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  1. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 529) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. High and MCU, prosecution counsel James McHaney interrogating witness. Unidentified defense lawyer at speaker's stand. Short shot, defense attorney Seidl Ratz. Judges filing into court. Unidenfitied witness being interrogated by his lawyer.

  2. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case; Welt im Film no. 57

    (Munich 529) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Courtroom, dock. MS, defendant Oskar Schroeder is interrogated by his defense counsel, Dr. Rudolf Merkel. 09:29:41 Welt im Film no. 57: "Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas in Hamburg, Germany" SEQ: Douglas arrives in Hamburg, Germany to attend a session of the Zones Advisory Board. He greets the members of the Zones Advisory Board and in his speech says that his appointment coincides with the beginning of a new phase of British policy regarding the British Zone. "The Scholl Case." The first ses...

  3. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case; Tiergarten; Mauthausen Trials

    Welt im Film, issue no. 79. December 9, 1946 "Beginning of Trials against German Doctors" Courtroom personnel stand as tribunal files in. Pan, courtroom. An American officer calls out names of chief defendants as camera pans the defendants in dock, including Karl Brandt, Siegfried Handloser, Paul Rostock, Schroeder, etc. Telford Taylor addressing court (no sound). HS, tribunal. 09:36:54 Karl Brandt standing, pleads not guilty. Handloser and Herta Oberhauser also plead not guilty. Welt im Film, issue no. 52. "Tiergarten Plowed Up, Berlin" Pan of Tiergarten. British tractors help cultivate so...

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Nazi conquest of Austria, Vienna, 1938

    LS, facade of former Austrian War Ministry with Nazi flag. The Ring and Karntnerstrasse (Opera) with flags and posters showing Hitler's picture and the words: "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer." 01:01:53 Man shining shoes. Army trucks with food supplies. Stand erected in the Ring. Monument to Austrian Victims of the War. 01:02:32 LS, Danube Canal. Jews sitting on a bench. Vienna's Jewish shop district. Car with Schupos on Danube Bridge. Trams, Hitler posters. 01:03:23 Peasants at work. 01:03:56 Village street near Vienna, Deutsche Wagram, Bocek. Soldiers and children in village. 01:04:14 Sol...

  5. Funeral of Iron Guard Leader

    01:34:42 LS funeral cortege coming out of church. 01:34:48 CU of General Antonescu and Nazi official Baldur von Schirach leading group down steps. Crowds in street along route saluting and holding banners. 01:35:04 Casket being carried by many bareheaded men in dark uniforms. 01:35:11 Overhead of street procession. German soldiers carry funeral wreath. LS of formation in shape of crossed arrow. Women in black. Men carrying iron cross symbols. Man crying. 01:35:41 Arrival at cemetery with casket. Huge banners with men's portraits on them. CU of officials saluting. LS large crowd there saluti...

  6. Auslandorganization Leader

    Ernst Bohle, head of the Auslandorganziation (AO) greets German farmers in Austria (?). Men lined up for review. CU of AO Armpatch. 01:39:15 Ernest Bohle reviews these men and speaks to one. 01:39:37 MS uniformed men sit and listen to man at lectern. 01:39:44 Cutting down tree with axe and saw. CU & MS. 01:40:00 MS planting trees on hillside. Pairs of men carrying trees to be planted between them on pallets. Planting tree with shovel. 01:40:12 High angle of men marching with shovels. 01:40:19 to 01:41:20 Workers build apartment complexes in Linz, Austria to alleviate housing shortage. 0...

  7. Yalta Conference

    Reel 1: Generals Wood, Smith, Marshall, and Somervell deplane in Malta; British Gen. Alexander, Admirals King and Cunningham, Ambassador Harriman, and Anthony Eden debark from a ship. Churchill salutes as President Roosevelt debarks. The Allied leaders enplane for Yalta after a conference. Molotov greets FDR, Churchill, Stettinius, Eden, and Hopkins as they deplane in Yalta. A Soviet honor guard is inspected. Stalin arrives at the conference site.

  8. Red Cross ship at NY harbor

    REEL 3: Unedited footage shows Canadian and American Red Cross parcels and mail being loaded aboard ship for delivery to prisoners of war in Japanese camps, stocks of food supplies on the ship, two women in their cabins, and customs inspectors examining baggage.

  9. Landsberg camp and burials

    (LIB 6198) Stalag #4 Concentration Camp, Landsberg, Germany, April 29, 1945. US soldiers of the 103rd Division, VI Corps, Seventh US Army, round up civilian work detail and load men with picks and shovels into trucks. MS, CUs German civilians bury bodies of Jewish political prisoners. INT underground barracks used to house the prisoners. CUs emaciated bodies of dead Jews in the camp. CUs and long pan, double barbed wire fence surrounding camp. CU partially burned bodies are removed from buliding. MS, CUs several of the living inmates.

  10. US airforce; Ohrdruf on fire; bones at Buchenwald

    Slate reads: "OSS USAF LT. ARMISTEAD ROLL #19" AVs, view from planes of bombs being dropped over Germany. B-26s and B-17s in the air and on ground. American soldiers on airfield unloading airplane with baggage. 05:03:56 Slate reads: "CAPT. BROWNING C-22 A-83 APRIL" Pilot in cockpit. Soldiers unloading a plane and boarding a truck, smoking, gesturing for the camera. On airfield, moving equipment with trucks. 05:06:45 Slate reads: "CAPT. BROWNING C-21 A-83 APRIL" American soldiers getting off a truck with bags, working at the airfield, marking document. CUs of soldiers as they smoke, dole out...

