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  1. In the Wake of War in Germany

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 392, Part 3. Release date, 04/23/1945. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Germany in Ruins" Duisburg, Limbourg, Osnabruck, and Munster are entered. The streets are filled with hills of broken buildings and wreckage. Mayors try to rally their citizens. The pathetic Volksturm - the home guard - surrenders, to join the thousands of combat troops previously captured. Frantic, hungry civilians break into ruined stores and stalled trains to steal food and clothing. "German Atrocities" Allied armies free thousands of slave laborers - both men and wom...

  2. Rosenberg

    Train, Rosenberg and other officials arrive, greeting HJ and BDM, children give Rosenberg flowers. Rosenberg presents wreath at memorial/cemetery with Iron Cross. Pan, crowd waving flags with swastikas. At ceremony, Rosenberg welcomed, shots of peasants. In ethnic costumes, women and girl present Rosenberg with food. Crowd heiling, Rosenberg.

  3. Survivors of a detention camp return to Germany

    News Film - The Week in Film: Departure of Germans from a detention camp (labor camp) in Bratislava-Petrzalka back to Germany.

  4. Trial re: Slovak Jews

    News Film - The Week in Film: Dr. Anton Vasek before the National Court in Bratislava on trial for deeds perpetrated against Slovak Jews.

  5. Fascist racial theory and health

    Roll 2: Change of camera angle, clear picture, dull. Krieg...Ostraum...Fleckfieber, Malaria, Typhus. Grossstaedte. Many Russians. Umsiedlung. Besonders Problem - Cholera? Nicht in deutsche Gebiet. 1925-1937: high point, epidemic. Kinderkrankheiten (childhood diseases). Another danger, with war. Auslaendischearbeitskraeften [foreign work forces]. Die Flieger, der Wehrmacht so viele Aerzten brauchen [air force, army, need so many doctors]. Versorgung der Heimat deshalb bleibt eine schwarzen. Die Zahl der Kinder ist viel groesser geworden [number of children has risen greatly]. Das Rheingebiet...

  6. Segreteria particolare del Duce

    Contains records from the private secretary of Benito Mussolini (Duce). Included is information about Mussolini’s correspondence; Jewish communities in Verona, Rome, Milan, and the occupied territories; racial policy; the Protocols of the Elders of Zion; and the ministries of finance, war, and education.

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hitler's 50th birthday parade review in Berlin

    Birthday review in Berlin passing reviewing stand, troops goose-stepping passing Hitler in stand, tanks, trucks, big searchlights, big guns, sailors, band. CU, Hitler in stand giving Nazi salute. CU, German officers giving Nazi salute.

  8. Ukrainian Waffen SS Galicia Division

    Men in civilian clothing carry swastika and SS banners. These are Ukrainian volunteers for the Galician Division of the SS. Swastikas, religious blessing of units. The SS group - stills, published photos, and art work. Parade, men carrying large signs and banners with the symbol of the SS Galiciana unit. Railroad car with SS chalked on the side, close scene, men in the rail car. Translation of Ukrainian narration: SS... Entire classes of students from the theological seminary* and academy were sent here. The Soviet army totally smashed these warriors near Brody. They moved no further than 1...

  10. Congress hears FDR; Hopkins; DeGaulle inspects warships

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 13, No. 943, Part 1. Release date, 01/17/1941. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: 12:42:00 Part 1A: "New Congress Hears FDR ask All-Out Aid" Washington, DC. Epochal scenes in our history, as the 77th Congress convenes to map plans for enlarging our defense machine to meet US and British needs. President Roosevelt, addressing the legislators and the entire world, says that America must spend billions on weapons to aid the embattled democracies. 12:45:16 Part 1B: "Hopkins Flies to England" New York, NY. President Roosevelt's special envoy in Britain, Har...

