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  1. Fall of Metz: telephone; German prisoners

    Group of GIs review papers, at rail station, gun, group shot. Switchboards in back of truck. Photographer. Tents. GI makies announcement. Cameraman. Wounded soldier. Tank. Phone picked up by GI. Captured German soldiers marched through town as prisoners. African American GI picks up a French girl. Civilians. LS, field across to Metz. Group of GIs. German prisoners in camp. Civilians and GIs. Prisoners exit camp, march in street in column. Group of military officers. GI picks up telephone. Railroad tracks.

  2. Art exhibition in Riga; German troops advance in East

    Troops in snow. German soldiers/officials greet Orthodox priest, receive blessing, castle. Musical performed in theater. Hair styling lessons. Art exhibition in Riga, Frank opens exhibit, "Hilfswerke fuer deutsche bildende Kunst". Construction/industry. Todt's funeral, Hitler and very high Nazi officials, wreath laying, parade. Troops at sea, firing cannons. Aerial shots, fighting, bombing. Boats, at sea, fighting.

  3. German Army waits; Officers consult maps

    Officers and soldiers sit, stand on lawn, smoke, read, confer with maps.

  4. Hitler at HQ Ukraine, Generals, General Oshima, Ribbentrop, Goebbels

    Hitler's headquarters (FHQ) in the Ukraine. VS, EXTs, Hitler, Ribbentrop, Himmler, Goering, Speer, Doenitz, etc. greeting each other and other German Army officials. Includes Japanese ambassador Oshima, Sepp Dietrich. VS, supplies, airfields. VS, village, men line up and shoot rifles over a fence. VS, CUs of the soldiers faces.

  5. Bernard Feingold papers

    The Bernard Feingold papers include photographs of the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp, scrip from Theresienstadt, and certificates, military passports, and photographs relating to Max Levi and Walter Joseph, soldiers during World War I.

  6. Private Snafu cartoon

    The Private SNAFU series of adult cartoon shorts (1943-1945) was made to instruct American service personnel about security, proper sanitation habits and other military subjects, and to improve troop morale. Private SNAFU (Situation Normal All Fouled Up), produced by the US Army Signal Corps, was originally created by Theodore Geisel (better known as Dr. Seuss) and Phil Eastman. In Episode 6, "Fighting Tools," Private SNAFU learns the lessons of weapons maintenance.

  7. Destruction; Germans advance

    Destruction along a country road: dead horses, abandoned wagons, corpses, etc. Germans gathered on side of road. Tanks in town. Germans near a fountain in town. A German stands with a black man -- French Colonial? -- Two Germans drive by in a car and sneer at the man.

  8. Jews remove stars during liberation of Tunisia

    Scenes from the liberation of Kairouan, Tunisia on April 4, 1943 by the 8th British Army. View of the city, followed by shots of French General Philippe Leclerc. Residents of Kairouan cheer and greet the entering British troops. Jews remove their star badges, throw them to the ground, and step on them. A man removes a sign that reads, "Durchgang fuer Wehrmacht Verboten [entry by the Wehrmacht forbidden]."

  9. DPs in Germany

    Reel 1: "Displaced Persons" Displaced persons in Germany are herded into a field; given food, clothing, and medical care; interviewed by officials of the American Military Government.; and assigned billets in a camp. "By Request" Shows brief shots of Charleston, WV; Springfield, IL; Newark, NJ; Tucson and Winslow, AZ; Whiteville, VA; and Fall River, MA.

  10. WW I, Russian Revolution

    Fox Movietone Newsreel excerpts. Yanks parade in NY. The first volunteers march on Fifth Ave. Troops load into transport, crowded decks. Wilson selects first draft number. VP Marshall selects second. Troop ships pull away. GIs with dog mascots. AEF lands, marches in Paris. Crowds cheer, flowers thrown. Yanks march in London. "Last Pictures of the Czar" with family before Palace. Russian army in snow. Wounded soldiers return from front. Kerensky. Bolsheviks parade in streets. Trotsky in uniform, briefly reviewing troops. CU, INT Lenin, speaking off camera. Krupskaya writing and frowning. Dom...

  11. German soldiers; American POWs; V-1 bombs

    Bureau of Public Relations, film no. 915. Reel 3, German troops load munitions on camouflaged trucks, Allied planes attack, and the truck convoy scatters to the side of the road as antiaircraft lays down a barrage. German tanks and trucks move up by night. German paratroops ambush U.S. tanks in the woods with bazookas and panzerfausts. U.S. prisoners are marched to the rear. A French village burns. V-1 bombs are launched.

