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  1. Field surgery; wounded soldiers

    CU wounded Soviet soldier lying on a cart and a woman's hand with a handkerchief waving flies away. CU doctor examining the wounded man, cutting the pant leg away with scissors, then inspecting his mouth, nose. CU of a woman sitting by a fire, boiling water to sterilize surgical instruments. CU of the doctor performing an operation, perhaps removing a bullet. VS of the operation, which takes place in an open area with trees. A nurse assisting the doctor. CU of a nurse putting a bandage on a soldier's leg as a makeshift cast, perhaps with a board acting as a large splint. VS wounded soldier ...

  2. Carla Benninga collection

    The Carla Benninga collection consists of a false identification card for Carla Benninga issued to "Johanna Geertruda van Hout," issued 10 May 1944, Vierlingsbeek, Netherlands; and a manuscript, "Adolescence Lost," by Carla Benninga in February 1986 which includes a translation of memoirs written by the donor's father, the original of which is dated 17 April 1945, and written while in Westerbork transit camp, the Netherlands.

  3. Goering testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 48) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 13, 1946. Hermann Goering testifies about the organization of the State Police. Goering talks about the creation of the "Geheime Staatspolizei," as opposed to the civil police that was under the jurisdiction of the various German Laender. Shots of defendants, counselors, and judges listening. HAS, courtroom. Dr. Otto Stahmer, Goering's attorney, addresses the Tribunal. MS, Keitel, Rosenberg, and Kaltenbrunner listen to Goering's testimony. HAS, Tribunal. Justices Francis Biddle (US), John J. Parker (US), Henri Donnedieu de Vabre (Fran...

  4. Britannic majesties visit Washington, DC

    King George and Queen Elizabeth arrive at Union Station, Washington, DC, and are formally greeted. The Queen and Mrs. Roosevelt enter an automobile for transit to the White House. President Roosevelt and his guests board the Potomac. FDR and the Queen converse. The press films the event, including Henry Morgenthau, Jr. The King lays a wreath on Washington's tomb at Mt. Vernon and visit the gardens. Indian entertainers performing songs and dances at Hyde Park.

  5. Zbigniew Kosc collection

    Consists of 15 photographs of the donor’s parents and their families before and during the war in Poland.

  6. Goering testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 47) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 13, 1946. LS, Hermann Goering testifies about the violent opposition in Germany to the formation of the Nazi Party. MLS, prisoners in dock as Goering is heard talking about the Hitler Putsch. Pan from prisoners' dock to Goering on stand. Pan, prisoners in dock as Goering testifies that Hitler was to be the supreme leader of the new government and not in a secondary position.

  7. Henryk Tabaksblat photograph collection

    The Henryk Tabaksblat photograph collection consists of Hendla Korn (later Hendla Tabaksblat) and two unidentified Jewish girls in Łódź, Poland, circa 1920; a group photograph of workers in the Łódź ghetto metal workshop, 1941; a photograph of a sign "Bank of the Jewish Council in the Łódź ghetto" within the ruins of the Łódź ghetto, 1945; and four photographs of memorial services in which Henry Tabaksblat participated in 1967.

  8. Nazi propaganda about Jewish ghetto living conditions and racial hygiene

    Antisemitic propaganda film showing living and housing conditions in a Jewish ghetto in Poland, typhus patients, and measures against the spreading of lice. Reel 1: Ghetto scenes (in Warsaw, according to Bundesarchiv annotation), streets, crumbling houses. Staged views of Jewish people sleeping. Open gutters, cobblestones. 00:23:20 Orthodox Jews walking through the ghetto (not natural). View from camera in courtyard, up several stories, wooden railings. More Orthodox men. More shots of courtyard. 00:24:19 INT, men at sewing machines. Woman with baby. Woman scrubbing. Woman putting shoes on ...

  9. Russian testimony at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 13) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 26, 1946. LSs, witness Jacob Grigorjov, a Russian peasant who remained in German-occupied territory from July 1941 and whose wife and two children were killed by the Germans, is sworn in and questioned by a Russian prosecutor. MSs, Justices A F Volchoff (USSR), Birkett (Britain), and Lawrence (Britain). MSs, girl in audience looking through binoculars. MCU, Russian prosecutor speaking. LSs, Eugene Kivilsha, a Red Army physician, testifying that he was imprisoned in a German prison camp in the Ukraine. Note: All testimony is in Russ...

