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  1. Goebbels speaks at SA funeral

    Goebbels speaks passionately, emotionally, at rainy funeral of two SA men, Hans Eberhard Maikowski and Zavritz, who died 1/30/1933. Great drama and solemnity: "Deutschland free of Marxism...it was a dream, but now it is a reality. Germany is in your hands."

  2. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin

    5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killin...

  3. U.S. leaders protest anti-Jewish attacks in Germany

    "America Condemns Nazi Terrorism: Roosevelt Protests, Envoy to Return, Leaders Speak" Prominent US figures condemn Nazi Germany's treatment of Jews after Kristallnacht. CU President Roosevelt, Hoover, Al Smith, Alf Landon speaking (prepared speeches to camera) against Nazism and about their hopes that Germans will stand up to the Nazis.

  4. Training film for indoctrinating American soldiers and unify the American public to support the war effort

    "Prelude to War" reviews events leading to the war and contrasts American democracy with fascism. This is the first film of Frank Capra’s "Why We Fight" propaganda film series, commissioned by the Office of War Information (OWI) and George C. Marshall. "Prelude to War" was made to convince American troops of the necessity of combating the Axis Powers during World War II. The film was based on the idea that those in the service would be more willing and able fighters if they knew the background and reason for their participation in the war. It was later released to the general American publi...

  5. Oral history interview with Lora Eliav

  6. Drawing

    artist: Kurant Created by Kurant, January 1941, Łódź, Poland.

  7. German officers roundup hospital staff and patients

    German officers gather hospital staff and patients outside hospital. MCU, all standing around, emotionless mood. Some wounded men. Germans interrogate one man.

  8. Cap worn by a young girl in a concentration camp

    Cap was given to Ruth Blocher upon arrival in Stuthoff Concentration Camp.

  9. Jews and POWs rounded up

    Soldiers and Jewish civilians behind barbed wire, being arrested (hands up in surrender). Marched onto truck, some are injured, all have shaved heads. Jewish men and others seated in barbed wire area, being loaded onto truck. At end of reel: Jewish men being separated from other prisoners and put onto back of truck.

  10. Dyno Lowenstein collection

    Contains photographs and passports documenting the experiences if Dyno Lowenstein, who escaped via Marseille with the assistance of the Emergency Rescue Committee. Includes photographs of the donor's parents, Kurt and Mara Lowenstein.

  11. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, 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.

  12. Burning the barracks at Belsen

    Huts/barracks burned by flamethrowers from military tank. Conflagration. Building engulfed in flames and thick black smoke. Soldiers. Fire blowing tractor lumbers along, shooting fire. LS of trucks driving around camp. Panoramic shots of smoke and burning camp.

  13. Belsen sign; torching barracks

    Rear shot of tank entering camp, passes barbed wire fence. Pans to sign on left of entrance. Sign reads, "This is the site of the Infamous Belsen Concentration Camp. Liberated by the British ca. 15 April 1945. 10,000 unburied dead were found. Another 13,000 have since died. All of them victims of the German new order in Europe. And an example of Nazi Kultur." Same LS, pan to sign across deserted land, barbed wire, smoke in BG. More torching of buildings. Fast pan across lots of tiny brush fires. Soldiers on tank drive through camp.

  14. Day after liberation of Belsen by British 8 Corps; SS overseers

    British MP Daniel O'Shaughnessy and surrendered Hungarian guard on duty at main entrance of Belsen Concentration Camp. Notice on sentry box reads: "Allied Military Commander. Entrance Belsen Camp." Supply truck backs up and German POWs unload flour sacks from truck into warehouse. British RASC men also help unload truck. Blurry shot of a tattooed arm. Two smiling young female inmates, healthy, with soldiers. Sign in Russian on barbed wire reading "Halt! Anyone crossing the wire will be shot!". Series of shots of women behind barbed wire, waving to camera and talking with British soldier in ...

  15. Czech Jews, resettlement

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 719, Part 2. Release date, 10/23/1938. "Czech Jews in Exile." Men stepping out of makeshift tent. CU older men and women in overcoats and hats, standing "ready to go", seated on bench, waiting. Women with bread slices off a piece and takes a bite. Crying woman. Other parts of the newsreel include: 01:46:21 Arlington, VA "President leads impressive rites on Armistice Day" 01:47:06 Blaine, Wash 01:47:30 "World-Wide News Events" 01:48:45 Naples, Italy 01:49:22 So. Kensington, Eng. 01:49:43 Washington, DC 01:50:10 "The World of Sports" 01:50:45 Ithaca, NY "Corne...

  16. German Panzer totenkopf insignia taken from a guard at Dachau concentration camp

    Nazi insignia taken from guard at Dachau concentration camp by liberator Curtis Whiteway.

  17. Hindenburg reviews corps

    Hindenburg reviews corps on Weimar anniversary.

  18. Jews beaten, bodies, crowd (Lwow); soldiers' corpses after Russian massacre

    Exhumation of victims of the NKVD in Brygidki prison in Lviv in the summer of 1941. Laying out the bodies of officers and soldiers. Crowd gathered around bodies. (VQ, very soft, dark) Women poking at bodies which are being laid out in the courtyard, sweeping them clean? Woman running after and beating a man in the crowd. Soldiers pull her back and comfort her. Woman keening. A Ukrainian militiaman, recognizable by his armband, beating a Jewish man in Brygidki prison in Lviv. This was during the "prison action" of the Lviv pogrom of 1941. Many bodies laid out in foundation of building/baseme...

  19. Opening of XI Olympics

    Hitler Heil/salutes the vast stadium crowd from viewing stand, where he is seated with Baillet-Latour, President of the International Olympic Committee, and Frick. Many shots of the stands; LS of vast crowd. German athletes in white suits enter the stadium, saluting Hitler. Music plays and the crowd salutes. Hitler speaks, officially opening the games with a speech declaring the games open. Olympic flag is raised, crowd salutes, and birds are released over the stadium.

  20. Preparing for burial at Belsen

    Large group of young children, standing for camera. MCU of children and woman holding baby. MS through wire of perimeter (barbed wire) fence to children who approach and look at cameraman. Children smile and react favorably to camera. MLS over detachment of Hungarian Garrison troops digging new grave, assisted by British bulldozer.