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  5. Music in memory of Sobibor

    Music entitled "De Trein naar Sobibor" composed by Mathieu Dijker.

  6. German educational film: North Polar Submarine Expedition, 1931

    Film documents the Wilkins-Ellsworth North Polar Submarine Expedition in 1931, where valuable scientific information was collected in the hopes of reaching the Arctic. The mission failed due to repeated mechanical problems of the 'Nautilus' ship. German intertitles (in quotation marks). "Im 'Nautilus' unter das Polareis!" "Ein Kinagfafilm aufgenommen mit der Agfa Movex auf Agfa Umkehrfilm 16mm" "I. Akt. Von Bergen bis zur Eiskante" "'Nautilus' am Kai in Bergen" Man on pier, boat anchored. "Der Bug des U-Bootes mit dem Stossfaenger" CU ship. "Das Heck des 'Nautilus' das noch mehrene Meter un...

  7. Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities

    A propaganda film which laments the waste of money and other resources spent on caring for the mentally disabled and ill, at the expense of the "healthy" population. German intertitles describe the scenes. Film opens with busy street scenes, people going about their daily lives in the city. Switch to rural scenes, people farming, manual labor. Scenes of a Nazi parade and crowds at a huge outdoor rally. Flags flying, people saluting. A shot of the entrance to the "Silberhammer" mental institution; camera pans briefly around the surrounding countryside. The exterior of the institution, which ...

  8. Selected records of the Reichsinstitut für Geschichte des neuen Deutschland (R 1)

    Contains documents related to the operations of the Reichsinstitute für Geschichte des neuen Deutschland (State Institute for the History of the New Germany) and also articles and manuscripts by individual authors. Includes lists of discharged appointees; budget of the ministry; personal files; orders concerning travel limitation for Jews; manuscript by Christoph Steding entitled "Das Reich und die Krankheit der europaeischen Kultur;" professional articles by Karl Richard Ganzer; and manuscripts by Fritz Schutz about Jews in Gumbinnen and Karlsruhe, Germany, in the 18th century.

  9. March of Time -- outtakes -- American soldiers in Le Mans, France

    American troops in Le Mans, France. They congregate in the streets of the town and drink at outdoor cafes. Nice street scenes with troops and French civilians interacting happily. A group of several African American soldiers talk to a French colonial troop; they shake his hand and offer him a cigarette, which he accepts. American nurses look at dresses in a store window. Exteriors and interiors of shops. The exterior and interior of the Bar Americain, where a smiling woman pours drinks for American soldiers. Young French women exiting the palace of justice. Americans and French people shopp...

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- England 1939: posters with Hitler & Goebbels "wanted for murder"

    Blackout preparations in London: men paint white stripes on trees, lamp posts, and curbs. People at a gas mask depot in Lambeth. A newly married couple exits a church. The bride, groom, and bridesmaids all carry gas masks. A sign on the side of a building informs the public that gas masks are the property of the government and must be properly cared for. A young boy sitting on a curb opens a box containing a gas mask and puts it on. Men pile sandbags around a fire alarm box. "Wanted!" posters featuring photos of Hitler and Goebbels. Men paint car bumpers white for driving in a blackout. San...

  11. Jewish refugees arriving in Sweden from Denmark

    Daily news segment showing the arrival of Jewish refugees from Denmark. Arrival and unloading of boat from Oresund into small lifeboats arriving on beach in Helsingborg. They gather in a park, where Swedish families gather around the Jews and greet them. The refugees exchange money in a bank, then get registered. Long line of refugees undergoing medical examinations in the hospital. Passport photographing. Then they are apportioned food, which they eat. Police chief Bogenholm and intendent Goete Friberg greet them as representatives of their organization. Image of port.

  12. Dena Romero photograph collection

    The collection consists of three black-and-white pre-World War II family photographs from Guntersblum, Germany, 23 glass negatives taken by Emil Rueb [donor's father] in Guntersblum, and seven negatives.

