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  1. War Crimes Commission: Leipzig and Penig Concentration Camps

    Foreword: "This is an official document made by U.S. military photographers as they advanced into Germany," etc. Two exhibited affidavits attesting to the authenticity of scenes in the film are shown, one signed by Lt Col George E. Stevens and the other by Capt John Ford. A map shows the location of concentration camps in Germany and Europe. "Leipzig Concentration Camp" MLS, empty field, barbed wire, remaining foundation of burnt out building. Three men stand near bloody and burnt corpse. CUs, piles of burnt bodies by barbed wire. At the Leipzig camp more than 200 were burned alive in a bui...

  2. Polish Army uniform jacket and pants worn after the war by a former Jewish partisan

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn36439
    • English
    • 1945-1946
    • a: Height: 25.875 inches (65.723 cm) | Width: 20.750 inches (52.705 cm) b: Height: 37.000 inches (93.98 cm) | Width: 17.750 inches (45.085 cm)

    Polish Army uniform issued to Moses Temczyn after the end of World War II in 1945 when he served as chief of surgery at a military hospital in Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Temczyn was mobilized into the Polish Army following the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany on September 1, 1939. He was captured, imprisoned in Stalag LA, and released after 18 months. In 1942, he escaped during deportation from Grabowiec to Sobibor extermination camp. He became the leader of a partisan unit near Lublin which merged with the Polish People’s Army in 1943. After the end of the war in 1945, Major Temczyn served at t...

  3. War Crimes Commission: Breendonck, Hanover, Arnstadt Concentration Camps

    "Breendonck" Views of Breendonck camp in Belgium. EXTs of prison used to house Belgian patriots. Blood-stained coffins are exhibited as evidence of brutality Inmates demonstrate the methods used against the prisoners, such as beatings with barbed wire poles, chaining them into a vise, thumb screws. Victims reveal results of beatings and cigarette burns; a woman also reveals scars on her hips. "Hanover Concentration Camp" General views of the camp where only 200 remained of 10,000 Poles. INTs of the camp, few remaining inmates mill about. VS, Red Cross clubmobiles enter, issue hot soup, ciga...

  4. Goering, Messerschmitt, Galland, Milch, Luftwaffe troops; Goering & the fast train in E. Prussia

    Copy of a newsreel with fades between segments, scratch throughout, near center of frame, to 01:06:38. [corresponds to newsreel at Imperial War Museum dated 1943.] Goering touring factory with Luftwaffe officers & civilians, visiting workers. Goering walks with Prof. Willy Messerschmitt (dark leather coat), others. Friendly greetings, salutes as Goering drives slowly in open Mercedes. 01:00:56 Airfield, Goering arrives, out of car, reviews troops, followed by Adolf Galland (no Iron Cross), Bruno Loerzer, others. 01:01:04 Far left: Josef 'Beppo' Schmid (Iron Cross). Goering chatting with...

  5. Palestine as a haven from persecution

    Bad quality footage at first. Scenes from World War II: planes, bombs falling, explosions, tanks, soldiers running across battlefields. Narrator describes it as "the face of war," and discusses the soldiers who fought. Images of Allied soldiers. A picture of an elderly Jewish man is shown, which the narrator describes as "more horrible still than even the face of warr," as it calls to mind the horrors of the Holocaust, the horrors of the deaths of millions, innocent and defenseless. Liberation of Nordhausen and other concentration camps. 01:04:02 Superimposed over a color map of Europe are ...

  6. Heilborn and Fassberg family papers

    The Heilborn and Fassberg family papers consist of biographical material, correspondence, and family research related to the family of Theodor and Recha Bloch Heilborn, originally from Berlin, Germany and Harold Fassberg, from Ohio. The collection documents the Heilborn family’s history in Germany from 1840-1939 including Theodor Heilborn's career as an attorney, being stripped of his position in 1933, and the family's emigration documentation. Also included is extensive correspondence between the Heilborns’ only child, Vera, and Harold Fassberg, a member of the American military during Wor...

