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  1. Olympics 1936

    KODAK. German amateur filmmaker, Willi Wünsch. 10:00:00 Grünau, rower, commentator, Japanese. 10:05:38 Stadium, spectators close: Norwegians, Italians, Jesse Owens? run. 10:06:37 diving. 10:08:38 triple jump. 10:10:50 Diving (Slomo), swimming

  2. Journey continues in Konstanz, Zurich, and Paris; Family celebrations; Onboard the SS New York returning to America

    With intertitles in English. “On the boat to Konstanz- Germany- scenes along the Bodensee.” Scenes of the town and seagulls from the water. 0:23 “The Insel Hotel and Gardens at Konstanz.” Shots of swans, other birds in the water. Well-dressed woman walks around the courtyard of the hotel. 1:13 “Scenes in Zurich- Switzerland.” Views of Zurich and the mountains behind it. 1:22 “The University.” Views of the University, city behind it and a busy, snowy street. A man directs traffic as a streetcar passes in front of the camera. 1:42 “The Garden of the Hotel Baur au Lac.” Well-dressed woman walk...

  3. Königstiger 1944

    Königstiger 1944. Panzer III. Filmed on 35mm by a PK soldier and presented to Mr. Richard Freiherr von Rosen on the occasion of his birthday.

  4. Labor Service

    With Geman titles (and French translations). Scenes from the Arbeitsdienst des Stahlhelms [Labor Service of the Steel helmets]. "Bund der Frontsoldaten" [Front Soldiers Association]

  5. Reichsarbeitsdienst in Poland 1940

    "RAD Lager Freiburg" 1940. Boarding train. Fires. Ruins. "Rückfahrt nach Radom" Swimming.

  6. Adolf Hitler, filmed by his pilot Hans Baur (partly in color)

    10:00:00 View from a flying plane on wing and propeller, flight over clouds 10:00:27 Inside the cabin: Goebbels reads, Brückner sleeps, Schaub behind Hitler, Hitler reads in the "Völkische Beobachter". 10:01:05 Color: Hitler on an airfield. Cannon. Hitler eats standing in the midst of officers, 10:01:38 Hitler gets on the car, the car is surrounded by members of the Luftwaffe, all of them raise their arms to greet the Germans, several vehicles set off. 10:01:51 Hitler with escort (including Wilhelm Keitel and Julius Schaub) holds on to his cap and welcomes Luftwaffe officers.

  7. Private Nazi films; ice sailing; Jews with armbands in Poland (color); Roma camp

    Material from Götz Hirt-Reger. Some parts with title cards in German. Air rifle shooting, women's sport, men's sports, man limps, stadium sports competitions, lunch table. Family, dog, garden, Leipzig. Agriculture, grain harvest in Saxony, hunting. 10:54:41 1943. Ice sailing on the Rangsdorfer See. 11:00:19 German withdrawal in Russia, mud, stuck vehicles, riders. City, bomb damage, Dornier whale. Russia, soldiers hunt pig, tanks. 11:17:17 RAD camp (color). Brief shot, Jews performing hard labor. 11:17:49 Title card: "Warschau ost-Einfahrt" City views, rubble, Jews with armbands (color), ar...

  8. Wehrmacht; Reich harvest festival

    Wehrmacht on parade in Heidenheim. 10:01:58 Reich harvest festival Bückeberg near Hameln

  9. Reichsautobahn; Hamburg harbor

    Reichsautobahn, Obersee / Lanke, "Memories": Color, Berlin-Lanke, Werbellinsee, b/w. 10:00:31: Reichsautobahn, evening at the Bodden. 10:01:41: Dievenow / sea. 10:02:36: Demmin. 10:02:54: Gnevsdorf. 10:03:47: Walchow. 10:04:24: Schwerin.10:05:23: Hamburg (looks like cut commercial film). 10:07:36: Hamburg: harbor tour, filmed privately

  10. Romania; Hungary; Transylvania

    Romania 1944. Bridge. Mud. Roma camp. Romanian military. Bucharest radio report, swimming, car. Petroleum area. Hungarian border. Transylvania. 03:00:00 - 03:57:09 Same as M 2573 (http://www.archiv-akh.de/filme/2573#1).

