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• irn1003043
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• 1944
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Group of GIs review papers, at rail station, gun, group shot. Switchboards in back of truck. Photographer. Tents. GI makies announcement. Cameraman. Wounded soldier. Tank. Phone picked up by GI. Captured German soldiers marched through town as prisoners. African American GI picks up a French girl. Civilians. LS, field across to Metz. Group of GIs. German prisoners in camp. Civilians and GIs. Prisoners exit camp, march in street in column. Group of military officers. GI picks up telephone. Railroad tracks.

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Universal Newsreel, Vol. 17, No. 278, Part 2. Release date, 03/20/1944. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Nazi Prisoners Work" Michigan. Nazi prisoners of war volunteer for forest duty in the north woods. Warmly clothed, they work like beavers. Then they devour their food, and return to the recreation rooms for checkers, ping pong and music by a German band. Other parts of newsreel include: 06:16:50 1: "Yanks Daylight Raid on Berlin." 06:19:26 3: "Rubber from the Sea" 06:20:00 4: "Caribbean visitor" 06:20:32 5: "HMS Bataan" 06:21:08 6: "US Task Force destroys Japs" 06:22:28 ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003045
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• 1945
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Pictures from Greece, 1944? Shows activities in and around Athens from the end of the German occupation of Greece to the arrival of and occupation by British troops. Shows scenes of death and destruction caused by German invasion and occupation. Bands of guerrillas fight retreating Nazis. Shows bodies of Germans captured by Greeks. Citizens cheer their freedom from Germans and the arrival of British troops.

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(LIB 3385-3390) Displaced Persons, Verviers, Belgium, February 10-13, 1945. MCU, interrogation of German woman and her child by a Belgian officer. Interviewer speaks in French and German. MCU, interrogation of single woman by French interpreter. MLSs, MCU, displaced persons center administration office. US Army Capt speaks over phone and receives shipment of notification of arrivals. Capt designates work to WAC corporal and Army Sgt.

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(LIB 4607) Co "C" 93rd Signal Bn Lays Communication Cable, Nierstein, Germany, March 24, 1945. SEQ: Cable on reel is let out from boat to men on shore who tie it to trees along bank of Rhine River. Engineers dig trench along river and lay cable in it. Telephone terminals are set up on shoreline. Lt. Gen George S Patton Jr and Maj Gen Manton S Eddy speak with engineer personnel. MSs, CU, approximately 18 displaced persons gather on the east side of Rhine River who are French, Italian, and Polish (formerly of the slave labor battalions used by the Germans) are interrogated by 5th Inf Div sold...

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(LIB 5032) 2200 American POWs Liberated from Stalag 9-B, Bad Orb, Germany, April 4, 1945 [originally identified by NARA as Breslau, Germany, taken on April 6, 1945]. SEQ: Released prisoners are addressed by American officer in camp area. Soldier with tin can standing in line. American POW, Pfc. James M. Osman, with chunk of bread. MCUs, released prisoners receiving coffee. Medics carry men out of building on litters. Soldiers receiving cigarettes and rations. Soldier with burned face. The commanding officer of the liberating force was Col. Walter D. Fetterly. 01:16:13 (LIB 4907) Displaced P...

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(LIB 5122-5123) Refugee Story, Gross-Umstadt and Munster, Germany, April 1-5, 1945. MSs, CUs, three US MPs. CU, MP looks at wrist watch. SEQ: MPs examine papers of Russian, French, Polish, Italian, Hungarian DPs who were recently liberated and brought to rear areas. MSs, CUs, liberated prisoners reading proclamations on bulletin board. LSs, CUs, empty streets of city due to curfew. LS, MP directs truck traffic through town. CUs, male refugees enjoying cigarettes as they read curfew notice. CUs, children of various nationalities are issued ration cards for food and given sleeping quarters. M...

