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  1. Poster listing food prices

  2. Farewell to SS-Galicia Waffen Division

    A parade is organized to send the newly-formed Waffen SS "Galicia" Division in Ukraine off for training. Large crowds attend, and a farewell speech is given by Dr. Otto von Wächter, the German governor of Galicia, in Lviv (Lvov, Lwow), Geramn occupied territory of Ukraine. This likely takes place in the summer of 1943, though the troops did not see action until early 1944. Ukrainian soldiers are presented with flowers by Ukrainian women in traditional dress. There is a clear display of Ukrainian nationalism alongside the Nazi pageantry. Large crowds gather in the city square to bid the recr...

  3. Reichskunstwart (R 32)

    This collection contains material relating to the office of the Reichskunstwart, which was created in 1920 and was dissolved by the Nazis in favor of the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda. The purpose of the office was to ensure a consistent treatment of laws and administrative measures regarding the arts. The collection provides information about state festivals, graphics, stamps, coins, architecture, painting, literature, theater, music, dance, film, the press, memorials, and Volkskunst.

  4. Prosecutors and defendants at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 112) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 12, 1946. MSs, MHSs, Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe questions an unidentified witness, possibly Ribbentrop. MSs, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and Wilhelm Keitel seated in prisoners' dock. HASs, defense counselor Dr. Kurt Kaufman at stand interrupts a US military member of the prosecution and addresses the Tribunal. HASs, judges on bench as Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence speaks to Dr. Kaufman and reprimands him for delaying the trial. MLSs, Maxwell-Fyfe seated at prosecution table. MSs, Kaltenbrunner looking over lawyer...

  6. Jodl questioned at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 211 and 222) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 1946. Alfred Jodl is questioned on the stand by an assistant British prosecutor. MS, Maj. Gen. William H. Gill in courtroom. MS, Jodl answering questions. LS, profile view of justices on bench. MS, US soldier and civilians in press gallery.

  7. Defendants during recess, Jackson addresses court at Nuremberg Trial

    03:00:42 (Paris 451) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 17, 1945. MS, Franz von Papen chews on K ration cracker. MS, Arthur Seyss-Inquart studies chart. MS, Baldur von Schirach and Fritz Sauckel talking. MS, Rudolf Hess and Hermann Goering speaking to defense lawyer. MS, Alfred Jodl and von Papen speaking. MS, Wilhelm Keitel and Alfred Rosenberg, Wilhelm Frick and Seyss-Inquart speaking during recess. Robert G. Storey, US prosecution, presenting evidence. Defense counselor addressing Tribunal. 03:02:56 (Paris 452) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 17, 1945. Prison...

  8. Foreign Office: Consular (War) Department, later Prisoner of War Department; registered files (KW&RD Series)

    Contains records relating to the treatment of Jews in France and reports on Bergen-Belsen.

  9. Olympic Contests

    Military riders from Germany, Italy, France and Great Britain jump their mounts over various types of rural hurdles and obstacles on the second day of the events for military riders in Berlin in 1936. With intertitles. Horseback riding, jumping, outdoors, "cross country." Horse and rider descend step. Crowd stands along edge of hill, watches competition. Struggle to get horse out of ditch. Horse into pond. Titles at beginning: Olympia vielseitigkeits prufung (military). Berlin 1939. Tag: Prufung in Gelande Hqtm. Stubbendorf Deutschland, auf nurmi Sieger der Vielseitgkeitsprufung Der Reiter ...

  10. Case against von Papen at Nuremberg Trial; Gen. Patton's grave

    10:20:02 (Paris 519) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 23, 1946. MCU, Martin Horne, the defense counselor for Ribbentrop, speaking for Hess's counselor. Major John Harcourt Barrington, British prosecutor, presenting case against von Papen. 10:24:27 (Paris 522) Sec of War Patterson Decorates Gen Patton's Grave, Luxembourg, January 24, 1946 (silent). CU, cross over grave with name "George S. Patton Jr." LS, grave decorated with flowers. CU, sign, "American Cemetery, Hamm, Luxembourg." LS, Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson places wreath on Gen. Patton's snow-covered grave. MS, ...

