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  1. Geissler and Arp: British military court case material

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of papers relates to the activities of 2 anti-nazi activists, Arthur Geissler and Erich Arp, who, at the end of the war, were indicted by a British Military Court for "the unlawful appropriation of authority" by arresting the former Ortsgruppenleiter Krömer, Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein, at gun point. In addition to material relating to the court case, there are personal papers of Arp, born 1909 in Hamburg, former SPD member and leading member of the Berlin Universit...

  2. Military ribbon bar awarded to a Jewish American soldier

    1. Bernard Kupferman collection

    Ribbon bar issued to 24 year-old Bernard Kupferman, a sergeant in the 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division, United States Army. The ribbons represent the following awards: Purple Heart, American Defense Medal, and European/African/Middle Eastern Campaign Medal. While crossing the Meuse River in Belgium on September 5, 1944, Bernard and his battalion were attacked and captured by the Germans. Bernard was wounded and imprisoned in Stalag IIIC in Kustrin, Germany, and liberated by Soviet forces in January 1945. He and a group of fellow prisoners walked from Kustrin to Poland and then ...

  3. Slave labor burials; freed US POWs; Military Government restores order

    Slave Labor Burials, Nordhausen, Germany, April 13, 1945. VS, distorted cadavers lying in yard of concentration camp. German civilians cart them on litters to common burial grounds under the direction of US MPs. CU, emaciated bodies of victims. MS, charred human torso is placed on litter. LSs, head-on-shots, German civilians carry shovels as they walk on highway. LS to CU, common burial grounds for victims of Nazi atrocities. German soldiers looking down into open burial pit filled with bodies. Freed American Prisoners, Graselben, Germany, April 12, 1945. MLS, happy, released American priso...

  4. German military dagger and sheath acquired by a US soldier

    1. Don Stanton collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn47877
    • English
    • a: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Depth: 0.630 inches (1.6 cm) b: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)

    Nazi knife and sheath brought back to the United States by Don Stanton.

  5. Senators visit Buchenwald; checking IDs; destroyed trains; military vehicles

    (LIB 5927) Congressional Group, Weimar, Germany, April 24, 1945. MSs, CUs, officers speaking to the Senators at Buchenwald concentration camp. MSs, Senators viewing stack of naked bodies. MS, Senator Alben W Barkley standing next to pile of bodies. MSs, black soldiers speaking with group of senators. VS, Gen Omar N. Bradley talking with the senators. Seq: Senatorial group is met by Lt Gen Walter B Smith at the airfield. MS, Gen Dwight D Eisenhower and group of Senators come out of building and enter car. (LIB 5928) Checking Civilians at Duisburg, Germany, April 23, 1945. Seq: Soldiers of th...

  6. Military service medallion awarded to a Macedonian Jewish partisan woman

    1. Jamila Kolonomos collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn43769
    • English
    • 1941-1945
    • a: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) b: Height: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Depth: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) c: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)

    Medallion awarded to Jamila (Zamila) Kolonomos on November 11, 1998, in recognition of her service as a partisan during the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia from 1941-1945. On April 6, 1941, the Axis powers, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria, invaded and partitioned Yugoslavia. The Macedonian region, including Bitola where Jamila and her family lived, was occupied by Bulgaria. Jamila worked with resistance groups to fight the occupation and was forced to hide at night for her safety. On March 9, 1943, from her hiding place, Jamila witnessed the roundup and deportation of the Jewish communi...

  8. Military patch found at Dachau by an American soldier

    1. Malcolm Vendig collection

    Military insignia patch brought back by Captain Malcolm A. Vendig, United States Army, 83rd Infantry Division, a soldier in Europe during World War II who served as military governor of Landkreis Dachau, Germany, during the postwar US miliary occupation government.

  9. Międzynarodowy Trybunał Wojskowy w Norymberdze [International Military Tribunal in Nuernberg]

    • akta sądowe dot. zbrodni niemieckich (materiały z procesu Hermanna Göringa, Heinricha Himmlera, Joachima von Ribbentropa, Wilhelma Keitla, Ernsta Kaltenbrunnera, Alfreda Rosenberga, Hansa Franka, Alfreda Jodla, Arthura Seyss-Inquarta, Rudolfa Hessa i innych członków władz III Rzeszy, oskarżonych o zbrodnie wojenne, przeciwko ludzkości i pokojowi, m.in. masowe mordy, organizację obozów zagłady i gett, wywożenie ludności cywilnej na roboty przymusowe oraz organizacji uznanych za zbrodnicze: Sztafety Ochronne, Służba Bezpieczeństwa, Tajna Policja Państwowa, Oddziały Szturmowe Narodowosocjali...