  11. Day of German Commerce is celebrated; speech; antisemitic propaganda in animation

    Propaganda film showing the first German Commerce Day in Braunschweig, Germany. [Titles: Ein Film des Hauptamtes für Handwerk u. Handel der NSDAP. Nach Gedanken von Pg Joachim Walter. Mit Aufnahmen vom 1. Deutschen Handelstag in Braunschweig. 19 November 1933] Scenes showing Nazis marching, parade with floats, vast crowds of spectators. Nazi official delivers a speech, filmed as an interior scene. Speech continues over maps, animation and other graphics. 00:04:52 graphics begin. Speaker appears intermittently, also with footage of shops, consumers, workers, industry. German trade, German bu...

  12. Abe Janower collection

    Consists of a printed antisemitic leaflet entitled "Polska bez zydow" (Poland Without Jews), which calls for a boycott of Jewish businesses, Włocławek, Poland.

  13. Margit Meier papers

    Consists of a document and photographs relating to the experiences of Margit Fuchs Meier during the Holocaust and in the immediate post-war period. Included is a document stating that Margit Fuchs worked at a Jewish children's home in Etterbeek, Belgium from November 1944 to May 1945. Twelve photographs depicting infants and toddlers from the Jewish children's home in Etterbeek and five photographs of the Fuchs family in Vienna and Brussels, circa 1936-1942.

  14. Wlodek Richter collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting members of the Baksht and Richter families before the war in Kremenchug, Russia (Kremenchuk, Ukraine); during and after the war in Krasnoarmeysk, Russia; and after the war in Daugavpils, Latvia, and Kaliningrad, Russia. Also included is Genia Baksht’s 1941 high school diploma from her school in Kremenchug.

  15. 1936 Olympics: marathon

    Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 11: Marathon. Closing ceremony?

  16. Jewish agricultural college

    Jewish Agricultural college in Mykolaiv (Nikolaev) region. EXT: students in outdoor classroom, sitting on ground, as teacher demonstrates. Agit-Prop political education. Scene includes open wagon with projector. Exercises, beehives and beekeeping, making honey. Spraying pesticides, harvesting grapes. VS of pigs and suckling piglets, a silo for storing grain, VS of women gathering wheat shafts for storage in the silo. All intertitles in Ukrainian: First intertitle reads: "A car for political education" [A sort of propaganda car]. Written on the car: "A traveling agricultural museum." Slogan ...

  17. Eva Kovacs collection

    The Eva Kovacs collecton consists of identity cards, documents, and correspondence for Pal and Pálnéak (Pálné) Justus, originally of Budapest, Hungary, between 1931-1944. Includes correspondence from Pal Justus in Bor, Yugoslavia, while he was performing forced labor, to his family in Budapest.

  18. Ohlendorf testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 487) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 3, 1946. Rear view of US Col. Amen cross examining Otto Ohlendorf. Ohlendorf talks about the type of command structure and "task sharing during operations" between the Einsatzgruppen and the Army Command (Security Police - Army Command - Einsatzgruppenkommando). The Army command could give orders in specific situations, there was a liaison officer between the Einsatzgruppen and the Army Command. He is then asked about his own role. Ohlendorf sais he was Head of the Einsatzgruppe D and Assistant (Adjutant) of the Head of the Security...

  19. Ohlendorf testifies at Nuremberg Trial re. Kaltenbrunner, SS and SD

    (Paris 486) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 3, 1946. Col. Amen (US) introduces Otto Ohlendorf. Chief US Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson administers the oath to the witness. Ohlendorf explains to the court the positions held in the SS and SD by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Miller, and Eichmann as he looks at the organization chart on the wall. Ohlendorf describes the command structures, etc. generally.

  20. Goering supporter Dehlerus testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 67) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 19, 1946. Berger Dehlerus, Swedish engineer, taking the witness stand. Delherus says he knew England well because he had lived there for 12 years. LS, translators in courtroom. Dehlerus testifies in support of Goering. He talks about several visits he made from Berlin to England in 1939 on behalf of Goering and Hitler in order to prevent a war. He recounts that the situation was serious because an agreement with Poland had not been reached and he was asked to go to London to explain the situation. He could not say whether the trip hap...