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  1. J.S. ("Jim") Willis photograph album

    Contains a photograph album owned by U.S. military serviceman J.S. ("Jim") Willis, possibly captioned by his wife Sally A. Willis. Includes wartime photographs of England, immediate postwar photographs of Bergen Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau and Gardelegen, and postwar military activities.

  2. American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France

    An American propaganda film produced by the U.S. Office of War Information to educate US soldiers before going to France. Some scenes are staged. Reel 1: Allied troops and war material go aboard transports for the invasion of France. Soldiers (actors) discuss the war.

  3. Liberated POWs; atrocities; Berchtesgaden; troops

    Part 1: elements of the 5th and 8th Armies occupy Bologna, Italy. Gen. Mark Clark receives the German surrender. Part 2: French prisoners in Germany are liberated and return home. Part 3: Congressmen visit German prison camps and view evidences of atrocities. Part 4: Berchtesgaden is bombed. Joseph Goebbel's brother is shot as a spy. German prisoners. Russian and US troops meet at the Elbe. Shows Gen. Reinhardt.

  4. Parade in Vienna - Anschluss

    Aerial view of German planes in formation. Crowds flank the streets of Vienna for the Anschluss parade in March 1938, tanks parade through the streets. A few spectators hold umbrellas. More tanks and military vehicles, packed with troops. Many in the crowd now have umbrellas to protect themselves from the falling rain. An enormous crowd in the Heldenplatz (Heroes’ Square) in Vienna. The Äußere Burgtor, a gateway to the square is on the left. The Austrian Parliament building is visible in the background. The equestrian statue of St. Eugene of Savoy in front of the Neue Burg. Soldiers stand i...

  5. German newsreel excerpts: Gen. Franco; Mussolini; Winter Aid; British air raids

    Reel 1, Part 1, General Franco and German officials visit the Alcazar in Seville, and review Moorish guards, Part 2, Mussolini decorates Italian airmen and reviews troops in Rome. Part 3, crowds, including children, attend a military, exhibit in Vienna. Contributions for "winter aid" are collected. Part 4, Flemish musicians perform in a Berlin cabaret. Part 5, a wedding is performed in Le Meuse, France. Part 6, factory workers attend a concert performed by the Berlin Philharmonic. Part 7, cultural and religious monuments in Lubeck, Germany, rubbled by British air raids.

  6. Nazi cap badge

    1. Max Wurzweiler collection

    Nazi military cap badge - metal with swastika emblem in the center. One of a collection of artifacts illustrating Max Wurzweiler who was a high ranking Nazi party official; dates circa 1930s and 1940s.

  7. Peter Tabaracci photograph collection

    Consists of nine photographs. Eight of the photographs depict scenes of the Gardelegen Massacre. The ninth photograph is identified as an aerial view of a former labor camp near Braunschweig. All of the photographs include original English inscriptions on the versos and are associated with the service of Peter Tabaracci, who served with the 4th Signal Battalion.

  8. Burning the barracks at Belsen

    Huts/barracks burned by "flame throwing" from military tank (to prevent the spread of typhus). Conflagration. Building engulfed in flames and thick black smoke. Soldiers. Panoramic shots of smoke and burning camp.

  9. German invasion, occupation of Low Countries

    Reel 3: German troops invade Holland, cross the Maas, cycle thru a village, capture Fort Eben Emael using flamethrowers. German troops guard Belgian and Dutch POWs, cross the Albert Canal, advance with tanks, dig fox holes, eat, man tanks and fire artillery. German planes bomb allied positions. Maps the German advances in Belgium and Holland. Shows the formal Dutch surrender and masses of German vehicles.

  10. German Campaign in Russia

    Destroyed Russian position, prisoner. Germans salute at grave of comrade. CU and MS tanks and vehicles roll over bridge and road. Entry into city (Lvov?) 01:12:37 Artillery supported troops and motorized units bypass Minsk and enter Baranovichi. 01:17:24 Anti-sniper squads restore order in city, long column of POWs march to rear. Women on streets of town. 01:18:34 Build bridge then enter Lusk or Lemberg (Lvov). City street scenes, evidence of damage. Tanks advance, destroyed Russian tanks.

