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  1. Students graduate; parade with antisemitic float

    Magyar Híradó 221. Young male students stand on the steps in front of a building, looking out towards the camera. They are all nicely dressed in suits and hats. Camera pans left on young men in uniform carrying glass steins. A few men stand facing each other on the front steps of a building (the school). One man walks up the steps and opens the large doors at the entrance to the building. A young man walks out and two men in uniform walk up to him. One gives him a bouquet attached to a stand. An intertitle reads, “Kallag már a vén diák.” In rows of four, the students exit their school, rais...

  2. Oral history interview with Hedda Graab-Evans

  3. Wounded soldier; US ships at dock

    On board ship, flags flying in wind. Profile shot of troops looking toward shore. Overhead shot of wounded soldier in stretcher being loaded aboard. Men at side of ship watching this process. Choppy seas makes this difficult. VS covering this action. Six men and officers walking alongside railroad cars. Spectacular shot of massed ships at dock with American flags flying. VS of men, one identified as Capt. Holly Morse. Enlisted men and officers- MS, and CUs of them talking and looking out to sea. *According to LOC original cataloger's notes this footage may be prior to D-Day at embarkation p...

  4. Oral history interview with Jack Glocer

  5. Reporters cover the opening of the Barbie Trial

    The opening of the trial against Klaus Barbie on the lunch hour news show "Midi 2," dated May 11 1987. Press were only allowed to film the opening of the trial. Shots include the arrival of Klaus Barbie and the President of the Court (the steward of the trial, Andre Cerdini), the roll call of attorneys and present witnesses, and commentary by Midi 2's reporter on the trial itself. The press are dismissed at the end of the clip, as they aren't allowed to film anything beyond the very start of the session before jurors are selected. As the dismissal takes place, the reporter (Paul Lefevre) de...

  6. German newsreel excerpts: Rommel's funeral; German retreat from Finland; Romanian POWs; Siegfried Line

    "OSS-316 Export" Reel 1, Part 1, German amphibious training in Northern Europe. Part 2, Gen. Rommel inspects Atlantic Wall defenses and traels in a scout car in North Africa. Tearful civilians observe Rommel's funeral cortege passing. Gen. Runstedt places Hitler's wreath on the bier. Part 3, the German retreat from Finland: refugees and military supply trains move along the Arctic Highway. Crates of civilian and miltiary equipment are piled on a railway platform and loaded into freight cars. Part 4, antitank guns are fired and German tanks advance in Romania's Grosswardein sector; Romanian ...

  7. V-1 rocket lauched and fired.

    SUMMARY: This is a three reel composite technical information film on the operation and launching of the FZG-76 (V- 1). Reel 3. VS, Rockets (V-1) mounted on launching ramp. Animated drawings of guided flight courses and accuracy of hits. Technician in concrete building operating rocket starting controls. SEQ, Technician making adjustments on duct, seconds ticking off, combustion duct firing, operator pushing start buttons, rocket shooting out of launcher and piston falling to earth. VS, FZG-76 (V-1) rockets being fired from launcher and in flight. Animated drawings of guided flight courses ...

  8. American soldiers at an unidentified concentration camp; ruined cities; baseball

    Three American soldiers on a bridge construction site. Multiple dead bodies both covered and uncovered at a concentration camp. Two legs of a corpse in the door of the crematory furnace. American soldiers stand in front of the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich, Germany. Across the street soldiers stand around washing pots and pans in hot water from which steam rises. Trucks with French? flags carrying large numbers of people drive past. 01:02:38 One soldier sits chatting amongst three young men and four young women. He lights a cigarette and another soldier joins them, smoking a cigar. He tosses t...

  9. German civilians; German troops; Elbe River bridge

    Five civilians with child and dog. Stevens carrying machine gun preceded group of civilians pushing cart with belongings. Pan of camouflaged objects, not clear what the objects are. Stevens and other members of unit talking with a German with white hat with "Berlin" written on band. Women seated nearby sewing, eating and drinking. These appear to be German civilians. Activity in city street, demolished buildings on either side. Stevens with goggles and Moffat. Civilians sitting on side of bombed out road. CUs of civilians. Their belongings are stacked in bags alongside of them. Groups inclu...

