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  1. Feature film about a Russian army officer: military school

    Feature film about a young Russian army officer. Begins with his participation at a Russian youth military school and follows him as he advances in the army. Film portrays youthful patriotism through the willingness of young Russian men and women to enlist. The inhumanity of war is illustrated through scenes of extreme and ruthless German aggression. There are many any scenes of camaraderie between soldiers, battles with the Germans, and the destruction of war. Reel 1: Soldier comes in from rain, talks to roomful of kids at night. At military school. "Old House Father" comes in.

  2. Registry book of the military court in Zagreb

    This collection contains documentation including material on war criminals and war crimes trials for the following military courts: Osijek (Slavenia province), Croatia; Celje, Slovenia; Ljubljani, Slovenia; Zagreb, Croatia; Bjelovar, Croatia; and Postojni, Slovenia (bordering Croatia). It also includes materials from the military courts of the Second and Fourth Armies. Contains names of indicted war criminals, reportedly 11,000 names.

  3. Selected court records from the Military Tribunal of Bucharest territory

    Contains court records, declarations, letters from several ministries, personal files with pictures and finger prints, interrogation files, declarations, and name lists of defendants, reports of national propaganda and files of the special information service. The records pertain to the criminal cases related to the Holocaust.

  4. German military identification tag given to a Danish resistance member

    1. Knud Dyby collection

    The German military dog tag was acquired by Knud Dyby while he was a member in several Danish underground resistance organizations during World War II. The dog tag originally belonged to one of five German Wehrmacht soldiers who surrendered their uniforms, weapons, and identification tags to Dyby in 1944 or early 1945. These men were originally international circus artists who wished to become refugees in Sweden rather than fight the Soviets during the winter along the Eastern Front. They and Dyby agreed that the uniforms could be useful to the resistance movement. The tag has a row of thre...

  5. International Military Tribunal Stork Club white porcelain mug

    1. Robert L. White collection

    White porcelain stein marked International Military Tribunal presumably available during the war crimes trials held in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1945-46. The Stork Club was the club for enlisted military personnel serving at the trials. After the end of the war and the defeat of Nazi Germany on May 7, 1945, Allied occupation authorities convened an International Military Tribunal to seek justice for crimes against humanity, evidenced by the Holocaust, perpetrated by Nazi Germany. The best known trial of major German officials began in October 1945, when the IMT formally indicted the Nuremberg ...

  6. Commemorative ashtray used during the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg

    1. Robert L. White collection

    Souvenir ashtray printed with International Military Tribunal available during the war crimes trials held in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1945-46. After the end of the war and the defeat of Nazi Germany on May 7, 1945, Allied occupation authorities convened an International Military Tribunal to seek justice for crimes against humanity, evidenced by the Holocaust, perpetrated by Nazi Germany. The best known trial of major German officials began in October 1945, when the IMT formally indicted the Nuremberg defendants on four counts: crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and con...

  7. Cigarette card with image of Nazi military parade

    1. Herbert Kobs collection

    Cigarette card from the series, Kampf um's Dritte Reich (Struggle for the Third Reich), produced in Germany, ca.1933. The card depicts a Nazi military parade in Berlin.

  8. Surrender of military and civilians in Engers and Germersheim

    (LIB 4671) American military activities in Engers, Germany. A soldier directs half-track tanks down the center of town. A German civilian wearing a white armband reads a proclamation while standing astride a bicycle. Soldiers and civilians are visible in the background. German soldiers or Hitler Youth surrendering. 01:54:22 Quality improves. Slate indicates that the date is March 25, 1945 and the cameraman is named Urban. American soldiers walk through the streets of Engers. Nice shots of an American soldier searching Germans. A First Lieutenant swears in two enlisted men as Second Lieutena...

  9. Fall of Metz: fighting; German prisoners; military officers

    LS, across field to view of Metz under artillery fire; see rising smoke columns. MS, GIs riding down streets of Metz in jeeps. MS, from ground to 3-story window of building to GIs, and civilians. CU, GI with flower standing with other GIs and French woman. MS, large group of German prisoners. MS, German prisoners exiting building and marched away. LS, line of German prisoners. LS, tank destroyer crew in action. MS, loading tank. CU, phone picked up by GI. MS, group officer greeted by Gen. Ward. MS officers inspecting Mobile Air Support unit. Group of officers talking. Cemetery. LS, across f...

  10. Military Government in Cologne; Dedication of monument to Holocaust survivors

    (LIB 6939) SPX-G Military Government, Cologne, Germany, June 6, 1945 LSs, truck loaded with medical supplies from bombed-out drug store pulls away from camera. LSs, MSs, bombed-out store front with sign "Cafe Zahn". CU, sign, "Civilian Labor Office". LSs, MSs, walls of bombed buildings; wrecked equestrian statue. SEQ: Dedication of monument in city to Holocaust victims. Speakers are Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish chaplains of the US Army. Buchenwald survivors and civilians attend the services. SEQ: German farmers threshing and baling wheat and weighing sacks of grain. LS line of children ...

  11. Military Economic Alliance between Germany, Italy, Japan signed

    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...

  12. German military canteen with leather strap acquired by US soldier

    1. Bernard B. Cohen collection

    German military aluminum field canteen with leather carrying strap brought back from the war by Bernard B. Cohen, a soldier with the United States Third Army as it fought its way across Europe during the fall of 1944 through the end of the war in May 1945.

  13. International Military Tribunal publications and an atrocity photograph

    Photocopies of floor plan of the Nuremberg courtroom for the International Military Tribunal. Also includes list of the defendants; instructions to the press camp; and a photographic print of man being tortured at unidentified location.

  16. Military Commander, France: Copy memo re the emigration of Jews

    Copy memorandum from the military commander of France stating that the Reichsführer SS has ordered that no Jews be permitted to leave Germany or the Occupied TerritoriesThe original has been stamped ‘International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany, Exhibit RF 1803, Filed 1946.

  18. Allied Military currency for Germany, 50 mark note

    1. Joel Forman collection

    Allied Military currency (AMC), valued at 50 mark, printed in the Soviet Union and distributed for use in Germany by the Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories (AMGOT), from September 1944 to June 1948. During and immediately after World War II, the Allied powers worked cooperatively to issue special currency for Allied troops in countries they had liberated or newly occupied. The goal of the joint currency issues was to protect local economies from inflation or weakening of their currency, and to present a united front to countries they were occupying and those they were still...

  19. Allied Military currency for Germany, 100 mark note

    1. Joel Forman collection

    Allied Military currency (AMC), valued at 100 mark, printed in the Soviet Union and distributed for use in Germany by the Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories (AMGOT), from September 1944 to June 1948. During and immediately after World War II, the Allied powers worked cooperatively to issue special currency for Allied troops in countries they had liberated or newly occupied. The goal of the joint currency issues was to protect local economies from inflation or weakening of their currency, and to present a united front to countries they were occupying and those they were stil...

  20. Allied Military currency for France, 100 franc note

    1. Joel Forman collection

    Second issue Allied Military currency (AMC), valued at 100 francs, distributed for use in France by the Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories (AMGOT), from June 1945 to July 1946. During and immediately after World War II, the Allied powers worked cooperatively to issue special currency for Allied troops in countries they had liberated or occupied. The goal of the joint currency issues was to protect local economies from inflation or weakening of their currency, and to present a united front. The currency was produced for Italy, France, Germany, Austria, and Japan. All of the ...