  11. Ruth Reed family papers

    The collection primarily contains pre-war photographs of Ruth Reed (née Feldman) and her family in Katowice, Poland, along with post-war identification papers, correspondence, photographs, and restitution claims paperwork. Also included are wartime photographs of her paternal relatives in the Noher family who moved to Wellington, New Zealand prior to the war. The biographical materials include a small amount of documents related to members of the Noher and Bromberger families, a family tree, Hans Noher’s death certificate, post-war identification papers of Ruth Reed, handwritten notes regar...

  12. Munich, Alps, Innsbruck

    Private films. "Harry Scherer zeigt: von Nord nach Süd"

  13. Book

  14. Maneuvers in Pottenstein

    Private film: German soldiers in Pottenstein. With German titles. "Wer kommt wohl dort des Weges her? Es ist Oberleutnant Rothe mit seiner Radfahrer.Kompanie" ["Who is coming from there on the way? It is Lieutenant Rothe with his cyclist.Company"] Soldiers on bicycles approach the camera. Soldiers dismount, run into the area, build machine guns. 10:00:40 "MG in Stellung" ....

  15. Poland; Warsaw ghetto

    Officer training course Prien, Chiemsee, chess game, excursion, sunbathing, rowing. 10:05:45 Knight cross holder, igloo building (exercise for Russia), snowball fight with women. 10:16:40 Title: "Poland 1940/41" Horses, Polish village, riders, everyday life, guns, Draw well. 10:24:16 Soldiers with young dogs, eating, riding column, guns, laughing young woman.10:30:00 Medical vehicle, winter, "patch hour", snowfall, hairdresser, market, graves. 10:40:41 Warsaw Ghetto, driving, train station "Warschau-West" sign. 10:42:20 In Mszczonow, Poland, sign "Mszczonow", village, ruins, market, office,...

  16. Wehrmacht basic training

    Wehrmacht soldiers, basic training. With title cards in German.

  17. Russia 1942; POWs; Luftwaffe

    AGFA 8.1942: Russia, population in the market place in Landser, village is on fire. 10:02:30 Landser, burning place in the background, Russian prisoners of war. 10:04:16 heavy gun fires. 10:04:33 soldier on typewriter, advance. 10:06:30 JU 52 in flight. 10:08:39 Air Force: bomb loading, various repairs to machines, bullets in the tail unit. 10:17:00 Paris, usual pictures. 10:22:36 Aerial photos: shadows of the machine on the ground, bomber loading. 10:24:57 train station, RK sisters, flash girls, bomb loading.10:29:08 aircraft in the air, view into flight cabin, pilot and gunner. 10:32:21 P...

  18. Wedding and honeymoon of HJ leader

    Film shows the marriage of HJ leader Friedrich Nowak on July 1, 1939 in Linz, followed by the honeymoon to Rab (F) and a trip with "KDF" to Carinthia. 00:04:08 - 00:15:19 Honeymoon Linz, HJ guide on the island of RAB in Yugoslavia, nude bathing, b / w and color, summer 1939. 00:15:22 - 00:17:37 Ober-Micheldorf. Vacation 1940, beautiful basket stroller, Friedrich Nowak. 00:19:39 - 00:20:03 Ferry across the Weissensee, Carinthia.

  19. Vacationing in Italy, 1929; parade

    Well-dressed woman walks around a manicured sculpture garden. Pan of a large building, terrace and mountains behind. 0:46 Pan of a café terrace; a string ensemble plays, waiters smile for the camera. 1:12 Well-dressed woman walks down the steps of a large building, walks towards the camera. 1:38 Views of a large sculpture, mountains in the distance. Children, group of women walk in front of a guarded fortress. 2:27 Pan of a café terrace, cars, bicycles pass by. Pan of a rooftop pool, women sit, drink at umbrella tables. A group plays in a fountain in the pool. Another pan of the pool. 3:57 ...

  20. Private films of DAF activities

    Contination of RG-60.5394