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  1. US soldiers resting at campsite

    Underexposed sequence of men with mess kits, standing around waiting. Cleaning mess kits, various CUs. Campsite activity continues. Lieutenant passing out lifesavers, cigarettes, opening mail, etc. Men digging hole or trench, clowning around. Jeep has sign that reads: "Messenger - do not delay." Hands something to people in tent and drives off. Various shots of camp. Moffat and others cooking on fire and eating. Shot from INT of truck and reverse angle of men loading in. VS of men walking around and eating from mess kits. VS of muddy ground. Dark haired GI with round, steel-rimmed glasses. ...

  2. RAF airfield; US military advances

    Stevens and Moffat walking toward camera and then to what is apparently RAF airfield being briefed by British or Canadian officer next to fighter plane. Stevens climbs into cockpit of fighter (Hawker Sea Fury), officer explaining it. Panning shot of bombed out hangars and other buildings, smoke in distance. Shot of four men at jeep, bombs to side, jeep drives off. Stevens and others in helmets with weapons filming troops advancing in trucks. VS of camouflage tanks coming toward camera and passing (according to handwritten notes in the LOC original cataloger's notes, this depicts the beginni...

  3. Nuremberg Trials special exhibition plasma screen

    Monitor exhibited as part of "Nuremberg Trials: What is Justice?" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Wexner Learning Center from November 2005 to present.

  4. Belgian Bulge Offensive 1944; Malmedy massacre

    Bureau of Public Relations Film no. 1155. (War Department) U.S. motorized infantry rolls into a French town; civilians cheer. U.S. dead and injured are removed by stretcher from a battlefield; tanks, and infantry advance. German film shows officers, including von Runstedt, studying maps; Volksturm, armed with panzerfausts, marching; German tanks and infantry, covered by fog, moving through a snowy forest; a V-1 bomb exploding on an Allied position; camouflaged German tanks advancing; the use of flamethrowers; an Allied motor convoy in flames near Malmedy, Belgium; and U.S. POWs in the town....

  5. American soldiers return home

    Soldiers line up on a dock and board a ship. The ship from afar. A parting view of the dock. Smoke stacks on board the ship. Murray and fellow soldiers at the deck’s railing. A soldier shows off his American money. Ocean shots. Scenes of soldier life on the ship: playing cards, smoking cigarettes, reading, laughing, sleeping, getting sick over the side of the boat. Murray poses for the camera. More ocean shots. Shot of buildings on the coastline. A smaller rowboat by the side of the ship. Soldiers jump off this boat and swim in the ocean. More coastline shots. “The End.”

  6. Nuremberg courtroom; Palace of Justice; Alan Brooke

    (Paris 346) Nuremberg Trials. US Army officer makes statement to court. Civilian reads statement to court. Correspondents listen to statement; clerks, interpreters record remarks. EXTs of the Palace of Justice where Nuremberg trials are held. MS, British guards in front of entrance. CU, sign on Palace of Justice in English and German: "No Loitering" [Verboten]. Local children peer into gated opening. CU, pass for Raymond D. Addario to enter the Palace of Justice on November 10, 1945. Street scenes. Soldiers' and civilians' passes are checked beofre entering courthouse. 05:35 Field Marshal S...

  7. American military parade; seaside town; GIs swimming

    Military parade, men in summer uniforms with pith helmets. Band marching, apparently American troops. There is color guard with five American flags and a reviewing stand. Egyptian buildings with turrets, a mosque. Stevens walks from Fortress toward camera. Roadside shot- Stevens in summer helmet with local boys. Seaside shots of town, beautiful ruins on seaside. Hillside caves. Stevens and officer in FG in front of old buildings. Underexposed shot of Stevens, Mellor and two other men in bathing suits swimming.

  8. Homosexuals in Nazi Germany

    Documentary film about the gay survivors of Nazi Germany, including interviews with three gay survivors. As many as 15,000 homosexuals were sent to concentration camps, targeted by the Nazis as subversives. The "A" -- which stood for "Arschficker" [Assfucker] -- refers to a symbol that pre-dated the pink triangle which gay prisoners were forced to wear. *** Copies available with and without English subtitles ***

  9. Post-liberation photographs of Bergen-Belsen

    Consists of photocopies of photographs taken during April and May of 1945 of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shortly after liberation by the 2nd British Army. Included are photos of camp survivors, burial of dead prisoners by the SS guards of the camp, the burning of several barracks by the British, and several groups of women in the camp.

  10. Mikhoels performs a Yiddish play in Moscow

    HAS, LS set, production, actors in costume performing a play, likely for the Moscow State Yiddish Theater. 01:02:22 CU, Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels in makeup and costume on stage. 01:03:20 Actors on stage.

