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  1. Soviet prosecutor Rudenko questions witness about Katyn Forest Massacre at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 272) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 1 and 29, 1946. LS Tribunal. Russian prosecutor Lt. Gen. R A Rudenko questioning witness (not seen). MLS, former colonel of German signal regiment, Ahrens, is questioned by Russian prosecutor. Russian witness Professor Boris Vasiltevich Bazilevsky testifying about the Katyn Forest massacre. MLS, Rudenko interrogating Bazilevsky. Shots of prominent US newspapermen seated in visitors' gallery: (left to right) Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Publishing Editor of N Y Times; Lee Hills, Managing Editor of Miami Florida Herald; John C. Ostreicher, F...

  2. Gloria Hartenbaum collection

    The collection consists of wartime and post-war photographs depicting Gizelle Herskovits (later Gloria Hartenbaum), originally of Bixad, Romania, and her sisters Magda Herskovits (later Magda Kramer), Vicky Herskovits (later Vicky Zepnick), and Katya Herkovits (later Katherine Rezak). The photographs include wartime images of the sisters with family and friends in Bixad and post-war depictions of them in the Feldafing displaces persons camp.

  3. A conversation with Betty Kane

    Contains an oral history transcript of an interview with Betty Kane about her Holocaust experiences.

  4. Case against Hans Frank presented at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 490) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 10, 1946. Rear views, Lt. Col. Baldwin of the US prosecution presenting the case against Hans Frank, making reference to several of Frank's diary entries about the appropriation of Polish grain for use in Germany. LS, prisoners' dock during recess as some of the defendants talk to their attorneys. MS, Hermann Goering, Alfred Rosenberg, Walther Funk, and Fritz Sauckel talking during recess. The defendants eat as they talk. MS showing left side of prisoners' dock during trial session. 06:29:32 Re. "resettlement" and "dispossession of ...

  5. World War I: German retreat & Battle of Arras

    Parts 1, 2, and 3. World War I scenes. (Double Intertitles: German and French) "2me partie" [Part 2]. Artillery at Mons front (British). Arras railway station, heavy damage. Three soldiers smoking. [Part 3] Battalion of London Stock Exchange en route to Arras. German prisoners carry wounded Brits on stretchers. Long, close to camera. Germans in both caps and helmets. Up and past camera (to left). Other stretchers in background. Rough, wet, muddy ground. Difficult work of Sam ..... in trenches. Trenches and explosions. Artillery fire. Distant fog. Explosions at horizon (strange effect on fil...

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- V2 rockets fired in US

    April 1950 - Rocket camera views earth from 76 mile height in White Sands, NM. 1947 - V2 Rocket fired from Midway and White Sands, NM.

  7. Katrin Reichelt postcard

    Contains a postcard written by a prisoner by the name of Feliks Czarnota in Auschwitz addressed to his wife and children.

  8. Funk cross-examined by Thomas Dodd at Nuremberg Trial re: confiscated money and loot

    (Munich 357) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 15, 1946. Thomas J. Dodd of the US prosecution cross examining Walther Funk about loot taken from concentration camp prisoners and money from conquered countries. Funk calls some of these figures absurd and others he denies knowledge of. Dodd asks Funk about his relationship with Oswald Pohl. He asks Dodd how he could know nothing about the "strange deposit" of gold teeth in the Reichbank.

  9. Interview with survivor at Dachau Concentration Camp

    (LIB 6556) Interview of Prisoner, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MS, off-screen interview of Jewish prisoner, Dr. Mieczyslaw (Mietek) Dortheimer. Dr. Dortheimer was a lawyer in Poland prior to his internment in the Nazi prison camp. He relates in English his experiences in the camp and describes the tortures suffered by all.

  10. Funeral for Mauthausen victims, Bratislava

    News Film - The Week in Film: Funeral for 24 victims tortured in Mauthausen camp in the Bratislava Cemetery in Slavice Udolie.

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Summation of Nuremberg Trial; Allied Control Council HQ and meeting

    1425 DD (15:10:05-15:21:16) Official Motion Picture Release - Bureau of PR #1598. Summation speeches by Sir Hartley Shawcross and Robert Jackson. HAS, courtroom at War Crimes Trial at Nuremberg during final summation by British Chief Prosecutor Sir Hartley Shawcross. Closer shot of Shawcross talking as he reads from prepared statement. HAS, Shawcross talking to court, panning to tables at which observers listen, and to prisoners box with the defendants wearing earphones hearing translation. Close pan shot of defendants in box listening to speech. Longer shot, same. 2 CUs of Goering listenin...

