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  1. Foreign Office and Predecessors: Control Commission for Germany (British Element), T Force and Field Information Agency Technical. Selected records.

    Contains FIAT files of captured enemy documents relating to Montan Anlage Auschwitz and Montan-Auschwitz Vertragsfragen. Also contains files relating to Jewish affairs and the treatment of Jewish DPs (Operation "Oasis") and various private office papers and administration and local government branch files.

  2. Schellenberg testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 476) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 4, 1946. LSs, Walter Schellenberg, Chief of the Security Police and SD, continues testimony. LS, Russian judge questions the witness. Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe questions the witness about a conversation he had with Ernst Kaltenbrunner about the Red Cross wanting to know what happened to fifty American or British prisoners. Chief Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence asks whether it was about shooting the prisoners. Schellenberg explains that he did not take part in the conversation, but was a passive listener. The inquiry was forwarded to the ...

  3. Liberation of Bessarabia, North Bukovina, June 1940

    People welcoming troops. Zhukov and military parade: main street. People demonstrate with banners, fists in the air. Timoshenko and Khruschev, with peasants, locals, Romanian POWs. VS of shackles, soldiers and POWs holding implements of bondage, torture. There are joyful scenes of reunion- men and women kissing and hugging each other, etc. Scenes are from several areas in Ukraine and Moldova, as well as Bessarabian villages.

  4. Transcarpathia

    Silent with Hungarian intertitles. "Teleki Pal Grof". miniszterelnok latogatast tett a Rutenfoldon es felkereste a szlovak legitamadas erte teriileteket." VS, high angle, group of dignitaries meet, handshakes, police and military in uniform. Crowd, flags waving. Pan of snow-capped mountains in the BG to group of officers and political figures standing on a rooftop or a balcony, looking out over the crowd below. Quick shot of Hungarian flag waving. Wreath draped on statue of an eagle in a public square, onlookers. MLS, through archway, several men assembled in a courtyard. MS, MCU, CU, pan c...

  5. Syrets concentration camp, Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine

    Camp near Babi Yar. VS, EXT, pan of mountainside. The location is Syrets Concentration Camp, located outside Kiev. Pan to prison fences and barbed wire. A sign on wooden fence post reads: "Warning! Prisoners who attempt to cross to freedom will be shot." VS, bodies, INT and EXT of camp, faces of prisoners behind barbed wire, trains. Tranlsation: [Natalya Vasylivna - a survivor of Syrets - speaks in Russian] "This is Syrets concentration camp. It's very close to our house. All men were put at the very edge of a ravine. A car came very close to the ravine. And they shot all of them before my ...

  6. Review of 1938 events

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 36, No. 87, Part 2. Release date, 10/24/1963. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Twenty Five Years Ago" A quarter of a century ago history recorded fifteen days of international crisis that forever shaped the destiny of man. There were riots in Sudetenland as pro-Hitler Germans backed his demand that this Czech territory and its people be returned to the Reich. At Munich, England and France allowed Hitler to take over....appeasement did not work. Less than a year later war raged in Europe. Other parts of the newsreel include: 15:08:31 "Operation Big L...

  7. Verrill D. Long photographs

    Contains 16 photographs taken by a member of the 8th Army Air Corps at the liberation of a concentration camp.

  9. 1936 Olympics: nature; sports; athletes

    Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 1: Italian titles (rolling). Nature scenes at the Olympic camp at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, bird in trees, crane on river bank, athletes running through forest, wading stream, taking steam baths, swimming in river, playing basketball, practicing shot put and javelin throw as they prepare for the Summer Games. Flags of the nations fly at the German Arena; athletes march onto the field carrying flags of their nations.

  10. Anna Fruchtman collection

    The Anna Fruchtman collection consists of a phtogoraph of three women sewing at the World ORT/Union Vocational School, Stuttgart, Germany; a certificate of employment and identification card relating to Hanka Fruchtman's (later Anna Fruchtman) employment at the World ORT/Union Vocational School, Stuttgart, Germany.

  11. War Crimes Trials: I.G. Farben Case - Opening Statement by Telford Taylor

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 6 (I.G. Farben Case), Nuremberg, Germany. 17:12:16 High angle Med close views of defendants in dock as they are arraigned and individually asked if they've read the indictment and how they plead. To 17:13:06 Motion for continuance was denied - judge at bench. 17:15:30 Taylor to podium and begins: The grave charges in this case have not been laid before the Tribunal casually.... It accuses them of wholesale enslavement, plunder and murder. ... There is no laughter in this case. Neither is there any hate.

  12. Chart of Nazi party at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 374) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 22, 1945. Chart of Nazi party organization set up in front of courtroom. Ralph Albrecht, US assistant counselor, describes the different officers and positions of the National Socialist Party. "Hoheitstraeger," bearers of the sovereignty in the party, are pointed out in the chart. MS, Goering, Hess, Ribbentrop, Keitel, and others in prisoners' dock. MS, Goering and Hess lean over prisoners' dock and look at chart in lawyer's hand. MS, Goering makes notes as he listens with one earphone. LS, people standing during recess. MS, Goerin...

  13. Poster

  14. Freddy Markovits collection

    The Freddy Markovits collection consists of twenty documents relating to Markovits family's experiences in the Netherlands in the Herzogenbusch Main Camp (Vught) concentration camp and the Westerbork concentration camps, in Theresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp, and in Switzerland during the Holocaust and immediately after the end of the war; and four photographs depicting Julia Hermer Markovics, in her school in 1933 and the "Hollandia" factory, which belonged to Miklós Nico Markovics. The Markovics family, as part of a prisoner exchange, arrived in St. Gallen, Switzerland, on 9 Febr...

  15. Newspaper clippings of Italian press

    Contains late post-World War II Italian press clippings on Holocaust-related topics including Italian fascism, war criminals, trials, the Italian army during World War II, death camps, Italian transit camps, and the like.

  16. Sauckel questioned at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 196) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, May 30, 1946. Jacques Herzog questioning Fritz Sauckel (not seen). English translator is heard reciting Sauckel's background. HAS, prisoners in dock. MS, Herzog questioning Sauckel in French. Sauckel answers in German. Pan from Herzog to Gen. Rudenko listening; pan from Rudenko to Maxwell-Fyfe.

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- GI tour of Holland

    First GI tour to Holland, part 2. Flowers, the Hague, Dutch countryside.

  18. Albert Ernst Schrader Jr. papers

    Contains letters and documents pertaining to his role as an interpreter during the Nuremberg Trials.

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  20. Collier's (New York, New York) [Magazine]

    Collier's magazine cover illustration by Arthur Szyk showing Hitler playing cards with Russia and death.