United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000260
• English
• 1936
• Updated 1 year ago

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 ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000261
• English
• 1943
• Updated 1 year ago

Reel 1: Hitler Youth do farm work to support German war effort. MS boys with scout caps on, farming in a field. MS, lugging bags over shoulders. CU, smiling boys snacking. MS, girls. CU, young woman crouched in field, feeding hens. Two women herding geese. CU, milking a cow. CU, helping piglets nurse (holding in arms). Boys on tractor, carrying hay, (teens) to haystack. Women standing in truckbed and on ground, stabbing hay, petting horse. Women walking arm in arm. Hitler Youth take summer vacation at Oste River. Shirtless boys all seated outside at picnic tables, assembling planes. CU, fri...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000262
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Rear shot of tank entering camp, passes barbed wire fence. Pans to sign on left of entrance. Sign reads, "This is the site of the Infamous Belsen Concentration Camp. Liberated by the British ca. 15 April 1945. 10,000 unburied dead were found. Another 13,000 have since died. All of them victims of the German new order in Europe. And an example of Nazi Kultur." Same LS, pan to sign across deserted land, barbed wire, smoke in BG. More torching of buildings. Fast pan across lots of tiny brush fires. Soldiers on tank drive through camp.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000263
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

04:07:24 Title, "Generalstreik. Bürgerkrieg." [General strike. Civil War.] Children of all ages and a few adults march down a crowded street. They wave flags as other civilians and police men stand watching from the sidelines. 04:08:26 Title, "1920. Innere Kämpfe." [Internal Struggles.] A massive crowd is gathered for a strike/demonstration in Berlin (possibly March 13, 1920). Several people carry banners and red flags. Panning shot of a factory as seen from a rooftop. Trucks carry groups of people and bicyclists ride alongside factory tracks. 04:08:48 Title, "Kapp-Putsch." Men and a few wo...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000264
• English
• 1933
• Updated 1 year ago

Outdoor military ceremony in stands, Hitler and Ludendorf. MS flags, Wehrmacht. Big radio mikes as Hindenburg speaks.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000265
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Josef Goebbels speaks to Ward Price (US reporter for the Daily Mail). MS Goebbels and Price, both in suits, seated on a park bench. Partial translation from Raye Farr's notes (1972): Goebbels: "I am of the firm conviction that peace must be kept in Europe. If war were to come, it would be the greatest misfortune for the world. And however it might end for the victors, the conquered would endure the most terrible suffering. And so it will be the Reich government's policy to try to keep peace no matter what, and to relieve the people's suffering, their anxiety, their unemployment." [original ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000266
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

350 Polish Refugees Leave Teheran for Palestine, (no date, originally reviewed March 27, 1944) INTs, Teheran railroad station. Polish refugees on platform bustle about as some bid farewell to departing friends. Persian/Arabic inscriptions. Pan, wall of newsstand/booth. Dolly shot, relatives and friends bid one another farewell from train windows; along railcars, more crowded, various men in uniform. Belongings on platform. Men, women, and children mill about, looking anxious and excited, some dressed well, some with hats (mix of Middle Eastern and Baltic looks). CU, native porter salutes in...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000267
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

German Killing of Jewish Slave Labor, Neuenberg, Germany, April 29, 1945. Seq: German civilians are assembled and marched to graves of murdered Jews. Seq: German men and women in teams of four carry decomposed bodies in open pine boxes from woods through town streets to cemetery. VS, townspeople as they walk past open coffins. CUs, facial expressions of townspeople. LS, bodies awaiting burial as civilians walk past. LS, pan, 200 bodies of murdered Jews lying in woods. CUs, German civilians digging up bodies. Exhumation of 1500 Russian Slave Laborers, Essen, Germany, April 28, 1945. VS, 17th...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000268
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Slate: "Capt. Carter, Prod #186, Buchenwald C-31, Date: 4-19-45" MS of a truck bed piled with bodies, clothed and unclothed. CU of a bearded man lying on the ground. His arms are crossed over his chest, his tattooed number visible on his forearm. Medium, direct shot of a truck bed of corpses. Extreme CU of corpses, slow pan over their heads and feet. Extreme CU of three heads and feet. MCU of a clothed corpse lying on a low wheeled stretcher. CU of a man's face who had apparently been beaten. A picture of Jesus is pinned to his clothing. Extreme CU of the same inmate at different angles. MS...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000269
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Mostly military scenes, group shots of soldiers, tanks and jeeps driving over bridges. CU, corpses with lime. MS, soldier (back to camera) looking into black doorway, taking picture. CU, dressed corpses, in loose pile on ground, blood on ground. WS, enormous mounds of white substance. Collapsed building, soldiers walking on top. LS tank driving over and into plane wreckage in a field. Tank driving towards camera. CU, four soldiers in tank. Refugees walking along road with oxen and big carts covered. Refugees on country path, bikes laden with belongings.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000270
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Slate: "Mainzer / SFP 186 / Buchenwald / Roll MM-8 / 4-16-1945". MS, shirtless thin man sitting against red barn wall at Buchenwald camp. Another man, older with a shirt on. German civilians walking inside camp, forced to confront the atrocities. Two inmates in striped uniforms seated on a bench against barracks. Civilians walk through an opening in wooden barricade/wall. Slate: "Mainzer / SFP 186 / Buchenwald / Roll MM-9 / 4-16-1945". Pile of corpses with barracks in background. Bodies on flatbed, faces, feet, from various angles. German civilians touring the camp, survivors peering over w...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000271
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Aerial shots. 08:03:21 Torgau, Germany. High military personnel, generals. Soviet and American soldiers seated outside at banquet, chatting, talking, dancing with each other (accordion player). Soviet flag. Big group of men. Three soldiers in front of "East Meets West" sign. CU, three soldiers. Street scene, red and white banner in Russian and English "Long Live The Victory of...." Alliance with America, British, and Soviet flag. Pan of soldiers. CU, soldiers in street with two women, chatting and flirting. Soldiers milling around field. Shell. MS, LS river, soldiers rowing boats. "East Mee...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000272
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

