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  1. Walter Hunkler papers

    1. Walter E. Hunkler collection

    Contains two documents titled allowing U.S. military officer to possess and/or mail "captured enemy military equipment," retrieved and used by Sergeant Walter Hunkler, dated August 20, 1945. One envelope with "Dachau" written on front and "44." Group of black and white photographs from Dachau, taken by Sergeant Hunkler, and othes gathered in Germany after liberation of the camp. The documents belonged to Walter Hunkler (donor's husband), Sergeant, assigned to medical detachment of the 160th Field Artillery Battalion, a unit of the 45th armored division that entered concentration camp Dachau...

  2. Michael Colgan, Sr. papers

    The papers consist largely of 11 photographs depicting a concentration camp (probably Buchenwald) at the time of liberation and various anonymous members of the German military. There is also an obituary for Franz Suchy who died on December 21, 1942, in the Battle of Ploskaja, as well as an employment identification card from the German railroad for Heinrich Suchy.

  3. Richard S. Coombes photographs

    The collection consists of 50 photographs of the liberation of Dachau concentration camp by United States troops as well as landscape shots of Germany, of military actions, and of celebrity entertainers such as Bob Hope and Frances Langford.

  5. Red Cross; U.S. soldiers

    CU, Red Cross worker in BG, nurse, uniformed soldier looking through rubble. VS, nurses, more Red Cross personnel (German uniforms). American soldiers, civilians, peasants in town square. Carts, wagons, some animals, chickens, damaged buildings. Local women with kerchiefs pumping water at well, cows, farm animals are present. Children (very briefly in shot). More American GIs with rifles, standing by Red Cross truck. Scenes of countryside, local girls.

  6. Paris; Workers/POWs; soldiers celebrate

    Reel I: Germans in Paris, placing wreaths at the tomb of the unknown soldier, flags, wreaths, etc. March in streets, rally, Vel d'Hiv. Speaker: Jaques Doriot. Workers (men and women, some POWs) in a factory, in mines, etc. The music is very reminiscent of the opening theme of Beethoven's Third Symphony, Eroica. Reel II: EXT, soldiers clowning around outside of their barracks. Soldiers eat, sing, dance, pretend to be bull fighters, and generally have a good time.

  7. Ilya Yoffe papers

    The photographs depict the donor's family before World War II, Dr. Gershon Grisha Yoffe [donor's brother] who fell in action in 1941, and the donor during his military service in the Soviet Red Army during and after the war. The papers also include a letter written by Dr. Grisha Woffe two months before being killed in action, a diploma from medical school issued to Dr. Grisha Yoffe in Voronezh, Russia, and a memorial pamphlet in which the donor's brother is mentioned.

  8. Shoulder badge

    1. Daniel Lavering collection

    Collection of badges, bars and shoulder patches stored in a cloth and leather bag belonging to Charles Lavering, member of the 305 and 309 Ordinance Battalion, received during his service in World War II. Military shoulder patch: oval fabric patch with embroidered image of thunder bolts, broken chain and star in red, gold, blue, white and green threads

  9. Shoulder badge

    1. Daniel Lavering collection

    Collection of badges, bars and shoulder patches stored in a cloth and leather bag belonging to Charles Lavering, member of the 305 and 309 Ordinance Battalion, received during his service in World War II. Military shoulder patch: fabric patch with embroidered image of an "A" in black on a green background

  10. Shoulder badge

    1. Daniel Lavering collection

    Collection of badges, bars and shoulder patches stored in a cloth and leather bag belonging to Charles Lavering, member of the 305 and 309 Ordinance Battalion, received during his service in World War II. Military shoulder patch: fabric patch with embroidered image of a "T" and three stripes in tan on a black background

  11. Shoulder badge

    1. Daniel Lavering collection

    Collection of badges, bars and shoulder patches stored in a cloth and leather bag belonging to Charles Lavering, member of the 305 and 309 Ordinance Battalion, received during his service in World War II. Military shoulder patch: fabric patch with embroidered image of a "T" and three stripes in tan on a black background

  12. World War I wound badge for a cap awarded to a German soldier

    1. Stefan and Frederike Deutsch family collection

    World War I wound badge awarded to Stefan Deutsch for injuries sustained while serving in the German Army.

  13. Irving H. Rosenberg papers

    1. Irving H. Rosenberg collection

    The papers consist of military documents and photographs which belonged to Irving H. Rosenberg who served in the United States Army, 4th Armored Division, in Europe in 1944 and 1945. The photographs appear to be taken immediately after the liberation of a concentration camp.

  14. Jews and other POWs in Greece

    German troops in the port of Piraeus. Arms for the Germans are unloaded from ships. Aerial shot of POWs in a camp with 10,000 prisoners. CUs of prisoners, described by the narrator as "helpers" from all over the world that the English have impressed into service, and who are now happy that the war is over for them. CU on Indians, Arabs, and a native New Zealander. More shots of the men, focusing on various racial "types." Serbian troops, then prisoners who are identified as Jews who have emigrated and are now volunteers in the English army.

  15. Nazi atrocities; interrogation

    Opening credit: Service Cinema Armee Francaise. Barbed wire at Hadamar. Survivors - Poles and Russians. Lice. Americans tour camps. Piles of victims. Local civilians forced to enter hut with bodies. CUs, captured German. Various shots of corpses, ashes, bone, open graves. 3 men in gas masks lift buried corpses from grave. Americans, doctor in white coat, military start autopsy, examination. Interrogation. Poison bottle. HAS, graves.

  16. Operation of translating system at Nuremberg Trial

    War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 1946. SEQ: standing before photo mural of the Nuremberg Trial in session, Commander Steer of the US Navy explains the operation of the Multilingual Simultaneous Interpreting System. (Photography is bad in spots.)

  17. Stephen K. Yasinow family papers

    1. Yasinow and Wurtz family collection

    Collection of newspapers: from Philadelphia and “Stars and Stripes” publications collected by Dr. J. Benjamin Yasinow and Rose Kaplan Yasinow (donor's parents) and by Alexander Wurtz (donor’s maternal uncle by marriage) who served in the US Army 1944-1945; a scrapbook compiled by Alexander Wurtz during his military service in the US and Italy; the scrapbook contains German military badges; American antisemitic leaflet; store signs expressing mourning after President Roosevelt’s death and many other items.

  18. Case against Hans Fritzsche, broadcast propaganda at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 519) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 23, 1946. US Capt. Drexel A. Sprecher addressing the Tribunal in the case against Hans Fritzsche. Tribunal and court members leaving the courtroom for adjournment. MCU, Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and Lt. Gen. Lucian Truscott sitting in the courtroom balcony. (Railing covers their faces.) Rear view of Capt. Sprecher reading a document written by Fritzsche about German broadcast propaganda. MS, court stenographers at work during the trial.

  19. Medal

    1. Gerald Schwab collection

  20. Arrest of Jews in Romania

    MCU, low angle, soldiers marching into a town. Cut to MCU, Jews with their hands in the air, emotional shot of a woman clinging to and hiding behind a man (presumably her husband or a relative), the man has his arms raised. MCU, men with their arms raised, being searched by Romanian soldiers. They open their jackets, check pockets, etc. MCU, low angle, a man sleeping, curled up on the ground, another man, or possibly a woman, covered in a blanket is curled up, sleeping next to him, a cat is visible cleaning itself in the background. Low angle pan of a street in the village.