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  2. War crimes, Herzenheim, Germany

    (B-1190) War Crimes, Herzenheim, Germany, May 10, 1945. LSs, MSs, German civilians digging up bodies in concentration camp. CUs, bodies of men, women and children showing signs of violent death. EXTs, concentration camp buildings, crude and filthy interiors. CU, corpses laid out in field. INTs, camp buildings. CU, naked female corpses laid out. VS, Men burying corpses.

  3. Passengers on the St. Louis

    CU "St Louis: Hamburg" written on ship's bow. LS ship from dock as ship enters harbor. Passengers walk down gangplank or are carried off on stretchers. Waving from dock. Boarding train.

  4. Jews at UNRRA camp in Austria

    Displaced persons, UNRRA. Signs in Hebrew. At right, sign reading "UNRRA DP camp Admont." Several scenes of Jews marching with picks and shovels. LS, camp, tending crops, hoeing, women washing (various shots). MCU, four men walking on dirt road, UNRRA official? UNRRA officers caring for children. School children, teenagers sitting at desks outside, teacher writes on blackboard: "We hope to go to Palestine" in English and Hebrew. Couple looking at announcement board. CU, man sitting on steps.

  5. Belsen Concentration Camp: survivors and burial

    Low pile of naked corpses. In BG, survivors busy, smoke, trees. SS men march through the frame. More captured Germans enter gate. LS German soldiers unloading trucks (out of focus). From above, large crowd of female survivors, some smile at the camera for group portrait. MS of women sitting in compound, behind them is pile of boots and shoes, one woman takes some from the pile. VAR MLS of women hanging around, eating. More shots of corpses, mangled face, eye sockets; VCU, face of female, hollowed, glassy eyed. LS, wall, edge of pit, 10 feet down, shadows into pit. People looking down into i...

  6. KPD demonstration 1929

    KPD (communist party) demonstration on May 1, 1929. Shots of police running down the street, seen from above through a window down an alley/street. Shot of police marching and running after people. Several shots of police attempting to push and beat people. A horse and cart in street, people rush by.

  7. Shnayderman family photograph collection

    The Shnayderman family photograph collection, circa 1930s-1941, consists of photographs of Reveka Shnayderman (Riva, 1922-1941), Sofiya Shnayderman (1924-1941), Dvosya Shnayderman (1929-1941), Dora Shnayderman (1910-1941), and her children Fima (1930-1941) and Gitya (1935-1941) Shnayderman. Also include two photographs that Reveka Shnayderman sent to Dora Shnayderman (1910-1941), while attending school in Kamenetsk Podolsky. All perished in the Holocaust.

  8. Airship and workers in hangar

    INTs, VS, airship hangar and work on ship's infrastructure. CS man working with tool high up on metal girder; young man climbing on girders. Workers at airbase at change of shift, GV of road and workers walking, riding bikes and motorbikes. Older man gets bicycle from rack, rides off. Others walking near hangar. EXT of hangar, doors open slowly, reveal airship inside. INT of office of airship designer, Dr. Hugo Eckener, older man in suit and tie, seated at desk, shots taken from various angles. Dr. Eckener smokes a pipe and speaks to his son off camera. Assistant enters office and they disc...

  9. Red revolution in Munich

    Poster of General Strike. WS, Munich railroads. Red troops with weapons. Kiosk on fire, smoke.

  10. Invasion of USSR

    Early morning street activities in Berlin on morning of invasion of USSR. Preparation of broadcast at radio station. At 5:30 AM Goebbels sits at desk and makes announcement. Shots of people listening. Von Ribbentrop walks into conference. Newspaper headline, then map of Eastern Front. Flare goes up in dark, silhouettes of troops in dark. Artillery fire and burning target presumably in East Prussia. Dismantling of border post. German troops move cautiously forward. Explosion in building interior.

  11. Annexation of Austria; Austrians welcome Nazis

    Hitler's (and German Army's) triumphant arrival in Austria. Many shots of wildly enthusiastic crowds (synch sound). Swastika-shaped confetti. Waves of Nazi frenzy through the countryside. Crowds lunging for miniature swastika flags. Rural folk line country road as German military rolls by. Steady tracking shot of Hitler's motorcade and thousands of people in Vienna, all gathered in square, hanging from trees, sitting on statues, etc.

