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  1. Jewish refugee children in Britain

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 727, Part 2C. Release date, 12/12/1938. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Young Refugees Reach Britain" Harwich, England. 206 German-Jewish youngsters, whose parents fill Nazi concentration camps, arrive on peaceful shores with their meager belongings to start life anew in comfortable quarters and in safe surroundings. Young Jewish refugees arrive in Britain, including Hans Berlinsky [now John Berrys] at 12:10:08. Girls walking down ramp from ship. Coats. Suitcases. Boys and girls walking along street with luggage. CU of smiling, happy boys. ...

  2. Rozenstraat 10, Den Helder : De geschiedenis van twee Joodse Kinderen die in 1943 werden weggevoerd

    Contains a report about the author's research to trace the fate of two small Jewish children who were living with a Dutch couple in the town of Van Golder during the German occupation.

  3. FDR receives report on Nazis

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 724, Part 2C. Release date, 11/30/1938. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "FDR gets report on Nazis" Warm Springs, GA. In a conference which is expected to have far-reaching effects on the US foreign policy, President Roosevelt meets with Ambassadors Hugh Wilson, recalled from Germany, and William Phillips, home from Italy. EXT of White House and driveway. INT stone wall of lodge. FDR and two other men at small table. CU, FDR talking, smiling. MS, CU of men. Ambassador Hugh Wilson, who expressed some sympathy for Nazism, was recalled from Germ...

  4. Karl Bodenschatz testifies at Nuremberg Trial for Goering's defense

    (Munich 35) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 8, 1946. LSs, MLSs, Karl Bodenschatz, former member of the Reich Air Ministry in 1935, is cross-examined by US Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson. The witness speaks of two elderly Jews who had helped Goering when he was wounded in the 1923 putsch attempt in Munich. Jackson in subsequent testimony traps him into admitting that they were arrested simply because they were Jews (20:33-20:34). LSs, prisoners' dock and attorneys seated in front of dock. Pan from dock to Bodenschatz testifying.

  5. Josef Aretz collection

    The collection includes two photographs of students at Jewish school on Lützowstrasse in Cologne, Germany, including Josef Aretz prior to his departure on a Kindertransport.

  6. Nazi electioneering broadside

    Nazi electioneering broadside, printed on both sides, published for the 5 March 1933 election. Briefly outlines Nazi party promises to the German nation.

  7. Max and Berta Dreifuss papers

    Identification cards: rectangular form with typed and handwritten text, black and white photographic image, finger prints, and ink stamps. Documents: typed and handwritten text. Seven documents issued to Max, his wife Berta [donor's grandparents] and their daughter, Wilhelmine [donor's aunt]; included are three "Kennkarten" or Jewish identity cards issued in Saulgau, Germany in 1939, two death certificates issued for Max and Berta in Theresienstadt dated 1942, Czech Republic in German and two death certificates for Max and Berta reissued in 1950 in Litomericich, Czech Republic, in Czech.

  8. Bach-Zelewski testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 488) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 7, 1946. MS, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Wilhelm Keitel in prisoners' dock as Col. Telford Taylor addresses the Tribunal. MS, witness Eric von dem Bach-Zelewski testifying in German. MLS, rear view, Russian prosecutor Col. Pokrovsky cross examines Bach-Zelewski, regarding Einsatzgruppe B. Questions are asked in Russian; witness answers in German. Alfred Jodl's counselor, Dr. Franz Exner, questions Bach-Zelewski. Questions and answers are in German. Another defense counselor, Dr. Kraus, questions the wit...

  9. Gestapo in Norway presented and SS interpreter testifes at Nuremberg Trial; Francisco Boix testifies

    (Paris 531) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 28, 1946. LS, MCU, Hans Cappenlen, Norwegian, testifying in English about the Gestapo in his country. Cappenlen testifies about his arrest and interrogation methods. Unidentified witness testifies in German. LS, MS, Francisco Boix, under questioning from defense attorney Dr. Babel, testifies in French about the symbols the prisoners wore in the camp and his duties as a camp photographer. Boix is then questioned by General Rudenko.

  10. Former Reichsbank director on stand at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 163) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, May 14-15, 1946. Emil Johann Rudolf Puhl walks to witness box and is sworn in by the Chief Justice. Mr. Puhl is the former assistant director of the Reichsbank. LS, Dr. Fritz Sauter questions Puhl. Rear views, LS, US prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd approaches the stand and interposes a clear point concerning the witness. LS, Puhl testifies and admits that gold teeth collected from victims of concentration camps were left on deposit at the Reichsbank by members of the Nazi party. MS, witnesses in dock listen to testimony. LS, rear view, Dodd inte...

