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  1. Hindenburg and Wachtruppe

    Intertitle reads, "Aufnahmen aus dem Leben Kaiser Franz Josefs laesslich der 100. Wiederkehr seines Geburtstag." Hindenburg leaving building (Reichstag?), salutes camera. Other officers stand around. Intertitle reads, "Berliner Wachtruppe pfing den Besuch des Reichspraesidenten." Berliner Wachtruppe greets Hindenburg as he reviews the troops. Profile of Hindenburg as he walks back and forth, salutes an officer.

  2. American anti-Nazi protests

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 720. Release date, 11/15/1938. Contains various Universal Newsreel clips of anti-Nazi protest speeches of prominent US leaders. 01:54:28: "FDR Leads Nation in Protest Against Nazi Persecutions" Denouncing Nazism. FDR at desk, quick flash, ready to speak, waiting (FDR does not actually speak). Street scenes, broken windows (quick) in Czechoslovakia. Bald man giving testimony. 01:54:51: Herbert Hoover at Palo Alto, CA. CBS microphone MCU. "Americans should be indignant at terrible outbreak of Jewish persecution in Germany... brutal intolerance...no parallel; e...

  3. Siegfried and Alma Seligmann family papers

    The Siegfried and Alma Seligmann family papers consist of biographical materials, camp documents, and emigration and immigration records documenting the Seligmanns’ journey aboard the MS St. Louis, return to Europe and brief stay in Belgium, internment in France, and immigration to the United States via Lisbon. Biographical materials include identification papers, German and Belgian registration certificates, and vaccination certificates. Camp documents include lyrics to the Gurs and St. Cyprien camp song “Ich kann sie nicht mehr seh’n die Pyrénéen,” a summons to appear in Gurs, and a certi...

  4. Communists from election campaign

    Aerial shot of a street with flags flying and a banner showing an individual stepping on a swastika. Shots of pro-communist banners and posters, including several for Ernst Thaelmann, the KPD leader who ran against Hitler in 1932. Intertitles in Russian. An individual is shown constructing what appears to be a collecting box for the Communist party as a child watches. A star painted with a hammer and sickle and a photo of Thaelmann adorn the box, and a hand places coins into the box.

  5. Erwin Haber papers

    The Erwin Haber papers consist of correspondence written by Erwin Haber, brother of Kitty Goldberg, written in August 1942. The correspondence relates the experiences of Erwin Haber and include a letter he threw from a train as we was being deported from Malines (Mechelen), Belgium, in August 1942. The letter was found by a stranger and mailed to his family.

  6. Hitler at cathedral; SA honor guard

    Title: "Hitler follower buried in state - Germany's new chancellor leads 100,000 Berliners in official funeral for Nazi killed in inaugural riot." Bells toll as the camera pans across huge crowds of SA men. Hitler (in a Brownshirt uniform) is shown leaving the Berlin Cathedral, surrounded by SS men, as the narrator notes that this is the first time a state funeral has been provided for a private citizen. A brief shot of an SA honor guard, holding Nazi flags, switches to a bird's eye view, which includes the cross atop the cathedral, of the funeral cortege.

  7. FDR speaks

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 7, No. 327, Part 1. Release date, 02/11/1935. Roosevelt, wearing a bowtie, reads script in front of camera. Shot of boy scouts huddled around radio in uniforms (also shot from inside the radio looking out). CU of boy scout, VS of scouts grouped together. On the occasion of the National Scouting Convention to be held in Washington, DC. Roosevelt invites scouts from other countries to attend the convention, speaks of scouting as an activity that goes beyond barriers of "race or creed," an important activity in all civilized countries.

  8. Oral history interview with Jossi Harel

  9. Banners

    Archway with garlands woven into the frame to say "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer." Signs and banners saying "10 April: Ja" (ratification of Anschluss). Panning shots around city. Trolley cars, buses, cyclists. LS pan up street. Churches visible. Berliner Rathaus, Unter den Linden, Denkmal Humboldt statue, Friedrich des Grossen [Frederick the Great], Janowitz bridge, Teltow Kanal, Hallesches Tor, Pergamonmuseum, Hausvaerland, Messegelande, Pferderennen, Leipzigerstrasse. Train station. Olympic stadium. Marketplace.

  11. Jewish forced labor

    VO starts with "Zuruck nach Polen..." Jewish kids gathered in front of building. MLS of older religious man all alone walking slowly down a street, light streams through a delicate little tree, through wooden fence. Propagandistic CUs of Jewish men. Old and young. Narrator describes the Jewish problem as the greatest facing Germany, and other typical antisemitic statements. Camera pans back and forth across unhappy young Jewish men in a clean-up crew, digging in city street, working near white fence, in ditch, etc.

  12. SA in Rhine country

    Titles are all in German. Title: "Parade in the mountains". SA march across a country bridge; trucks full of Nazis drive across the bridge. A few children run alongside the trucks. The camera moves closer and follows one truck full of SA men as they salute. Title: "S.A. march in the Nazi stronghold of Waldbroel." A crowd watches an SA parade down the street. Nazi banners hang from windows. Closer view of participants in the parades, including a focus on the flags they are carrying. Men in white shirts carry a sign that reads "NSBO," which stands for the Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellen...

  13. Soviet Army liberates Klooga concentration camp

    Soviet Army liberates Klooga concentration camp. Map. Military scenes including shots of soldiers/Army in field, INT at a desk, on tanks, fighting in forests. Military advances. Shots of horses and more tanks. Map depicting attacks.

  14. Luftwaffe Honor Day

    Goering reviews Luftwaffe troops, watches a parade of Luftwaffe. Several good shots of Goering in full regalia, good shots of goosestepping, CUs of soldiers (many shots familiar).

  15. 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.

  16. Goebbels on Jews/German Art and Culture

    Goebbels speaks from podium in philharmonic concert hall about expelling the Jews from artistic and cultural life. Shots of the audience seated. CUs of Goebbels speaking in SS uniform: "We have a German theater, a German film, a German press, and a German literature, a German art, and a German culture." Need for Jews to be eliminated from German culture. Sounds calm, confident. Huge swastika banner behind his head. The audience applauds. Portion of speech (transcribed by researcher): "Der Einwand es gabe keine Moglichkeit, die Juden aus dem deutsche Kunst, und Kulturleben zu beseitigen...oh...

  17. Jewish Refugees in Shanghai

    CU refugee ship with 900 well-dressed men and women on board from Germany waving. On open trucks (after having landed) into city. Receiving rations, seated at picnic tables outdoors. Narrator: "Destitute...having gone penniless into exile."

  18. Goldschmidt School in Berlin, private Jewish school

    Prospectus of Jüdische Privatschule / Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt für Knaben und Mädchen (Jewish private school created when Jews were not allowed to enroll in public schools). Camera iris moves on brochure's photograph of school, repeated several times. Berlin, Gruenewald.

  19. Hitler trial in Munich

    Title (in German): "Kriegsschule [military academy] where the trial took place." View of large building on a snowy street. Camera focuses on the word "Kriegsschule" then pans down to the guards in front of the building. A wide view of the snowy street, then shots of the barbed wire and guards in front of the building. People (women and men) show identification to the guards and enter the building. "Lawyer Luedgeborn" (according to title) shown getting out of a car - snow is now falling. More shots of guards patrolling the entrance, barbed wire, and people going about their business in the s...

  20. Deportation of Jews to Cyprus

    LS pan of "Four Freedoms." CU of young man hanging desperately onto ship (trying to resist getting off boat and being deported to Cyprus); British soldiers try to pull him away. LS men on board behind barbed wire.