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  1. Belsen Concentration Camp at liberation

    Tank moving across field. LS, pan, inmates women standing around moat/reservoir, women fishing out tin buckets for washing; two boys sharing soup, stand huddled together, intent on soup. Low to ground, MLS, several clothed corpses, lots of inmates walk by corpse, possibly a murdered Nazi in civilian clothes (original shot sheet captions do not suggest or confirm this). CU corpse. WS of camp with many inmates. Emaciated man, "practically a skeleton", with a cap crouches, holding a piece of clothing. LS, bodies all over (clothed), survivors at edges in BG; LS, barracks, road outside, views of...

  3. Jewish boycott; Goebbels

    Title: "Germany defends itself against the atrocity-mongers [Greuelhetze] - In the struggle against the false reports in foreign lands, Jewish businesses across the country will be boycotted." March 30, 1933, the day before the official boycott of Jewish businesses in Germany. SA men driving through the street in the back of an open truck with a "Deutsche! Wehrt Euch!" sign on the back The SA men wave Nazi flags and the audio has people chanting, "Deutschland!" Civilians on bicyclists follow closely behind the truck as it weaves through the street. The scene switches to SA men posting "Deut...

  4. FDR and US congress; Huey Long; Father Coughlin

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 7, No. 356, Part 1. Release date, 05/22/1935. 01:58:21 Part 1A: "President reads bonus veto to joint Congress" Washington, DC. The President delivers the first personal veto speech in history to a joint session of Congress, explaining why he refuses to sign the Palman bill for the immediate payment of Adjusted Compensation certificates. Presidential motorcade to Capitol, shot from within a crowd of onlookers. CU of President Roosevelt, flanked by police officers. LS of Joint Congress standing and applauding. LS of Roosevelt speaking at podium to Congress. MCU, famil...

  5. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 2 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.

  6. Hindenburg

    Various clips of Hindenburg, both candid and formal political shots. Hindenburg arrives on horse and wagon. CU of Hindenburg. Hindenburg being helped to sit under a tree, little children dance around him. Hindenburg with young kids on a country path/driveway, accepting flowers from a little girl. Arriving at a diplomatic event. "Vorfahrt der Diplomatische Corps."

  7. German Army in Warsaw

    Footage from the Polish uprising, August 1944. Tanks rolling into town. Man being arrested. Soldiers walking through archway. Polish refugees boarding train. Soldier kneeling on balcony.

  8. Oral history interview with Harry Peters

  9. Lemberg/Lvov massacre

    Brief HA pan of city of Lvov. In bright sun, Jewish men (some bearded, with yarmulkes) are forced to carry and lay out the bodies of those murdered by the GPU/NKVD [not Jewish victims]. Very gruesome: some corpses have no heads, some are bloated, disintegrating bodies. MS pans of bodies splayed out. SS soldiers look on, clutching kerchiefs to their mouths.

  10. French refugees and POWs

    Refugee families with heavily loaded wagons cross in front of camera at end of town. Refugees, including children, push bicylces and baby carriages. Tanks pass by. Camera shoots from ground up toward soldiers atop tanks. The soldiers look and sometimes smile at camera. Germans search boarded-up shops, sprawl around city, taking over town. Brief inerior of soldier, asleep in a chair. French POWs entering and exiting building, being rushed down a street by German guard. A couple of civilians, including a woman, with the POWs. Various shots of POWS marching down road, with a tank and flowers g...

  12. Socialists and Communists demonstrate in Treptow

    Socialists and Communists demonstrate in Treptow. Many good close shots, among brass band, among crowd, of speaker, etc.

  15. Funeral for Ernst vom Rath

    Views from the funeral train as it passes military troops at attention, civilian crowds at train stations, bridges adorned with swastikas and flooded by saluting military and civilians; occasional views of flower-draped casket on the train. View of train pulling into Dusseldorf station; swastika on front of engine. Views of soldiers, dignitaries at the station. Swastika-draped casket is carried from station and placed on a rolling carriage. VAR views as massive funeral cortege proceeds down wide avenue: swastika banners draped above the street; crowds pack the sidewalks; all levels of milit...

  16. Munich Agreement

    Events related to Munich Pact, whereby France and England acceded to Hitler's demands to annex the Sudetenland. Neville Chamberlain arrives from plane. He walks past stormtroopers, a brief shot of the British and German flags flying together. Chamberlain and another man (in civilian dress -- perhaps another Englishman?) in the first car of a motorcade, riding down a street and waving to the crowds, who give "Heil" salutes. INT at meeting. Hitler, Himmler, Hess, Goering, Mussolini, Daladier, etc., talking, studying papers. Signing and official stamping of documents.

  17. Labor Corps camp / Reichsarbeitsdienst

    Very large pipes laid side-by-side on sloping hill. Labor corps men work on drainage project in mountainous region. Shots of pipes on hillside. Young men from labor corps: Reichsarbeitsdienst [RAD] jog through woods. WS of project site. Several views of men digging at site, pushing wheelbarrows. Brief shot of calisthenics. Outdoor class on political geography for RAD men. Young men in shorts and shoes, sitting, mountains in background. Brief shot of men in lake. Location: Bavarian Alps.

  18. Romani children in an orphanage in Germany

    MLS, MS, and MCU of Romani and other children playing on a courtyard under the supervision of a nun (dressed in full habit) in Josefspflege orphanage in Mulfingen, Germany. LS girls in a circle, playing an orderly game with the nun. Boys too. Some stare at camera. Girls in braided pigtails, bows, smocks. Crowding around camera (VQ: a bit softer). Lunchtime outside. Children wearing blue uniforms (color improves). CU of lovely faces, innocent, happy. They clown and compete for the camera. Boys play in courtyard, carry shoes. MCU playing with marble on board. Picking apples up in a tree.

  19. Reichstag gutted by fire

    Title: "Reichstag is gutted by Fire by Red Incendiaries - Chamber, where Deputies meet in Berlin parliament, is destroyed as result of communist plot." Exterior shots of the damaged dome of the Reichstag, fireman with their truck on the street, shifts to interior scenes of the gutted building. Close ups of structural damage and still-smoking rubble. A policeman stands in the wreckage. Fireman spray water on the rubble. The British narrator tells of the fire, and says that after the imminent general election, Parliament will need to find a temporary home. He notes that Hindenburg's chair was...

  20. 1930 election campaign

    1930 election campaign; various political parties campaigning. Intertitles in Russian. Motorized billboards, people handing out communist leaflets, demonstrating. Shots of police. A man in the sidecar of a motorcycle waves a Nazi flag as he rides down the street. Banners representing various parties hang from windows. Exterior shots of the KPD and Nazi party headquarters (?). SA reading a newspaper and marching in the street, shot from above and ground level. Good shots of SA marching. Police disembarking from vehicle. Perhaps street violence? Antifascists marching. Police and SA examine an...