• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000256
• English
• 1940-1945
• Updated 1 year ago

Hitler and Goering meet Keitel, Doenitz, and others at small, formal military occasions. Long coats, big brass buttons, triumphal music in BG. CU, Hitler in cap, saluting. MCU, all walking in a group. German fighters take off to fight bombers. Shots of submarine, military air base, taking off into the sky. Young women and men interpreting maps on table, lots of air to air shots. Hospital patients are directed to shelters. Everything is "under control." American flyers taken prisoner. American POWs talking to Nazis, being "interviewed" for injuries, head bandaged. American plane "Sunshine" a...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn639183
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Reel 18 from the Biedenbach collection of home movies is a newsreel on small-gauge film for home-screening. Starts with good quality, then very grainy. Degeto Weltspiegel Nr 5. Okt 1939 "Danzig ist wieder Deutsch" German occupation of Danzig at start of WWII. Airplanes. "Der Fuehrer und der Front" 02:48 “Polnische Insurgenten” title over shots of Jewish men, some imprisoned. 03:15 "Der geschlagene Heer." Interview with Russian prisoner, subtitled, “arbeitslos” [unemployed].

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001550
• English
• 1940
• Updated 1 year ago

Tank crossing river. MCU, workmen building bridge. MCU, horse-drawn wagon driven by German soldiers. German soldiers on bicycles, motorcycles, scooters, side cars. Tanks fording small stream. Truck hauling large German mortar. German aircraft in flight. City below. Pilot of German aircraft, taken from nose of plane. City smoking. Wreckage around railroad yard. German soldier firing machine gun, digging foxhole, firing into city streets, talking in street. Street is ablaze. Bullet in hand of soldier. Pan, burning building, city. German trucks moving through wrecked city. Inspecting destroyed...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001552
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Surrendered German soldiers are issued PG coats; PG is painted on by a French officer. CU, statue of Joan of Arc, German troops marching in front. German troops marching down street; dead horses and ruined carts cover street. German troops marching, on carts and motor vehicles. Civilians welcoming German troops, shaking hands with German officers. POWs marching down street. German prison camp. CU, various nationalities of POWs, some African, some Russian. Two POWs eating food from bowl, dancing, faces are tattooed, from North Africa. German troops marching into a town. Horse-drawn vehicles ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1004364
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Scenes from the German occupation of Jersey and Guernsey. The narration does not specify which island is being shown. A Nazi flag flies over the former headquarters of the Royal Air Force on either Jersey or Guernsey. Scenic shots of the town followed by a shot of a car pulling up outside the office of the German commander. An English policeman gets out of the car and opens the door for two German officers, who enter the headquarters building. Street scenes featuring shops and a double-decker bus. German soldiers walk down the street and talk with the English policeman from the earlier scen...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001553
• English
• 1939
• Updated 1 year ago

MCU, Polish war posters. CU, Polish officers leaving building. HAS, captured Polish soldiers. HAS, German soldiers marching through streets of Poland, Polish citizens in BG. MS, German color guards and German band. MCU, Hitler. MS, German color guard goose-stepping. MS, massed troops marching down the street, being reviewed by Hitler. HA, MLS, troops as they pass the reviewing stand. CU, Hitler saluting Sieg Heil. MCU, bell ringing.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003678
• English
• 1919
• Updated 1 year ago

This is an excerpt from a film about German film history which was produced in 1942. Berlin during the revolution of 1918-1919. Intertitles describe the scenes. Armed men, members of the "Republican protection troops," patrol in front of the Brandenburg Gate. Men stand beside big bundles of shot-up rolls of newspapers that they have erected as barricades. A car loaded with armed men drives off down the street.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000434
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

German soldiers on the Eastern front marching and bicycling along bumpy road in woods towards Bialystok and Minsk. Trucks plowing across land. Units coming from everywhere by all means. Inexorable push of Army, swallowing up territory.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003367
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Map showing Minsk, Libau, Riga. The narrator announces that we are about to see the entry of the German army into Riga. German tanks and other vehicles driving through the streets of Riga. Destruction, destroyed Soviet vehicles, dead horses on the road. Good shot of terribly damaged and destroyed buildings and civilians walking in the streets. The narrator blames the destruction on the Soviets. Huge piles of rubble long shots of Jews at forced labor, removing rubble. Brief shot of someone drawing the scene on a sketchpad. Closer view of Jews at forced labor, including an older man wearing g...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000436
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

The German military enters Riga, Latvia: jeeps (some full of soldiers, some pulling ammunition) drive through cobblestoned city streets. Views of destruction all around: bodies and dead horses, rubble, shattered buildings. A sense of grim, utter destruction pervades. Pan of the bombed-out facades ending at an artist sitting in the street, sketching the sight. 03:28:15 At Kužiai forest (15km from Siauliai, Lithuania) rounded-up Jews, many in suits, some bearded and in religious garb, jump off the back of an open truck, shovels in hand. They are made to dig in field/orchard, then move large r...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn556026
• English
• 1945
• Updated 1 year ago