  10. Reichswirtschaftsministerium records (R 7)

    Contains records from Bundesarchiv, Record Group R7, relating to various activities of the administration of the Reichswirtschaftsministerium, 1933-1945.

  11. Liberation of Western Ukraine by Soviet troops, September 1939

    Area liberated by Soviet troops. Rebuilding road and destroyed bridges. Captured Romanian soldiers, barefoot, in leg irons. Red Army enters Chernovicy. Plane drops leaflets. Kishinev: people, including Jews, waving. Fists in the air.Nikita Khruschev, in uniform. Translation of narration: Along its way the Red Army received great support from the local population. Romanian soldiers (deserters), who left the army so they could stay in Bessarabia and become Soviet citizens, were roaming the streets. [Bessarabia is a region in Moldova that was a part of Romania from 1918-1940 and became Soviet ...

  12. Polish underground press Polska prasa konspiracyjna

    Collection comprises approximately 500 publication titles.

  13. Paternity suit; genetic testing

    Dramatized propaganda film with actors explaining a paternity suit and genetic testing. Reel 1: Titles, credits. Nurse with baby in nursery, various scenes. Toilet training. In doctor's office. Doctor reading papers, calls nurse. Concerning Frau Weber, four years ago she thought her baby was switched with another. Now I've heard from her lawyer. Nurse: "that's crazy!" "Crazy or not..." Court case in Munich: Weber vs. Brugger. 01:09:37 Family enters room, with little boy. Blood test, from mother's ear, boy's ear, father's ear. Measuring mother's head, boy's, father's. Doctor calls out result...

  14. "Der Stuermer", Gestapo prisoner testifies, & forced labor discussed at Nuremberg Trial

    07:00:40 (Paris 489) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 11, 1946. Inserts, hands turning pages of "Der Stuermer." LS of courtroom as Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence adjourns court. LS, MSs, defendants talking to their lawyers during recess. MLS, Dr. Franz Blaha appearing as a witness. Dr. Blaha was arrested when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in March 1939, held in a Gestapo prison without trial for two years, and sent to Dachau in April 1941. He tells how the Germans forced Russian children to work as slave laborers, and that nearly 60 percent of them died of tuberculosis withi...

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Iran, reel 3

    Reel 3: Iran. Anti-malaria operation. US soldiers, shovels to natives. Children. Spraying the village. Water lab (US army). US tank/supplies.

  16. Babi Yar

    Compilation of still photos of atrocities. MCU, hanging corpses. VS, a group of journalists in the Babi Yar area. They are writing in notebooks, taking down the words of one man who stands in the center of the circle of journalists, as a witness, there are a few women in the crowd. Journalist speaks to camera, by a ravine, explaining the story of what happened during the massacre. Camera pans down and across the ravine. Several other journalists are standing along the downward slope of the ravine. Translation of Ukrainian narration and Russian witness testimony: Novograd-Volynskyi, Zhytomyr...

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Democracy in Action; GIs with German girls

    Coburg, Germany. Democracy in Action in Germany. Mobs of German children and women (blonde/Aryan) around jeeps (GI) waiting for ride. CUs, faces of children in crowd. Trucks with kids. German infant. German boys in softball contest. Crowds, contestants. High jump. Wheelbarrow race. Red Cross girls. Grandstand. Prizes. Crowd. Lank Hannsa, near Berlin. GIs and German girls fraternize. MSs of GIs at tables at outdoor restaurant with German girls. Lake, beach, GI carrying rifle, walking across beach with girls. Two bosomy girls, walk by beach. On sand (seated), talking, sunbathing.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Iran, reel 4

    Reel 4: Iran. Steam shovel, road construction, bulldozers, blizzard, watering station, camel caravan.

  19. Sonja Abelson collection

    Contains black and white photo prints and documents (including birth, marriage, and naturalization certificates, etc.) Some of the documents pertain to the escape of parents of the donor from the Nazi Germany in the mid 1930s. The collection also contains correspondence through ICRC with Mr. and Mrs. Felix Philippson, grandparents of the donor.

  20. Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office, German Section; General Department Public Records

    Contains records relating to Jewish displaced persons, including statistics, conditions in the Hohne camp in Germany, and on the joint British-United States committee to consider the problem.