  7. German advance into USSR; fighting at Stalingrad (?)

    Views of Kharkiv, Ukraine city center. The buildings appear largely intact and the leaves are on the trees, indicating that it is summer, probably 1942. German soldiers travel the streets in vehicle and on foot and bicycle. View of a statue of Taras Shevchenko, which has been left standing. Nice street scenes. A German soldier walks past with a young local woman. 01:45:51 Bridge over a river, with German troops and vehicles heading in one direction and a couple of Russian peasant women heading the other. Troops in the field, which appears to be the southern steppe. German vehicles travel ov...

  8. Nazi atrocities

    Orientation Film no. 19. War Department Information Film showing German concentration camps and victims of Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka, Belsen, Buchenwald, and other camps. Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder. The film includes accounts of the economic aspects of the camps' operation, the interrogation of captured camp personnel, and the enforced visits of the inhabitants of...

  9. Gusen; Mauthausen; Nordhausen

    "Mauthausen Concentration Camp" [Footage shows mixed sequences from Mauthausen and Gusen.] High pan of concentration camp Gusen for slave laborers. 01:14:15 Pan of buildings at Mauthausen. Execution site with gallows and shooting wall in Gusen, with 2-3 men standing alongside it, courtyard wall behind. 01:14:23 Soldiers provide "tour" of crematorium and camp Gusen. 01:14:45 American POW Lt. Jack Taylor (U.S. Air Force) talks about his experience at Mathausen, "fortunately my turn hadn't come." He had been captured in Mauthausen for a few weeks from April 1945 to liberation. He talks of two ...

  10. Artwork by communist resistance fighter Boris Taslitzky plus catalogue of Vichy exhibition on "Bolshevism"

    The collection consists of reproductions of a series of sketches and other artwork by Communist resistance fighter Boris Taslitzky after he was deported to Buchenwald, and a photo album of a 1942 Paris exhibit on “Bolshevism against Europe.”.

  11. 60th anniversary medallion, liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora issued to US soldier / liberator

    Commemorative medallion received by Forrest J. Robinson, Sr., an American soldier who participated in the liberation of Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp on April 12, 1945. He received the medallion at the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps in 2005. Corporal Robinson, Military Police Platoon, 104th Infantry Division deployed to France in July 1944. On April 12, 1945, Forrest entered Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp near Nordhausen, Germany, the day after infantry troops from his division liberated the camp. His platoon followed the infan...

  12. American entry into Paris

    (INV 1481) Slate reading "Marthey - 3 Paris" 00:04 Back view of three soldiers wearing helmets watching Army vehicles drive. Cars driving in street with some civilians. 00:20 American soldier, officer, and French soldier leaning over to examine documents (map?). Some civilians attempt to look also. 00:32 Red Cross workers speak to soldier in jeep. Soldier smoking cigarette. Street with Army vehicle driving through. A man across the street stands under a "photo" store sign waves to soldiers driving by. A British flag on the upper left corner. Street scene. 00:50 Army vehicle with a soldier h...

  13. Records of German Police Agencies in the Occupied Territories Deutsche Polizeieinrichtungen in den okkupierten Gebieten (Fond 1323)

    Diverse records of the police offices in Germany and includes plans, minutes, interrogations, bulletins, correspondence, personnel files, lists of police offices, reports and directives from the Reichsführer SS Himmler to intermediate levels and to SS Polizeiführer on lower levels. Consists of information about the organization of the Order Police (Orpo) units, Gendarmerie, indigenous formations ("Schutzmannschaften"), and Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) in the Occupied Eastern Territories; the regional reports and action plans for numerous localities; information about the activi...

  14. Nazi Party Rally, Nuremberg, 1937

    Nazi Party Rally, Nuremberg main square, crowds. Nazi banners decorate town square, Nazi leaders and officials present. Swastika banners are hanging from every window, people watching from windows looking onto the square. Marching units enter square, march past and salute. Crowds including large numbers of SS and SA men, cameras on tripods among them, gathered as Hitler arrives, walks past quite close. Hitler seen against cobblestones, CS, saluting in direction of camera; military and SS men in BG. CS profile of people giving Nazi salute. LS Hitler standing in car, taking salute as units ma...

