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  1. Terezin ghetto records

    Contains selected records from the Terezin ghetto in Czechoslovakia, 1941-1945.

  2. Case of Julius Streicher presented at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 490) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 10, 1946. Rear views, Col. Griffith-Jones of the British prosecution presenting the case against Julius Streicher. He reads articles and describes pictures in "Der Stuermer" about alleged atrocities committed by Jews. MLS, defense counsel for Streicher, Dr. Hans Marx, asks the Tribunal questions about the book offered as evidence. 06:37:35 Photographer visible behind the judges. The British prosecutor steps in and explains. Defense counsel returns to his place and the British prosecutor continues. MS, prisoners' dock showing Streich...

  3. Survivors arrive in US

    News Film - The Week in Film: Arrival in the US of citizens coming from concentration camps who lost their homes in Europe.

  4. Hoover reviews troops; Nuremberg Trial closeups

    Herbert Hoover Reviews 1st Cavalry Div, Atsugi, Japan, May 5-6, 1946. Herbert Hoover accompanied by Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger reviewing elements of the 1st Cav. Div. From an M-8 armored car and later from the reviewing stand. C-54 taxiing on airfield. Mr. Hoover coming off plane. MS, Hoover posing with Maj. Gen. William F. Marquat. Rear view, cars driving off airfield. 22:03:11 Closeups - War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, May 1946. INT, CUs of the following prisoners wearing earphones: Julius Streicher, Walther Funk, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Franz von Papen, Alfred Jodl, Hans F...

  5. British and French prosecutors' final speeches at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 327) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 29-30, 1946. Partial coverage of Chief British Prosecutor Sir Hartly Shawcross' final speech. Pan, Prosecutor for the Provisional Government of the French Republic, August Champetier de Ribes, starting the introduction of his final speech. Pan from de Ribes speaking to defense tables and back to de Ribes.

  6. Nazi Party Chancellery Partei-Kanzlei der NSDAP (NS 6)

    Contains documents pertaining to the activities of the Nazi Party 1933-1945. Topics include general correspondence of the party; mobilization and defense; the Volksturm; Nazi ideology in the armed forces; use of security police and the SD to confront political opposition; the July 20, 1944, attempt on Hitler's life; copies of foreign propaganda; reorganization of the administrative divisions in the Reich; ethnic Germans in other countries; racial policies; statistics on ethnic make-up of European countries; economic data of, and economic relations with various European countries; industrial...

  7. Factory/prison

    White wooden crucifix (grave marker) in a wide open field. A horse and plow move through BG. VS, wide angle and CU of Dubno prison. Four old women, sitting on a cement floor sorting through bits of rags. Dissolves into scene in a factory, several looms at work. Men operating the machines. VS pulleys, CU men at the machines. VS workers and peasants at work, in tattered clothing, MS and CU men, women and children standing around a sign, they are very poor. Children look directly at the camera. LS, across the lake of a chateau. Translation of Russian narration with Ukrainian citation at beginn...

  8. Ostarbeiter games; Parade of SS Galicia in Kolomja; Estonian Waffen SS battalion

    Several shots of different groups of people on a field, each with a sign indicating their nationality: Protektorat, Kroaten, Franzosen, Belgier, Hollander, Ostarbeiter, Italiener, Bulgaren, Ostarbeiter. The narration indicates that these are work teams living and working in Germany. They go on to engage in athletic competitions, including tug of war, a track race, and a soccer game (France vs. Protektorat, France wins). Military ceremony for the SS Waffen Division Galicia in Kolymyja, Ukraine. Men stand on a wooden platform in a field, surrounded by a crowd. They carry flags and military st...

  9. Gisevius testimony at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 128) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 26, 1946. LSs, Dr. Rudolf Dix, counselor for Schacht, questions the witness Hans Bernhardt von Gisevius. MLS, Gisevius testifying. Pan to Hermann Goering scribbling notes. 19:02:40 Pan to dock, Ribbentrop. CU, Gisevius testifying. MCU, Dr. Otto Stahmer and another defense counselor making notes. 19:07:33 MCS, right side of dock, including Speer, Von Hindenburg, Fritsch, Frank, Frick, Streicher, and Funk listening to Gisevius testify. LSs, Gisevius speaking of the relationship between the German Army and the Gestapo. Pan from Chief Pr...

  10. Russian prosecutor presents case

    (Munich 04) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 21-22, 1946. Russian prosecutor Maj. Gen. Lev Romanovitch Shainin presents case to the Tribunal. MSs, Justices A F Volchoff (USSR), Maj. Gen. I T Nikitchenko (USSR), and Birkett (Britain). Russian prosecutor M Y Raginsky presents case on the destruction of cultural and scientific treasures and churches.