  11. Contemporary interview; Nazi power in Bulgaria ceases

    Reel 4 Village in Bulgaria. Contemporary footage of man singing a song in Bulgarian and playing the guitar while walking through a small town (the song is performed other times over the duration of the film). Contemporary footage - interview in home of elderly couple, woman reads from letter. Orthodox priest. Nazi women marching, band. Gathering in Sofia. Familiar scene of swastika blowing up. Contemporary scenes of anniversary event/conference. Contemporary footage of man singing the song in Bulgarian and playing the guitar again. End credits in Bulgarian.

  12. American military at Nordhausen; Eisenhower lands in Frankfurt; soldiers on leave in England

    Reel 14: (1945) Concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany; Ike, Frankfurt; Air trip to England; Cambridge American soldiers board military planes in a field. Sign, "Leave Flight Officers." Ansco (film) logo. At Nordhausen concentration camp, soldiers inspect rocket debris. [Fedeli reports visiting the contentration camp at 'Buchenwald' near Weimar, Germany in late April 1945.] Brief LS of camp buildings along road. Pan of liberated camp and environs from a moving vehicle. Dozens of large containers of ammunition stacked side by side in fields, behind a sign: "Tor II." Displaced families pus...

  13. Liberated Jews in Kairouan, Tunisia

    (from previous reel) Wounded soldier, destroyed German tanks (one has the name “Paula” painted on it), and German prisoners of war resting in a field. 00:58 (Entry into Kairouan). A group of people pose for the camera, smiling and making the “V” sign. Most of them have Star of David badges on their clothes. A man and a woman (she wears a white pith helmet) in the center of the group appear to be better dressed than the others. The man holds a dog on a chain leash. British soldiers and young men wearing star badges pose next to a jeep. WS of a street with locals and a couple of British soldi...

  14. Testimony film on display in the USHMM Permanent Exhibition

    2.15 Testimony (with and without subtitles) Testimony film of interviews with Holocaust survivors shown on the second floor of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust". Includes oral histories with the following witnesses: Frank Bleichman Sam Goldberg Emanuel Tanay Tina Strobos Chudson (Tineke Buchter) Agnes Adachi Helen Waterford Norbert Wollheim Leo Bretholz Paulette Fink Stefa Kupfer (Sarah M. Kupfer) Abe Malnik Cecilie Klein-Pollak Agi Rubin (Agate Rubin) Lilly Malnik Gerda Weissman Klein Ruth Webber Bella Tovey Bart Stern Shony Braun (Al...

  15. St. Lo in ruins; German prisoners

    Opens with shot of sign that reads: "St. Lo." LS of city in ruins. Series of shots of remnants of buildings. GI directing traffic at sight of Ortslazarett Red Cross. Sign reads: "St. Lo Bridge repaired by 148th Engineer Battalion 4th August 1944. Equipment furnished by 631st Engineer Light Equipment Company." Remnants of cathedral at St. Lo. Army vehicles including Red Cross trucks driving down road in front of bombed out buildings. Water filled craters in FG. Jeep goes by named "Hocus Pocus Focus." Men around their pup tents in a soccer field surrounded by barbed wire. Shot of machine gun ...

  16. Oral history interview with Zvi Culski

  17. Functions of V-1

    SUMMARY: This is a three reel composite technical information film on the operation and launching of the FZG-76 (V- 1). Reel 2. SEQ, Complete function of the air mileage unit and veeder counter. CU, Fuse, lines and miniature blisters. CU, Trailing antenna being pulled out. CU, Underside of rocket showing the movement of the flaps. Organization chart showing the flow of parts and rockets from the manufacturer to the field. Rocket in assembled condition standing and being wheeled across field. VS, Launcher ramp, firing tube, firing tube breech, damper and diffuser vanes. Man adjusting trip ca...

  18. Rhine river scenes: Koblenz; Kaub; castles

    Very high arched bridge. Large edifice/church. City scenes. Hotel Porta Nigra. 01:02:16 Ruin with rounded arches, about 4 stories high. KOBLENZ: WS of city. Pan of river and cityscape. Hills on other side. Orange tile roofs. HAS of ruined ampitheater(?). Double-spired church, pans, some fast. 01:03:27 Slopes and vineyards along the Rhein. Good high angle pan of long lines of vines; vineyards; houses, shops. 01:03:47 Oxen and cart on road. Famous historic sight on the Rhine: Pfalzgrafenstein. 01:05:26 Pillar with place name: KAUB (Kaub is below Koblenz & Boppard). Family with car on ferr...

  19. Oral history interview with Greta Fischer

  20. Levy family on SS Rotterdam returning to US

    "SS Rotterdam" ship at sea. The travelers took this boat back to New York (July 20-29, 1927). The family boards the boat. Emilie Jane in her father's arms. Robert and Sally, August and Hartman, and Robert and Carl play shuffleboard. Emilie Jane plays with a small sandbox on the ship deck. Robert, August, and Dora Hartman lounge in deck chairs. Emilie plays. Robert plays shuffleboard. Clara Levy reads a book. August converses with another passenger. Robert hugs his little sister, Emilie. Lou and Dora Hartman. CU, Sally Hartman reading. Passengers on deck. Emilie Jane poses inside the life pr...