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  1. Prosecutors, Keitel testifes at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 86) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 6, 1946. CU, Dr. Otto Nelte, Wilhelm Keitel's attorney, addressing court. CU, British prosecutor Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe taking notes. CU, US prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd. MS stenographers at work in the courtroom. CU, Justice Henri Donnedieu de Vabre (France). MCU, British Army men in courtroom. MS, Keitel testifying. Pan to Russian prosecutor Gen. Rudenko at stand. Pan to US prosecution table, back to Keitel. LS, Rudenko questioning Keitel. Pan from court stenographers to witness. MS, Justices Lawrence, Biddle, and Parker on bench. MS, ...

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- NY at war parade: "Free French" and "Defeat Hitlerism" floats

    An anti-Axis parade in New York City. Boy scouts carry American flags; American soldiers and sailors march by. A contingent of British or Canadian soldiers, followed by women in uniform. Floats include: one with a sign reading, "Holland;" a horse-drawn hearse with a sign that reads: "The Crime of Lidice." Women in evening gowns ride a float with a globe atop it; a decorated float labelled "Bataan and Corregidor." USSR float; one encouraging people to buy war bonds; Norwegian seamen aboard a float designed to look like a merchant ship.

  3. German invasion of Poland, POWs, Hitler in Gdynia

    Fighting at Gdynia. German troops enter Gdynia, prisoners taken. Hitler enters city (only POV from car). German soldiers greet Hitler, surround him. Hitler and officers eating at field kitchen. Headquarter scenes, interior of railroad car. Hitler consults with officers, including Goering, Rommel, Himmler, generals. Graphic - German movement to Vistula up to Radom. German troops on the move, many Polish soldiers surrender arms, equipment. Aerial of captured artillery.

  4. Goebbels speaks at 10th Radio Exhibition

    Large crowd of soldiers and civilians listen to Goebbels' outdoor speech about the power of radio at radio/electronics convention. Goebbels: "Radio is the superpower." LS pan up radio tower draped with huge swastika banner. Mostly medium CU of Goebbels, but some views of the military audience. He finishes speech. Inside exhibition hall, shots of equipment on display, with company names visible: "Telefunken," "Siemens & Halske," "Blaupunkt," et al. Mostly HA, people milling around exhibits. Demo of tube manufacture, good displays with "der Volksempfaenger" (one has neon tubing attached)....

  5. Teheran Conference

    An American serviceman holds a slate that reads: Scene 140. The camera follows a car with a USA insignia on the back down a street in Teheran and into a courtyard in front of the Soviet embassy, where the Teheran conference was held. Soviet soldiers run and march past the building while American soldiers film and take photographs of them. 01:40:38 Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill come around the corner of the building and walk up the steps. They stop to pose for photographers or perhaps answer questions. 01:41:59 Roosevelt is now with them, sitting in a chair at the top of the steps. The...

  6. Circular US Army lapel pin worn by Arthur Schmitt

    1. Arthur and Meta Grunebaum Schmitt collection

    The lapel pin was used by Arthur Schmitt during his three years of military service during World War II (1939-1945). The pin is part of a larger collection documenting the experiences of Arthur (Abraham) Schmitt and Meta (Miriam) Grunebaum Schmitt and their families in Germany and the United States before, during, and after World War II.

  7. German Weeks Review

    CU, Hitler Youth applauding. LS, Heinrich Himmler enters hall, youth stand and salute him. CUs, faces of HJ. MCU, Himmler handing out medals. MSs, two boys pinning medals on. LS, Goebbels speaking (not heard). CUs, audience. LS, flags. CU, German soldiers and machine guns in foxholes. CU, machine gun fired. LS, explosions. German soldiers retreating. German engineers standing in depression. German soldiers on pontoon, drinking. LS, snow-covered mountains. CU, German mountain soldier climbing up mountain. LS, German soldiers descending from mountain. MS, men peeling potatoes. CU, German offi...

  8. Truman and Berlin Conference

    President Truman on board the Navy ship Augusta enroute to Berlin Conference. Casual shots of Truman waving to a crowd in Antwerp. Truman on parade in Europe. Truman getting on plane, various shots of plane taking off and landing. Meeting of Truman and military leaders to discuss the primary goal of winning the war in Japan. Parades and processions of British Army and Navy. Discussion of Cairo Declaration. AVs of war ravaged Berlin. [Nazi footage-Hitler addressing crowds at 1930's Nazi rallies]. Truman raises the flag of victory over Europe. Various shots of American soldiers and civilians ...

  9. POWs and German advance in Ukraine

    A German soldier is decorated with the Balkenkreuz. 00:15:55 German soldiers oversee POWs in the countryside. A massive line of (Soviet?) POWs march up hill. LS, the POWs rest at a campsite. 00:16:21 Large body of water, bridge, maritime vehicles docked. 00:16:38 Two German planes in an open field. A soldier talks to the cameraman from inside the plane. 00:16:56 Aerial shots of the river and a city from aboard the plane. AGFA 1941 logo.