  11. War Front; FDR speaks about Fifth Column

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 12, No. 879, Part 2. Release date, 05/27/1940. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: 12:35:09 Part 2A: "On the War Front" Milan, Italy. As war fever soars in Italy, Count Ciano, Il Duce's son-in-law and foreign secretary, appears before a huge throng of 100,000. Alexandria, Egypt. Ready to move the minute Italy enters the war, French and British warships stand guard, to protect the vital Empire life-line to India. 12:36:02 Part 2B: "On the War Front" Norway. Graphic scenes of a British naval attack at Narvik, with Nazi bombers trying to silence the warshi...

  12. Nuremberg Trial war criminals on plane; Landsberg Hangings

    21:28:40 (Munich 187) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, May 24, 1946. War criminal von Burgdorff seated in truck on Furth airfield and guarded by MPs. Col. Muszkat, Chief of the Polish Mission for Prosecution of War Crimes at Frankfurt, signing receipt for prisoners. Prisoners are put aboard plane. INTs showing prisoners seated in plane. 21:34:01 (Munich 191) Hangings at Landsberg, Germany, May 28, 1946. Military hangings of two German civilians.

  13. Field Marshal von Paulus sworn as witness at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 551) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 11, 1946. Rear views, Col. J V Pokrovsky, assistant Russian prosecutor, addressing Tribunal. LS, one of the defense attorneys addressing the prosecutor. LS, ex-Field Marshal von Paulus enters courtroom and is sworn in. Von Paulus tells the court about his appointment and his duties, and how he learned of the plans to invade Russia.

  14. Italian Ministry of Defense Selected records of the Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito

    Contains a census, questionnaires, documents, circulars, and correspondence relating to Jews, racial policy, military institutions, Yugoslavia, France, and Greece. Includes reports on the activities of the Ustashi against Jews in Yugoslavia; reports of Jews moving into newly occupied territories; translation of an article from "Der Spiegel" on the conduct of the Italian military in protecting Jews in occupied territories; the role of the Catholic Church in persecuting Jews in Rome; lists of military officers who aided Jews in Greece, France and Croatia; bibliography from the book on Italian...

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Farming; Agricultural School in Israel

    Farming: men and women feeding cows, cleaning stalls, cows in fenced area, cart with hay. Teens exiting school building, getting on truck with sign reading "Mikveh: Israel Agricultural School". With shovels, head-on shot, going to farm/garden, shots of gardening, sprinkler, cactus. Three people go to grave with memorial reading "Alliance Israelite Universell - Charles Netter." Group walking towards camera on country road, with luggage. People running out of school to greet them with flowers. Sign, "Educational and Agricultural Institute." HAS, garden with workers, plants, cactuses. Watering...

  16. German occupation of Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine

    First days of German occupation of Kyiv [Kiev]. People in horse-drawn carts on a country road; perhaps they are peasants, perhaps they are Kievans fleeing their city. Train. Droves of people traveling along a country road, carrying sacks and leading mules and horses drawing carts loaded with their possessions (likely fleeing the German presence with their belongings). Germans in the streets of Kyiv, soldiers and tanks on the move. Fires burning, smoldering ashes and embers. Soviet soldiers surrender in the field to German soldiers with guns. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of Red Army soldiers ...

  17. Polly Bergtraun collection

    Collection consisting of nine pre war photographs of Polly Bergtraun [donor] and her family, seven photographs of the donor and her rescuers, and one false identity card for the donor.

  18. Newsreel Soviet Ukraine

    PRAVO. Right to Education, Dnipropetrovsk. Sign: In Yiddish and Ukrainian. Classroom: Blackboard with Yiddish writing. College age students, female and male. Translation: [Soviet propaganda newsreel] Opens with the title "Right to education." The tablet on the wall reads: "Dnipropetrovsk Jewish Metal Manufacturing Technical College," (Jewish technical college in Dnipropetrovsk). "Would it have been possible just to dream about such a thing for Jewish youth in capitalistic tsarist Russia? Only in the Soviet country did Stalin's constitution provide every nationality with a right to education."

  19. German TV documentary film on antisemitism (reel 9)

    Portrait of Bernhard Loesener, who was in charge of the Jewish Affairs office until 1943. His portrait is replaced by that of Globke. Scenes of Wannsee as the narrator describes the Wannsee conference. Excerpt from "Der Ewige Jude" showing rats. Quick succession of well-known still photographs showing the persecution of Jews, followed by a discussion of the similarities between Globke and Adolf Eichmann. Footage of a German confiscating personal property from Jews. A document is used to prove that as early as 1933 Globke profited from the persecution of the Jews. Footage of Jews at forced l...

  20. Defendants talk in dock at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 425) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 7, 1945. Prisoners enter courtroom in groups, take their places, greet each other and talk. The prisoners enter in the following order: Hermann Goering, Karl Doenitz, Rudolf Hess, Erich Raeder, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Baldur von Schirach, Wilhelm Keitel, Fritz Sauckel, Hjalmar Schacht, Hans Fritzsche, Walther Funk, Constantin von Neurath, Julius Streicher, Albert Speer, Wilhelm Frick, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Hans Frank, Franz von Papen, Alfred Rosenberg, Alfred Jodl (similar to scene in Story 2799, Film ID 2341).