  11. Military Cabinet of the Leader of the State. Bureau 2.

    1. Ministry of Interior

    Informative Bulletins, Information presented to Antonescu. Transnistria. The Jews in Odessa. Some 3,000 Jews settled in Moghilev. Their relation with the authorities, Traffic of correspondence and money mostly by the military. The economic situation in Romania: black market, lack of food and merchandise; situation on the front; conversions to Catholicism; the situation in Hungary, USSR, Turkey. January 1 – 31.

  12. Feature film about a Russian army officer: military school

    Feature film about a young Russian army officer. Begins with his participation at a Russian youth military school and follows him as he advances in the army. Film portrays youthful patriotism through the willingness of young Russian men and women to enlist. The inhumanity of war is illustrated through scenes of extreme and ruthless German aggression. There are many any scenes of camaraderie between soldiers, battles with the Germans, and the destruction of war. Reel 1: Soldier comes in from rain, talks to roomful of kids at night. At military school. "Old House Father" comes in.

  13. Registry book of the military court in Zagreb

    This collection contains documentation including material on war criminals and war crimes trials for the following military courts: Osijek (Slavenia province), Croatia; Celje, Slovenia; Ljubljani, Slovenia; Zagreb, Croatia; Bjelovar, Croatia; and Postojni, Slovenia (bordering Croatia). It also includes materials from the military courts of the Second and Fourth Armies. Contains names of indicted war criminals, reportedly 11,000 names.

  14. Selected court records from the Military Tribunal of Bucharest territory

    Contains court records, declarations, letters from several ministries, personal files with pictures and finger prints, interrogation files, declarations, and name lists of defendants, reports of national propaganda and files of the special information service. The records pertain to the criminal cases related to the Holocaust.

  15. German military identification tag given to a Danish resistance member

    1. Knud Dyby collection

    The German military dog tag was acquired by Knud Dyby while he was a member in several Danish underground resistance organizations during World War II. The dog tag originally belonged to one of five German Wehrmacht soldiers who surrendered their uniforms, weapons, and identification tags to Dyby in 1944 or early 1945. These men were originally international circus artists who wished to become refugees in Sweden rather than fight the Soviets during the winter along the Eastern Front. They and Dyby agreed that the uniforms could be useful to the resistance movement. The tag has a row of thre...

  16. International Military Tribunal Stork Club white porcelain mug

    1. Robert L. White collection

    White porcelain stein marked International Military Tribunal presumably available during the war crimes trials held in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1945-46. The Stork Club was the club for enlisted military personnel serving at the trials. After the end of the war and the defeat of Nazi Germany on May 7, 1945, Allied occupation authorities convened an International Military Tribunal to seek justice for crimes against humanity, evidenced by the Holocaust, perpetrated by Nazi Germany. The best known trial of major German officials began in October 1945, when the IMT formally indicted the Nuremberg ...

  17. Commemorative ashtray used during the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg

    1. Robert L. White collection

    Souvenir ashtray printed with International Military Tribunal available during the war crimes trials held in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1945-46. After the end of the war and the defeat of Nazi Germany on May 7, 1945, Allied occupation authorities convened an International Military Tribunal to seek justice for crimes against humanity, evidenced by the Holocaust, perpetrated by Nazi Germany. The best known trial of major German officials began in October 1945, when the IMT formally indicted the Nuremberg defendants on four counts: crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and con...

  18. Cigarette card with image of Nazi military parade

    1. Herbert Kobs collection

    Cigarette card from the series, Kampf um's Dritte Reich (Struggle for the Third Reich), produced in Germany, ca.1933. The card depicts a Nazi military parade in Berlin.

  19. Surrender of military and civilians in Engers and Germersheim

    (LIB 4671) American military activities in Engers, Germany. A soldier directs half-track tanks down the center of town. A German civilian wearing a white armband reads a proclamation while standing astride a bicycle. Soldiers and civilians are visible in the background. German soldiers or Hitler Youth surrendering. 01:54:22 Quality improves. Slate indicates that the date is March 25, 1945 and the cameraman is named Urban. American soldiers walk through the streets of Engers. Nice shots of an American soldier searching Germans. A First Lieutenant swears in two enlisted men as Second Lieutena...

  20. Fall of Metz: fighting; German prisoners; military officers

    LS, across field to view of Metz under artillery fire; see rising smoke columns. MS, GIs riding down streets of Metz in jeeps. MS, from ground to 3-story window of building to GIs, and civilians. CU, GI with flower standing with other GIs and French woman. MS, large group of German prisoners. MS, German prisoners exiting building and marched away. LS, line of German prisoners. LS, tank destroyer crew in action. MS, loading tank. CU, phone picked up by GI. MS, group officer greeted by Gen. Ward. MS officers inspecting Mobile Air Support unit. Group of officers talking. Cemetery. LS, across f...