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  1. Bombing of Warsaw

    Aerial views of damage to Warsaw in 1939. 3:10:56 Interior of plane, pilot's compartment, bombardiers seat, map. 3:11:25 AV Squadron and bomber in flight. 3:12:08 Intertitle: Fliegerbomben auf Warschau; AV City of Warsaw attacked, bombs being dropped, smoke. 3:12:50 MS Damaged factory building. 3:13:10 LS Civilians on city streets going by damaged buildings. Pass huge bomb crater. LS of top floor of building bombed in. 3:13:45 Intertitle: Brandbomben auf Warchau; AV Suburbs of Warsaw. Firebombed buildings, much flame and rubble. 3:14:09 AV (see plane's wing) Good view of city smoking. 3:15:...

  2. German invasion of Poland, POWs, Hitler in Gdynia

    Fighting at Gdynia. German troops enter Gdynia, prisoners taken. Hitler enters city (only POV from car). German soldiers greet Hitler, surround him. Hitler and officers eating at field kitchen. Headquarter scenes, interior of railroad car. Hitler consults with officers, including Goering, Rommel, Himmler, generals. Graphic - German movement to Vistula up to Radom. German troops on the move, many Polish soldiers surrender arms, equipment. Aerial of captured artillery.

  3. UFA Anschluss footage; Parade; Hitler speaks

    Case XI, Ministries-Keppler, "German Entry into Austria", Vienna, Austria, 1938. German Narration. German army motorcade up country hill road, people salute from roadside (wearing swastika). POV car, into Vienna. A procession of cars and trucks enters Vienna. The Nazis are cheered and saluted as they pass public buildings. Crowds, HJ. Civilians parade also, chanting Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuehrer. HAS crowds at city center, German soldiers control crowd, CUs, children wave small Nazi flags. Hitler rides in open car through the streets with Seyss-Inquart in some shots, in other shots Seyss...

  4. Tree stump from the Palmiry Forest with an embedded bullet shell

    This "AB-AKTION" was referred to by the Nazis as the "Ausserordentliche Befriedigungsaktionen (extraordinary pacification operation). Clerics, intellectuals, academics, politicians, and suspected resisters were murdered there.

  5. Five Cities

    Yiddish titles. English title: "Jewish Life in Lwow." Pan, overview Lwow city nestled in a valley. Large buildings, city square, monuments, trams, busy street traffic, pedestrians, promenade, important buildings, marketplace. Stylish men and women promenade through modern Lwow, also known as Lemberg. MSs, shopping for wares and sellers at marketplace. Parks and pavilions, public spaces, busy streets, people. 04:05:58 Scenes in the old and well-established Jewish community, following groups of well-dressed and Orthodox Jews, street scenes, daily activities, and showing the landmarks: Yad Har...

  6. Westerbork Deportation

    Deportations at Westerbork transit camp. People with Star of David on their coats at railroad station, with bundles. Barracks can be seen in the background. Well dressed men and women. People getting onto freight cars. Confusion. MS, crowd in front of freight car. Two officers walking by. People wave goodbye from inside of train. Sick woman (Ms. Frouwke Kroon - 1882-1944) lying on a wooden cart being wheeled into train station. Guards with dogs. 00:07:38 Sophia de Groot at far left of the door opening on train wagon #9, gesturing to someone on the platform. Boxes filled with food, cigarette...

  7. FDR and Churchill meet in North Africa

    President Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Casablanca. They ride in a jeep and review Allied trooops. FDR inspects US troops in Liberia and meets President Vargas in Rio de Janeiro, Other personages: Adm. King; Gen. Marshall; Gen. Arnold; Brit. Gen. Alan Brooke; Adm. Alfred Dudley Pound; Gen. Giraud; Gen. de Gaulle.

  8. Dark and light blue tapestry with 2 skeletons riding skeletal horses accompanied by skeletal dogs

    Tapestry created by Jan Yoors in 1958.

  9. German troops

    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.