  11. Liberation of Ukrainian and Belorussian lands from Polish landlords

    Prewar Lvov ( Lwow, Poland, Lviv, Ukraine). Several of the city's landmark churches, including the Church of the Assumption (Orthodox), St. George's Cathedral (Ukrainian Greek Catholic), the Church of St. Olha and Elizabeth (Greek Catholic), with visible damage. Workers with spades. Polish POWs on road. Refugees from Poland. People mingling, CU. Farms, cemetery, demonstration. The filmmaker, Oleksandr Dovzhenko (white hair). VS and angles of Jewish faces. Damage: ruined town, damaged railroads. Khrushchev visits, he laughs. Camouflaged. Marshall Timoshenko and POWs. "Redistribution" of esta...

  12. Soviet partisan units, Ukraine

    VS of a Soviet partisan unit marching in the woods (both men and women). VS of Alexander Saburov addressing the partisan unit. Saburov was a member of the NKVD as well as a leader of the Soviet partisan resistance in western Russia and Ukraine. VS of people receiving honors from Saburov. CU of a man pinning a medal on a female partisan. CU of honored partisans.

  13. Taylor remarks on German High Command at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 488) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 7, 1946. Telford Taylor of the US prosecution makes opening remarks to the court. He states that he will show that the High Command Group of the German Army had a major part in the commission of war crimes and atrocities. CU, chart of the Wehrmacht from 1938-1945. 04:46:38-04:47:54 Taylor reads to the Tribunal directly from orders signed by Hitler which discuss the purported actions of allied "commandos": "From captured orders it is divulged that they [the commandos] are directed not only to shackle prisoners, but also to kill defen...

  14. German TV documentary film on antisemitism (reel 11)

    Jews being loaded onto trains in Warsaw as the narrator reads a quote from Globke: "The Jew is a foreign body in all European lands." Still photographs of Himmler visiting Auschwitz. Footage of present-day West German politicians. Himmler becomes Globke's boss and assigns him certain responibilities in other countries, including Italy (footage of Mussolini, Italian troops) and Greece (Globke's connection to foiling the efforts of the Red Cross to rescue the Jews of Salonika). Audio interview with Max Merten, a Nazi who was stationed in Greece and now lives in West Germany, after serving a l...

  15. Broadside proclamation from General Eisenhower

  16. Hitler dart board

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn516119
    • English
    • overall: Height: 29.500 inches (74.93 cm) | Width: 16.750 inches (42.545 cm) overall: Height: 21.625 inches (54.928 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm)

    The dart board was made in the U.S., possibly Massachusetts, as a reaction to events occurring in Europe during World War II.

  17. "Incurably insane"

    A Nazi educational film (propaganda) [Aufklaerungsfilm] produced by the Rassenpolitische Amt [Office of Racial Policy] regarding "unheilbare Geistkranke" [the "incurably insane"]. Part 2: Racially mixed boy, blond, part negroid. Intertitles: indicating cost to state, mother and son - 26 years; epileptic siblings, cost ____ RM (Reichsmark); two brothers. Titles and close views of various related people. Two girls, twins seen before; one holds up the other's head. Kids outside, grass and blankets. "Bloedes, taubstummes" [imbecile deaf mute] girls. "Taubstumme, schwachsinning" [deaf mute, feeb...

  18. Bulgarian People's Bank, Giumiurdzhine (Fond 1254, Opis 1)

    The collection consists of Jewish property declarations and information regarding Jewish valuables.

  19. Visit to Ukraine by Soviet writer Marietta Shaginyan and folk dancing

    "Soviet Ukraine"- Release 43. Soviet writer, Marietta Shaginyan, biographer of Lenin, visits the Ukraine. Speech to Dykan'ka kolkhoz youth in the Poltava region of Ukraine (members of a collective farm group) in Russian (not certain of language of speech as this story is accompanied by voiceover naration in Ukrainian, and the original sound of the speech is not heard, and was perhaps never recorded). Four Ukrainian couples performing Jewish folk dance, they are members of the official Ukrainian State Folk Dance Troupe. Part of this story takes place in the small Ukrainian village of Dykan'k...

  20. Concentration camp inmate uniform jacket