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  1. Hitler speech at Reichstag: war against US

    Hitler walks past honor guard into Reichstag. Dark footage inside, MCU of Italian and Japanese officials. Audience cheering. Good CU of Hitler seated preparing to speak. MS Hitler at podium, then LS from high angle. Hitler speaks (but no sync sound, whole piece is voice-over narration). More audience shots, members of German general staff who look grim, Nazi Party bigwigs, diplomats, and Nazi party members.

  2. Protest in New York, Jewish organizations

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 5, No. 131, Part 1. Release date, 03/27/1933. Meeting of Jews in Madison Square Garden denouncing Nazis' intolerance. MLS, well-dressed men in dark suits, crowding onto sidewalk, men pushing, pushed and organized by cops in long coats. Inside stadium: LS from high above of crowd/audience, CU Rabbi Stephen S. Wise (man with puffy eyes), speaker (former governor of New York, Al Smith) and microphones from CBS, WMLA, WOR, holding out hand, flashes. From above, audience clapping. Bearded old man in crowd with beret. Other parts of newsreel include: Mare Island, CA "Firs...

  3. Invading Soviet Villages

    Libau in flames. Nazi officer with (moving) camera. Infantry moving into Schaulen. Lots of soldiers on shiny horseback prancing into town. Civilians hand flowers to soldiers. Soldiers given propaganda newspapers "Die Front" as they go by. Nazi soldier lying on ground. LS sunlight filtering through smoke. German soldiers arresting POWs in wheat field. Sparkly light. A few (Russian) POWs limping towards German soldiers. One is clearly injured, shirtless. Sign: "Jonava." LS rubble, church in BG. INT and EXT of synagogue. The narration indicates that this is the only building left undisturbed b...

  4. Hausser uniformed SA toy soldier with swastika armband

    SA [Sturmabteilung] uniformed toy soldier manufactured by O. & M. Hausser in Ludwigsburg, Germany, between 1930 and 1943. It was purchased by Hans Pauli in Nuremberg, Germany, at an unknown date before 1991. Hausser made realistic toy soldiers and figurines to scale from a trademarked mixture called Elastolin. During the 1930s, figurine sets accurately representing NSDAP (Nazi Party) leaders and organizations were popular collectibles. The SA was a Nazi Party paramilitary organization, also called Brownshirts, founded by Hitler in 1920, and led by Ernst Rohm. Stormtroopers were known fo...

  5. Nazi flag with swastika and the signatures of American liberators

    Captured by American liberators, March 1945, Bischofsheim, Germany.

  6. German occupation of Denmark

    Title: "Non-aggression Pact" Stating that the decision is quite firm to hold the peace between Denmark and Germany under all circumstances. Looks to be dated May 31, 1939; time code cuts off the date. The German occupation of Denmark, April 9, 1940. Menacing shots of German troops and guns. Port, crowded with cars and pedestrians on the move. Tanks move in, pedestrians scatter. SS and troops march through streets. Danish civilians watch.

  7. German soldiers advance

    German soldiers on the Eastern front marching and bicycling along bumpy road in woods towards Bialystok and Minsk. Trucks plowing across land. Units coming from everywhere by all means. Inexorable push of Army, swallowing up territory.

  8. 6th Anniversary of Power; Nighttime Rally

    Celebration on 6th anniversary of the NSDAP coming to power [Machtergreifung]. Nighttime torch rally in Wilhelmstrasse. CU of banners. SA and SS. LS Hitler and Goering on balcony. Torch parade goes underneath balcony, more torches. From rooftop looking down onto balcony and street (unusual angle). Quick CU of Goering and Hitler. Sync sound of marching band, crowds. Good sound of drums and bugles/horns. Band plays. More torches. VLS includes Reichstag building in background. Torches seen from inside and through a window. Three stormtroopers march together, leading a division. Goering. Everyo...

  9. Hitler reviews SA

    Title - "Fascists Hail Hitler - Thousands of Nationalists Opposing Compromises by Government are Reviewed by Leader in Thuringia." Crowds line a street as an SA band marches past (Steinitz department store (?) appears in the background). Scene of Hitler reviewing the parade, with Rudolf Hess behind him and Wilhelm Frick in civilian clothing in front of Hitler. The camera pans up to show people leaning out of windows (of a hotel?). Scene switches to Hitler in a car riding through the street - he stands and salutes the crowds lining the street.

