United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000137
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• 1939
• Updated 1 year ago

Aerial views of damage to Warsaw in 1939. 3:10:56 Interior of plane, pilot's compartment, bombardiers seat, map. 3:11:25 AV Squadron and bomber in flight. 3:12:08 Intertitle: Fliegerbomben auf Warschau; AV City of Warsaw attacked, bombs being dropped, smoke. 3:12:50 MS Damaged factory building. 3:13:10 LS Civilians on city streets going by damaged buildings. Pass huge bomb crater. LS of top floor of building bombed in. 3:13:45 Intertitle: Brandbomben auf Warchau; AV Suburbs of Warsaw. Firebombed buildings, much flame and rubble. 3:14:09 AV (see plane's wing) Good view of city smoking. 3:15:...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000138
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Map of Hungary/Rumania region. VAR views: Germans, armed and on horseback, townspeople in street clothes carry bricks, working together to build roadblocks. VAR views: Germans fire artillery into the city below, incl CU soldiers, LS city, Howitzer is loaded, shot and recoils. MS pan over snowy field dotted with tanks and trucks; ELS view of fields with advancing German infantry. Pan of knocked out Russian tanks and of snowy, rather bleak Budapest (incl one nice MS skyline view). German tanks roll down road toward camera, past smiling and waving civilian workers. German Panzer vehicles masse...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000139
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

UFA #688: Hans Frank, Governor General of Poland, visits Pilsudski Tomb and dines at castle. MS of elaborate scrollwork on entryway to tomb, group of Nazi officials enters, shots of tomb and overhead of people in room. Outdoors in courtyard of castle, Frank and aide are introduced to various people, CU as he shakes hands while in BG Nazi officers stand around. LS of people seated outdoors at table. Good MCU of Frank without his cap, shot of castle exterior.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000140
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

Map of Poland and Silesia region. VS on snowy streets, Polish civilian refugees on horsecart and truck are led from city. MCU Polish soldiers and Russian prisoners marching through town street. Volkssturm build barricades. VS refugees board train. VS People are given ID papers and fed meals prepared by German Red Cross. CU Men with fur caps and "Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht" armbands being issued equipment and weapons and march off. MCU Artillery shells & guns are unloaded from truck and then moved off in donkey carts. Column of German tanks and then trucks move forward. MCU Sign: "Ka...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000141
• English
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Signing of military economic alliance by Germany, Italy, and Japan. 3:20:15 LS Group of men led by von Ribbentrop, Ciano, and Japanese delegate striding down long, wide corridor. 3:20:27 Same men coming into conference room. Ciano standing at conference table. Others file in. CU German officers. 3:30:32 Hitler coming into room, salutes and is saluted. CU audience observing meeting. Approaches Ciano, shakes hand, then approaches Japanese delegate. MCU as he takes seat. 3:20:58 LS of Hitler, Ciano and Kurusu (?) at table with their aides standing behind them. Two shots of Ciano and Hitler, pa...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000142
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece. Animap of region as names of Yugoslavian areas appear. VAR Anti-tank spikes, destroyed railroad tracks in Croatia; soldiers confer, march past houses along road, cross stream and drag artillery over wooden bridge. Animap shows entry into Greece at Salonika and Xanthi. VAR LS, smoke rises in valley from German artillery hits, German guns fire and recoil, view of valley, German sketching. Germans in foxhole gesture. LS Stuka planes in sky. Extreme HA (probably shot from plane) flying Stuka, bombs drop and explode. German tank rolls down street in Salonika, w...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000143
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

Bishops of Ukrainian Orthodox Church present plaque to Ludwig Fischer, Nazi governor of Warsaw district, and protest Russian oppression in Ukraine. 3:40:30 Bishops walking across courtyard (very poor visual quality) then MS in ceremonial room, VS of Fischer shaking hands with prelates. One of them reads declaration, Fischer's back to camera. CU senior church official, CU Fischer. LS, MS of them together.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000144
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

