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  1. Anti-Jewish propaganda film: Jews in Poland

    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 1 Rolling title card: "The civilized Jews we know in Germany give an incomp...

  2. Soviet Lviv, Ukraine

    Lvov, 1929-1939 (Polish Production). VS, streets and buildings, lion and coat of arms, several fountains with statues, VS of main market that still exists today. The market is filled with people. MLS, MS, MCUs of people buying and selling wares. Two intertitles read, in Polish, "Types of peddlers" and "Old stone houses at the Lvov Market". Shots of said houses, then the façade of the Boym Chapel. High angle shots of the city. An intertitle reads "Armenian quarter, with the Armenian Cathedral." The Armenian district's many arched alleys and entryways, porticos, windows, and cobblestones. An ...

  3. German officer & von Manstein questioned at Nuremberg Trial

    01:14:31 (Munich 339) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 10, 1946. Unidentified German officer is interrogated by Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence (latter is not seen). 01:16:13 (Munich 343) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, no date. Former Field Marshal von Manstein is cross-examined by US prosecutor Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor. Von Manstein is specifically questioned about the Einsatzgruppen in his area of operation, he testifies that he was not directly concerned with them and did not know what they were doing.

  4. Film showing sterilization of a man

    Title: "Aus der chirurgischen Universitaetsklinik Berlin/Ziegelstr." "ausgefuehrt durch: Dozent Dr. Haase, Oberarzt aus der Klinik" Close shot: genitalia scrubbed. Penis covered. Anasthetic, testicles. Clamped, left, then right. Surgical cut. Retraction. Vas deferens pulled forward, isolated, tied off. Injection into vas deferens. The cut is sewn up.

  5. Central Jewish Committee in Poland. Presidium Centralny Komitet Żydow Polskich (CKŻP). Prezydium (Sygn. 303/1-27)

    Contains meeting protocols and reports related to the Jewish life in Poland after World War II. The collection documents activities of the Presidium, Central Jewish Committee in Poland. The data pertains mainly to the financial, political, educational, cultural, and emigration issues of the Jewish population in Poland.

  6. Sterilization and population politics

    Propaganda film including healthy Germans engaging in sports, 1936 Olympics, farming, Nuremberg Laws, Roma, mentally ill, women with dogs, Hitler Youth, harvest festival, marching SS and Wehrmacht in the 1930s. Title cards read: "Rassenpolitische Amt R.L. der NSDAP feigt den Aufrlärungsfilm," "Was du ererbt" and "Entwurf und Ausfiihrung: h. Gerdes." A man throws a javelin and a text reads a quote from Dr. Grok in German. A woman lies next to a sleeping baby, a toddler walks towards the camera as someone holds his hand and a CU of a boy’s face. Children run across a field after a ball. Small...

  7. Landsberg Hangings

    (Munich 193) Landsberg (Dachau) Hangings, Landsberg, Germany, May 1946. Coverage of the military hangings of Becher, Lippman, Temple, Hintermeyer, Knoll, Eicheldorfer, Boettger, Kick, Weiss, and Wagner.

  8. War Crimes Trials: I.G. Farben Case : Arraignment

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 6 (I.G. Farben Case), Nuremberg, Germany, August 14, 1947. HAS of Tribunal as the presiding judge announces roll call. 16:37:12 Roll Call, Name and response, to 16:38:02. Telford Taylor, Counsel for US prosecution, announcing to the court that the defendant Max Brueggermann is ill in a hospital near Dusseldorf. It is suggested to the Tribunal that his trial be put off indefinitely. Taylor also announces that the defendants Karl Wurster and Carl Lautenschlaeger are not present due to illness. 16:40:57 View of defendants. As the defendant...

  9. Affidavit re: Schacht presented at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 489) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 11, 1946. Lt. Bryson, US prosecutor, presents charges against Hjalmar Schacht. Prosecutor (from behind) reads an affidavit of someone defending Schacht. During the speech are shots of Joachim von Ribbentrop whispering to Rudolf Hess in prisoners' box and MSs of Hans Frick, Julius Streicher, Walther Funk, Hjalmar Schacht, Constantin von Neurath, and Hans Frank. He quotes from a document saying that Schacht warned both British and Americans about the Nazis, and disapproved with basically everything the Nazis were doing. Prosecutor quo...

  10. Dziunia Eichenholz Goop collection

    Includes a photo album with photographs of the Eichenholz family and their friends before the war in Krakow, on holiday along the Vistula River, on the Baltic coast, in Gdynia, and in Zakopane, and the children performing at the Moniuszko Conservatory; photographs of the Eichenholz and Goldstein families living in the Krakow ghetto; and images taken in Julius Madritsch’s Clothing Workshop in Krakow before it was moved to Płaszów concentration camp.