Czech newsreel footage of men digging into the dirt at Terezin. One with SS insignia on the back of his shirt. Men dig and shovel dirt into small wheelbarrows which other laborers wheel away. They continue to dig. At the bottom of the pits are decaying bodies (mass graves). The men use smaller tools to delicately unearth and exhume the bodies. Another worker has the SS insignia on his pant leg. Captured German soldiers forced to dig up the mass graves, under guard of the Czech army. They lift a body up on a stretcher. Other men move the body to rows of coffins. The process continues with ex...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003155
• English
• 1945
• Updated 1 year ago

Title: "L'Allemagne entres est ou west" Tank. Border with Austria. Tyrol. Men aboard truck with armbands reading "Heimat," waving, shaking hands. Women in village courtyard, soldiers. CU, flag, memorial pillar with engraved names of towns. HAS, Austrian village. Dead French prisoners, preparing for burial. CUs, photographs. In city, CUs Daladier, Reynaud, Princess de Grace, Clemencau, Gen. Weygand, etc. Soldiers return home, marching with belongings, flag. In Paris, newspaper headlines, "Capitulation sans condition" "Victoire" De Gaulle's voice on loudspeaker, people listening on street, fl...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1004393
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Animated map shows English Channel coast from Brest to Antwerp. A convoy of trucks camouflaged with branches drives toward the camera; soldiers smile and wave. CU of a wooden "one way" sign. Soldier distributes copies of a newspaper to soldiers as they pass him on bicycles. Shot of a soldier reading the newspaper with a headline that reads "Eisenhower hat uns nicht überrascht. [Eisenhower did not surprise us]." German sign cautions against traffic drawing fire upon itself by raising dust, "Feindeinsicht! Wirble keinen Staub auf sonst kriegst du eins aufs Dach drauf". Views of wrecked vehicl...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001922
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

German scouts surround and investigate a farm which is found to be abandoned. Riflemen aim at the house while others investigate. Snow on the ground.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1004381
• English
• 1940
• Updated 1 year ago

German soldiers tour a coal mine in the Ruhr. They pass a sign that reads "VII Sohle 609m" and watch a worker drilling coal. More shots of the extraction of coal. The coal is removed from the mine on small rail cars. The next scenes show an oil processing plant under construction and soldiers with drums and cans of oil/gas. This image fades into the image of tanks. Shots of a seaplane taking off on a patrol of the North Sea, with a dog perched atop one of the floats. Interior shots show the crew drinking some kind of beverage and the pilot at the wheel. The plane flies over a British ship b...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn562006
• English
• 1942-1944
• Updated 1 year ago

Bureau of Public Relations, film no. 915. Reel 3, German troops load munitions on camouflaged trucks, Allied planes attack, and the truck convoy scatters to the side of the road as antiaircraft lays down a barrage. German tanks and trucks move up by night. German paratroops ambush U.S. tanks in the woods with bazookas and panzerfausts. U.S. prisoners are marched to the rear. A French village burns. V-1 bombs are launched.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1004636
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Line of German tanks on country road. Animated map traces German advance from Sedan to Abbéville in France, which was rapid despite what French newspapers predicted would be halted by fuel shortage. Fuel drums are loaded onto trucks in long line, unloaded from Junker planes and transported by Deutsche Reichsbahn trucks with trailers over bridge, past Wehrmacht signposts to Kraut, Mecheln, Krankensammelstelle [casualty center] and Brussels. Convoy passes Belgian traffic policeman in town and continues along country road. Lack of fuel foiled the attempted flight by "Jewish warmongers and Pari...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000656
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

02:43:10 Title: "Soviet Newsreel"/ "8"/ "Moscow" / "February 1943" / "Directed by I. Setkinoy" / "Film-reporting from the Frontlines"/ "Our armies have finished destroying the German-fascists surrounded near Stalingrad" / "Documentary of the last days of the enemy surrounded near Stalingrad" Panning ELSs of fire fight on snowy terrain. Aerial MSs of Soviet airplanes. Close views of corpses. MS soldiers in trenches, smoking. Close, over shoulder view of soldiers crawling to evade fire. LS of surrendering Germans filing out of brick building. LS soldier marching with white flag. 02:47:46 ELSs...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1004418
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

A Soviet and a German train meet and the German train receives Soviet oil. Officials from both sides look over documents related to the transfer. A man climbs up on the top of the snow-covered train and opens a hatch. Men on the ground pass hoses up to those on top of the trains. It is snowing heavily. 01:04:52 A few seconds of another part of this newsreel (Not ordered by USHMM)

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000107
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

German troops evacuate Finland. Refugees bound for Sweden on a road. Refugees with belongings at railroad station. German men and equipment in retreat on the Western front; they are loaded aboard ship and move out. Wounded loaded into ambulances. Engineers repair bridge. Destruction in Belgrade. Rocket barrage fired on the Russian front. German antitank and machine guns fired. Russian T-34 tanks advance. Bazookas destroy some. German tanks counterattack. Good combat footage, may have cut in some Russian footage.