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  4. Essays by the Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs

    Contains two essays: "A Jewish military force" and "Palestine and the Arab world." Discusses the need for a Jewish military and the implications of establishing one.

  5. Russia campaign

    Snowy streets. Caravan of German soldiers on horseback, buggies. Unsteady camera. Various angles. Examining maps in snow. Men on horseback. Bridge

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- VIPs during postwar; Soldiers raiding homes

    1425 FF (16:00:40-16:06:30) Grafenmehr and Rheinman, Germany, Rhein Main Terminal airport. Joint Chiefs of Staff confer in Europe. Airport. LS, down gangplank of plane. Admiral Donfield, Gen. Bradley, and Gen. Vandenberg near plane. Other officers, civilians. Color guard. Generals talking and the press. Airport; army personnel. Military men, saluting, getting into car, moving off, motorcade. 1425 GG (16:06:32-16:14:40) Early morning shots of tanks, jeeps, along roads of Munich on snoop raid (in winter). LS, vehicles through bombed-out Munich. Infantry men. MLS, GIs raiding house for suspect...

  7. Funeral for Ernst vom Rath

    Views from the funeral train as it passes military troops at attention, civilian crowds at train stations, bridges adorned with swastikas and flooded by saluting military and civilians; occasional views of flower-draped casket on the train. View of train pulling into Dusseldorf station; swastika on front of engine. Views of soldiers, dignitaries at the station. Swastika-draped casket is carried from station and placed on a rolling carriage. VAR views as massive funeral cortege proceeds down wide avenue: swastika banners draped above the street; crowds pack the sidewalks; all levels of milit...

  8. Pathé Front Page -- Nuremberg trials: verdicts announced; shots of war criminals; prosecutors and local civilians

    Title reads: "Nuremberg" Various shots of sentenced war criminals, Rudolf Hess and Franz Von Papen standing out from the group, chat together and bid farewell in the courtroom, while U.S. military police look on. Various shots of the citizens of Nuremberg buying "Nuremberger" newspapers and reading the result of the trials. American armoured cars patrolling the streets. American soldier inspecting pass of civilian CU of an emblem carved in stone on the outside wall of the Nuremberg Courthouse, showing scales encircled by a laurel wreath. HAS of British team of prosecutors (most in military ...

  9. US Army infantry advances in Germany

    Staff Film Report no. 46; Combat Bulletin, no. 46. (with intertitles) Reel 2: The 29th Division crosses bridge at Jülich. Aerial views of the wrecked city of Jülich. Gen. Gerhardt and his G-2 officer report plans and conditions at a staff meeting. Troops cross a bridge under enemy fire. Gen. Gerhardt crosses the bridge. The 102nd Division liberates US prisoners at Erkelenz. Undelivered Red Cross packages intended for American POWs but used by Nazis are found in Heppendorf. The 1st Army battles toward Cologne; the 83d Division takes Neusse. Telephoto images of Düsseldorf under bombardment fr...

  10. Waffen-SS photograph album

    1. Thomas W. Miles collection

    The collection consists of a photograph album of a former Waffen-SS youth and contains photographs depicting German military life on campaigns throughout Europe during World War II. Some of the photographs have fallen out of the album and are stored separately. The collection also contains handwritten notes listing English translations of German words and phrases.

  11. Liberation of Italy; wedding at liberated concentration camp

    CU of Italian General Badoglio and American General Mason-MacFarlane. The narration says this indicates the Italians "eventually may fight on our side." Allied planes fly over the volcanic island of Stromboli on their way to bomb targets near Naples. Locals welcome Allied soldiers into a town. Former prisoners walk through the gate of a concentration camp, under a sign that reads Campo di Concentramento. Some of the men wear yarmulkes and the narrator mentions that the inmates were "Jews, anti-fascists, Albanians and Yugoslavs." Representatives of the Allied military government (AMGOT) dist...

  12. Nazis enter Gdynia

    Nazis enter Poland. POV front of truck into barricaded street in city of Gdynia, side view. Men (holding hands up in surrender) are searched and ID-checked by German soldiers. View of sandbagged building guarded by German soldiers. Poster reads: "Do Braci Polakow...Twierdza musi nam byc kazdy prog." Former state president speaks with and surrenders to commander of German troops. Men in civilian dress, some wearing white armbands, leave sandbagged building and march past camera (VO indicates they are Polish troops who had taken off their uniforms). VAR shots: masses of German troops in the s...

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Food delivery to liberated Paris

    Scenes in liberated Paris. Jubilant crowds carrying an American and a British soldier on their shoulders. Tanks and trucks crowded with people through the streets. British and French flags. Germans are driven through the crowd in jeeps. People jeer as they pass by. Brief shot of high-ranking German officers. The dope sheet indicates that they are at the train station being shipped to an internment camp. 01:21:50 Trucks carrying food supplies arrive in Paris. Crowds surround the trucks and people wave to the camera. Soldiers unload big bags of flour or sugar while the crowd cheers. Signs and...