  15. Liberation of Paris, France

    (INV1485) Wide shot of street filled with ruins on the ground or some kind of small blockade constructed from ruins. 00:07 American Army cars driving down the street. Civilians approach the car to shake hands with soldiers. 00:23 MS of civilians approaching soldiers. Crowds looking and waving at the camera. 00:29 Larger crowds. 00:35 Two boys approach and kiss soldier 00:52 CU of soldier speaking next to a young boy. 00:57 Crowds advancing quickly down the street 01:05 (INV1484) Armed soldiers (French resistance) walk around Shell gas station. 01:21 Tank with Free French Forces symbol. 01:2...

  16. Walter H. Rothschild papers

    1. Walter H. Rothschild Collection

    The Walter H. Rothschild papers includes biographical material, correspondence, publications, and photographs relating to Walter’s experience as a United States Intelligence Officer stationed in Germany, as well as material documenting Carl and Alice Rothschild’s immigration to the United States. The collection also includes Nazi government correspondence, political testaments, requests from Nazi prisoners of war, and photographs of Nazi officials and events. Biographical materials include documentation of Walter Rothschild’s service in the military through Army qualifications, appointment ...

  17. Liberation of Ukrainian and Belorussian lands from Polish landlords

    Prewar Lvov ( Lwow, Poland, Lviv, Ukraine). Several of the city's landmark churches, including the Church of the Assumption (Orthodox), St. George's Cathedral (Ukrainian Greek Catholic), the Church of St. Olha and Elizabeth (Greek Catholic), with visible damage. Workers with spades. Polish POWs on road. Refugees from Poland. People mingling, CU. Farms, cemetery, demonstration. The filmmaker, Oleksandr Dovzhenko (white hair). VS and angles of Jewish faces. Damage: ruined town, damaged railroads. Khrushchev visits, he laughs. Camouflaged. Marshall Timoshenko and POWs. "Redistribution" of esta...

  18. Breendonck; Hannover; Arnstadt

    "Breendonck" Views of Breendonck camp in Belgium. EXTs of prison used to house Belgian patriots. Blood-stained coffins are exhibited as evidence of brutality Inmates demonstrate the methods used against the prisoners, such as beatings with barbed wire poles, chaining them into a vise, thumb screws. Victims reveal results of beatings and cigarette burns; a woman also reveals scars on her hips. 01:09:40 "Hanover Concentration Camp" [Neuengamme] General views of the camp where only 200 remained of 10,000 Poles. INTs of the camp, few remaining inmates mill about. VS, Red Cross clubmobiles enter...

  19. Shadowbox with a collage of shoulder sleeve patches and badges worn by a US soldier

    1. John Phillips collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn88155
    • English
    • overall: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 13.375 inches (33.973 cm) | Depth: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) pictorial area: Height: 8.375 inches (21.273 cm) | Width: 12.250 inches (31.115 cm)

    Display box containing an arrangement of military patches and insignia pins owned by John Phillips, who served in the United States Army from June 1945 to January 1947. The collage includes insignia of the 42nd Infantry Division, 1st Infantry Division, 16th Infantry Regiment, and US Forces in Austria. He was stationed with the Army of Occupation in Austria and Germany from April 1946 - January 1947. Phillips served with the 222nd Infantry, 42nd Infantry Division, Cannon Company, 5th Infantry Division, and F Company, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division.

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Various Nazi leaders

    Various clips of Nazi leaders. "Germany" (produced by Movietonews) Shirtless men pose for farmers' union. Germans marching with shovels. Hitler at rally with crowds. Tanks. LS, Nuremberg rally. 01:11:08 "Das Grosse Werk der Naechstenliebe" (produced by Fox Toenende Wochenschau) Goerlitzer, District Leader of Berlin, speaking from stage re: Winter Relief at soup kitchen. Sign reading "7 Januar 1934, Eintopf Huhn-Nudeln." [Chicken and noodles] CUs, women and men eating at communal tables while band plays on stage. "Deutschland auf der Transfer-Koferenz" (produced by Fox Toenende Wochenschau) ...