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  1. British II Armored Division Advance

    British soldiers. Tanks move through a burning forest into Germany. Forests burned to clear out Germans. One short shot of sign reading "Danger Typhus". Tanks roll down road. At gate of camp; watchtower. Germans march in, past German officers. Another officer walks up and gives a Hitler salute. More views of the German and Hungarian soldiers watching British armor pass by, and the Belsen camp.

  2. US Army weapons tested

    Staff Film Report, no. 65; Combat Bulletin, no. 65 Reel 2: Shows details in transporting, emplacing, manipulating, and firing the "Little David," the Army's 914mm mortar. 09:04:50 "Activities on Okinawa" US soldier is reunited with parts of his native family on Okinawa. On Okinawa, coral is dug, crushed by machines, hauled in trucks, and used to repair Kadena airstrip. Motors from wrecked trucks are steam cleaned and repaired. An M-4 tank is rigged with antipersonnel mines; General Hodges watches tests of the apparatus. Shows scenes during and after an ammunition dump fire; General F.C. Wal...

  3. 7 video programs about the Holocaust: liberation and encountering the camps

    Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). This master tape is dated March 19, 1993. Second floor (2.07a) - Liberation: British Army - Bergen-Belsen Second floor (2.07b) - Liberation: British Army - Bergen-Belsen Second floor (2.07a) - Liberation: Soviet Army - Majdanek & Auschwitz Second floor (2.07b) - Liberation: Soviet Army - Majdanek & Auschwitz Second floor (2.07a) - Liberation: US Army - Nordhausen, Dachau, Buchenwald Second floor (2.07b) - Liberation: US Army - Nord...

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Russians liberate of Warsaw

    The Battle for Warsaw. Russian Newsreel. Russian Red Army advancing towards Warsaw. Russian infantry running through streets of Warsaw. Russian soldiers presented with flowers from girls, receiving food and wine. Smoke rising from burning Warsaw. Russian officers.

  5. Romanian troops in Czechoslovakia

    Romanian troops parade on the outskirts of the city of Humpolec. Man plays the cymbals next to a drummer. Local Czech children in traditional folk outfits walk through the streets in front of a marching band. 06:57 CU of two Romanian officers, one tips his hat. More soldiers in a field, they salute as officials walk by. One addresses the crowd from a platform with flags. They salute and march and the band plays. 08:00 glimpse of a cameraman. CU, official. Military parade, ceremony. Automobiles drive away.

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- Yugoslavia during liberation

    Jeep with Russian officers going through cheering crowd. Yugoslav partisan army. Russian army and partisan leaders, proclamation from stage. Marshall Josip Broz Tito reviewing partisan troops. Allied observers present. Wounded partisans in the parade. Russian tanks through outskirts of Belgrade. Street fighting. Carrying wounded on stretcher. Russian artillery advancing through streets of Belgrade. Prisoners (Germans?) being marched through Belgrade streets. Aerial view of Belgrade.

  7. POWs?; city views

    Unknown location, perhaps nearby Zloczow as covered in film frames directly preceding this sequence (RG-60.1872), possibly in summer 1941. Column of men (soldiers? POWs?) walk along a country road, somecovered in dirt. Hundreds of local women (Ukrainian?) with headscarves in an open area. Destroyed military trucks, tanks, houses and trains. Soldiers fix a military car, one fuses metal onto the fender. 10:05:54 Panoramic, high-angle view of a city on a river, possibly Lwiw. Street views, shops. 10:07:10 Return to boat seen in RG-60.1872, German soldiers lounging shirtless. View of another bo...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- American ambassador to Vichy France

    Admiral William Leahy, American ambassador to the Vichy government, with a French general and other officials. Two groups of men, some military and some civilian, leave a building and salute French soldiers standing at attention. The third group of men includes Admiral Leahy. Close-ups of Leahy begin at 01:23:24. More French military personal, including the general from the first scene. They are surrounded by a crowd. The general stops and salutes a group of soldiers.

  9. Robert E. Magnusson collection

    Program guide: “International Military Tribunal / Nurnberg Germany / 1945-1946”; inscribed by Lt. R.E. Magnusson inside front cover; Floor plan of the International Military Tribunal; Two (2) passes to the Visitors’ Gallery at the International Military Tribunal; for sessions 341 and 342; pass for 341 signed on verso by Robert E. Magnusson. Materials acquired by 2nd Lt Robert Eugene Magnusson (donor’s father), who served as a member of the OSS in Europe during WWII. He attended the IMT in Nuremberg on July 19, 1946.

  10. Roehm and Himmler

    September 23 and 24, 1933. Ernst Roehm, Heinrich Himmler and others at (outdoor) military event (Reichsfuehrer Day?). Many flags with the German Cross. Parade in Hannover. Jodphurs and big boots. Lots of MS, MLS, LS. Happy atmosphere of soldiers. MS of participants. Nazi entourage walks up to podium, Roehm in center, Himmler behind him. Franz Seldte speaks (man with glasses). Roehm and Himmler on viewing stand. Kronprinz Wilhelm signing autographs.

