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  1. Peter Tabaracci photograph collection

    Consists of nine photographs. Eight of the photographs depict scenes of the Gardelegen Massacre. The ninth photograph is identified as an aerial view of a former labor camp near Braunschweig. All of the photographs include original English inscriptions on the versos and are associated with the service of Peter Tabaracci, who served with the 4th Signal Battalion.

  2. Burning the barracks at Belsen

    Huts/barracks burned by "flame throwing" from military tank (to prevent the spread of typhus). Conflagration. Building engulfed in flames and thick black smoke. Soldiers. Panoramic shots of smoke and burning camp.

  3. German invasion, occupation of Low Countries

    Reel 3: German troops invade Holland, cross the Maas, cycle thru a village, capture Fort Eben Emael using flamethrowers. German troops guard Belgian and Dutch POWs, cross the Albert Canal, advance with tanks, dig fox holes, eat, man tanks and fire artillery. German planes bomb allied positions. Maps the German advances in Belgium and Holland. Shows the formal Dutch surrender and masses of German vehicles.

  4. German Campaign in Russia

    Destroyed Russian position, prisoner. Germans salute at grave of comrade. CU and MS tanks and vehicles roll over bridge and road. Entry into city (Lvov?) 01:12:37 Artillery supported troops and motorized units bypass Minsk and enter Baranovichi. 01:17:24 Anti-sniper squads restore order in city, long column of POWs march to rear. Women on streets of town. 01:18:34 Build bridge then enter Lusk or Lemberg (Lvov). City street scenes, evidence of damage. Tanks advance, destroyed Russian tanks.

  5. Nuremberg Trial war criminals on plane; Landsberg Hangings

    21:28:40 (Munich 187) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, May 24, 1946. War criminal von Burgdorff seated in truck on Furth airfield and guarded by MPs. Col. Muszkat, Chief of the Polish Mission for Prosecution of War Crimes at Frankfurt, signing receipt for prisoners. Prisoners are put aboard plane. INTs showing prisoners seated in plane. 21:34:01 (Munich 191) Hangings at Landsberg, Germany, May 28, 1946. Military hangings of two German civilians.

  6. Arrest of collaborators; Germans leave Prague, May 1945

    The arrest of a Czech collaborator with the Nazis (man wearing glasses). They lead him up to an official building. People hit him on the head. Street activity, pedestrians. Clock at 1:20 PM. Puddles in the street. Quick shots of Prague, a Czech flag. Two men on a motorcycle. German soldiers leaving the city. Covered wagons pulled by horses move through the streets, along with people on foot. Trucks whip around a bend. Dead German soldiers. More military vehicles, soldiers sitting in and on the cars. Fires rage at the edge of a field. Wreckage of tanks and trucks on the road. Dead horse, an ...

  7. Soviet POWs; Nazis in Vilna

    Minsk: Surrendered Soviet soldiers/POWs, all walk along road. With turbans, Asian facial features. MLS, sign, "Berlin-Breslau-Moskau." Vilna: Infantry arrives, walks down country road, proud, tired. A few townspeople and children greet German soldiers with flowers. Watch from in town and along road. Tanks line edge of road.

  8. Scrapbook of the Invasion of France

    Consists of one scrapbook, bound with fabric and a red wooden spine, containing mounted aerial military photographs of areas of France, circa 1940, likely taken during the May 1940 invasion of France by a member of the German military. Also includes photographs of the aftermath of ground warfare; many of the images are captioned and some of the aerial photographs are marked.

  9. Збирка микрофилмова

    • Collection of microfilms
    • Zbirka mikrofilmova

    Copies of documents issued by various German central authorities and occupational forces in Yugoslavia and Serbia. Among them are documents of German Foreign ministry, German plenipotentiary for the economy in Serbia and the others.

  10. Repubblica Sociale Italiana

    • Italian Social Republic

    The fonds contains records created by the Ministry of Military Forces, the Army General Staff, the Supreme Military Court of Justice of the Italian Social Republic. Several files concern internment camps in Italy and in Germany, repatriation of war prisoners, dead prisoners.