French fascist Jacques Doriot addresses "Legion of French Volunteers" in Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris. Huge audience inside velodrome including German officers and CU of Vichy officers. MS officer at podium giving Nazi salute. Doriot speaking in French at podium in profile. Talks of difficult combat of winter of 1941 and 1942. MS German officers in front row. People in crowd give fascist salute. Additional unrelated footage: 3:44:39 to 3:47:40 Map showing Shitomir, Kirowograd, and Nikopol. German and Hungarian troops near Stanislavov, USSR, relaxing sleeping, being reviewed, marching, fightin...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000145
• English
• 1943
• Updated 1 year ago

Quisling in Norway, French volunteers, Latvian and Lithuanian volunteers for German army. MS Vidkun Quisling reviews with Nazi officer a line of Norwegian police in Norway. CU of insignia patch of eagle and swastika (uniforms suggest military volunteers rather than police). MLS French officers review bereted volunteers for German army on grounds of Versailles. CU several of them. They march out and off to train station. Good MCU as they sort through baggage, say goodbye and board train. 5:12:26 MCU as crowd of Latvian and Lithuanian volunteers for German army and civilians marching toward c...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000146
• English
• 1939
• Updated 1 year ago

Surrender and occupation of Warsaw in 1939. German in trench behind wire observing, Hitler w/binoculars. LS Howitzer fires at train, burning. Howitzer fires, LS of city, plume of smoke, mortar fire. Plane takes off, aerial shot of columns of smoke. AV craters, bombed domes. Surrender, Polish officer goes into railcar. Trucks of German troops enter city and soldiers on foot. "Komend Miasta Warszawa" sign on building, pan down to Polish officers, long column of Polish POWs shot from above, horses and carts. Bomb damage, wrecked train cars. Civilians digging through rubble, and with POWs makin...

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• irn1000148
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• Updated 1 year ago

Arnstadt and Nordhausen after Allied soldiers arrive. General shots of corpses and survivors. Survivors receive aid. Some well-known shots of survivors as they board IRC van. (LIB 5566) Arnstadt Horrors, Arnstadt, Germany, April 14, 1945. 02:07:05 EXT, Sequence-German civilians disinter bodies of concentration camp victims. 02:07:27 CU, a cadaver with a damaged skull. 02:07:49 LSs, CUs, dog kennel for watchdog. 02:08:08 Begin new roll. 02:08:14 Pan from camp gate to tents used to house 1700 prisoners. 02:08:40 LSs to MSs, corpses lying outside of grave from which they have just been exhumed...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000149
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LS Warsaw city scenes, including HA views of city street with trolley. The narration states that Warsaw again now shows an every-day [normal] appearance. MCU sign, "Nur fur Juden" [For Jews Only] with Jewish star on trolley, also in Polish. Railroad and wire repair work being done. CU men in trolley appear wary of camera.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000150
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Concentration Camp, Ludgwigslust, Germany, May 5, 1945. LS, concentration camp area. MSs, barracks of camp with bodies of camp victims crowded in open doorway. Screen left-several survivors standing idly about. CU, bodies stacked in doorway of building. CUs, bodies on ground outside of hospital building. MSs, CUs, surviving inmates in courtyard cooking around open fire. Getting water from well. VLSs, camp buildings. VAR shots survivors. American Newspapermen inspect Concentration Camp, Dachau, Germany, May 7, 1945. CU, US newspapermen and party are sprayed with delousing powder. (LIB 6349) ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000151
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(Munich 95) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 10, 1946. MLS, Chief US Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson telling the Tribunal that Dr. Alfred Thoma, defense counselor for Rosenberg, had translated sections of documents in an antisemitic character. Jackson charges that the defense is trying to disseminate antisemitic propaganda. Dr. Rudolf Dix, counselor for Schacht, defends before the Tribunal the entire defense staff whom he feels has been accused by Jackson. Note: Camera did not catch all of Jackson's charge. Jackson holds up the stencils involved in his accusation.

