United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003163
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

The movie depicts the Bolshevist rule over Latvia with documentary footage and a propagandistic commentary. The narrator reads the Soviet ultimatum towards Latvia of October 2, 1939 and mentions the occupation of Latvia by Soviet troops on June 17, 1940 as an 'assault against Europe.' The puppet government under Kirchenstein is said to have betrayed the Latvians to the Soviet Union. Pictures of the alleged "Zuchthauselite" [prison elite] with high positions in the new government and administration are shown. Soviet rule is associated with propaganda, censorship, collectivization, deportatio...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003164
• English
• 1942
• Updated 1 year ago

A documentary that shows pictures of the Kiev office of the "Generalbevollmaechtigter fuer den Arbeitseinsatz" [General Commissioner for Employment of Labor]. Ukrainians board a train towards Germany and enjoy music, food, and cigarettes. German cities, industrial plants, and freeways are shown to the delight and astonishment of the Ukrainians. Later on they are examined by a doctor and instructed about their work in industry and agriculture by a foreman. A canteen and a grocery store are shown. The workers receive letters from home. For evening entertainment, there are folk music events. T...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003165
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Through the eyes of a slightly naïve German engineer, this feature film depicts the harmonious life in the "Arbeiterstadt" [labor city] - a euphemism used for the harsh reality of a foreign labor camp. The commentary states that a 'forceful fate' drove "Millionen fremdvölkischer Arbeitskräfte" [millions of ethnically non-German laborers] to Germany. Eighteen nations are represented in the work camps, including French, Belgians, Norwegians, Croatians, Serbs, Bulgarians, and Ukrainians. All signs in the camp are in six languages: German, French, Italian, Polish, Serbian, and Ukrainian. A jour...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003166
• English
• 1943
• Updated 1 year ago

The narrator, uncomfortably shot from below and against images of ruins and corpses, recites excerpts from the Soviet constitution in Russian. Switching to Latvian, the narrator describes how Latvians welcome the Germans after years of Soviet terror. The German 'liberators' are cheered in Riga while marching down the Basteja Bulvaris; German military boots are shown marching over a fur hat with the Red Star. Latvian volunteers are sworn in at the Freedom Memorial in Riga in the presence of Reichskommissar Ostland [Reich commissar for the Baltic territories and Belorussia] Hinrich Lohse. Aft...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003167
• English
• 1932
• Updated 1 year ago

Gottfried Feder, in a business suit, faces the camera and delivers a speech about the National Socialist movement and fiscal & economic issues. He claims to be one of oldest, most loyal followers of Hitler, along with Roehm & Frank from the 'horrible chaos' following November 8, 1918, and to have influenced the party's first political agenda together with Dietrich Eckhardt. He speaks on his favorite topics of "Brechung der Zinsknechtschaft" [rupture of the slavery of interest rates] and "Kampf gegen den Gott Mammon" [fight against the deity Mammon] and calls his books on economy &am...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003168
• English
• 1940
• Updated 1 year ago

Hitler Youth in the East (Posen, etc). Intertitles. Danzig. Poles victimize ethnic Germans. Ruins, graves. "Erbe" "Polnische Kulturträger" Sarcastic, Polish 'untermensch'. "Juden, Juden, Juden!" Closeups of Jews. Stars of David. Healthy blond German children. HJ, BDM at work. Antisemitic propaganda (Lebensraum, etc). Boys boxing, boy sewing, shining shoes. 9 Sept 1940, sign on tree about a village gathering in the afternoon. Folk dancing. Military officers. Local SS, SA. Clapping. Milk can, laundry in wind.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003169
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Title: "Aus der chirurgischen Universitaetsklinik Berlin/Ziegelstr." "ausgefuehrt durch: Dozent Dr. Haase, Oberarzt aus der Klinik" Close shot: genitalia scrubbed. Penis covered. Anasthetic, testicles. Clamped, left, then right. Surgical cut. Retraction. Vas deferens pulled forward, isolated, tied off. Injection into vas deferens. The cut is sewn up.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003170
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Lecture to medical school students. Contrasting people who go to fortune tellers against those who go for proper medical examinations. Breast exam by doctor. A biopsy done, slides examined under microscope. Surgery, radiation. Doctor with woman. Meanwhile, man with moustache goes to a quack, sells all his belongings to pay for treatments while getting worse and worse. Evenutually the quack is on trial. Lawyer's statement. Judge in robes with Nazi insignia. Message: "Kampf dem Krebs / Vertrauet den Arzt" [Fight Cancer / Trust the doctor]. "Rechtzeitig erkannt, rechtzeitig bekämpft ist Krebs ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003171
• English
• 1939
• Updated 1 year ago

A Nazi propaganda film that depicts the suffering of the Sudetendeutsche in contrast to the laziness of the Jews who agitate the Czechs into war against Germany. Because of the film's relatively minor quality, it was only screened at internal party events. Produced by Reichspropagandaleitung. Bohemia/Moravia. Map. Narrator, "Before the Slavs...Germans...the German Kaisers built..." WS, lovely Prague views. September 10, 1919, maps, Bolsheviks. 3.5 million Germans driven out of Czechoslovakia? Reichsgrenze. Sudetenland, industry, mining, hot springs in Karlsbad, people, lace-making. (6"37) "...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003172
• English
• 1942
• Updated 1 year ago

