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  1. Zinnowaldschule (a German school): girls in class

    EXT of school with CU of sign "Zinnowaldschule" at front. Schoolgirls on bicycles outside school. VAR shots of the school INT. Girls in class painting and drawing, at desks.

  2. Train station in Humenne; village square

    Reel 5. Brief pan of Budapest (gray, repeated in RG-60.1451). Intertitle: "Humenne -- My Home Town, A Typical Slovakia Village." Trains, people board and deboard. Train station. Boy on peasant cart with cows and a wagon in the main square of Humenne. People gathered in the town square for market days (on Mondays and Fridays). Lots of people, carts, wagons, activity, shops, and houses in BG. Hotel, pan through marketplace. Peasants selling boots, coffee house, man with bales of hay. Horses. People and shops on square. Tea house. Carts with a wagon (possibly with Hermann Klein on board). Hors...

  3. Jewish war veterans, parade, protest

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 5, No. 130, Part 2. Release date, 03/23/1933. Jewish War Veterans parade in New York City to protest Nazi persecution of German Jews. The men are nicely dressed and some wear American flag pins in their lapels or carry American flags. There is a large crowd both watching and marching. Aerial view of two groups marching. MS of people watching the parade. Other parts of the newsreel include: 01:17:33 Washington, DC "Ban on beer lifted as President signs bill legalizing brew" 01:18:47 Chicago, IL "Windy City shivers as sleet and freeze greet gentle Spring" 01:19:28 Pal...

  4. German Army struggles in mud

    Horses and soldiers struggle through mud. Lots of vehicles in convoy. Wide expanse of land.

  5. Himmler & Bach-Zelewski visit camp in Minsk

    Title: "A Visit to a Camp Near Minsk" Heinrich Himmler visits Minsk and a concentration camp near Minsk. Himmler with group of German officers, including Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Karl Wolff, Otto Bradfisch (Leader of Einsatzkommando 8, Einsatzgruppe B). Minsk streets. Greets small line of uniformed men and salutes people on balcony. His car leaves city. MS Himmler seated in car, Bach-Zelewski far right, gestures to local woman wearing kerchief. Himmler and others including Wolff walk through field of cut wheat, talk to young boy who answers. Himmler looks at front end of Russian farm eq...

  6. Hitler becomes chancellor

    Both daytime and nighttime scenes. Daylight scenes are good. Title: "Hindenburg and Hitler at the window of the Reichschancellery." Spotlit Nazi flags passing by. Hindenburg appears at the window, dimly lit from a lamp or candles behind him. SA men bearing torches run in formation. Hitler, spotlit at the window, salutes the crowd below. A brief closer view of Hitler at the window.

  7. Soviet POWs rounded up

    German soldiers search farm. Bedraggled old man comes out of little hut; mustached man is frisked by soldier; soldier pokes/searches in leafy bush with his bayoneted rifle. Dappled sun. MS wounded POWs slowly make their way across field under guard, arm in arm, some being carried, some dragged. Most are wounded, hands up in surrender. All are in some kind of disarray in the field: chaos, fatigue, despair. Very dusty and dry.

  8. Hitler speech

    Hitler speaks, good CUs. Speech: "It is not the economists, or professors or artists...that have raised the German people, but the political soldiers of the NSDAP... (cheers) ...The citizens who say yes to the Fuehrer, but say the Party is something else, know the Fuehrer is the Party and the Party is the Fuehrer... (cheers) ...I believe and I know that the Party will lead Germany to a bright future..." Very good quotes, gestures, and expressions.

  9. Berlin workers leave factory

    Berlin workers leave factory.

  10. Hitler with plane

    Hitler into plane. Reverse angle of plane taking off and aerial (wheel). Hitler receives flowers by plane, signs autograph.

  11. Public telephone booth

    Street scene with ornate facade in BG, nice shops. Man standing under tree near a phone booth. [Phone booth reads "Fernsprecher" [long distance] and has a stamp dispenser). Activity in and around booth as woman and boy exit. A man enters, aware of camera. Sign inside booth: "Fasse dich kurz!" [Be Brief!]