  13. Statement delivered at postwar reburial service for Wöbbelin concentration camp victims

    Published statement delivered at a memorial burial service in Hagenow, Germany on 8 May 1945 for 144 dead uncovered at Wöbbelin concentration camp. James M. Stoner (donor) served in the 8th Infantry Division, and was a member of the honor guard during the ceremony.

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Press reaction to US military landing in N. Africa; Taylor visits Lisbon

    Dramatic coverage of newsboys rushing to deliver bundles of the newspaper Diario de Lisboa on the day the Americans invaded North Africa. Extensive scenes of movement, newstands, publications, and close-ups of the front pages of papers in Portugal. Some of the newspapers are English-language. LIFE magazine and SIGNAL. INT of a barbershop, where a news vendor distributes copies of the paper to men getting their hair cut. EXT and INT of the "Havas Agence," precursor to the modern Agence France-Presse. Editor (Mr. Dany) sitting at a telephone with another man (Mr. Audibert) standing beside him...

  15. History of Danzig and Volksdeutsch (anti-Polish propaganda)

    Map showing Germany, Russia, Austria. Poland appears on the map in black. Map showing the Free State of Danzig. The narrator lists the various abuses of sovereignty perpetrated by the Poles. Scenes of Danzig, including shots of Nazi flags flying and pro-German signs. Shots of Danzig harbor. Men of the Danzig SA fortifying a border crossing. A parade of marching troops of the Danzig SS-Heimwehr. Volksdeutsch refugees crossing a field with suitcases, fleeing "Polish terror." A sequence showing refugees arriving in the "protection of the Reich." They are provided with food, and give lengthy in...

  16. Wolff family papers

    The collection documents the childhoods of siblings John and Marianne Wolff in Berlin, Germany, their immigration to England via Kindertransport in 1939, and eventual immigration to the United States in 1945. Included are documents and photographs.

  17. Book Eine darlegung wahrnehmbarer tatsachen in erfüllung der offenbarung die Gott Jesus Christus gab, um sie seinen knechten kundzuttun

    The collection consists of five books written by Jehovah's Witnesses that were among the titles of books burned by the Nazis in 1933

  18. Deutsches Rotes Kreuz [German Red Cross] flag with a black eagle with a swastika and a red cross on a white field

    Very large Deutsches Rotes Kreuz [DRK; German Red Cross] flag with a Reichsadler, a black Imperial eagle, with a white Swastika on its chest and a red cross in its talons, displayed upon a white field. After Hitler's appointment as Chancellor in January 1933, the Nazi Party began to reshape the private charity sector. By July 1933, the DRK was one of only four non-state aid organizations left in Germany. Its new president was a Nazi Party official, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. In December 1937, the DRK became a unit of the Nazi Party and, the next year, it became a Social ...

  19. Tennenbaum family in Nazi Vienna; departing on the Queen Mary ship

    November 1937. Robert (Bobby) Tennenbaum (donor) at age 2 in the Volksgarten park in Vienna with his mother, Ernestine (Erna). Shots of Bobby, wearing a winter coat and hat, smiling and running in the park, while his mother and grandfather look on. Closer views of Erna and grandfather. Erna wears a fur stole around her neck. Other park-goers are visible in BG. Shots of Erna and Bobby's grandfather. More scenes of Bobby with various adults, including his father Marcus. Leo Beller with his son Paul in St. Johann park. Paul poses for the camera and sits on a bench while his father combs his ha...

  20. Volary burial of Nazi victims

    (LIB 6585) Reburial of Atrocity Victims, Volary, Czechoslovakia, May 11, 1945 SEQ: Prayers for the dead are said by a Jewish chaplain of the US 5th Inf. Div. at ceremony. Civilians unload coffins from truck. SEQ: French, Belgian, and US soldiers and civilians watch burials. LSs, MSs, CUs, one woman and two men remove corpses from shallow graves. MSs, women survivors, emotionally moved by the corpses. LS, women and children walk past a row of corpses lying on the ground. LSs, MSs, two US soldiers watch German civilians exhume the bodies of the dead and place them in coffins. LS, women carryi...