nazis?) entering stadium. HAS, crowd. Banner reading "Le Combat Seul." Youth welcoming speaker, heiling, Nazis seated in audience. French safety minister Darnand speaking from podi...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001231
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

MS Hitler speaks at podium on Hitler Youth Day. Swastika flag is raised and waves. Great pomp and circumstance parade through picturesque town of Nuremberg. VAR HA views, including SA in knee socks and tassels and shorts. VAR participants: military attachees from Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain, et al. In stadium, Hitler salutes Hitler Youth as they cheer and "Heil." Several CU of Aryan boys, girls. Hitler speaks: "Ideal of the German people...healthy...we must have a new type of man...so our nation isn't destroyed by degenerate characteristics."

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001506
• English
• 1945
• Updated 1 year ago

US and Russian troops meet at the Elbe. Shows General Emil Reinhardt. Shows scenes of Nazi headquarters in Nuremberg. Huge US flag is raised over the giant swastika atop the Nuremberg stadium. Swastika is later blown up - the actual explosion and flying debris.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000507
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Oath ceremony for hundreds of military recruits at Feldherrnhalle on the Odeonsplatz. New Reichskriegs flag raised. Various shots of soldiers saluting or with forked hands. Repeat oath to Hitler and new flag. VAR CU of hands and faces, flags; one or two good general view of square filled with soldiers; double-exposure special effect of Hitler's face imposed over image of fluttering swastika banner.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1004214
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Narrated by Ed Herlihy. Title: Universal Newsreel First Pictures of Rome's Capture. German newsreel footage showing Allied prisoners being marched through the streets of Rome during the German occupation. The narrator notes that the ". . . Italians watch quietly. Note the absence of any demonstration." Shots of Kesselring and fighting around Rome. American tanks enter and liberate Rome to cheering crowds: "Now the attitude of the Italian people has changed." People cheer the soldiers and wave American and Italian flags. American General Mark Clark enters the city in a Jeep. American, Italia...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001545
• English
• 1940
• Updated 1 year ago

German warship, showing crew at quarters. Crew listening to speech by Captain (not heard on soundtrack). CU, German officer looking through binoculars. Merchant ship at dock. German troops carrying supplies from ship to dock. Looking down pier, German troops marching. MCU, German troops standing under arch; buildings. CU, German troops laying out large swastika on street for recognition by plane. Pan, overhead, showing German Air Force flying. Street in Denmark, German troops talking with Danish soldiers. German planes overhead. German officials in front of building; Danish police being dis...