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation by Russians

    On the Eastern Front. Russian Newsreel. Village street with road sign in Russian. Russian infantry advancing past wrecked building. Russian cavalry. Germany surrenders. Concrete fortifications with underground furnaces. Yugoslav and Serbian men (in striped coat), Jewish woman with black eye. 01:12: EXT of German prison, iron handcuffs. Pile of dead bodies in the prison yard (4,000 in all). Entire prison yard filled with corpses. To 01:14:03 Street fighting, house to house fighting. Soviet soldier helping wounded comrade. Concealed pill boxes.

  15. German documentation used by the Prosecution during the Nuremberg Trials

    1. O.65 - Collection of Jacob Robinson, Jurist and Diplomat

    German documentation used by the Prosecution during the Nuremberg Trials - Speech given by Julius Streicher, 03/04/1933; - Demonstration by the Freedom Union in Vienna, 1936; - Directives by the SS regarding the surveillance of Catholics, Protestants, Free Masons, Jehovah's Witnesses and Jews, in preparation for the Referendum concerning the Anschluss (Annexation of Austria to Germany; - Report regarding the Judenaktion ["Kristallnacht"] on 09-10 November 1938; - Excerpts from the speech given by Julius Streicher on the day after Kristallnacht; - Steps taken by the Gestapo against the Jews,...

  16. Capture of Rotterdam

    Columns of smoke. Pan over river, showing destroyed Rotterdam. Explosion. CU, sniper, trees, smoke. Destruction, burning of Rotterdam. LS, Dutch troops walking toward camera waving white flags. Burning buildings, tanks, armored vehicles. CU, night shot: burning buildings in Rotterdam, troops. Civilians in FG, rubble. Aerial shots of Rotterdam. CU, government officials entering buildng. INT, Dutch surrendering Rotterdam to the Germans, officials seated at table. German plane as it turns over, three German planes taking off from airfield, more German planes in formation. Aerial shot, refugees...

  17. German invasion of W. Europe; Paris, France

    Reel 5: German tanks advance. Stukas bomb Allied positions. Wounded tank crewmen receive aid. German trucks haul artillery. German troops cross the Rhine in rubber boats over pontoon bridges. German soldiers stuff grenades into their belts. German troops lay wire, and horses are pushed into water. Shows wrecked French tanks, French POWs, French troops in the Maginot Line. Panoramic views of the Maginot Line. French troops in the Line run, ride a subway, dance, eat and man communications equipment. Maps the German attacks on the Line in Paris. Also maps France and Britain's colonial empires ...

  18. Combat in Soviet Russia

    Military Film Report: On the German and Russian encounter in the area of Kharkov, Murmansk, Rostov and Sevastopol, Russia. Reel 2: Part 3: "Sturm auf Rostow." German forces assault Rostov; boats land, troops billet. Shots of town after German occupation of July 23, 1943. Part 4: "Kaukasusfront Elbrusbesteigung." Map locates Caucasus Mountains and Mt. Elbrus. German troops and pack animals travel through Caucasus and assemble on Mt. Elbrus. Part 5: "Kampf um Sewastopol." German tanks, transport vehicles, and artillery advance on Sevastopol. German antiaircraft guns down Russian bombers and t...

  19. German invasion, occupation of France; surrender of French

    Reel 12: German troops advance, reduce French strong points, fire artillery, guard French POWs, cross a pontoon bridge and enter French forts. German officers ride in staff cars. French soldiers load guns in their forts. French officers surrender. French POWs plod along, Senegalese POWs dance. German flag covers a WWI monument in Compiegne, German troops stand at attention. Hitler, Goering and others enter the WWI armistice railway car and receive the French surrender from General Huntziger and others. Maps Vichy France, shows a cathedral. Hitler visits a Paris cathedral and addresses the R...

  20. Combat in Soviet Russia

    Military Film Report: On the German and Russian encounter in the area of Kharkov, Murmansk, Rostov and Sevastopol, Russia. 02:10:42 Reel 2: Part 3: "Sturm auf Rostow". German forces assault Rostov; boats land, troops billet. Shots of town after German occupation of July 23, 1943. 02:15:07 Part 4: "Kaukasusfront Elbrusbesteigung" Map locates Caucasus Mountains and Mt. Elbrus. German troops and pack animals travel through Caucasus and assemble on Mt. Elbrus. 02:19:15 Part 5: "Kampf um Sewastopol" German tanks, transport vehicles, and artillery advance on Sevastopol. German antiaircraft guns d...