  11. Medal with accompanying certificate of authenticity

    1. Nahman-Leib Neumann Itzicovici collection

    The medal was awarded to Nahman-Leib Neumann Itzicovici donor's paternal grandfather for his service in the Romanian Army during World War I.

  12. Dachau Trial photographs

    Consists of photographs taken at the trial of forty members of the staff of the Dachau concentration camp (the Dachau Trial) by the United States Army Europe (USAREUR) Military Court from November 15 to December 13, 1945. Also includes copyprints of photographs of Vincent and Frank Donaghue, members of the United States army. Vincent was a member of the military police and was stationed at the Dachau trial.

  13. German occupation of Paris; crossing Marne river

    Reel 10: German soldiers advance, cross a river, throw grenades, fire artillery, talk over a field telephone, ride armored vehicles, care for wounded mates, advance thru a city on the Marne, decorate graves, enter Paris, raise a flag on the Eiffel Tower and pass the Arc de Triomphe and other landmarks. Armored vehicles advance towards Paris. Abandoned Allied war material blocks the advance. German forces cross the Marne on a pontoon bridge. Cavalry units ride into Paris. German officers in Paris salute parading troops and award Iron Crosses.

  14. Soviet POWs build bridge

    Soviet POWs walking into town past building with burning roof. LS slow pan buildings on fire. Soldiers working hard building a bridge. Soviet POWs and civilians help.

  15. World War I ends; armistice

    WWI soldiers (US?) march along city street with spectators cheering wildly. Marching through ruins. Firing artillery. Tanks. Troops move out of trenches, forward, bombing, smoke (warfare). 01:38:42 Von Hindenburg and other officials sign the armistice. Excerpt from Ludendorff speech in October 1918 printed on film, "The offer of peace must be transmitted immediately. The Army cannot wait another 48 hours." Officials shake hands, walk in city square. Crowds. U.S. newspaper headlines: "Armistice". Crowds cheering, holding up newspapers and waving flags. Troops shaking hands in the field. CU, ...

  16. Amtsblatt der Militarregierung, Deutschland, Britisches Kontrollgebiet Pamphlet

    1. Nazi Germany propaganda collection

    Pamphlet outlining military regulations for the British zone of occupation in postwar Germany to take effect February 24, 1947.

  17. Soviet Union Ministry of Defense propaganda poster

    1. Sybil Milton collection

    Polychrome poster with an image of a United States military officer ice skating with a Nazi soldier wearing a tutu; they have traced the shape of an atomic bomb into the ice

  18. German invasion of Denmark

    UFA logo onscreen. The narration says that the German protection of Denmark is now consolidated. Shots of a bridge linking Jutland to Funen, built by German engineers. Panning shot of crowds of people lining the dock as a ship moves past. HAS of crowds of bicyclists and pedestrians in the street. German soldiers and armaments are unloaded from a German ship (Nazi flag visible flying from ship). The dock is crowded with people. King Christian X takes his daily horseback ride, saluted by both Danish civilians and a German soldier. German military commander Generalleutnant Leonhard Kaupisch sp...

  19. German newsreel excerpts: German munitions trains; American POWs; V-1 bombs

    Reel 2, Part 1, camouflaged German munitions trains move up near Caen after the Normandy invasion. German antiaircraft fires at Allied planes over Caen. Devastation in the city. German troops assist civilians. Tanks, motorcycles, infantry, and artillery move up. Antitank guns cripple U.S. Sherman tanks. U.S. POWs are marched to the rear. Part 2, Hamburg, Germany, in flames after an Allied air raid. Searchers probe into debris; dead and wounded are removed. Corpses are laid out in a huge hall. V-1 bombs are launched.

  20. Soviet POWs; German Army waits

    Pan at edge of road, German Army standing around (some officers visible). Soviet POWs grouped together, under guard of German soldier. Wounded German soldiers receive medical aid from Red Cross.