  11. Liberation of Bessarabia, North Bukovina, June 1940

    People welcoming troops. Zhukov and military parade: main street. People demonstrate with banners, fists in the air. Timoshenko and Khruschev, with peasants, locals, Romanian POWs. VS of shackles, soldiers and POWs holding implements of bondage, torture. There are joyful scenes of reunion- men and women kissing and hugging each other, etc. Scenes are from several areas in Ukraine and Moldova, as well as Bessarabian villages.

  12. Budapest after liberation

    Budapest after liberation by Soviet forces. Quality varies. A Soviet soldier writes "Budapest" in Russian on a sign. Shots of burning, partially destroyed buildings. A corpse lies in the foreground. More shots of corpses. Soviet soldiers walk across a snow-covered square. Soviet and Romanian (?) officers meet and confer. Soviet soldiers with captured flags. Soviet soldiers arrest Hungarian soldiers. Soldiers are led out of a cellar while other are forced to march down the street with their arms up.

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    Paris Liberation, 1946-1947. Overturned burning truck, exploding. Allied tank painted with cross of Lorraine. FFI men painting over captured German cavalry. French gendarme. Priest getting escorted under Red Cross flag. Man getting into ambulance. Gates of Paris, cemetary, graves of French patriots. Banner on the street with a German inscription. FFI men dismantling light machine gun.

  14. US Army on Patrol

    Patrols of the 83rd Division, Houstenbeck to Bad Lippsringe, Germany, April 6-7, 1945. US Army soldiers/tanks at rest in a village. Rainy. MSs tanks loaded with soldiers moving through town; soldiers waving. Soldiers examine burning enemy plane in a field (plane shot down). MSs and CUs faces of troops of the 331st Regiment, 83rd Division, atop M-24s and M-18s. Tanks move out. MSs soldiers on foot in town; marching toward tanks; mounting tanks.

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Breda, Netherlands

    Dutch army near Breda, Netherlands. Soldiers on bicycles, motorbikes, tanks moving through Dutch countryside. 04:40:23 Soldiers in trench, camouflaged lookout. 04:41:12 Soldiers and civilians, flasks being filled with rations. Digging trenches. Soldiers and civilians drinking, smoking. 04:42:48 Soldiers marching, windmill in BG. Putting dynamite around trees, for blocking roads in case of attack. Machine gun. 04:44:06 Soldiers marching in farm and along road. 04:45:00 Filling wheelbarrows, digging trench. 04:46:07 Sitting in shelter. Machine gun.

  16. Russian troops celebrate liberation; conferences; invasion of Normandy; Allied troops

    Records world-wide war activities. Reel 6: (1943-44) Russian troops, guerrillas, and citizens celebrate their victory. Marines land and fight on Tarawa. FDR and Churchill meet with Chiang Kai-shek at Cairo and with Stalin at Teheran. Shows Tito and Yugoslav guerrillas. Normandy is invaded; Allied troops and French guerrillas battle Germans.

  17. Olympic Contests

    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 ...

  18. Polish and English POWs

    Views of extremely long line of Polish POWs trudging along road, including CU of bare and booted feet. LS of POW camp, POWs getting sandwiches. CUs of prisoners lying on ground, looking tired, CU faces. General views of camp, English POWs and Polish POWs. English military officer POW makes statement (in English, synch sound) on the good treatment he has received as a POW. Ethnic Germans in Poland identifying Polish prisoners, with some kind of confusion and angry finger-pointing. 02:07:15: Narrator says that one man recognizes another as the murderer of his brother.

  19. Russian News (1944, No. 1)

    Russian troops, tanks, and motorcycles cross the Dvina River on rafts and reach Vitebsk. Artillery fires on the city. Troops march through its ruins. Germans surrender and are marched to the rear. Citizens berate them, and embrace Russian soldiers. Rockets and artillery are fired. Russian planes pass over. Shows German dead, abandoned equipment, and German prisoners. Five German generals are interrogated by Russian troops.

  20. Scheldt Islands; Eisenhower; liberation of Bucharest; Yugoslavia and Tito

    02:01:43 "Allies Clear Scheldt Islands" Allied troops invade the Scheldt Islands. 02:03:22 "Eisenhower honors Allied Air Chiefs"General Eisenhower honors General Spaatz and British Generals Arthur Harris and Leigh-Mallory. 02:04:05 "Bucharest Liberated" Citizens of Bucharest cheer liberating Russian troops. 02:05:32 "Balkan Patriots Aided by Allies" Yugoslav patriots receive supplies by air. They drill and are reviewed by Marshall Tito. Wounded patriots are evacuated.