Troops in snow. German soldiers/officials greet Orthodox priest, receive blessing, castle. Musical performed in theater. Hair styling lessons. Art exhibition in Riga, Frank opens exhibit, "Hilfswerke fuer deutsche bildende Kunst". Construction/industry. Todt's funeral, Hitler and very high Nazi officials, wreath laying, parade. Troops at sea, firing cannons. Aerial shots, fighting, bombing. Boats, at sea, fighting.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003173
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Military ceremony, swearing-in. Train. Women swimming in winter. Producing advertisement/poster. Entertainment - dancers on stage. Factory for trains. Train with "1000" sign. Map, German troops advancing in Latvia/Russia. Planes, soldiers, military equipment, snow, ice, military vehicles, fighting. POWs. In Africa, German soldiers riding in open vehicle, natives welcoming/cheering, looking at map, fighting. Prisoners, CUs faces, marching in columns with belongings. Troops at sea, firing cannons. INT, boat, various mechanisms.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003174
• English
• 1942
• Updated 1 year ago

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.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003175
• English
• 1942
• Updated 1 year ago

Part 1: Sultan visits Franco. Troops, parade with horse, Sultan in open car. Part 2: Architecture exhibition with models of buildings. Part 3: Romania: Crowd of peasants in ethnic costumes, digging with shovels, planting, dancing. Part 4: Lake, boat with cows, reflection in water, mountains in BG, CU, man rowing, cows herded off boat. Part 5: Tennis doubles. Part 6: Track and field races in stadium, athletes (men and women), crowd, exercises. Part 7: At beach in Greece, kayaking, orchestra, outdoor cafe, HAS street scene, market, selling shoes, ceramic dishes, textiles, cooking. Part 8: Hit...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003176
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

Reel 1: Part 1, 10th anniversary of the death of Professor Paul Ludwig Troost; still photos of Troost and shots of the House of German Art and the Koenigliche Platz in Munich. 01:02:06 Part 2, The Ruhr: Captain Ruempler (Oak Leaves) and his comrades visit a mine, and go underground; shots of the miners and the soldiers. 01:02:50 Part 3, Germany: report on the hard and dangerous work of stevedoring; loading and unloading ships; ships with the coat of arms of Bremen. 01:03:40 Part 4, Stettin: Day of maritime transport, January 19, 1944; Admiral Doenitz speaks (no original sound); among the au...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003177
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

Reel 2: Part 7 continued from Story 3712, crews take off. 01:11:04 Part 1, plane of Captain Leopold Fellerer (Knight's Cross) lands; he is greeted by other pilots. 01:11:37 Part 2, Italy: supply trucks of the NSKK underway with supplies, loading of heavy artillery shells on trucks; artillery position on the Italian coast; preparations of defensive positions; camouflage of a tank; enemy planes attack; anti-aircraft fire, German fighters attack; bombing, shot of stick of bombs hitting a ridge; a bomber is shot down; pieces of wreckage; fighter base; return of fighters; on leave at a ski area;...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003178
• English
• 1940
• Updated 1 year ago

Reel 1. Part 1: Trade and industrial fair held at Konigsberg, East Prussia, Germany. 01:23:47 Part 2: Pencil factory in Germany. 01:25:30 Part 3: Bicycle race held in Germany. 01:26:25 Part 4: Swimming race and fancy diving in Prague, Czechoslovakia. 01:27:20 Part 5: Man fishing with his bare hands in Italy. 01:27:58 Part 6: Medical doctors in German hospital demonstrate modern equipment to visiting foreign physicians. 01:28:42 Part 7: Train bound for Copenhagen leaves German railroad station. 01:29:39 Part 8: Benito Mussolini acclaimed by Roman crowd.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003179
• English
• 1940
• Updated 1 year ago

Reel 2. Part 1: German officers deplane from transport and review Romanian troops in Bucharest. 01:31:02 Part 2: Slovakian President Tiso with aides. 01:31:56 Part 3: Italian seaplane bombers take off and attack British fleet in Mediterranean Sea. 01:33:38 Part 4: Captured, wrecked French vehicles and war equipment in France and Germany, troops salvage wrecked French equipment. 01:35:06 Part 5: German railroad gun fires in France.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003180
• English
• 1942
• Updated 1 year ago

"Ein Filmdokument der Schaefer-Expedition, 1938/39." Sound track added in 1942, with racial content stressed. Terrain/map. "Tibet / Indien" Dr. Karl Wienert, hand measurements. 00:04:52 to 00:05:01Measuring woman's head. Dr. Bruno Beger, "Die menschen Rasse des Forschungs..." Cameraman. Terrain, model, map, Ganges. 00:06:21 Scenes, streets, Calcutta (very good). Train to the base of the Himalayas.00:07:23 Intro the wonders and dangers of flora, fauna. Mules, men on the move. Bridge over river. Dangers of the wild river monsoons, whitewater. Mules over narrow wooden bridge across, fixing bri...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003181
• English
• 1939
• Updated 1 year ago

Children in circle with teacher, dancing, singing. German students/scientists on rural assigment, with measuring tools. Inspecting woman's teeth, measuring girl's head, height, nose. Peasants farming, hay. Filmed for German television use.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003182
• English
• 1980
• Updated 1 year ago

Pre-title sequence: Bookburning in Berlin, Joseph Goebbels speaking. View of bodies stacked with wood for burning, and Heinrich Heine quote. Film title: DER GELBE STERN: Ein Film ueber die Judenverfolgung 1933 - 1945. Events of January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany. NSDAP (Nazi Party) organization, new members, SA marching in streets. S.A. Heim [Sturmabteilung headquarters]. Joseph Goebbels speaks at Sportpalast in Berlin, against the lying Jewish press etc. This preceded Hitler's first speech as Chancellor, February 10. Still of burned Reichstag building, and a...