05:12:23 "Werk-Konzert" in Donhoffplatz, Berlin. UFA celebration. Building with "Universum Film AG." In the yard, SS band plays march music. CU band. Long trumpets with SS flag hanging. Great shots of employees watching from the windows (speaker stresses "joyful surprise"), looking down into plaza. (at end, Wochenshau cameraman can be seen). 05:13:25 "Internationale Automobil- und Motorrad-Ausstellung Berlin 1937" Wilhelmstrasse, Berlin. Hitler and small entourage greet NSKK corps leader Huehnlein in street before race. He greets racecar drivers, who parade before the Reichskanzlei. Low, na...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000273
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

05:46:37 Quick shot of event at night with soldiers in long coats. In Warsaw, von Ribbentrop with Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Colonel Beck. Memorial wreath presented during ceremony for "Polish Ehrenmahl." Old German military leaders, distinguished-looking, sitting at table, conversing. President Ignacy Moscicki is among them. 05:47:43 Berlin, 30 January 1939. Sixth anniversary of the Nazi seizure of power. Decorated streets with banners, night. Hitler arriving at the Reichstag, motorcade, crowd heiling in BG. Marching on street, entering Reichstag, speaking about the Jews from a pod...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000274
• English
• 1937
• Updated 1 year ago

Some (maybe all) STAGED scenes. Nazi men roughing up two suited men in dry cleaners; soldier seen from INT of store, waits for instructions to start ("Action!"). Soldier seen painting Jude through window. Sign "Deutsche! Wehrt euch! Kauft nicht bei Juden." Pull back, soldier holding sandwich board, women and men walk past, not looking. In workplace two Nazis barge in, wrestle with men, drag them away. Painter in window finishes, leaves; same, as seen from outside, Nazi next to him with flag (staged). In butcher shop, Nazi comes in, grabs butcher and customer. In restaurant/diner, Nazi comes...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000275
• English
• 1929-1930
• Updated 1 year ago

Intertitle reads, "Aufnahmen aus dem Leben Kaiser Franz Josefs laesslich der 100. Wiederkehr seines Geburtstag." Hindenburg leaving building (Reichstag?), salutes camera. Other officers stand around. Intertitle reads, "Berliner Wachtruppe pfing den Besuch des Reichspraesidenten." Berliner Wachtruppe greets Hindenburg as he reviews the troops. Profile of Hindenburg as he walks back and forth, salutes an officer.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000276
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

1150 U (03:21:12): Lidice, Czechoslovakia. Commemoration of the destruction of Lidice by Germans who killed all men of the village. LS, crowd gathered on the emplacement of Lidice which had been leveled by the Germans. Place is marked with a cross and a crown of thorns. Shots taken between the Czech and Russian emblems surmounting the respective flags. BG, the official tribune decorated with flags of the allied nations. Speeches made by dignitaries, crowd listening. LS, end of ceremony. LS, Terezin, cemetery, death camp for political prisoners in Bohemia. Women tending the tombs. FG, a roug...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000277
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

09:24:09 477 D: "Meeting of Polish Jews in NY" at a round table, formal dinner, reportedly on December 1, 1931. Palm tree in BG. Benjamin Winter, President of the Federation of Polish Jews in America, and President of the World Federation of Polish Jews: "Condition of Jews in Poland is one of the Great Tragedies"; "...constantly discriminated and propagandized...Jewish children denied proper education...help these people... our need is $1 million." Fundraising speech [Mute] 09:31:58 477 I: Boat in fog, mist [without sound] 09:33:17 477 N: Map of Poland. CU Russia.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000278
• English
• 1947
• Updated 1 year ago

Jewish refugees from Germany preparing to leave France for Palestine. MS of entryway to Marseilles harbor. Jewish immigrants from the British sector of Berlin arrive by train in Marseilles. Group standing beside train tracks and CU of people leaning out train windows. Shots of refugees being fed at station soup kitchen run by nuns. CU of little girl and pieces of bread, little boy with Star of David patch on jacket. Representatives wearing HIAS armpatches. LS Ship Providence which will be taking these legal immigrants to Palestine. LS crowd of passengers lining up at foot of gangplank. CU a...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000279
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 712, Part 2A. Release date, 10/19/1938. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Germans Take Over Sudeten" Czechoslovakia. Almost on the heels of the Czechs as they withdraw from areas ceded to Germany by the Four-Power Accord, the German leader and his troops take over, inspecting former Czech defenses and feeding hungry refugees. Czechs depart from the Sudetenland as German tanks takeover. Village scene. Various MS, carts lined up in village. Soldiers? Nazis towing through bunker? MS, Nazis strolling in field. Quick shot of armband. Nazis feeding...