  12. Berlin street scenes; Woolworth storefront

    F. W. Woolworth Co. across top of store front. Shop windows, shoppers and passersby. (black screen between 01:01:20 and 01:01:23) Street scene with Brandenburg Gate. Vehicular traffic passing in both directions. Automobiles, double decker busses.

  13. Kindergarten

    At Froebelhaus kindergarten, VS, mostly MCUs and CUs, children at small tables, watch as woman cuts up apple for them, children help set table for meal, one girl is carrying a leather purse, she sits down and pulls a wrapped sandwich out of her purse and begins to eat it, several children eating apples and bread. [There is a brief scene of the Hitler Youth flying club from Story 510, Film ID 211, this is a miscut, see Notes.] The Kindergarten sequence is then replayed, but in a different sequence.

  14. Hitler speaks: "Germany is Awake"

    Title: At the Berlin Sportspalast, the Reichschancellor thanks the assembled SA and SS for their loyalty, their courage, and their perserverance." Martial music plays as the camera shows the huge assembled crowd from above, standing at attention. Hitler walks through the crowd to the podium and speaks, thanking them for their patience in the past years, stating that he knows that they must have sometimes questioned whether Germany's hour would come, but that now: "That great moment. . . has arrived, Germany is now awakened. . . is the master of her own destiny." Hess and Roehm are visible a...

  15. Anti-Jewish sign; tobacco harvest

    Women and girls harvesting tobacco, bending over tobacco leaves. Close views, wearing aprons. CUs of Autobahn and different kinds of vehicles, mainly trucks, passing on highway. CU and MS of sign "Juden sind hier unerwuenscht" (Jews not wanted here) on country road. Man passes on motorbike; woman walking opposite direction. Old woman seated, handling tobacco leaves. Tobacco hanging to dry. LS silhouette of men and women on roof, passing tiles up the sloping side. Several shots: LS, CU, MS. Closeup of tiles placed.

  16. Jewish refugee children from Belsen in London

    Jewish teenage survivors of Belsen arrive at refugee center in London. Children eating in dining hall, dancing the Hora outside, arriving at Red Cross building, in classes.

  17. Munitions factory

    Large, aproned woman lifts and unwraps "Sprengladungen" (grenades) from straw-filled crate, and wraps one in butcher paper. Men drop the bomb into its casing, then screw on the top. Grenades are lined up. Carts fully loaded with grenades roll out of munitions factory.

  18. Demonstration by Red Front during election

    Demonstration by Red Front during election campaign. Children parade down the street, carrying letters that spell out "Krieg dem Kriege". People watch from the balcony of a coffee house.

  19. Soviet POWs; Nazis in Vilna

    Minsk: Surrendered Soviet soldiers/POWs, all walk along road. With turbans, Asian facial features. MLS, sign, "Berlin-Breslau-Moskau." Vilna: Infantry arrives, walks down country road, proud, tired. A few townspeople and children greet German soldiers with flowers. Watch from in town and along road. Tanks line edge of road.

  20. Wrought iron gates and related parts from the Jewish cemetery in Tarnow, Poland

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn5266
    • English
    • 1920-1990
    • a: Height: 100.250 inches (254.635 cm) | Width: 107.000 inches (271.78 cm) | Depth: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) b: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) c: Height: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) d: Height: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm) | Width: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) e: Height: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Width: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm) | Depth: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) f: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) g: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) | Depth: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) h: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) i: Height: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Width: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) j: Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) k: Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Depth: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) l: Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Depth: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) m: Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Depth: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) n: Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Depth: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) o: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Diameter: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) p: Height: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) q: Height: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) r: Height: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Depth: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) s: Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) t: Height: 21.625 inches (54.928 cm) | Width: 53.000 inches (134.62 cm)

    Wrought iron, double gate from the Jewish cemetery in Tarnów, Poland, acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in 1991. Jewish settlement in the city and the cemetery date back to the 16th century and prior to World War II, 25,000 Jews lived in Tarnów. In September 1939, in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Germany invaded western Poland while the Soviet Union annexed eastern Poland. On September 7, German forces occupied Tarnów and burned all of the city’s synagogues. German authorities blocked Jewish bank accounts, closed schools, required Jews to display...