  11. Slovakian newsreel: Officials in Slovakia

    Slovak Sound Weekly: On the eve of Hitler's birthday, Dr. Vojtech Tuka delivering a speech from the balcony of the National Theater. State Secretary for the German Minority Frank Karmasin and President Jozef Tiso. Celebration speech made by Hans Bernard, Ambassador of the German Reich, followed by Alexander Mach.

  12. Typhus - Propaganda associating Jews & Poles with the disease and its spread by lice

    Nazi propaganda film about the measures to contain typhus. The Polish-Jewish population is made responsible for spreading typhus. Wehrmachtslehrfilm #347 [Army Instructional Film #347]. Reel 3: Scientists at work, seeking inoculation vaccine. Animation. Scientists.

  13. Ravensbruck Trial: The Sentencing [Das Urteil]

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 90 Ravensbruck Trial. INTs, Curio House in Hamburg, Allied Military Tribunal presided over by British Gen. Westropp, sentences those responsible for the Ravensbruck women's camp. MCUs, Johann Schwarzhuber; Dorothea Binz, former SS woman guard; Carmen Maria Mory; and others sentenced to death by hanging. 01:12:40 The three women guards shown are: Dorothrea 'Thea' Binz (Stellvertrende Oberaufseherin/Replacement Chief Officer); Wachterin Margarete Mewes (who served as guard in the Ravensbrueck 'bunker'-jail); and Arbeitseinsatzfuehrerin Greta Boesel (born Mueller) who d...

  14. Nazi persecution of Jewish communities in Bohemia and Moravia

    Contains documents relating to the persecution of Jewish communities by Nazi and other authorities in Bohemia and Moravia in Czechoslovakia.

  15. Gestapo and murder of Jews discussed at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 458) US Prosecutor Col. Robert G. Storey tells of the Gestapo's part in Germany's attack on Poland ("attack" on the Gleiwitz radio station) and how the Gestapo and SD murdered thousands of Jews in occupied countries. CU, chart indicating the number of Jews murdered in the Baltic States and parts of Russia and Poland. Side view of Tribunal as Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence announces adjournment of court. LS, Tribunal, spectators, and others standing up and leaving courtroom.

  16. Organization of SS and German police presented at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 457) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 20, 1945. Maj. Warren Farr of the US prosecution explains the subdivisions of the SS organization. CU, rear view, Maj. Farr. LS, side view of the Tribunal in the courtroom. "The personal staff. ... First, when the question is asked, how many persons in the SS had something to do with the concentration camp program... you may find out how many people were in the Deaths Head ..." CU, SS organization chart. "I shall read only the Himmler directive appearing on Page 2 of the translation. The Tribunal will note that it is addressed to e...

  17. Sumy Region selective records (Ukraine), 1940-1945

    Orders, registration books, police reports, statements, announcements and drafts. Records contain orders of Sinev district related to the celebration of the Second Anniversary of the Bolshevik-Jewish activities, house registration books of Sumy city, anti-Jewish articles from the editorial office of the newspaper "Vestnik" (Geralald), birth and death records from the Sumy Public Notary Office, reward reports denouncing hiding places of the Jewish families, statements of confiscated Jewish property and creation of the Jewish ghetto. Also contains name lists of disabled Jews, Jewish residents...

  18. Details on the career of Hess at Nuremberg

    (Paris 543) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 7, 1946. Col. Griffith-Jones, British prosecutor, giving a resume of the career of Rudolph Hess. MS, prisoners' dock as Hess and others listen to Col. Griffith-Jones.

  19. Munich Agreement conference

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 709, Part 2. Release date, 10/10/1938. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Four-power Parley brings Peace" Munich, Germany. The conference between Europe's leaders that averted war! Spectacular scenes as Prime Minister Chamberlain of England, Premier Daladier of France, and Il Duce arrive at the flag-bedecked city for the epochal agreement over Czechoslovakia. Other parts of the newsreel include: 11:37:29 4A: "Yanks Sweep World Series" 11:39:01 4B: "Grid Thrills of the Week", Los Angeles, CA 11:39:50 4C: "Grid Thrills of the Week", Atlanta, GA ...

  20. Translations and murder of Jews discussed at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 373) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 22, 1945. MCU, LS, Dr. Dix, counsel for Hjalmar Schacht speaking before the court about their rights of objection. Pan from Dr. Dix to side view of the eight judges. Dr. Dix has trouble with his earphones and is assisted by several US officers. LS, Dr. Dix facing tribunal as voice of Lord Geoffrey Lawrence, Chief Justice, is heard to say that the best possible translations will be made and that they would be able to object to any document offered. Dr. Dix thanks the Tribunal and moves off. Major Frank Wallis tells of the Nazi plan ...