  11. Nuremberg Trial war criminals on plane; Landsberg Hangings

    21:28:40 (Munich 187) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, May 24, 1946. War criminal von Burgdorff seated in truck on Furth airfield and guarded by MPs. Col. Muszkat, Chief of the Polish Mission for Prosecution of War Crimes at Frankfurt, signing receipt for prisoners. Prisoners are put aboard plane. INTs showing prisoners seated in plane. 21:34:01 (Munich 191) Hangings at Landsberg, Germany, May 28, 1946. Military hangings of two German civilians.

  12. Arrest of collaborators; Germans leave Prague, May 1945

    The arrest of a Czech collaborator with the Nazis (man wearing glasses). They lead him up to an official building. People hit him on the head. Street activity, pedestrians. Clock at 1:20 PM. Puddles in the street. Quick shots of Prague, a Czech flag. Two men on a motorcycle. German soldiers leaving the city. Covered wagons pulled by horses move through the streets, along with people on foot. Trucks whip around a bend. Dead German soldiers. More military vehicles, soldiers sitting in and on the cars. Fires rage at the edge of a field. Wreckage of tanks and trucks on the road. Dead horse, an ...

  13. Soviet POWs; Nazis in Vilna

    Minsk: Surrendered Soviet soldiers/POWs, all walk along road. With turbans, Asian facial features. MLS, sign, "Berlin-Breslau-Moskau." Vilna: Infantry arrives, walks down country road, proud, tired. A few townspeople and children greet German soldiers with flowers. Watch from in town and along road. Tanks line edge of road.

  14. Scrapbook of the Invasion of France

    Consists of one scrapbook, bound with fabric and a red wooden spine, containing mounted aerial military photographs of areas of France, circa 1940, likely taken during the May 1940 invasion of France by a member of the German military. Also includes photographs of the aftermath of ground warfare; many of the images are captioned and some of the aerial photographs are marked.

  15. Збирка микрофилмова

    • Collection of microfilms
    • Zbirka mikrofilmova

    Copies of documents issued by various German central authorities and occupational forces in Yugoslavia and Serbia. Among them are documents of German Foreign ministry, German plenipotentiary for the economy in Serbia and the others.

  16. Repubblica Sociale Italiana

    • Italian Social Republic

    The fonds contains records created by the Ministry of Military Forces, the Army General Staff, the Supreme Military Court of Justice of the Italian Social Republic. Several files concern internment camps in Italy and in Germany, repatriation of war prisoners, dead prisoners.

  17. Medal with accompanying certificate of authenticity

    1. Nahman-Leib Neumann Itzicovici collection

    The medal was awarded to Nahman-Leib Neumann Itzicovici donor's paternal grandfather for his service in the Romanian Army during World War I.

  18. Dachau Trial photographs

    Consists of photographs taken at the trial of forty members of the staff of the Dachau concentration camp (the Dachau Trial) by the United States Army Europe (USAREUR) Military Court from November 15 to December 13, 1945. Also includes copyprints of photographs of Vincent and Frank Donaghue, members of the United States army. Vincent was a member of the military police and was stationed at the Dachau trial.

  19. German occupation of Paris; crossing Marne river

    Reel 10: German soldiers advance, cross a river, throw grenades, fire artillery, talk over a field telephone, ride armored vehicles, care for wounded mates, advance thru a city on the Marne, decorate graves, enter Paris, raise a flag on the Eiffel Tower and pass the Arc de Triomphe and other landmarks. Armored vehicles advance towards Paris. Abandoned Allied war material blocks the advance. German forces cross the Marne on a pontoon bridge. Cavalry units ride into Paris. German officers in Paris salute parading troops and award Iron Crosses.

  20. Soviet POWs build bridge

    Soviet POWs walking into town past building with burning roof. LS slow pan buildings on fire. Soldiers working hard building a bridge. Soviet POWs and civilians help.