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Language of Description: English

  1. World War I ends; armistice

    WWI soldiers (US?) march along city street with spectators cheering wildly. Marching through ruins. Firing artillery. Tanks. Troops move out of trenches, forward, bombing, smoke (warfare). 01:38:42 Von Hindenburg and other officials sign the armistice. Excerpt from Ludendorff speech in October 1918 printed on film, "The offer of peace must be transmitted immediately. The Army cannot wait another 48 hours." Officials shake hands, walk in city square. Crowds. U.S. newspaper headlines: "Armistice". Crowds cheering, holding up newspapers and waving flags. Troops shaking hands in the field. CU, ...

  2. Amtsblatt der Militarregierung, Deutschland, Britisches Kontrollgebiet Pamphlet

    1. Nazi Germany propaganda collection

    Pamphlet outlining military regulations for the British zone of occupation in postwar Germany to take effect February 24, 1947.

  3. Soviet Union Ministry of Defense propaganda poster

    1. Sybil Milton collection

    Polychrome poster with an image of a United States military officer ice skating with a Nazi soldier wearing a tutu; they have traced the shape of an atomic bomb into the ice

  4. German invasion of Denmark

    UFA logo onscreen. The narration says that the German protection of Denmark is now consolidated. Shots of a bridge linking Jutland to Funen, built by German engineers. Panning shot of crowds of people lining the dock as a ship moves past. HAS of crowds of bicyclists and pedestrians in the street. German soldiers and armaments are unloaded from a German ship (Nazi flag visible flying from ship). The dock is crowded with people. King Christian X takes his daily horseback ride, saluted by both Danish civilians and a German soldier. German military commander Generalleutnant Leonhard Kaupisch sp...

  5. German newsreel excerpts: German munitions trains; American POWs; V-1 bombs

    Reel 2, Part 1, camouflaged German munitions trains move up near Caen after the Normandy invasion. German antiaircraft fires at Allied planes over Caen. Devastation in the city. German troops assist civilians. Tanks, motorcycles, infantry, and artillery move up. Antitank guns cripple U.S. Sherman tanks. U.S. POWs are marched to the rear. Part 2, Hamburg, Germany, in flames after an Allied air raid. Searchers probe into debris; dead and wounded are removed. Corpses are laid out in a huge hall. V-1 bombs are launched.

  6. Soviet POWs; German Army waits

    Pan at edge of road, German Army standing around (some officers visible). Soviet POWs grouped together, under guard of German soldier. Wounded German soldiers receive medical aid from Red Cross.

  7. Jews? cleaning street in Warsaw

    Short segment in newsreel about Warsaw (after a bombing). People stand in ruined buildings. Jews? on the side of a road shoveling rubble (VO documentation indicates Jews, but they may not be; the same shot appears in Story 624, Film ID 302 where VO documentation indicates they are Polish soldiers). Clearing rubble. German soldiers, Polish civilians repair buildings.

  8. Parade in DC; Eleanor Roosevelt; Taking of Aachen

    Part 1, Navy Day parade in Washington, D.C., and the battleship Iowa joining a Pacific fleet. Part 2, Eleanor Roosevelt views an exhibition of paintings by service men in New York city. Part 3, Boys in Maryland grade schools attend sewing and cooking classes. Part 4, Battle shots of Marines in the Pacific. Part 5, German troops flee through the streets of Antwerp. The Belgian underground sabotages German vehicles. U.S. troops enter the city. Artillery and aerial bombardment precedes the 1st Army as U.S. troops occupy Aachen.

  9. Landsberg Hangings

    (Munich 193) Landsberg (Dachau) Hangings, Landsberg, Germany, May 1946. Coverage of the military hangings of Becher, Lippman, Temple, Hintermeyer, Knoll, Eicheldorfer, Boettger, Kick, Weiss, and Wagner.

  10. German soldiers meet

    INT, four Germans in uniform, in an office, map on wall in BG. One sits behind a desk with glasses reading a letter. They are speaking to one another.