  12. "Songs, 1938-1947: Lithuania-Poland-German-USA"

    Consists of songs recorded onto 2 CDs by Edith Goetz Bloch; the songs were taught to Mrs. Bloch in Europe between 1938-1947. Also includes a short autobiography entitled, "Songs," and photocopied samples of original lyrics which she collected.

  13. Courtroom interior during session at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 211 and 222) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 1946. MS, Russian, British, American, and French justices on bench. MS, stenographers and stenotypists at work. Different shots of correspondents seated in courtroom during trial. Shots of visitors seated in courtroom. MS, American and Russian prosecution staffs in court. HMS, Justices Birkett, Biddle, Parker, and Lawrence.

  14. Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities: children and women with severe disabilities

    Reel 5 of 8: Children in beds; sounds of crying, though many are very still. CU of child who appears mildly retarded. VAR close views. 00:24:24 360-degree turning shot, close, child with very enlarged skull and bulging eyes, nurse holding. Room of severely handicapped children; extreme and more dramatic than previously. 00:26:02 Man in restraint, school desk-like, with mittens. Close views of deformed feet; individuals with erratic movements. Children with twisted limbs. Boy in bed, with legs in X shape. 00:28:17 Women at wooden benches and tables. Quite severe forms of disabilities and beh...

  15. War Crimes Trials: Milch Case

    (Munich 544) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 2 (Milch Case), Sentencing of Gen. Erhard Milch, Nuremberg, Germany, April 17, 1947. LS, judges entering the courtroom. HAS, Chief Justice reading the verdict, recessing court, and exiting from courtroom. Pan from judges to Milch being removed from the courtroom. MS, judge handing recorder sentence of the Tribunal. Silent cut-ins of the Tribunal. Pan of portion of courtroom. Tribunal entering courtroom and court rising. Judge reading the verdict.

  16. Evidence against Kaltenbrunner and Gestapo at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 474) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 2, 1946. LSs, EXT, judges enter courtroom, spectators stand, are seated. Trial resumes. LS, MSs, Robert G. Storey in his opening remarks since the adjournment on December 20 continues presenting evidence on the policies of Ernst Kaltenbrunner and the Gestapo. MSs, defense counselor for Kaltenbrunner addresses the Tribunal. Chief Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence informs the attorney that he will have ample opportunity to question any evidence presented in relation to his client.

  17. Lammers & Wielen questioned at Nuremberg Trial

    20:10:05 (Munich 94) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 8, 1946. Mostly empty courtroom, camera set up on tripod in corner, sound test heard. Dr. Alfred Seidl, defense counselor for Hess, questions Hans Heinrich Lammers, member of the German Secret Cabinet, who is a witness for Keitel. 20:12:45 (Munich 96) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 10, 1946. HAS, Dr. Alfred Seidl questions Hans Heinrich Lammers, member of the German Secret Cabinet. Pan from Seidl to Goering, Hess, and Ribbentrop in dock. CU, Dr. Otto Stahmer, defense counselor for Goering. HAS, Tribunal; Chief J...

  18. Case against M. Bormann and A. Seyss-Inquart at Nuremberg

    (Paris 508) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 16, 1946. LS, MS, rear view, Lt. Harris, USN, prosecution counselor, addressing the tribunal and presenting the case against Martin Bormann, specifically on the lynching of US airmen. LS, MS, Lt. Henry Valpey Atherton, US Army, prosecution counselor, presenting the case against Arthur Seyss-Inquart.

  19. Magdeburg Jewish Community records

    Contains postwar correspondence, including with other Jewish communities; lists of Jews; private papers of Israel Hersch; membership lists of the Jewish community; and a card file, presumably made by the Gestapo, of Jews in the Neu Stassfurt forced labor camp; photographs of the aftermath of Kristallnacht; and family photos.

  20. Testimony re: Hitler's death, Horstenau testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    23:37:34 (Munich 275) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, June 12, 1946. LS, US prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd asking unidentified witness whether he was present at Hitler's death. HMS, Dodd asking witness if he wasn't the man who carried Hitler's body to the bunker and set it on fire. Witness actually testifies that he carried Hitler's wife out of the bunker and saw Hitler's body wrapped in a blanket. Asked whether he actually saw Hitler, he answers no, he could only see his legs hanging out of the blanket, which was a bit too short to cover the whole body. 23:40:30 (Munich 224) War Crimes T...