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  1. World War I scenes

    Panning shot of destroyed buildings. People walking in the background. Soldiers wearing Prussian helmets run through a street. Some carry buckets and some are on horseback. Soldiers ride their horses up to a line of carts, to which they hitch the horses. Men in civilian clothes walk down a street. Some carry bundles. They are accompanined/guarded by soldiers and uniformed men wearing armbands with crosses (medical personnel). Soldiers look at trenches (from bombs?). Several horse-drawn carts bearing cross banners ride down a road. LS of soldiers running across a barren field. Some of them d...

  2. Small, yellow warning pennant with a skull and crossbones acquired by a US soldier

    1. Harold B. Goldberg collection

    German military issue, poison gas warning pennant brought back from Germany by Harold Goldberg, an American soldier who served in the European Theater in 1945. The pennants were attached to a thin, iron rod and staked into the ground. They were used to mark off areas contaminated with dangerous gas, and later repurposed to warn against hidden landmines. The pennants were part of a set that included 20 flags, each attached to a 60-cm-long iron rod, painted with red anti-rust paint, a roll of yellow tape, and a carrying pouch. Harold B. Goldberg lived in New York City, where he attended City ...

  3. Licco Haim and friends swim in pools in Sofia

    Slow-motion swimming in pools in the Dianabad beach in Sofia (still exist today). High diving and playing in the pool. Man running laps around the pool. Woman with cap swims. 01:10:08 Title with 10 August date and names of friends, Anny, Licco, Hans, Kete, Telko, Rene. The group swims, dives, and plays with objects in the pool. One of the men attempts to balance on a large water wheel in the pool; sign in Bulgarian painted on a building in BG, "Middle depth pool ... for beginners." Diving. AGFA 8 [8 distinguishes the film gauge of 8mm].

  4. The poetry of Yehuda Amichai

    Adapted from Yehuda Amichai's "Poems" published in English by Harper and Row Publishers, Inc. This film is a mood film set to the poetry of Yehuda Amichai that shows scenes of contemporary life in Israel. Views of ruined cemetery in Jerusalem. Man walking among graves, walking along seashore. Waves washing over still pictures of the Holocaust. Ruins of Caesarea. Children playing, wife bidding farewell to her soldier husband. Stills of wounded soldier, soldiers resting on ground during exercise, then on the move. Mother bathing baby. Still of children and young couples. People bathing in riv...

  5. Selected records from the French Protectorates of Morocco and Tunisia, Syria and Lebanon under French mandate after WWI until after WWII, and the French Embassy in Madrid.

    This collection consists of selected administrative records from the former French protectorates of Morocco and Tunisia and related files from the “Syria-Lebanon” collection and from the French Embassy in Madrid. The documents originate from a variety of sectors of the colonial administration including the departments of the interior, immigration, public health and welfare, religious affairs, and foreign affairs, as well as police, public works, postal, military, and municipal records. Military records relate to internment camps, prisoners of war, and censorship. Municipal records document ...

  6. German Army, Jager Regiment, Brandenburg Division, sleeve insignia with embroidered oak leaves acquired by a US soldier

    1. Harold B. Goldberg collection

    German Army dark green wool badge with a spray of oak leaves brought back from the war by Harold Goldberg, an American soldier who served in Europe, circa 1945-1946, during and after World War II. The patch was worn on the upper right sleeve by Jager (light infantry) Regiments, Panzer-Grenadier Division, known as the Brandenburg Division. For most of the war, this was an elite commando unit specializing in saboteur campaigns. In July 1944, several Division members were implicated in the failed assassination plot on Hitler. It was redesignated as a conventional unit and sent into action on t...

  7. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier

    1. Bernard B. Cohen collection

    Luftwaffe officer's Kraftfahrschule [KRS, Motor Transport School] shoulder strap with gold piping brought back from the war by Bernard B. Cohen, a soldier with the United States Third Army. The shoulder board appears to have been cut off a German uniform. Cohen was in combat with the Third Army from the fall of 1944 through the end of the war in May 1945.

  8. Luftwaffe flak artillery shoulder strap with red piping acquired by US soldier

    1. Bernard B. Cohen collection

    Luftwaffe flak artillery uniform shoulder board with red piping brought back from the war by Bernard B. Cohen, a soldier with the United States Third Army as it fought its way across Europe from fall 1944 through the end of the war in May 1945.

  9. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier

    1. Bernard B. Cohen collection

    Luftwaffe officer's Kraftfahrschule [Motor Transport School] shoulder board brought back from the war by Bernard B. Cohen, a soldier with the United States Third Army as it fought its way across Europe from the fall of 1944 through the end of the war in May 1945.

  10. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier

    1. Bernard B. Cohen collection

    Luftwaffe officer's Kraftfahrschule [KRS, Motor Transport School] shoulder strap with gold piping brought back from the war by Bernard B. Cohen, a soldier with the United States Third Army. The shoulder board appears to have been cut off a German uniform. Cohen was in combat with the Third Army from the fall of 1944 through the end of the war in May 1945.

