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  1. French resistance members captured by Milice

    Animated map from Brest to Antwerp. Members of the Milice leave a prison building and stand at attention. CU on a patch on the uniform of one man. The Milice leads a column of resistance fighters out of the prison under armed guard. CU of the shattered windshield of a car that has been attacked by "terrorists." German field police check papers of vehicles and pedestrians, including an elderly man with glasses and a beard. The Germans interrogate the owner of a farm and then burn his farm. The Germans find and inspect false French currency printed by the Americans. German troops march down a...

  2. Elmar Martin photograph collection

    Contains photographs taken by Elmar L. Martin (donor's father) in Leipzig-Thekla and Berga an der Elster concentration camps (sub camps of Buchenwald) after the liberation in April 1945. Mr. Martin served as a photographer in the US Army Signal Corps, War Crimes Investigating Team.

  3. Atrocities; liberation of concentration camps

    Propaganda compilation of graphic newsreel and documentary materials showing concentration camps as Allied cameramen entered between 1945 and 1946. Opening credits: "An AF Film Release" (Actualites Francais Films); "Sterling Films" ; "Camps of the Dead / They need no explanation, no titles. Just look and be glad you live in America." "Langestein [sic]" Langenstein: Corpses in open area, pits, doctors and other civilians, exhumation, lining bodies on soil. "Ohrdrus [sic]" Nordhausen: Corpses, pits, VAR CUs. Two male survivors. "Dachau" Soldiers at gate with eagle. CU sign, "Zentral Bauleitun...

  4. Poster of Schuschnigg

    March (probably very early after the Anschluss). Single shot of a sign with Chancellor Schuschnigg portrait and "JA" (etched or stencil-painted?) and partially scratched off. All the Staendestaat propaganda was removed (often by forcing Jews) after March 12.

  5. Lieberman family hiking in the Carpathians and at a farm

    The Lieberman family is walking along a mountain path, hiking in the Carpathian Mountains, near their vacation home in Jaremcze. Scenic view of the rolling hills of the area. They crawl under a wire fence. 02:09:34 Quick view of a man with a necktie holding a U.S. flag.

  6. Framed oil painting of a country scene created in the Łódź Ghetto

    Painting created by Stefan Krengel in the Łódź ghetto in Poland that was presented to Mr. Regner, the director of the transport division in the ghetto, on his birthday, July 14, 1942. The painting was signed on the back by all the clerks in the transport office and has a caption wishing Mr. Regner a happy birthday. Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and one week later occupied Łódź. They renamed it Litzmannstadt and in February 1940 relocated all the Jews, roughly 100,000 people, into a sealed ghetto. Prewar Łódź was a thriving industrial city and the ghetto was an important ...

  7. Clip from the propaganda film about the 1934 Reich Party Day

    SS men holding standards bearing the names of towns in Germany and Deutschland Erwache banners march toward the camera and then turn left and right in formation.

  8. Croatian labor service

    CU of a member of the Croatian Labor Service blowing a whistle. Uniformed men run out of barracks onto a field. A man hands out shovels to the workers. Various scenes of labor: digging and constructing buildings. Pan over newly constructed buildings.

  9. Dutch Nazis swear oath of allegiance

    Dutch Nazis, members of the SS Landstorm Nederland (34th Waffen Grenadier), swear an oath of allegiance to Hitler. Shots of the SS men standing at attention and officers standing in front of a backdrop featuring a swastika and the symbol of the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging (NSB, Dutch Nazi party). Obergruppenführer Hanns Rauter, Generalkommissar for Security Matters in the Netherlands, speaks at a podium. Young boys in uniform hold a banner of the Jeugdstorm, the Dutch equivalent of the Hitler Youth. Soldiers touch a sword as they take the oath. Good CU of Rauter, death's head visible ...

  10. Baby Hanna with her parents, prewar Poland

    Hanna is in a wicker basket on top of two chairs. She is picked up by her mother Ella and presented to the camera. Benedikt, her father, then holds her for the camera.

  11. Agnes Gavish collection

    Contains a birth certificate for the donor's husband.

  12. Invasion of Poland

    German soldiers lift the barrier between Germany and Poland as they invade the country. The narrator says: "So one eliminates borders that the hate-apostles of Versailles imagine can separate the German people from the German Reich." More shots of the barrier being pushed aside. Motorcycles with sidecars carrying German soldiers speed toward the camera and turn off the road. This is accompanied by fast-paced music and the sounds of gunfire. Soldiers sheltering behind trees, riding by on horseback, setting up a howitzer. Wide shot of a large field filled with tanks and trucks. A tank bearing...