  11. Nazi propaganda: anti-Soviet

    The movie depicts the Bolshevist rule over Latvia with documentary footage and a propagandistic commentary. The narrator reads the Soviet ultimatum towards Latvia of October 2, 1939 and mentions the occupation of Latvia by Soviet troops on June 17, 1940 as an 'assault against Europe.' The puppet government under Kirchenstein is said to have betrayed the Latvians to the Soviet Union. Pictures of the alleged "Zuchthauselite" [prison elite] with high positions in the new government and administration are shown. Soviet rule is associated with propaganda, censorship, collectivization, deportatio...

  12. Defendants enter courtroom during Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 426 and 430) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 7, 1945. Various angles of defendants entering prisoners' dock prior to the start of the trial, the first six shake hands. Shot of Erich Räder talking with Hess and Goering. MS, Wilhem Keitel and Alfred Jodl speaking to one another in the dock. Repeat entry scene from a second camera angle - head-on. Some close views. Defendants say "Guten Morgen" to each other. Frank enters and smiles, doesn't like the light so puts on shades. 23:34:00 More close views, brief.

  13. Events related to Babi Yar massacre; Einsatzgruppen in Ukraine; Nuremberg Trial; Auschwitz

    The following clips are not directly related to each other. Includes dramatized scenes of Babi Yar in the ravine area where German troops and a large group of people are herded forward at gunpoint. The shots most likely come from the 1945 fiction film by Mark Donskoi called "The Taras Family" in English or "Nepokoryonnye" ["The Unvanquished"] in Russian. 00:45:13 (silent) Burning houses. CUs of people killed at the burning houses. CUs of SS-Galicia unit soldiers. German soldiers executing men by hanging. CU of a high-ranking Nazi officer accepting bread. Soldier receives an award. CUs of Uk...

  14. Refugees from France

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 372, Part 4. Release date, 02/12/1945. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "St. Nazaire Civilians" After Yank-Nazi parleys under truce, French civilians are evacuated daily by French Red Cross train, from Nazi-held St. Nazaire. Small group of German officers speak to American soldiers, gather by train tracks (possible truce to get refugees out of St. Nazaire, France.) Train pulls up, view of little girl on crutches, people walking. Lots of little kids in train window waving, packed in. View from above of train pulling away. Other parts of the ne...

  15. Alzen family papers

    The Alzen family papers include identity papers, correspondence, and court papers documenting a Catholic farming family’s life in Nazi Germany, August Alzen’s forced sterilization, Johann Alzen’s death at Dachau, and the family’s efforts to receive compensation after the war. Documents include Agnes Alzen’s Arbeitsbuch; Albert Alzen’s Military Government questionnaire, Freie Deutsche Liga membership card, and statement about what happened to his father; August Alzen’s Deutsche Arbeitsfront membership book, military papers, court summons and sterilization decision; a certificate declaring Be...

  16. Anti-Jewish propaganda film: banking; government leaders

    A propaganda film declared as a "documentary film contribution about the problem of world Judaism," in which antisemitic stereotypes are disseminated by the Nazis, including scenes showing: Poland as a nesting place for Judaism; the comparison of Jews with rats; the difference between Jews and Aryans; "international crime"; "financial Judaism"; "assimilated Jews"; the Jewish influence on economics, culture, and politics; and Jewish religious practice with a portrayal of haggling and misused sacred Jewish texts. REEL 4 Another extract from the feature film "The House of Rothschild" showing R...

  17. George Howard Tellier collection

    The George Howard Tellier collection includes a photograph album titled “SS Standarte ‘Westland’: Erinnerungen and die SS” documenting one of the regiments of the Wiking division of the Waffen-SS, which was composed primary of Dutch volunteers under German command and stationed in Munich. The album includes picture postcards and photographs of the mountains near Oberau, Germany, the Berghof (Adolf Hitler's home in the Obersalzberg of the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden), Hitler and Goering, mountain scenes, the SS-Kaserne Standarte “Deutschland” in Munich, Krakow, war damage, and SS-men at...

  18. Phonograph record

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Iran, reel 5

    Reel 5: Iran. Russian supply dump, US trucks. Native children straightening nails. Tire recapping plant. Assembling trucks. Paid in rations.

  20. Kesselring testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 47) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 13, 1946. LS, showing left side of prisoners' dock; all defendants listen attentively to testimony of Gen. Albert Kesselring. MS, Chief US Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson seated at a table taking notes. LSs, MLSs, Ludwig Babel, defense counselor, questions Gen. Kesselring. Kesselring first talks about the air attack on Coventry, the distribution of aims and the calculations of the likelihood of missing them. He says he was happy about the "choice" Coventry because it was actually a military target, and not some civilian one. He is then q...