  12. Hitler Youth

    Brief shot of Karl Doenitz follwed by a one man torpedo in the water. A man wearing a Ritterkreuz gets out of a small submarine. Scenes from the Pacific: Japanese pilots in the cockpit (staged); bombing ships; conference with Allied soldiers somewhere in the Pacific. Narration is Japanese. 03:05:47 CUs of German soldiers in battle. Good CUs of faces. Overhead shot of a large group of Hitler Youth boys who have volunteered for the war effort [Kriegsfreiwilliger]. The leader of the ceremony announces that 70% of the boys from the class of 1928 have enlisted. Deutsche Wochenschau eagle on screen.

  13. Wehrmacht advances in Poland

    AGFA 8 1941. Eastern front. Pan down building, with sign in Cyrillic, brief INTS. Sign: Ukrainian public school in Wroblin Krowleski. Sign for "Rymanow" Soldier poses by sign, "Posada dolna Kreishaupt m. Sanok District-Krakau" . German soldiers greet cameraman, walk along road with rifles. Aerial shots of countryside, looking through binoculars. Soldiers bathe (brief). Perform a drill at camp. 10:27:08 Sign on barracks: "Juden u. Polen Eintritt verboten!" Woman & man pose in doorway of hut. Man plays accordion. Graves. More of the pastoral Polish countryside. Very brief shot of Jewish g...

  14. Liberation of So. France; US reclaims Guam

    Film Communique - 12th issue. Large-scale mission of US military airplanes, paratroopers liberating the South of France. Map of US. Guam is bombarded by naval guns and from the air. Assault parties land on a beach. A Japanese freighter is hit. Troops drive through the jungle. Wounded are evacuated. Guam freed on July 25, 1944.

  15. J.S. ("Jim") Willis photograph album

    Contains a photograph album owned by U.S. military serviceman J.S. ("Jim") Willis, possibly captioned by his wife Sally A. Willis. Includes wartime photographs of England, immediate postwar photographs of Bergen Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau and Gardelegen, and postwar military activities.

  16. American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France

    An American propaganda film produced by the U.S. Office of War Information to educate US soldiers before going to France. Some scenes are staged. Reel 1: Allied troops and war material go aboard transports for the invasion of France. Soldiers (actors) discuss the war.

  17. Liberated POWs; atrocities; Berchtesgaden; troops

    Part 1: elements of the 5th and 8th Armies occupy Bologna, Italy. Gen. Mark Clark receives the German surrender. Part 2: French prisoners in Germany are liberated and return home. Part 3: Congressmen visit German prison camps and view evidences of atrocities. Part 4: Berchtesgaden is bombed. Joseph Goebbel's brother is shot as a spy. German prisoners. Russian and US troops meet at the Elbe. Shows Gen. Reinhardt.

  18. Parade in Vienna - Anschluss

    Aerial view of German planes in formation. Crowds flank the streets of Vienna for the Anschluss parade in March 1938, tanks parade through the streets. A few spectators hold umbrellas. More tanks and military vehicles, packed with troops. Many in the crowd now have umbrellas to protect themselves from the falling rain. An enormous crowd in the Heldenplatz (Heroes’ Square) in Vienna. The Äußere Burgtor, a gateway to the square is on the left. The Austrian Parliament building is visible in the background. The equestrian statue of St. Eugene of Savoy in front of the Neue Burg. Soldiers stand i...

  19. German newsreel excerpts: Gen. Franco; Mussolini; Winter Aid; British air raids

    Reel 1, Part 1, General Franco and German officials visit the Alcazar in Seville, and review Moorish guards, Part 2, Mussolini decorates Italian airmen and reviews troops in Rome. Part 3, crowds, including children, attend a military, exhibit in Vienna. Contributions for "winter aid" are collected. Part 4, Flemish musicians perform in a Berlin cabaret. Part 5, a wedding is performed in Le Meuse, France. Part 6, factory workers attend a concert performed by the Berlin Philharmonic. Part 7, cultural and religious monuments in Lubeck, Germany, rubbled by British air raids.

  20. Nazi cap badge

    1. Max Wurzweiler collection

    Nazi military cap badge - metal with swastika emblem in the center. One of a collection of artifacts illustrating Max Wurzweiler who was a high ranking Nazi party official; dates circa 1930s and 1940s.