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  1. Russian News (1944)

    On the siege of Warsaw. Russian and Polish troops assemble near the Vistula; tanks are drawn up; Gen. Kozakov inspects a map. A night artillery barrage is begun. Russian bombers fly over demolished German tanks. Field guns are fired. Tanks emerge from a forest and roll across fields; infantry follows. Bombs are dropped on German installations. Shows abandoned equipment and German fortifications outside Warsaw. Officers examine the scene. Artillery tanks and infantry move through the suburbs. Shows house-to-house fighting. Wounded are treated at an aid station. Poles greet the Russian troops...

  2. U.S. soldiers; airplanes entering Germany

    Three US Army soldiers in dress uniforms with combat helmets, posing in front of tent, walking toward camera, smiling. MCUs, on an airfield, prop plane, pilot winds propeller manually to start it, plane takes off, several bare-chested men are standing on airfield surrounding plane. VS, traveling shots from inside a moving vehicle, panning landscape of unidentified town, some destroyed buildings are evident. MS, US soldiers dressing/undressing at camp. CU, sign reads: "YOU ARE NOW ENTERING GERMANY; THERE WILL BE NO FRATERNIZATION WITH ANY GERMAN." A second sign reads: "FRANKREICH BRIDGE."

  3. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: mobilization

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Mobilization.

  4. Combat Infantryman Badge

    1. Donald L. Hildenbrand collection

    Combat Infantryman Badge, a United States Army military award, with laurel wreath and rifle. Part of a collection of materials that document Donald Hildenbrand’s experiences as one of the 350 American POWs selected from Stalag IXB and sent as a slave laborer at the Berga concentration camp.

  5. Dunson family at Christian mission; church choir; U.S. soldier

    At the Kiamichi Mountain Christian Mission in Nashoba, Oklahoma, where Harold Dunson and his family were sent as missionaries in 1947. Screen image is mostly decomposition, but behind the emulsion loss and water damage there is an intermittent image of a group of adults in black robes- seems to be a church choir. Various people, friends, family, filing out of building, standing on street corner, talking, etc. VS, soldier and woman (also in military-type uniform) loading items and getting into a car with others. VS, little girls playing outside of a house.

  6. Russian testimony at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 13) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 26, 1946. LSs, witness Jacob Grigorjov, a Russian peasant who remained in German-occupied territory from July 1941 and whose wife and two children were killed by the Germans, is sworn in and questioned by a Russian prosecutor. MSs, Justices A F Volchoff (USSR), Birkett (Britain), and Lawrence (Britain). MSs, girl in audience looking through binoculars. MCU, Russian prosecutor speaking. LSs, Eugene Kivilsha, a Red Army physician, testifying that he was imprisoned in a German prison camp in the Ukraine. Note: All testimony is in Russ...

  7. Various wartime scenes

    A film report examining Nazi methods to control morale. Consisting mostly of captured films. POWs on the Russian front. Shows Goebbels and describes SS operations. Explains the high morale of German combat units in France. Describes a new cargo plane, a demolitions tank, and the V-1 bomb. Shows Hitler and Himmler and CUs of German POWs.

  8. U.S. soldiers in Europe

    LS, EXT, large unidentified city/town. Trolleys passing by on busy street, civilians, buildings, fountains, cathedral. Cut to VS, American soldiers at barracks, walking about, open fields and mountains in the BG. VS, countryside surrounding the base camp. MCU, local woman with young girl sitting in a car speaking to cameraman and smiling. VS, aerial views of unidentified town, ships docked at port. MLS, amphibious tank type vehicle emerging from water, moving onto land. More aerial views, beach head, soldiers on hillside, etc.

  9. Soviet soldiers dead in field

    Tanganng?, USSR. Bright, expansive sky, wide vista, flat. MS many dead horses. Low embankment on dirt road. 40-50 bodies of Russian soldiers scattered around. Wind blowing through grass. Soviet POWs walk down road, 3-4 across, around and past the bodies, looking at them. More horses, dead men, cart wheels. The narration indicates that almost 658,000 prisoners have been taken.

  10. German Army and Russian women prisoners

    Russian villagers (women and kids) stand outside their log cabin homes, hands up, while Germans search the house.

  11. German soldier and women

    Outdoors on an athletic field. An older man wearing an athletic suit, jumps for camera. Two different women and German soldier with glasses. A nurse is visible briefly in the BG - maybe this is on the grounds of a hospital? CU, blonde woman. Women and 2 German officers talk, greet each other, walk about the field, look over stone wall.

  12. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: children

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Aid to children; puppets.

  13. German invasion, occupation of France; POWs

    Reel 11: German cavalry and infantry cross a river. Artillery bombards the Verdun forts. French troops surrender. Shows wrecked forts, a WWI monument, German infantry parading past the forts, civilians and French POWs. German forces passing abandoned war material and thru French towns. German tankmen studying maps, and a battle. French troops load guns in the Verdun forts. German infantry cross a river in motor launches.

  14. US Army liberation of concentration camps

    A film produced by the US Information Agency, Paris, France and the US Army. It tells the story of American soldiers and the liberation of Europe's concentration camps through compilations of footage shot by the US Army upon liberation of the camps. Narration from POV of an American soldier.

  15. US Army dog tag worn by Fred Siegfried Aron

    1. Aron family collection

    United States Army dog tag worn by Fred Siegfried Aron during his military service in World War II.

  16. US Army Good Conduct medal ribbon bar awarded to Fred Siegfried Aron

    1. Aron family collection

    United States Army Good Conduct medal ribbon bar awarded to Fred Siegfried Aron during his military service in World War II.

  17. World War II Victory medal ribbon bar awarded to Fred Siegfried Aron

    1. Aron family collection

    World War II Victory medal ribbon bar awarded to Fred Siegfried Aron during his military service in World War II.

  18. US Army Ordnance lapel pin worn by Fred Siegfried Aron

    1. Aron family collection

    United States Army Ordnance lapel pin worn by Fred Siegfried Aron during his military service in World War II.

  19. Army U.S. lapel pin worn by Fred Siegfried Aron

    1. Aron family collection

    United States Army "U.S." lapel pin worn by Fred Siegfried Aron during his military service in World War II.

  20. US Army Corps of Engineers lapel pin owned by Fred Siegfried Aron

    1. Aron family collection

    United States Army Corps of Engineers lapel pin worn by Fred Siegfried Aron during his military service in World War II.