  11. Bomb damage in Germany

    Various aerial shots of bombed military installations and marshalling yards. Bomb damage in Wiesbaden concentration camp. Damaged buildings in Wiesbaden. MLS trainer parked on airfield. Aerial shots of bomb damage in marshalling yards near Wiesbaden and destroyed town, bridge. Prison camp showing refugees in square. Bomb damaged train and buildings along track. Aerial shot of bomb damage in Durkheim, including town, marshalling yards. Bomb damage in Worms, Germany. Shots of bombed bridges in Frankfurt (hazy). Aerial shot of refugees in prison camp. Bomb damage in marshalling yards, building...

  12. Hadamar; POWs raid for food; Breendonck torture devices

    Inquests are held at Hadamar with Dr. Wahlmann and Karl Muller (male nurse, morphine). At Meppene, soldiers delousing liberated Russian POWs. Amputees walk by. Prisoners search garbage cans for food. Crowd of disabled prisoners walk by camera in group. Survivors lying down outside, boy passes by in cart/wheelchair. Various shots of wounded/disabled prisoners eating soup, sleeping. Stretcher goes by with naked corpses. CUs, corpses. Three stretchers carried by four men at shoulder height pass in front of barbed wire fence. In Paderborn, Russian soldier argues with person off camera. Liberate...

  13. Nordhausen; Hannover; Buchenwald

    Corpses at Nordhausen. US medical crews evacuate survivors. MS, corpses. Survivors assisted onto litters, evacuated for treatment, man praying/crying, eating, loaded onto ambulances. Victims buried in a common grave by German civilians, corpses carried (gruesome), priest at jeep. Civilians march with shovels. Soldiers stand by mass graves. Red Cross workers feed soup to Hannover survivors. CUs, men eating. Severely wounded men lying under blankets inside barracks. Burial. Several survivors gather for group photograph against barn wall, to document atrocities. Courtyard, "Jedem das Seine" ga...

  14. Civilians at Weimar

    German civilians march along country road to tour Weimar camp. Parchment made of human skin, shrunken heads, and emaciated/wounded survivors. Truck bed of corpses. Pan to crowd looking at inmates lined up behind barbed wire.

  15. US propaganda film: racial/religious prejudice

    Dramatizes, by animation, the mixing of "Dr. Hitler's purge medicine" (consisting of racial and religious prejudice) by Nazi propangandists. Efforts to see this "purge" tonic in the US are shattered on the rock of American tolerance.

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- The Fall of Schweinfurt; hanging German soldier; factory; interrogating Germans

    The Fall of Schweinfurt (via Paramount). Shots of German soldier who wished to surrender and was hung by the SS from a tree. MS American soldier cutting him down from tree. LS wrecked rubble of ball bearing factory. Shots of GIs inspecting ruins, examining boxes of ball bearings, plunging into boxes of ball bearings. Shots of GIs and officials checking civilians for unknown Nazis; civilians being interrogated. LS German youths (16-18 years) dressed in German uniforms who fought against the Allies. American officers questioning some of them.

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Studio scenes of German-American life & maps

    563 AA Exchanging US dollars and German marks. Drawing: "Design for Summer Camp, German American Bund, Fritz Kuhn, National Chairman." Der Stuermer, CUs of antisemitic drawings. Reading "Mein Kampf." Newspaper clippings re: zoning code for Bund Camp (September 1937). Christmas ornaments of a Jew hanging. More US newspaper clippings, CUs headlines, antisemitic caricatures. 563 EE Maps of Africa, US, Germany, and Western Europe.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Nazis in US; protest in NYC; Germans in US

    563 J (04:01:12): (shot in the studio) January 12, 1938. INT, two Nazi censors at work going through outgoing mail. CU, letter being opened. CU, letter placed back in envelope. 563 K (04:03:28): New York City, January 8, 1938. LS, Nazi propaganda workshop with artist making posters. CU, German drawing on bench of one of the artists. CU, finished poster held by Nazi officer. CU, poster only. MS, artist working, wall filled with German posters. MS, posters on wall. CU, folders inserted in envelopes by Nazi soldier. 563 L (04:08:01): New York City, December 24, 1937. EXT, main entrance to the ...

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees in Switzerland

    Jewish refugees in Zurich, Switzerland. All refugees at the camp are Austrians. VS of the kitchen with cooks at work. LS of the dining room with refugees helping themselves and eating. Mountains in BG, visible through window. Group of men and women carrying bags, etc, walking/escaping through the woods (set up/staged). LS of man peering through bush. VS of group arriving at camp and being welcomed by everyone. CU, man chopping wood and refugees arriving at camp. MS man and woman sewing and repairing clothes. Refugees waiting in line to have their name put on camp index cards. LS, refugees f...

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Rally, NYC

    Citizens' Rally against oppression at Carnegie Hall, NYC. LS, from above, of Carnegie Hall then closer, men seated behind; second speaker, curly hair, "Dangers in situation in Germany..."; Man, older, waiting behind curtain; LS, crowd, well behaved. Participants (from March of Time card catalogue): Mayor LaGuardia, Victor Ridder, William Dodd, Theodore Green, Fulton Sheen, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, Bishop Manning.