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01:34:36 (LIB 6426+6428) Paris Lights up on VE Day, France, May 8, 1945. Night shots, lights are on at Trocadero fountain, Arc de Triomphe, Place de la Concorde. Crowds milling about. Day shots, American and British soldiers dancing with civilians in the streets, celebrating VE day. 01:38:54 (LIB 6429) Latvian Children, Hahnenklee, Germany, May 4, 1945. INT, MSs, CUs, several small children, sick and undernourished, lying in beds. LS, MS, house in resort town which shelters Latvian and Polish children. MS, CU, sign at entrance to town: "Resort for Mothers and Children." 01:40:58 (LIB 6430) ...

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01:43:40 (B-1185) V-E Day Celebrations, Hanover-Hameln, Germany, May 9, 1945. LSs, British, French, and US flags flying above church entrance. LSs, truckloads of Dutch DPs moving to and away from camera. Dutch DPs gathered in open field. Young child waves Dutch flag. MSs, 2nd Bn, 137th Inf Regt, parading through streets of Hameln. MSs, CUs, Dutch displaced persons load aboard freight trains. SEQ: Detachments of Yugoslav, Polish, Czech, Russian, and Italian troops honoring US soldiers during review and retreat ceremony. 01:48:10 (LIB 6297) Gen. Simpsons Visits 83rd Div, Calbe, Germany, May 5...

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(LIB 6513) Russian Displaced Persons Camp, Heidelberg, Germany, May 3, 1945. HSs, male Russian displaced persons marching by. CUs, Charles McDonald and Pat Dunne wearing UNRRA armbands. AV, campsite. Russian men and women dancing and celebrating May Day. Male DPs marching and drilling, training for enlistment in Russian Army. MCUs, children in and around day nursery. EXTs, food is poured from large containers into buckets for distribution to groups of DPs. CU, Russian Maj acting as liaison officer addresses youthful DPs. MSs, civilian bearing bundles and packages arrive at camp gate. AVs, D...

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02:11:07 (LIB 6579) 101st Airborne Div, Berchtesgaden, Germany, May 10, 1945. MSs, 101st ABN troops string wire to HQ in hotel. EXTs, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring with Maj Gen Maxwell D Taylor and Brig Gen Gerald J. Higgins. 02:14:27 (LIB 6580) Concentration Area near Cheb, Czechoslovakia, May 11, 1945. MLS, German soldiers and vehicles in assembly area. MSs, CU, prisoners of war cooking, resting, and eating. German field hospital set up in the area. Medics care for wounded soldiers. MSs, German nurses and doctors operating in field hospital. EXTs, first-aid unit at work caring for minor...

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02:21:25 (LIB 6654) Camp Brand, Brand, Germany, May 15, 1945. MSs, CUs, children of DP Camp Brand in open nursery school. Russian male civilians of camp in "close order" drill. EXTs, women wash clothes and prepare meals. MSs, camp buildings, formerly German Officers' School. CU, Russian flag flying over camp. 02:25:52 (LIB 6655) Nazi Atrocity Uncovered, Ratingen, Germany, May 13, 1945. CUs, bodies of eight German anti-Nazis, one woman and two Polish men, lying in woods (overexposed). SEQ: German civilians, former Nazi party members, prepare graves and rebury the bodies in a churchyard. MSs,...

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02:33:15 (LIB 6804) 17th Airborne Div, Germany, May 26, 1945. LSs, MSs, CU, Russian DPs from Wesel stand in doors of open freight cars as they are questioned by an American officer. HLSs, trains pull out of station. CU, railroad station sign: "Wesel." MSs, DPs standing in open doors of freight cars, wave as they pass by. MLS, Brig Gen Joseph Phelps and British officers wave goodbye as train leaves station. DPs carrying personal belongings and loading them into cars. DPs at station singing, holding huge picture of Stalin, and dancing. MLS, Maj Gen William M Miley standing at platform and ins...

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(LIB 6898) Russian DPs Cross Elbe, Magdeburg, Germany, May 31, 1945. LSs, train carrying DPs arrive at station. MSs, CU, Russian civilians with their belongings waiting at railroad station. CU, child standing next to trunk, crying. MLSs, British officer directing and counting groups as they pass. MLS, US, British, and Russian officers watch the long column of civilians crossing bridge. LSs, trash in camp courtyard which was recently evacuated by Russians. MSs, INTs, two Russian women carving meat in camp kitchen. HSs, platoon of German prisoners marching toward camera under British guard. S...