  11. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier

    1. Bernard B. Cohen collection

    Luftwaffe officer's Kraftfahrschule [KRS, Motor Transport School] shoulder strap with gold piping brought back from the war by Bernard B. Cohen, a soldier with the United States Third Army. The shoulder board appears to have been cut off a German uniform. Cohen was in combat with the Third Army from the fall of 1944 through the end of the war in May 1945.

  12. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier

    1. Bernard B. Cohen collection

    Luftwaffe officer's Kraftfahrschule [KRS, Motor Transport School] shoulder strap with gold piping brought back from the war by Bernard B. Cohen, a soldier with the United States Third Army. The shoulder board appears to have been cut off a German uniform. Cohen was in combat with the Third Army from the fall of 1944 through the end of the war in May 1945.

  13. Luftwaffe flak artillery shoulder strap with red piping acquired by US soldier

    1. Bernard B. Cohen collection

    Luftwaffe flak artillery uniform shoulder board with red piping brought back from the war by Bernard B. Cohen, a soldier with the United States Third Army as it fought its way across Europe from fall 1944 through the end of the war in May 1945.

  14. WWII German Army General Assault badge with an eagle on an oak leaf wreath acquired by a US soldier

    1. Harold B. Goldberg collection

    Wehrmacht General Assault badge with the cutout of an eagle with retracted wings on an oak leaf wreath brought back from the war by Harold Goldberg, an American soldier who served in Europe, circa 1945-1946, during and after World War II. The badge was instituted by General von Brauchitsch on June 1, 1940, as an award for soldiers who took part in 3 separate combat actions on different days, and was not eligible for infantry or armored assault badges.

  15. Fred Roberts Crawford memoir

    Consists of one typed memoir, written by Fred Roberts Crawford, describing his wartime experiences as a fighter pilot during World War II, including life on Allied air bases in North Africa and Corsica; flying bombing raids over Italy, France, and Romania; being shot down by friendly fire in one such raid over Hungary; his capture by Hungarian civilians and subsequent imprisonment in Budapest and at Stalag Luft III and Stalag Luft VIII-A prisoner of war camps; and his liberation and subsequent viewing of the nearby Dachau concentration camp.

  16. Feiga Kerzner receipts

    The Feiga Kerzner receipts consist of receipts Feiga and Benzion Kerzner received from the Soviet Consulate in Tehran documenting some of their donations of large sums of money, Persian carpets, shoes, and other supplies to the Red Army as their contribution in the fight against Hitler.

  17. Frank family at Kressendorf; high-ranking official visits Wawel castle

    The Frank family eats indoors at Kressendorf winter garden. Norman and his friend Voigt pretend to sleep on the balcony. 01:19:41 HAS exterior street views, and the Wawel castle inner courtyard. [Hans Frank set up residence in Wawel after being named Governor-General of the German-occupied Polish territories in October 1939.] Procession of marching band and troops in the courtyard. 01:20:06 A high-ranking Nazi official marches out and salutes the troops. Official photographers capture the moment. 01:21:20 In color, CU of document stating "An die polnische Bevoelkerung" [To the Polish Popula...

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- French youth organization training; crowds support Petain

    811 K (04:40:13): July-August 1940 The Ministry of Family and Youth. LS, Minister Jean Ybarnegaray with his chief collaborators. From left to right: ex-Davis Cup player and Wimbledon champion Jean-Robert Borotra, Commissioner for Physical Education and Sports; Gen. d'Harcourt, General Secretary of the Ministry; Minister Jean Ybarnegaray; Serge Huard; Cortot. CU, Borotra and Ybarnegaray. CU, looking at the plans of a stadium. 04:41:05 The "Compagnons de France," the new French Youth organization, train the future leaders of their organization in a camp at Randan, near Vichy (Puy-le-Dome). LS...

  19. William C. Christianson papers relating to Nuremberg war crime trials

    Contains mimeograph copies of trial transcripts, mimeograph copies of evidence documents, memoranda, notes (typescripts and handwritten) and some correspondence relating to Judge William C. Christianson's involvement in the Wilhelmstrasse and Frick cases at Nuremberg. Also includes general notes on the cases; resumes of the prosecution cases; memoranda from defense lawyers; notes on legal precedents and source; statements by defense witnesses; notes on history of slave labor; and documents submitted as evidence in the trials. The records date generally from 1946 to 1948.

  20. Germans in Occupied Ukraine

    Footage shot by a German cameraman during Germany's occupation of Ukraine in World War II. Footage with German photographers traveling through the Ukraine photographing cities, villages, and collective farms. The most extensive footage is taken with a female photographer from her trip to Ukraine in the summer of 1943. She traveled by plane and car from southern Ukraine (the Melitopol region) just north of Crimea, then along the Dnepr River northward over Dnepropetrovsk to Kiev and then due west to Rovno and then the border of General Government. Reel 4: 05:37:43 MS Women with baskets standi...