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  1. Signal Corps Cameramen; Nazi SS Trial

    21:00:41 (LIB 6866) Combat Cameramen, Germany, March-April 1945. LS, jeep pulls up to street corner, camera team gets out and still man pockets film in paratroop trousers. MLSs, CUs, two soldiers lead cameramen through rubble-strewn street. Cameraman stops to take pictures with a Speed Graphic. LS, still cameraman takes pictures of two infantrymen walking past burning building in Schweigen. LS, officer takes picture with still camera of advancing column of the 100th Div in Nussloch. LS, cameraman takes pictures of two soldiers as they pass burning rubble and buildings. CUs, cameraman using ...

  2. Clarence Kuhn photographs

    Consists of photographs and photographic postcards taken and collected by Clarence W. (Toby) Kuhn, a medic in the United States Army during World War II. Includes images taken at the Dachau concentration camp and at Berchtesgaden (including both original and Signal Corps photographs), photographs collected from German soldiers, and postcards.

  3. Germany at liberation: refugees, destruction, etc

    French liberated prisoners. US soldiers and ammunition, firing from tank. Tanks on village street. Airplanes dive bombing. MCUs German POWs. German civilians. Damaged gate entrance reading in part "Trier." German civilians departing town; horse, oxen, and tractor drawn wagons loaded with possessions. 01:07:20 Slate reads "Luxembourg, April 14, 1945" Germans with belongings on carts. CUs, displaced persons in line for water on city plaza, waving to camera, holidng up water cans (staged). Digging with shovels. April 16, 1945 - MCUs, German children in park, in Wiesbaden, Germany, wrestling. A...

  4. Russian DP camp

    (LIB 6513) Russian Displaced Persons Camp, Heidelberg, Germany, May 3, 1945. HSs, male Russian displaced persons marching by. CUs, Charles McDonald and Pat Dunne wearing UNRRA armbands. AV, campsite. Russian men and women dancing and celebrating May Day. Male DPs marching and drilling, training for enlistment in Russian Army. MCUs, children in and around day nursery. EXTs, food is poured from large containers into buckets for distribution to groups of DPs. CU, Russian Maj acting as liaison officer addresses youthful DPs. MSs, civilian bearing bundles and packages arrive at camp gate. AVs, D...

  5. Russian DPs at train station; Congressmen visit Berchtesgaden

    02:33:15 (LIB 6804) 17th Airborne Div, Germany, May 26, 1945. LSs, MSs, CU, Russian DPs from Wesel stand in doors of open freight cars as they are questioned by an American officer. HLSs, trains pull out of station. CU, railroad station sign: "Wesel." MSs, DPs standing in open doors of freight cars, wave as they pass by. MLS, Brig Gen Joseph Phelps and British officers wave goodbye as train leaves station. DPs carrying personal belongings and loading them into cars. DPs at station singing, holding huge picture of Stalin, and dancing. MLS, Maj Gen William M Miley standing at platform and ins...

  11. Westwall Defense medal

    1. Gerald Schwab collection

  12. Medal

    1. Gerald Schwab collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn44307
    • English
    • a: Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Diameter: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) b: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Depth: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm)

  13. Ernest Waller collection

    Consists of one document, three pages, in English, describing the liberation at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from the collection of Ernest L. Waller, who was with the British Army's RASC, attached to the 163rd forward ambulance group. The report, entitled "Notes on Belsen Camp," describes the terrible conditions after the liberation of the camp in April 1945, including a description of the thousands of prisoners who died due to typhus and other diseases and of the events leading to the liberation of the camp. Also includes a document listing the military units and voluntary organiza...

  14. Aerial views of postwar Paris

    Aerial shots of Paris and the Eiffel Tower. U.S. Air Force soldiers stand and kneel together posing for a photo. More aerial images of Paris neighborhoods, destroyed bridges and Notre Dame Cathedral. Aerial views of the French countryside.

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Nazi conquest of Austria, Vienna, 1938

    CU, sign, "Adolf Hitler Platz", the former Rathaus Platz, in Vienna. Shot of Rathaus with windows illuminated, shot at nightfall. Man shining shoes. Army trucks with food supplies. Stand erected in the Ring. Monument to Austrian Victims of the War. Vienna's Jewish shop district. LS, Danube Canal. Jews sitting on a bench. Car with Schupos on Danube Bridge. LS, facade of former Austrian War Ministry with Nazi flag. The Ring and Kaerntnerstrasse (Opera) with flags and posters showing Hitler's picture and the words: "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer." Peasants at work. Village street near Vienna...

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Czechoslovakia

    1150 E (11:09:24): Old Prague. LS Tyn church surrounded by old, wrecked houses. Statue of Jan Hus in middle of square. Town hall destroyed by the Germans during their evacuation. Workers, rubbish, scaffolding. German POWs pass in FG, clean ruins of houses and railway station remains at Gheb (border). 1150 D (11:11:53): Karlovy-Vary (Carlsbad), a celebrated spa in Sudetenland. River; hotel. Russian officers and soldiers from the Russian zone of occupation have their rest in this city. Several shots of officers and soldiers queuing early in the morning for water rations. Sip water, walk under...

  19. Germans takeover Sudetenland; Czech refugees

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 712, Part 2A. Release date, 10/19/1938. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Germans Take Over Sudeten" Czechoslovakia. Almost on the heels of the Czechs as they withdraw from areas ceded to Germany by the Four-Power Accord, the German leader and his troops take over, inspecting former Czech defenses and feeding hungry refugees. Czechs depart from the Sudetenland as German tanks takeover. Village scene. Various MS, carts lined up in village. Soldiers? Nazis towing through bunker? MS, Nazis strolling in field. Quick shot of armband. Nazis feeding...

  20. Neuman (Nenner) family collection

    Collection of documents of the Neumann (Nenner) family from their time in the Displaced Persons Camp in Lechfeld in Germany and their immigration to Palestine; dated 1940s-1950s. Includes a temporary exit pass from the artillery officers' course taking place in a military garrison, Bucharest, 1943; a civil marriage certificate, Bucharest, 1944; a recruitment certificate to "Va'ad leSherut Ha'Am" in Lechfeld Displaced Persons Camp; a birth certificate of a baby girl born in Ainring (Bavaria), 1947; an import form for merchandise imported by boat, railway, surface mail or by air for use in Is...