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  1. Hitler fireworks

    A band plays from sheet music by torchlight. Fireworks go off, reflected in a body of water. A fireworks display shows an eagle, atop Swastikas, atop the words "Heil Hitler".

  2. Hitler reviews SA

    Hitler reviews the SA (c. 1925) in Nuremberg. SA marching and saluting. A much better-quality version of this same footage can be found in Story 3788. Scene switches to communist party (KPD?) rally. Street violence erupts; police running down street. Camera focuses on a sign reading: "Attention! Prohibited area!" Shots of feet marching; more street violence, including a sequence that is a duplicate of one in Story 3760, Film ID 60, which is dated May 1, 1929. A brief shot of two religious Jews walking down the street, perhaps not related to other footage? See notes about quality.

  3. Goering/SA in Nuremberg

    SA march into Nuremberg. Goering in brown shirt leaves building. Goering in car.

  5. Von Papen speaks

    Title: "Reich Chancellor talks to you - Count von Papen declares through Movietone that all Germany asks is justice from the other nations." A format very similar to story 3729, in which Bruening speaks. Franz von Papen is shown seated at a desk and reads in English from a speech that he holds in his hands. He first dons and then removes his glasses toward the end of the speech. The camera moves closer after the first couple of sentences. He says he is glad to have the opportunity of "addressing a few words to the American public" and speaks of the "discriminating provisions of the Treaty o...

  6. Jews support the Hitler boycott

    A street demonstration in London by 50,000 Jews in favor of Hitler boycott. HASs, crowds gathered for demonstration, carrying placard reading "...in Hitler's eyes, Guilty of Treason". MSs, men in suits and hats parading through streets, women follow. Distributing leaflets. People standing on automobile.

  7. Oral history interview with Fraim Ronel

  8. Einstein leaves

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 5, No. 128, Part 2. Release date, 03/16/1933. VCU Einstein with smiling older woman at his right; crowd mingling (seen from behind) then Einstein again. Other parts of the newsreel include: 01:12:38 Rome, Italy "Excavations reveal priceless art ruins over 2000 years old" 01:13:09 New York, NY "Katherine Spector is chosen 'Queen Esther' in NY beauty contest" 01:13:52 San Pedro, CA "Admiral Leigh views US ships and planes in big Marine parade" 01:14:56 Miami, FL "'Dark Horse' winner of Florida Derby in final Hialeah event" 01:15:59 Clearwater, FL "Newark 'Bears' show ...

  9. Murdered prisoners buried by German civilians

    (LIB 5907) Murder, Gardelegen, Germany, April 22, 1945. HSs, long line of German civilians carrying grave markers and shovels leave village. CUs dead, skulls, corpses. VS, German civilians burying murdered prisoners who were burned to death. VS, German civilians carrying bodies in cemetery. (LIB 5908) Mass Murder, Leipzig, Germany, April 20, 1945. HSs, burned building in concentration camp with bodies lying in the wreckage. CUs, 2 survivors. CUs, partially burned bodies entangled in electrified barbed wire fence. Corpses in a shed and burned barracks. MCUs, Russian women, forced laborers, c...

  10. Oral history interview with Sophie Miklos

  11. Family business; market; shops

    Reel 3. Marketplace in Humenne with tents and shops. The Klein family's shop was located across from this market. Peasants from the local villages traveled to Humenne on Mondays and Fridays to sell their wares. Local policemen pose for the camera with one of the American relatives (Louis or Harry Sommer in a dark suit and hat). Cousins stand before their leather goods shop owned by uncle Jacob Grossman. Pan up to sign on store: "Jakob Grossmann. Obchod Kozou." Carts with horses and people pass through streets of village. 01:15:32 Hermann Klein's brick-making factory. Smoke stack. Pan up and...

  12. Oral history interview with Shaike Dan

  13. Minsk in ruins

    LS pan of billowing smoke over burning Minsk (in daytime). Pan of rubble, views of soldiers, buildings afire, motorcycle (with sidecar) and jeeps drive down street through destroyed town. LS of big blocky building (Communist architecture) and shot of Lenin statue (narration calls it the "Soviet paradise"). VAR rubble heaps, some smoking; civilians sorting through; MLS of very little children wandering around rubble, watching adults try to salvage what they can. Jeep/trucks drive through muddy streets of village, invading. In BG, citizens watch by edge of house.

  14. Goering speaks about power

    State celebration of justice on the occasion of the formation of the German Reichs-Justice-Administration on April 2, 1935. Goering speaking to lawyers at a gathering at the State Opera House in Berlin. MCU Goering speaking with CAs to overhead shots of theater. Judges on stage, Hitler and other officials in audience. Speech re: guarantee of rights can only be found in the Recht des Volkes, which is the basis of the State.

  15. Soviet POWs; German Army waits

    Pan at edge of road, German Army standing around (some officers visible). Soviet POWs grouped together, under guard of German soldier. Wounded German soldiers receive medical aid from Red Cross.

  16. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 20 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.

  17. Camp in Argeles, Southern France

    Argelès - An "escaped prisoners" camp, people who have escaped from "Red Spain." General shots of men sitting around tents, performing manual labor. Men carrying twigs on their backs. Seated by a fire. Smoke from cigars drifts up through the air. LS of camp, little tents, lots of men (dirty and disheveled). Barbed wire.

  18. Goebbels speaks re: international Jewry

    Goebbels delivers address at "Front gegen Moskau" rally in the Kongresshalle in Berlin, standing at podium wearing Nazi party uniform (MS and MCU). He says: "During the NSDAP new formation of European enlightened culture, we'll declare war on Bolshevism and international Judaism, the anti-middle class, anti-cultural. Nazis are trying to build new culture. Jews are against culture itself....It means the destruction of all economies, social and civilized achievements.... Behind all this is the international conspiracy, representing the Jews." He is applauded as he finishes. No shots of crowd.

  19. Hindenburg reviews Naval honor company

    Hindenburg reviews Naval honor company at Wilhelmshaven, Germany

  20. Torchlight parade; SS take oath

    At night, SS swear allegience to Hitler at the Feldherrnhalle in Munich, Germany. Various shots of the building with torchlights, leader of oath on steps with Hitler and other officials, CUs of SS soldiers swearing, lines of SS with torches and standards.