  10. Refugees arrive at Ellis Island

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 19, No. 504, Part 1. Release date, 05/20/1946. Refugees arriving at Ellis Island on board the "Marine Flasher". LS, boat lined with passengers. View from boat, silhouetted FG men with hats, crowd waving. MS family waving, standing at edge, packed crowd behind fence/barrier of Ellis Island. Dark interior. Slow pan people on boat; happy. CU old woman with flowered hat and younger woman yelling at guard. 02:35:32 MS, young women, Sonia Weissman (survivor of Warsaw Ghetto), running to hug and kiss. Crying women embracing. Similar shots, including hugs, tears, man kissin...

  11. Corpses at Ohrdruf Concentration Camp; von Papen

    A series of shots of corpses in various states of decay. Atrocities; various VIP Military scenes at the compound. (LIB 5388) Ohrdruf Horrors, Ohrdruf, Germany, April 10, 1945. MLS, billets where prisoners were housed. MSs, CUs, bodies of starved victims of concentration camp. (Inmates at the camp were Russian, Polish, Belgian, and French.) MS, LS, CU, charred parts of bodies of victims who were burned to death. CUs, human skulls, burned, charred heaps of bodies. LS, pits where bodies were buried. MSs, CUs, leg of cadaver sticking out of mud in pit. MSs, CUs, bodies covered with lime stacked...

  12. Hindenburg and von Papen vote

    Title in German: "Germany's first citizen vote." Paul von Hindenburg is shown with his back to the camera. He enters the voting booth and emerges with his ballot, which he hands off to an official. He is asked a question (?) and turns to the camera. He answers. Dialogue is unintelligible. Title appears: "Von Papen on the meaning of the election." Franz von Papen emerging from the voting booth. He hands over his ballot and is asked a question. He turns to the camera and answers that the vote is meaningful for both Germany and for the whole world. Exact words unclear; audio is quite poor.

  13. KZ: Pictorial report of five concentration camps. Pictorial report of concentration camps

    A copy of the “KZ: Bildbericht aus fünf Konzentrationslagern” [KZ: Pictorial report of five concentration camps] pamphlet published in Germany in 1945. It was published quickly by the American War Information Office to increase awareness of the atrocities that had occurred. It contains post-liberation photographs at Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Nordhausen, and Ohrdruf concentration camps and the site of the Gardelagen massacre.

  14. Belsen Concentration Camp on the 9th day after liberation

    Little girl and other female inmates look beyond barbed wire at a lorry and a trailer filled with dead. In the trailer there are two SS prisoners, including Dr. Klein. MS of little girl watching female bodies being dragged/buried (on other side of barbed wire). Cut to waiting trucks with bodies and diggers. MLS across open grave where British guards and Burgermeisters stand around pit. MS local dignitaries listening to address next to grave. MSs of women of SS administration - Charlotte Klein, Gertrude Feist, Herta Enlert, etc.

  16. Hitler and Nazi demonstrations re: reparations

    Hitler and Nazi demonstrations regarding reparations. Crowds line the streets as Hitler arrives in an automobile with Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl. A close up shot of Hitler; Hanfstaengel in profile. Hitler reviews SA troops and Hitler Youth as they march down a street.

  17. Jerzy and Zofia Guminski papers

    The Jerzy and Zofia Guminski papers contains two letters and two photographs relating to the Guminski’s experiences in the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps. One of the letters was written by Jerzy Guminski while in the Auschwitz concentration camp and addressed to his sister, Hanna Guminski, who was in Swinder, Poland. Jerzy reports on his health condition and asks her to send him sheet music. The second letter was sent by Zofia Guminski from Ravensbrück concentration camp and addressed to her family. In the letter she thanks them for sending her packages. Both letters are hand...

  18. Merrill S. Mays collection

    The collection consists of two black and white photographs of a concentration camp in Germany. The exact location can not be determined. The number 17 is legible on the side of one of the buildings in one of the photographs.

  19. Samuel Weissberg collection

    The collection includes, but is not limited to photographs, identification documents, membership cards, false identity documents, and documents attesting to war time resistance activities by Samuel Weissberg in France.

  20. Nuremberg Rally 1935

    MS Hitler speaks at podium on Hitler Youth Day. Swastika flag is raised and waves. Great pomp and circumstance parade through picturesque town of Nuremberg. VAR HA views, including SA in knee socks and tassels and shorts. VAR participants: military attachees from Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain, et al. In stadium, Hitler salutes Hitler Youth as they cheer and "Heil." Several CU of Aryan boys, girls. Hitler speaks: "Ideal of the German people...healthy...we must have a new type of man...so our nation isn't destroyed by degenerate characteristics."