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(LIB 6865) Signal Corps Cameramen, Germany, March/April 1945. LSs, camera team jeeps assembled in year with cameramen repairing tires and tuning motors. MLS, two cameramen discuss their Speed Graphic cameras. Cameramen check map in front of HQ. MS, cameraman with Eyemo shooting infantry coming across field. MLSs, CU, still cameraman with Speed Graphic kneels behind smoking enemy armored vehicle to take pictures. MLS, still cameraman taking pictures of displaced persons in street. MSs, CUs, Sgt loads his Speed Graphic, writes captions as he kneels in rubble at Heilbronn. MSs, Lt switches len...

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(LIB 6967) Military Government, Cologne, Germany, June 13, 1945. MSs, CUs, woman copying point values from poster. MLSs, broken lamppost in the rubble. MLSs, large German hospital taken over by the US Army; ambulances drive up to entrance. CU, sign over hospital entrance, "7th Convalescent Hospital." Grounds of St. Vincent's Hospital showing Russian civilian convalescents including woman holding infant child. MLSs, EXTs, St. Augstin's Hospital; nurses, nuns, and doctors enter and exit from entrance. MLSs, CUs, Russian displaced persons in Ossendorf Camp attend outdoor classes. LSs, civilian...

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03:18:51 (LIB 7052) Russian DPs go Home, Grimma, Germany, June 21, 1945. Displaced persons get off trains which are decorated with greenery and huge pictures of Stalin. Short scene, two US soldiers speak with a Russian woman who holds infant in her lap. Russian DPs in field await transportation to homeland. Some relax, other wash clothes in river, a few men and women swim. 03:23:15 (LIB 7054) Award, Wiesbaden, Germany, June 26, 1945. LSs, Field Marshall Sir Bernard L Montgomery presents British awards to US Army personnel. LSs, MLS, Montgomery and Gen Omar N Bradley troop the line of soldie...

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03:27:55 (LIB 7239) President Truman in Germany, Heppenheim, Germany, July 26, 1945. Truman and Secretary of State James F Byrnes step from plane and are greeted by Maj Gen Alexander R Bolling. MSs, Truman steps from car, greets Bolling and troops Honor Guard. Travel shot past troops of the 84th Inf Div lined at side of road. SEQ: Truman drives in car with Bolling and Byrnes. President makes a short speech, then inspects and greets troops. MS, Truman, Byrnes, Bolling in open car. Pan, line of troops presenting arms. 03:32:15 (LIB 7184) Shipment of DPs, Bamburg, Germany, July 13, 1945. Germa...

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(MUN 376) City of Frankfurt - Food, Frankfurt and vicinity, Germany, August 19-20, 1946. LS, CUs cattle grazing in field near Heidelberg. CUs, cattle. SEQ: weighing and registering wheat. Middle-aged man and woman walking along path in park, same with man and child. MS, carton of cigarettes being exchanged for marks. LS, CU, black market dealer refusing to accept money, takes wrist watch in exchange for a package of food. LS, building which is part of DP camp at Zeilsheim. SEQ: people rummaging through garbage dump at Bad Vibel. CU, tin cans and refuse. INTs showing rooms in prosperous farm...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003062
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• 1948
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03:46:41 (Munich 756) Movement of DPs from Berlin to American Zone of Germany, Kassel, Germany, July 24, 1948. DPs line up, getting ready to pull out of Kassel area. CU, Maj A S Hyman speaking to group and Dr. William Haber, adviser to Gen Clay on DP affairs. MCU, woman holding child. CU, blonde girl. Two women sitting next to their belongings. DPs waiting at railroad station platform. CU, girl holding doll. DPs walking to the station. DPs getting aboard trucks Pan, line of trucks filled with DPs at Camp Mattenberg. People getting of trucks at camp. Men getting loaves of bread out of truck....