  11. Nazi invasion of Denmark

    Factory. Soldiers on bicycles. Nazi flag on boat mast, view of airplane flying overhead. Soldiers on boat, smiling and smoking. Boat moving on water, plane soaring above. Snow-capped mountains in BG. Plane landing in the water. More shots of soldiers. Tanks loaded onto a ship as horses are unloaded. More soldiers. HASs soldiers marching and singing, playing drums. Civilians watch, some interact with soldiers. More views from different angles of the soldiers marching and band performing. Tram, pedestrians. Soldiers socializing with women.

  12. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection Africa and Italy

    1. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection

    Contains a copy of a liberator testimony written by Rabbi Samuel Teitelbaum, dated April 7, 1981. The testimony describes Teitelbaum's experiences as a military chaplain from June 1943 to November 1945, and his account of the situation of the liberated Jewish communities of Tunis,Tunisia, and Palermo, Sicily.

  13. German occupation of Poland

    MCU, Polish war posters. CU, Polish officers leaving building. HAS, captured Polish soldiers. HAS, German soldiers marching through streets of Poland, Polish citizens in BG. MS, German color guards and German band. MCU, Hitler. MS, German color guard goose-stepping. MS, massed troops marching down the street, being reviewed by Hitler. HA, MLS, troops as they pass the reviewing stand. CU, Hitler saluting Sieg Heil. MCU, bell ringing.

  14. German occupation in Bulgaria; fate of Bulgarian Jews

    Reel 3 Train derailed. Military fighting. Contemporary footage showing scenes in a Bulgarian city, CUs older man. Military review of German troops. CU, document on Jews. Contemporary footage of man singing a song in Bulgarian and playing the guitar (the song is performed other times over the duration of the film). Hitler meets with officials. Goering. CU, document on the fate of Bulgarian Jews. Contemporary footage - interview. EXT, synagogue.

  15. Documents on atrocities committed in Soroca, Orhei, and Tighina counties

    1. Republican Board of the Moldovan SSR to promote the activity of the emergency state commission for the Investigation of crimes committed by German-Fascist invaders

    Acts on the atrocities committed by the German-Romanian military forces and other bodies Drochia, Tîrnova, and Soroca districts of Soroca county. Acts of the atrocities committed by the German-Romanian military forces and other bodies in Rezina, Orhei districts of Orhei counties. Acts of the atrocities committed by the German-Romanian military forces and other bodies in Căușeni district of Tighina county

  16. William Rowe collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, Nazi-propaganda journal (newspaper/magazine/leaflet); correspondence between Hans and his son Kurt Seibold dating early 1940s, while Kurt is deployed with the German military under Nazi regime and Hans, also a soldier and WWI veteran, is home in Nuremberg, Germany. Letters from Hans discuss the military events occurring such as Operation Barbarossa, his vague references to current military work, and his affiliation and meetings with Nazi party members. Newspapers, magazines and leaflets included were printed under Nazi-occupied Germany.

  17. Pin

    1. Gerald Schwab collection

    Oval shaped painted metal pin with crossed swords and a military helmet, ringed by a laurel wreath.

  18. Stickpin

    1. Jack and Hedi Justus Grootkerk family collection

    Stickpin worn by Jacques Grootkerk on his military uniform while a member of the Princess Irene Brigade in 1942. The pin has a red crown and length of red and blue rope.

  19. Liberation photographs and ration book

    Collection of post-liberation photographs showing corpses, graves, crematorium, and survivors at multiple concentration camps. These include an image of the Jewish cemetery in Neustadt, and recurring liberation images from Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps, 1945 - 1946. A ration book in Russian from 1941 is also included.

  20. Zbirka ustaško-domobranskih dokumenata

    • Collection of Ustasha and Domobran documents

    Documentation created by the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia and Ustasha and domobran (militia) military units in the period 1941-1945. Contains reports of Ministries of the Independent State of Croatia regarding political and military circumstances, reports of Italian military missions and their deployment, details about policies and orders, conflicts with Chetnik forces, reports of police/militia stations, details regarding the activities of Communist "rebels", lists of arrested persons, minutes from interrogations of arrestees, etc.