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  1. 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...

  2. Wehrmacht; Reich harvest festival

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

  3. 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

  4. 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).

  5. 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...

  6. Munich, Alps, Innsbruck

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

  7. Book

  8. 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" ....

  9. 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,...

  10. Wehrmacht basic training

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

  11. 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...

  12. 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.

  13. 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 ...

  14. Private films of DAF activities

    Contination of RG-60.5394

  15. Visiting Vienna and Budapest; wedding

    With intertitles in English. “Villach- on Austrian Border.” Woman walks around a parked car to the passenger door. 0:16 “Main Street of the Town near the Railway Station.” Busy street with people and carts passing by. 0:32 “On the way to Vienna.” Shot of a train station with sign reading “Judenburg.” 0:48 Shot of a train station with a sign reading “Knittelfeld.” People and a small dog pass in front of the camera. 1:06 “Vienna- The Ringstrasse- Before the Hotel Bristol.” Large Avenue with many people walking by. 1:20 “Some of the Gang Leave Us.” Group of well-dressed people smile and wave t...

  16. Spinning plant; anniversary

    Private films. Agfa 1938. Spinning plant Schründer in Greven, Westphalia - 1938 anniversary elebration of fifty years of the factory. With multi-generational faces, Nazi symbols, children, machines spinning wool. Banner at the factory “1888-1938.”

  17. SA march

    SA men in uniform convene outdoors, speeches, parades

  18. Mandel family papers

    The Mandel family papers include biographical material, restitution files, photographs, and family documents relating to Yehuda Mandel and his family’s experiences pre-war in Latvia and Hungary, their flight from Budapest, immigration to the United States, and their post-war life in America. A large portion of the collection includes materials relating to Yehuda’s Cantorial career including music, education records, programs, newspaper clippings, awards, speeches, and documents relating to various conventions and organizations.

  19. Josef and Ruth Rosenberg papers

    The collection primarily documents the post-war experiences of Josef and Ruth Rosenberg, both of whom were from Poland, interned in the Łódź ghetto, and liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where they met and later married. The collection includes identification papers, immigration documents, restitution claims paperwork, and photographs taken at Bergen-Belsen from 1945-1947 along with some pre-war family photographs. The biographical materials include identification papers and immigration documents that both reflect their status as stateless refugees. The restitution claims ...

  20. Murray and Hana Lustig Greenfield collection

    Collection of pre-war photographs of Hana Lustig Greenfield (donor's late wife) from Kolin, Czechoslovakia. Included are several documents. Hana survived Terezin and Auschwitz. Collection of photos and two negatives pertaining to donor's participation in MACHAL - "Overseas Volunteers" who came in 1947-1949 to fight for the nascent State of Israel during its struggle for survival and independence.