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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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].

  4. 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.

  5. 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 ...

  7. 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."

  9. Meeting of the Jewish Anti-fascist Committee, 1944

    A meeting of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee at the Kolonny zal [Columnar Hall] in the House of Unions, possibly on July 26, 1944. The meeting was meant to raise funds for the Soviet war effort. Members of the committee and military officers sit on the stage beneath a huge portrait of Stalin. Long shot of Solomon Mikhoels as he reads a speech (mute). Pan across the other men on the stage. Participants, in high spirits, sign a petition: David Bergelson signs at 01:07:08, Mikhoels signs at 01:07:33, Abraham Sutzkever signs at 01:07:52 and Ilya Ehrenburg signs at 01:07:58 At a meeting on Jul...

  10. Testimony of Felix Pollak, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his transfer to England on a children's transport, 1939, and his experiences in the Czechoslovakian Army in England, Agde and in combat in Dunkirk

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Felix Pollak, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his transfer to England on a children's transport, 1939, and his experiences in the Czechoslovakian Army in England, Agde and in combat in Dunkirk Transport of Jewish children from Prague to England, 1939; work on a farm, 1940; enlistment in the Czechoslovakian Army on reaching the age of 18; transfer of Jewish volunteers from England to the Czechoslovakian camp in Agde, France; return to England after the French defeat; formation of a Czechoslovakian military camp in Cholmondeley Park; Jewish soldiers forswear the C...

  11. Testimony of Helmut Brecher, born in Liberec, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding his escape to England, 1939, and his experiences as a Czechoslovakian soldier in the British Army, including service in the Royal Air Force (RAF)

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Helmut Brecher, born in Liberec, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding his escape to England, 1939, and his experiences as a Czechoslovakian soldier in the British Army, including service in the Royal Air Force (RAF) Childhood in a Jewish orphanage in Prague; arrival in England with his brother Albert using Slovak passports, 1939; assistance of the British Refugee Committee, 1940; work in factories; military training in the Czechoslovakian military unit in Southampton; enlistment by Jews, 1943; detention of Jewish escapees in Italian camps; help from Italian farmers; enlistment in th...

  12. Дніпропетровський обласний комітет Комуністичної партії України

    • Dnipropetrovsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
    • Dnipropetrovskyi oblasnyi komitet Komunystychnoi partii Ukrainy
    • Днепропетровский областной комитет Коммунистической партии Украины

    Inventory 4 (Opys 4) contains filed relating to the history of the German occupation regime, population policies and the Holocaust in the region during the World War II. Inventory 4 (Opys 4). File 4. Letters, informations, reports by the Regional Committee to the lower-level party and governmental bodies, city- and district Communist party branches about activities of military registration and enlistment offices, defense construction works and dislocation of military units, creation of destruction battalions, about atrocities committed by the occupiers and their accomplices. 1943. 66 pages....

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hitler speaks in Vienna after annexation of Austria

    Arthur Seyss-Inquart, who was proclaimed Chancellor of Austria after the German takeover, addresses a huge crowd in Vienna. He introduces Adolf Hitler, who salutes the crowd from the podium. Hitler speaks briefly about the absorption of Austria into the Reich. More shots of the wildly cheering and saluting crowd. Shots of Hitler's car arriving at a large government building and greeting officials. A wreath with a ribbon bearing Hitler's name stands in front of the building. Planes fly overhead. The next scene is a military parade through the streets of Vienna. Hitler salutes from the sideli...

  19. General Headquarters. Mobil Command Post. Miscellaneous.

    Vol. XIII. 28.VII - 30.IX, 1941. 5-th Army Corps, Problems related to the conquest of Bessarabia. Creation of pre-military work units. Reports of execution of various works by the Technical Army Corps (Pioneers). Reports of plundering and acts of barbarism by the troops in the occupied territories. Iuliu Maniu requests to cease military operations after Bessarabia and Bucovina are liberated. Antonescu replies there are Romanians up until the Dnieper. Abusive behavior of the Ukrainian Police East of the Dniester. No Romanian currency allowed there. Frictions between the German Police and the...

  20. Trials against Nazi and collaborationist criminals of war in Yugoslavia

    1. Државна комисија за утврђивање злочина окупатора и њихових помагача

    The files contain SCICOS prosecutions against Nazi officers and collaborationists accused of war crimes committed on the Yugoslav territory during WWII. Among them, generals Franz Bohme, Heinrich Danckelmann, officers of the 64 Police Reserve Battalion, Serbian general Milan Nedić and others involved in the Holocaust in Serbia. The files contain statements and interrogatories, reports, sometimes original documents in Serbian or German language. Particularly attention during the trials is dedicated to the extermination of the Serbian Jews. After WWII Yugoslav authorities asked for the extrad...