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• irn1000152
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(Munich 619) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Sentencing of defendants in the Nuremberg "Medical Trial." Most are sentenced to death by hanging or life imprisonment. Slate reads: "Army Pictorial Division. War Crimes Trials. Sentencing. 20 Aug. Last 700. Case #1. CAM 369, MAG 522. Nuremberg War Crimes Trials: "Medical Case" " MHSs, defendants individually step into prisoners' dock to hear sentencing (expressionless faces). Camera remains on defendants as voice of presiding judge is heard sentencing each one. Sentences are handed dow...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000153
• English
• 1937
• Updated 1 year ago

CUs Nuremberg stadium stands with saluting BDMs, RAD and civilians. Good MS and CUs of Hitler standing in car in Nuremberg stadium watching parade of work corps. CA to BDM. Good goosestepping RAD. Informal shots of young men in uniform seated on stadium ground, drinking from canteens. LS of stands. Longer shot, POV stands, Hitler watching parade, shots of marchers, band from various angles. Shots of various members of audience in stands, including military, SS, BDM, SA, civilians. POV stands, officials enter stadium in cars. Himmler climbs stadium steps as SS line walk way. POV high in stan...

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• irn1000154
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"Belsen Death Camp Leaders Meet Justice." Four British soldiers guarding door. CU, SS camp guards arriving for trial and climbing out of a truck. VCU, Josef Kramer. Crowds behind barriers in street. SS woman, including Irma Grese (the "bitch of Bergen-Belsen") and Juana Bormann, climbing out of truck. Filing into courtroom. Numbers hanging on defendants. Soldiers/military seated, Fritz Klein. Hundreds of corpses laid out in rows on ground. Newsreel footage also includes the following parts: 01:32:31 "Sailing Ship 'Danmark' Goes Home Again" 01:33:44 "14 Marines and Sailors Win Highest Award"...

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• irn1000155
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(Paris 398) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 30, 1945. LS, Tribunal consisting of Robert Falco, Henri Donnedieu de Vabre, John J. Parker, Francis Biddle, Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence, Justice Birkett, Maj. Gen. I T Nikitchenko, and A F Volchoff. They enter courtroom and take their seats. Dr. Gunther von Rohrscheidt, counsel for Rudolf Hess, addresses the court about Hess' alleged amnesia. MS, Hess seated in prisoners' dock. LS, Lord Justice Lawrence requests that the medical report be read. The Lord Justice goes on to say that the only thing wrong with Hess is his forgetful...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000156
• English
• 1945
• Updated 1 year ago

"Nazi Atrocities" segment of US Army "Special Film Report" (part of reels 3 and 4). Evidence of atrocities in several captured German concentration camps, including Holzen, Paderborn, Hadamar, and Ohrdruf. LS, camp entrance in Holzen, Germany. MS, CUs, Russian, Polish, Czech and Jewish prisoners behind barbed-wire fence, smiling. Undernourished prisoners. MS, EXT men standing along barracks. VCUs, individual faces. MS, picking lice from body of another. Pan of survivors, facing camera. Former Russian prisoners raid food stores at Paderborn camp. Crowd pushing, eating from tins. US Army jeep...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000157
• English
• 1945
• Updated 1 year ago

06:12:46 Reel 2: "Activities in European Theater of Operations" In Germany, Schweinfurt citizens gather in courtyard. Confiscated art, belongings, etc. German male civilians march in columns in streets to be screened by US counter-intelligence. Cached gold and art treasures emoved from Merkers salt mine. Nordhausen citizens loot shops, walk through streets, stopped by armed US soldiers, forced to surrender stolen goods. French POW camp in Seurst, Germany. The liberated wave out of three story building windows, give hugs, pats, and kisses to liberating soldiers, large crowd, US and French ra...