  10. War destruction in Belgium

    Jeep Toluca struggling through muddy road. Shots of vapor trails in the sky. A low contrast scene, seems to be corpses, there is a sign that reads: "Bastogne, Houffalize, N23, N27, information." Bombed out building in BG, Stevens in winter coat and helmet.

  11. V-1 explosion in Antwerp

    Misc. film, no. 1286. Reel 2, victims of a V-1 explosion are removed from a destroyed building. Anti-aircraft guns fire on V-1s and radar detects their approach. Maps V-1 launching sites and shows an anti-V-1 control center.

  12. Hitler's birthday occasion in Hungary

    Magyar Híradó 1054. Rows of people line a path for soldiers marching with flags. On the right are younger women in traditional dress. Large portrait of Hitler’s face in the BG next to multiple Nazi flags. Everyone is gathered to celebrate Hitler’s birthday. Another view of the portrait of Hitler at the front and the soldiers and bands before it. The audience watches, and young boys stand with trumpets with flags. CU of a man speaking to the audience. A member of the SS (as indicated by the emblem on his helmet) stands by a two wheeled machine, rows of people in the audience behind. Men in s...

  13. Hitler Youth and SS; German ski and paratroops

    Part 1, Arthur Axmann and Adm. Doenitz address and decorate Hitler Youth members and SS men. Part 2, blood donors line up; whole blood is prepared in a laboratory. Part 3, a leader addresses a youth conference in Prague. Part 4, Italian troops guard the colors on the Russian front. Part 5, Himmler decorates SS men in Naples. Part 6, telephone men splice cables. Part 7, German ski troops train in the French Alps. Part 8, German troops are decorated in Italy. Part 9, German paratroops battle the enemy in a burning villages artillery fires.

  14. Oral history interview with David Jakubowski

  15. 4 video programs about the Holocaust: ghettos

    Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). Third floor (3.08a) - Ghettos: Łódź Third floor (3.07) - Ghettos: Warsaw Third floor (3.08b) - Ghettos: Kovno Third floor (3.09) - Ghettos: Other Ghettos

  16. Meeting

    Men sit at table, poster hangs on wall behind them.

  17. British Pathe Newsreel -- Auschwitz

    Liberation of Auschwitz, showing atrocities. Survivors, soldiers, pit of corpses. Hair in paper bags ready to be shipped. Piles of teeth, utensils, eyeglasses, children's clothing, shoes, brushes, suitcases. Pit of corpses.

  18. William Perl papers Russian intentions to punish war criminals

    Report issued by the Office of Strategic Services, Research Analysis Branch on 27 June 1944. Includes information about specific crimes charged to the Germans, persons accused of being war criminals, and Russian attitudes towards the legal problems involved in war crimes prosecution.

  19. Ruins in Germany, probably in spring 1945

    Germany, just inside the border from Belgium, probably in fall 1944 or spring 1945 [1944 Kodak stock]. Sign, "Lammersdorf". German village with civilians and soldiers walking along the road, RR tracks. Sign with arrows for "Kesternich" and "Simmerath". Church in town. Pan of countryside and pyramid tank traps demarcating the Siegfried Line. Abandoned tank on side of road. Cyclists. "Schmidt" sign. Severely destroyed buildings in a village. Filming through military vehicle windshield. More ruins and locals. Pan of ruins in countryside and concrete defenses or factory. 01:04:00 Pan, very larg...

  20. Bobsledding; Soviet War Memorial

    "Frauenschönheit der Südsee" Water lily, family bathing/washing clothes in a river, possibly in Southeast Asia. CUs of women's faces. A group of people carry baskets. More CUs of women sitting in a field. Women perform a ceremonial dance, men play the drums. CU of man smoking pipe along with other CUs of men and women. 01:03:50 Degeto logo. Animated title with characters sledding, "Bobrennen." A bobsled race. Large group of spectators looks on in the stands. One competitor falls off his sled (slow motion). Large ski lift brings small group and sled up to a platform. More shots of the race. ...