  12. Jews being beaten

    Individual Jews are beaten by local civilians and dragged across street as Nazi soldiers watch. Narrator: "Anger of local population...against the cowardly Jews [who are] guilty of causing endless suffering...get their punishment."

  13. American woman speaks

    American woman Ruth Mitchell released from internment in Germany speaks about the cruelties inflicted on Jews in Germany. MS and CU of Mitchell speaking.

  14. Children in Third Reich

    Unidentified Kinderheim: children, some in Hitler Youth or BDM uniforms. Extremely regimental flag ceremony in front of the house: one boy gives the signal, and all the boys turn their heads and salute the raising of a huge swastika flag. Children at desks in classroom, mostly CUs of children writing on slates (in one shot it is clear that they write in Zutterling).

  15. Hitler at Autobahn ceremony; Goebbels speaks

    Brief: MS of Hitler (upbeat) waving to passing motorcade during celebration of completion of another section of the Autobahn (Muenchen to Kirchhaven). 04:30:26 Goebbels speaks at Gauparteitag [Regional Party Day]. At outdoor rally, Goebbels on platform speaks re: the Party is the pillar of the German State. Intercut with various good shots of SA, NSDAP party members, army, SS, and other contingents with flags and crowds listening. Huge banner with eagle/swastika on scaffolding. Shots of contingents marching. Sound: "Horst Wessel Lied" (the SA anthem).

  16. Hitler's first speech as Chancellor

    Hitler's first appearance since becoming Chancellor. Hitler speaks to SA and civilians at an enormous rally at the Berlin Sportpalast. Some LS from various angles of stadium filled with spectators, with a lengthy and excited voiceover narration from Goebbels, describing the building excitement and enormous size of the crowd. Among the crowd shots is a group of what appears to be Japanese people sitting in a row. A banner reading "Macht Deutschland frei vom Marxismus" is visible time to time. Hitler enters, walks through crowd, shakes hands. Introduced, good sound on "Heils." Hitler pauses a...

  17. Hitler at Siemens factory

    Hitler's speech to Siemens factory workers. Hitler (on circular platform) starts off calmly, becoming more emphatic: "I want not only peace and quiet/order, but also what is our right....I'm not interested in the intellectual, I'm interested in the German people...." Shots of the workers in white lab coats listening to his speech.

  18. SA marching through streets

    Hitler, Goering and others review marching SA troops. A title in German indicates that the whole population has turned out to greet the SA. SA men accept cups of water from bystanders. Hitler and the others salute the men as they pass by. Good shots from behind of the men marching down a street crowded with onlookers, who cheer and wave flags. A title says, "The second hour, and still no end." Another title, not entirely visible on the screen, seems to be mocking the KPD by saying that they KPD would claim that the lanes in the street were very narrow, and that only a few curious people mad...

  19. Swastikas, flags, posters of Hitler

    Fast cuts, good images. VAR newspaper printing sequence of the Völkische Beobachter; people hanging flags on buildings; VAR Nazi banners and flags hanging on buildings, portraits of Hitler. Brief cuts of rallies and Goebbels, Hess, Goering, speaking. Sequence of trains and planes with banners: "Ein Volk, ein Führer, ein Wille"; "Treue dem Führer." Swastikas strung overhead on street. Optical effects throughout. NOTE: This is propaganda about propaganda.

  20. Hitler meets with Petain, Laval, Franco

    MCU Petain gets out of car and shakes hands with von Ribbentrop. Petain crosses train tracks and shakes Hitler's hand. They are photographed. Hitler on train with Goering and military officers; Hitler laughing and in good spirits. Train passes saluting officers in Hendaye station, close to French/Spanish border. CU of town signs. Hitler and officers on train platform await arrival of Franco. Spanish train pulls in, Franco climbs out and he and Hitler warmly shake hands. Hitler salutes down line of Spanish officers and Franco salutes German honor guard. Hitler and Franco board train. [music ...