  10. Official US Army photographer rectangular arm patch

    1. United States Army patch and booklet collection

    United States Army photographer rectangular badge of the type issued during World War II. US Army photographers served in the Photographic Branch of the US Signal Corps. Photographers were attached, not assigned, to units and were identified by an arm or shoulder patch. Military photographers were usually enlisted men, with the same training and uniforms as other soldiers. The Corps coordinated communication for air, ground, and naval units during the war, providing technology, services, and personnel. In addition to its primary role in military transmissions, the unit produced training fil...

  11. Official US Army photographer arched arm patch

    1. United States Army patch and booklet collection

    United States Army photographer arched badge of the type issued during World War II. US Army photographers served in the Photographic Branch of the US Signal Corps. Photographers were attached, not assigned, to units and were identified by an arm or shoulder patch. Military photographers were usually enlisted men, with the same training and uniforms as other soldiers. The Corps coordinated communication for air, ground, and naval units during the war, providing technology, services, and personnel. In addition to its primary role in military transmissions, the unit produced training films fo...

  12. Lahousen testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 399) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 30, 1945. MS, rear view, Russian Gen. Rudenko speaking to the court. MS, rear view, German defense counsel addresses the court. Gen. Lahousen (Austrian Intelligence Service) taking stand and being sworn in. Lahousen identifies Wilhelm Keitel and Alfred Jodl and proceeds to testify, recalling what was said and decided of a conference, and mentions Ribbentrop. Rear view, Soviet counsel Gen. Rudenko questions Lahousen. Voice is heard asking, "Were orders for the killing of the Russians in written form?" He answers saying, that yes, he...

  13. German invasion of Poland and USSR

    Title: The German Invasion of Russia Autumn of 1941. American narration describes the German invasion of the USSR. Fires and other devastation in USSR; Soviet POWs. Germans attack Poland in 1939. Clips of battle footage (from German newsreels) while the narrator enumerates the countries invaded by the Nazis. German bombers attack USSR. A German soldier tears down a banner containing a portrait of Stalin. A German soldier raises a barrier at the border. German soldiers enter the USSR on bicycle, foot and on tanks. Bombs dropped on Soviet territory. Nice shot of a long line of German tanks di...

  14. Nuremberg: ruins of the city; IMT

    Excerpt from the film beginning with opening titles: "This film is made available for television by the Department of the Army in the public interest. Europe 1945." VS of destruction, rubble, etc. incurred in the European theater of war. Men, women, children, babies, walking aimlessly through piles of rubble. German intertitles list the major Nazi Party leaders, all on trial at Nuremberg. VS, scenes of the courtroom, prosecutors/judges speaking, translators in booth. Pan of International Military Tribunal. VS, crowds, Nazi Germany, Nazi Party rallies, large crowds running in the streets, Hi...

  15. NOTICE = INFORMATION Dual language text only poster with a red border announcing penalties for those helping anti-German forces

    1. Gary and Nina Wexler collection

    Broadside published in German occupied France announcing penalties for offering aid to enemy forces or for interacting with enemy military paraphernalia. Violators will be tried in German court and possibly punished by death. Rewards are offered to those who turn in people, property, or information. Individuals who help enemy forces will be punished, those who turn in people, property, or information are offered a reward. It is issued by the Militärbefehlshaber in Frankreich [Military Commander in France].

  16. Invasion of Poland; Germans & Russians meet; occupation

    Summary: The German viewpoint of events prior to and during the Polish campaign. Reel 7: shows masses of abandoned equipment and Polish POWs. German and Russian units meet. Hitler poses in front of besieged Warsaw. German armor and infantry enter the city after its capitulation.

  17. Yugoslavia: soldiers dancing; officers and prisoners; villagers

    Reel 7: Soldiers dancing in streets of Vinkovci, accordion player. US ambassador Richard C. Patterson and US officers in Dakovo, entering cathedral - pan, steeple to partially damaged church. Patterson, Kusovac Labud, Yugoslavian Propaganda Chief, and Col Charles Thayer looking through field glasses at fighting. Group of officers leaving German prison. Soldiers riding in horse-drawn carts on way to front, Patterson and officers watching from jeep. Officers interrogating prisoners. CUs, men eating. 03:15:23 Partisan General Peko Dapcevic with an American official (Gen Dapcevic became Tito's ...

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

    On the Eastern Front. Russian Newsreel. Prison at Posnan. Death chamber with guillotine. Pictures of Nazis who ran the prison. Bodies, women crying. German prisoners, men trying to hit them. Man handing out paper reading "Glos Interpolski" to crowd. Polish flag raised. Soviet soldiers talking on field phone. German General Mattern (with Russian captions). Aerial view of the Vistula River. Polish girls, former slave laborers showing their passports to Russian soldiers. Barracks of slave labor camp. Sign, "Lagerwache."