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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

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

    LS, facade of former Austrian War Ministry with Nazi flag. The Ring and Karntnerstrasse (Opera) with flags and posters showing Hitler's picture and the words: "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer." 01:01:53 Man shining shoes. Army trucks with food supplies. Stand erected in the Ring. Monument to Austrian Victims of the War. 01:02:32 LS, Danube Canal. Jews sitting on a bench. Vienna's Jewish shop district. Car with Schupos on Danube Bridge. Trams, Hitler posters. 01:03:23 Peasants at work. 01:03:56 Village street near Vienna, Deutsche Wagram, Bocek. Soldiers and children in village. 01:04:14 Sol...

  5. Testimony re: Hitler's death, Horstenau testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    23:37:34 (Munich 275) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, June 12, 1946. LS, US prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd asking unidentified witness whether he was present at Hitler's death. HMS, Dodd asking witness if he wasn't the man who carried Hitler's body to the bunker and set it on fire. Witness actually testifies that he carried Hitler's wife out of the bunker and saw Hitler's body wrapped in a blanket. Asked whether he actually saw Hitler, he answers no, he could only see his legs hanging out of the blanket, which was a bit too short to cover the whole body. 23:40:30 (Munich 224) War Crimes T...

  6. Defendants talk in dock at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 425) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 7, 1945. Prisoners enter courtroom in groups, take their places, greet each other and talk. The prisoners enter in the following order: Hermann Goering, Karl Doenitz, Rudolf Hess, Erich Raeder, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Baldur von Schirach, Wilhelm Keitel, Fritz Sauckel, Hjalmar Schacht, Hans Fritzsche, Walther Funk, Constantin von Neurath, Julius Streicher, Albert Speer, Wilhelm Frick, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Hans Frank, Franz von Papen, Alfred Rosenberg, Alfred Jodl (similar to scene in Story 2799, Film ID 2341).

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hitler at christening; Munich Pact; Autobahn

    667 SS: (with music) Adolf Hitler at Goering's child's christening. Hitler and Mrs. Goering and child. 03:48:47 Hitler playing with baby, holding hand. Goering sitting next to Mrs. Goering. Brief shots of religious ceremony with muffled voices. 667 TT: (silent) 03:49:20 Munich Pact. Generals entering Reichstag from automobiles, saluting. INT, Hitler, Goering, Mussolini, Chamberlain, etc. 03:49:50 Looking at documents, signing, talking. CUs, document. Shaking hands. 667 VV: (silent) Opening of Autobahn in Bavarian mountains. 03:50:28 Sign: "SA baut Alpenstrasse." View of countryside with boa...

  8. Case against Hans Frank presented at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 490) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 10, 1946. Rear views, Lt. Col. Baldwin of the US prosecution presenting the case against Hans Frank, making reference to several of Frank's diary entries about the appropriation of Polish grain for use in Germany. LS, prisoners' dock during recess as some of the defendants talk to their attorneys. MS, Hermann Goering, Alfred Rosenberg, Walther Funk, and Fritz Sauckel talking during recess. The defendants eat as they talk. MS showing left side of prisoners' dock during trial session. 06:29:32 Re. "resettlement" and "dispossession of ...

  9. French National Railway (SNCF) records

    Contains the wartime records of the French National Railway (SNCF). The records relate to relations with the German and Allied authorities, wartime operation of the company, statutory texts produced and decisions made by the Board of Directors between 1939-1945. The records contains minutes, meeting notes, agendas of the Board of Directors, company annual reports, correspondence of the Secretariat of the Board of Directors, and Executive Committee records. Includes also military records relating to mobilisation of staff, prisoners of war, secondment to the Deutsche Reichsbahn, demarcation o...

  10. Soldiers eating; at leisure

    Soldiers line up and receive food. They pose next to a boxcar that says “15 Fin USA Bound.” A sign for Thionville. Soldiers eat at Camp Boston in Reims, France. Children wave at the camera. Soldiers play cards and smoke cigarettes. Scenes at Camp Boston.

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Zlin; Bata shoe company

    Jan Antonin Bata arrives at Zlin airport from his trip around the world. Crowds on Work Square at Zlin, greeting Mr. Bata. Procession lead by Mr. Bata, including pupils of Bata School of Work. President Benes at his desk, in Prague's castle. Shows manufacturers at the Bata Shoe company in Zlin cutting leather, sewing, polishing, packing, loading boxes of boots on truck. View of Zlin. Women flying sports airplane. Sports festival day. Mr. Bata speaking (with sound). Young women exercising. Pre-military service of young men. Uniformed young men marching. Children putting on gas masks.

  12. Victor Wieruszowski Postcard

    The postcard was written by Victor Wieruszowski to his wife Frieda Schwerin Wieruszowski from Buchenwald concentration camp in 1938. In the postcard, Victor asks his wife to quickly sell as much of the inventory of his plumbing supply wholesale business as possible, and to send warm woolen socks.

  13. Brüsseler Treuhandgesellschaft collection from the National Archives of Belgium

    Contains records of the Brusseler Treuhandgesellschaft. This organization was founded by the German occupiers in October 1940 as an "anonymous corporation" that seized control of enemy goods, including bank accounts and real estate. These documents provide an account of how the Jews residing in Belgium were looted by the German regime.

  14. Łódź Ghetto

    Short shot from moving vehicle on bridge over street in ghetto at Lodz. Ghetto. Fences. "Ghetto Wehrm.-Angen. ist das Betreten verboten Fleckfieber. The Feldkommandant” Glimpse into the ghetto: barbed wire, people, open window, bed linen. Sign: "Die Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt Federn u. Daunen Arbeits Ressort” 10:00:21 Jews in the ghetto behind the wall, children with the star, women with the star, men with the star. "Wohngebiet der Juden betreten verboten” [Residential area of ?? the Jews] 10:00:37 Soldier with rifle in front of guardhouse at the ghetto entrance. 10.00:42 Jews cros...