  10. Warsaw Surrenders

    Surrender and occupation of Warsaw in 1939. German in trench behind wire observing, Hitler w/binoculars. LS Howitzer fires at train, burning. Howitzer fires, LS of city, plume of smoke, mortar fire. Plane takes off, aerial shot of columns of smoke. AV craters, bombed domes. Surrender, Polish officer goes into railcar. Trucks of German troops enter city and soldiers on foot. "Komend Miasta Warszawa" sign on building, pan down to Polish officers, long column of Polish POWs shot from above, horses and carts. Bomb damage, wrecked train cars. Civilians digging through rubble, and with POWs makin...

  11. Nazi banner captured by a US soldier in Algeria

    Nazi banner captured by Private William Andress of the Army First Infantry Division at Oran, Algeria on November 11, 1942.

  12. Collaborators volunteer for German army

    Quisling in Norway, French volunteers, Latvian and Lithuanian volunteers for German army. MS Vidkun Quisling reviews with Nazi officer a line of Norwegian police in Norway. CU of insignia patch of eagle and swastika (uniforms suggest military volunteers rather than police). MLS French officers review bereted volunteers for German army on grounds of Versailles. CU several of them. They march out and off to train station. Good MCU as they sort through baggage, say goodbye and board train. 5:12:26 MCU as crowd of Latvian and Lithuanian volunteers for German army and civilians marching toward c...

  13. Ante Pavelic on parade

    Ante Pavelic decorates Croatian troops and rides at head of parade. LS Street scenes in Zagreb, MS of banner and portrait of Pavelic in room, Croatian banner hanging from building facade. Group of men lined up to receive award and having it pinned on. Uniformed horsemen, then Pavelic on horseback MS coming toward camera, enthusiastic crowd, unit of German? troops marching, quick CU of Pavelic, then MS of artillery piece pulled. Additional footage follows this clip: Soccer game in Munich. 03:42:32 to 03:43:59 Hitler and Mussolini meet in Berlin. Mussolini, General Keitel, and Graziani inspec...

  14. Croatian fascists; church ceremony; parade

    Churchleader in Croatia with Croatian leaders. German army units parade in commemoration of Croatian "independence." Pan down front of church. MS church prelate puts on headpiece. MS Croatian military men. Priest makes blessing, shot of onlookers. MS Pavelic in uniform greets and salutes various dignitaries. Cars in procession, Pavelic in second car giving standing salute from backseat of car. LS, huge crowd of people running and cheering. Marching scouts? CU of man saluting. German troops marching through crowd. Unrelated footage also on this reel: Gymnastic exhibition witnessed by King Gu...

  15. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 20 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  16. Carel Sternberg identification card

    The"Carte d' Identité" (identification card) was issued to Karel (or Carel) Sternberg donor, a Czech law student, in December 1938. Sternberg was in France when the Germans took over the country, and he worked closely with Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee in Marseille, France.

  17. Feliks Puterman and Janet Rogowsky collection

    The collection primarily consists of three diaries authored by Feliks Puterman (previously Samuel Puterman), originally of Warsaw, Poland, documenting his experiences with the Polish Army in 1939; life in the Warsaw ghetto, 1940-1942; and life in hiding in Warsaw, 1942-circa 1944. The diaries are handwritten in Polish. Also included is a personal narrative authored by Janet Rogowsky (previously Genia Ajzenberg), a fellow survivor, whom Feliks married after the war, chronicling her Holocaust experience, including descriptions of her father and brother’s deaths in Łódź, her mother’s deportati...

  18. FDR and Churchill confer on Atlantic Charter

    FDR and Churchill confer on Atlantic Charter aboard ship HMS Prince of Wales. Churchill hands letter to FDR as both stand at ship railing of Presidential yacht. Members of British and American staffs present. Back aboard Prince of Wales, several shots of FDR and Prime Minister Churchill seated on deck in presence of many staff officers including General Marshall, General Arnold, Sumner Welles, Harry Hopkins, Admiral King, Sir Dudley Pound and others. They listen to sermon on deck. Nonessential Segments (mute): 01:29:48 to 01:30:42, French troop train moves thru North African countryside; go...

  19. Berestowitz, Poland

    Intertitles appear in Yiddish and English. "In a drugstore" Pan village, horses, street. Group of men and boys at storefront. Children and teenagers mingle in street, others pose at doorway.

  20. British fascist John Amery

    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.