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  1. Cardinal Innitzer of Vienna, speech and procession

    Crowds line the streets of Vienna. A procession moves down the street; a band plays. Church bells peal as nuns and Catholic clerics move down the street. Cardinal Theodor Innitzer, surrounded by other clergy, waves and blesses the crowd. The scene changes to show Innitzer giving a speech in which he says (in part) that religion and love of the fatherland belong together. Cardinal Theodor Innitzer was the primate of Austria. In 1938 he publicly endorsed the Anschluss and met with Hitler, but he later repudiated the Nazis.

  2. Barbie Trial -- Day 7 -- Two experts testify

    15:52 Witnesses Streim and Holtfort, both German attorneys with experience evaluating Nazi documents and strong understanding of the Nazi and particularly SS command hierarchies, testify as to their knowledge of the SS officer school where Barbie received training in 1935-1937. Holtfort explains that a principal objective of the school was to inculcate an understanding and adherence to Nazi ideology. 15:58 The attorney asks Streim and Holtfort to testify to their understanding of the rules SS members had to obey in their day-to-day lives, as well as punishments handed out for disobedience. ...

  4. Romanian units; Iron Cross decorations

    Reel 1: 00:38:20 A column of Romanian units march past the camera, includes numerous CUs of individual soldiers. Reel 3: 00:41:06 Romanian and German officers gather around a table and go over a map (CU of Romanian officer wearing Iron Cross) and look through binoculars. A motorcycle messenger delivers a message. The officers are then seen talking on a field phone. Another motorcycle messenger arrives (Romanian). Reel 5: 00:44:54 Soldiers hoist a Third Reich battle flag on a pole atop an ornate building, followed by a Romanian flag draped down the face of the building. Several ships move in...

  5. Portrait of Albins family

    The photograph, taken during a family reunion in Gitomir, Ukraine, depicts members of the Albins family sitting and standing in two rows; the little girl standing center front is Tamara Korina.

  6. Manek and Ilona Werdiger papers

    The Manek and Ilona Werdiger papers contain primarily identification and photographs of the Springut family prior to and during their incarceration in the Jewish ghettos in Krakow, Poland. The identification papers are from the Jewish Community of Krakow, and identify his mother Malka and brother Henryk, and his cousins as Jewish. The photographs are family portraits and group photos of the Springut family and Manek’s wife, Ilona Mandel.

  7. German Field Marshall and Generals confer

    Reel 1: 00:33:13 German transport vehicles lined up and being checked/worked on. Piles of wagon parts, wheels, skis/skids, snowshoes, sleds/sleighs. Horse-drawn cart struggles through a muddy field. Table with a crate of dynamite "Monachit", soldier prepares fuses, explosive devices. Soldiers use explosives to break up ice on a river. Views of destroyed bridges. German Field Marshal (Günther von Kluge?) leaving a building with other Generals, departing by car. 00:41:36 Close side view of handshake. FM flag on car, drives off. Soldiers cross a temporary wooden bridge. German soldiers use pic...

  8. U.S. soldiers in America

    US soldiers, in Army dress uniforms coming down steps (of barracks?) building. Posing for camera, marching past camera. VS, soldiers about town, in a cafe, eating ice cream on the street in front of a drug store. Pan, Dewey Palace Hotel. Sign reads: "Vic Stolle Drug Co," another sign on shop adjacent to drug store reads: "FW Woolworth & CO". EXT, shots of buildings, unidentified town and buildings.

  9. German troops in Greece

    Reel 2: 00:35:07 German tanks move through a mountainous area. Different shots of German soldiers talking and laughing with civilians, passing around a flask. Jerry cans are loaded onto a truck. German military vehicles parked in a village. Reel 3: 00:36:23 A German tank maneuvers along a mountainous road. A column of tanks passes through a village/vineyard. Reel 4: 00:37:35 Artillery, horses and men are transported across a wide river on pontoon boats. CU of two German officers speaking. A large group of German officers survey a vast rural area. A sequence of an explosion in a field (uncle...

  10. [Newspaper]

  12. Notice of achievement received by a boy in a Łódź ghetto orphanage

    Picture postcard presented to 12 year old Jakub Lapides in the school he attended in the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Poland, from 1939-1942. It recognizes his contribution to student self-government in the orphanage from August-September 1940. Jakub and his three siblings were living in an orphanage in Łódź, Poland, when it was occupied by the Germans in September 1939. The Jews were forced into a ghetto and at first, things were better for the children because the Jewish Council gave orphans larger food rations. But soon conditions worsened and hunger was everywhere. Deportations to concentrati...

  13. Dina Michels collection

    Collection consisting of slides of Dina Michels family from pre-World War Germany; group of negative strips taken by Werner David who lived with Dina Michel's parents; and rolls of negatives.

  14. U.S. soldiers on barges

    LS, US soldier, in combat helmet, in FG of picture looking out to sea from boat. VS, boats, US army men on barges, soldiers posing for camera. LS, land, two flags planted in soil on hill- US flag and another flag that is white with a red cross. VS, EXT, army ships, unloading at beach head seen in a LS from a high angle, the Aleutian Islands (Kiska). American soldiers with packs climb hill, relax on hillside. VS, scenic panoramas of snow-covered mountains.

  15. Bomb-damaged Nuremberg and Darmstadt

    Soft focus throughout. Shots of rubble in the streets of Nuremberg. An explosion raises a cloud of dust. More scenes of bomb damage and another explosion. Long shot of American soldiers posing next to one of the eagle and swastika sculptures in the Nuremberg stadium. Shot of the destroyed stadium. More shots of massive destruction in the city. German civilians on the streets. Destroyed German tanks in Darmstadt (identified by signs). A reel break then shots of American soldiers and an antiaircraft gun silhouetted against the setting sun. Back to bomb-damaged scenes of Nuremberg. The camera ...

  16. portfolio cover for set of 22 drawings

  17. Jehuda and Pola Stopnicki papers

    The papers consist of documents and 21 photographs relating to the experiences of Jehuda and Pola Stopnicki (donors' parents) during and after the Holocaust. Includes restitution papers and correspondence; testimonies of Jehuda and Pola Stopnicki's and their families' experiences; poems written by Jehuda Stopnicki shortly before her wedding; and family photographs from before World War II, while living as displaced persons in France, and after their immigration to Israel and later to Bolivia.

  20. Conference of fascist journalists; gathering of student soldiers; Hitler at the Reichstag

    Otto Dietrich, the German Press Chief, at a conference for fascist journalists in Venice. Dietrich arrives at the Dogen Palace with his Italian counterpart, Dr. Alessandro Pavolini. The narrator states that there are participants from thirteen European nations and Japan. Pavolini and then Dietrich are shown standing for their speeches and receiving the applause of the audience. 01:27:06 An international gathering of student soldiers (? many of the participants are older men) in Dresden The first shot is of the flag-and swastika-bedecked exterior of the Dresden Rathaus. Gauleiters Gustav Sch...