  13. World War I soldiers and families celebrate in Wesel

    Part Two of FAHRT INS BLAUE with elaborate hand-decorated slates. Continuation of World War I veterans of the 172nd Regiment on a "Journey into Blue". The day-trippers at leisure. Men singing with tour buttons on their lapels. A woman performs a comedy routine. Adults playing on the seesaw. A woman pokes a tree for "the forbidden fruit," then holds the apples for the camera and takes a bite. Jolly adults sit on others' backs; a man passes by with a swastika flag. Johannes Vosskamp (the donor's father) sits at a table, lights a cigarette, and drinks coffee delivered by his wife Margarete Vos...

  14. Camillo Adler papers

    The collection consists of three manuscripts written by Camillo Adler between 1943-1945. Der Käfig (The Cage), in German, is a semi-autobiographical work related to life in Vienna in the 1920s. Mensch ohne Heimat (Man Without a Country), in German with an English translation, is an autobiographical work related to Adler's life in Lyon, France, from the outbreak of World War II to his enlistment in the French Foreign Legion. It was originally published as a serial in a Swiss newspaper. Ich bin ein Fluechtling (I am a Refugee), in German with an English translation, is an account of Adler's e...

  15. World War I soldiers celebrate Regiments' Day in Dusseldorf

    Title: "Der 8. Regimentstag des Bundes ehem. 172er am 28-30 Juli 1934 in Düsseldorf". Second title frame reads: "Film Aufnahmen von Hans Vosskamp Fritz Jasper". Animated cards and titles throughout. Two men holding a sign before a newspaper kiosk on a city street. Former soldiers of the 172nd Regiment from World War I gather in the city streets. Street scenes with pedestrians, bicyclists, shops ("Wolsdorff Hamburg" tobacco shop; "Hotel Niesen") as the group walks to their lodge. The men gather in front of a building entrance; others from Aachen beside an automobile. A few men have Nazi armb...

  16. Lieberman family in the fields of Palestine

    Film is incredibly jumpy. Man models a jacket too small for him. People are walking along a grassy hill. Hanna is picking things off the ground.

  17. Horthy opens a bridge over the Danube

    Operation of a German sawmill. Logs are made into timber and then into other wood products. (Not ordered by USHMM) 01:08:41 -- 01:09:15 Shots of a bridge over the Danube. Dark shots of Horthy as he unties a ceremonial ribbon to open the bridge, in the presence of many onlookers. Horthy shakes hands with some of the workers who built the bridge. View of an engraving on the bridge that gives the dates 1939 - 1942. Horthy and a large contingent walk across the bridge. 01:09:17 A bicycle and ski race in the French Alps. Bicycle and ski race in French Alps. Cyclists bike through the Alps, someti...

  18. Views of Copenhagen

    Busy streets in downtown Copenhagen. Tram, lots of bicyclists. Pan up to the top of the City Hall and a nearby column with a statue of two Viking youths blowing a trumpet. Bicyclists fill the roadway. Views of people buying and selling at the fish market. A woman wipes off, weighs, and sells eels. A Danish flag blows in the breeze.

  19. Volkssturm defend the Eastern Front

    Map of the Eastern Front, indicating Warsaw, Breslau, Kattowitz, Litzmannstadt, and other locations. German refugees on horse-drawn carts with their belongings move West, fleeing the "Mongol storm." Shots of Soviet POWs. Civilians build barricades to defend against the Soviets. Refugees board trains to get away from the front. The woman getting on the train wears an armband bearing the insignia of the Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt (NSV; National Socialist Peoples' Welfare organization). Members of the NSV provide food and other care to refugees arriving in Germany. NSV members (all ...

  20. Six clips from an anti-Jewish Nazi propaganda film, Jud Süß

    01:08:59 to 01:09:29 Opening credits: Eight candles burn in front of a Star of David, then the title of the film and the name of the director, Veit Harlan, appears, among other credits. A man's voice singing a Hebrew prayer accompanies the credits. 01:09:32 to 01:09:44 The coach carrying the newly coronated Duke of the Duchy of Wuerttemberg, Karl Alexander, drives through the festively decorated town of Stuttgart. The Duke waves to crowds of well-wishers. The year is 1733. 01:09:47 to 01:10:04 The Jewish district in Frankfurt, where Joseph Suess Oppenheimer lives. Two Jews, an old man and a...