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Language of Description: Danish
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  1. New Cabinet Meeting in Berlin

    Nighttime march of SS, SA, and stormtroopers. Hitler spotlit in upper window of Reichstag. Soft, murky tracking shots of crowd, torches, flags. A little hard to see, but creates an interesting atmosphere with the sounds and the swarming spotlight. Inside the Hotel Kaiserhof, before the Cabinet meeting begins. Everyone in suits, gathered around, mingling, a bit disorganized. Posing for their first official photograph. Cabinet members include (according to BA documentation): Hitler, Goering, von Papen, Seldte, Gerecke, von Schwerin Krosigk, Frick, von Blomberg, and Hugenberg. More shots of cr...

  2. War Front; FDR speaks about Fifth Column

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 12, No. 879, Part 2. Release date, 05/27/1940. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: 12:35:09 Part 2A: "On the War Front" Milan, Italy. As war fever soars in Italy, Count Ciano, Il Duce's son-in-law and foreign secretary, appears before a huge throng of 100,000. Alexandria, Egypt. Ready to move the minute Italy enters the war, French and British warships stand guard, to protect the vital Empire life-line to India. 12:36:02 Part 2B: "On the War Front" Norway. Graphic scenes of a British naval attack at Narvik, with Nazi bombers trying to silence the warshi...

  3. Postwar retrospective: Germany, war in Europe

    US propaganda/documentary film about World War II. A post-war U.S. narrative of intentions in Germany. Reel 1, Opening credits. HASs, MSs, Berlin's war ruins, rubble, buildings, street signs laying on ground. Allied victory celebrations in Paris and London. Lots of waving, happy crowds, parade. Flashbacks to war scenes show soldiers marching, amphibious landings, Allied planes bombing enemy cities, parachutists, airborne operations, and masses of war material being transported by railway, truck, and ship. Plane crashes. Soldiers embarking and disembarking from transports and landing craft, ...

  4. Overview of Germany, the German character, and lust for conquest

    US propaganda film about "The German personality" and its national psyche and history. Reel 1 shows panoramic views of the German countryside, its people, music, schools, offices, and factories ('a modern, educated, musical, industrious nation'); dead and living victims of Nazi concentration camps; crematoria, gas chambers, victims' clothing, and articles made of human skin; and victims of Nazi atrocities in Rome, Lublin, Belgium, and Malmedy. Describes the lack of democracy in medieval Germanic states through World Wars I and II focusing on an ideal German soldier named Karl Schmidt. Shows...

  5. Postwar devastation; poverty; hunger; opening of Nuremberg Trial

    Reel 1: "Europe 1945" Panorama of war devastation: buildings and cities laid to waste, rubble, mother climbing out of trap door shelter with naked baby in arms, people in hunger and despair emerge from shelters, children running down steps, clambering for food, poverty, homeless people, begging for food, weeping woman. 05:03:01 "Nuremberg 21 November 1945" EXT and INT Nuremberg Palace of Justice. CU, document announcing trial and listing the accused. Seating of International Military Tribunal. 05:04:26 Chief US prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson presents the opening statement and Count 1 of the ...

  6. US War Department Orientation Film for US Military Personnel in Occupied Germany

    Orientation Film no. 8. U.S. propaganda film telling the history of Germany with various atrocities and depicting Germans as friendly, trustworthy people. This film was used to demonstrate proper conduct to U.S. military personnel in postwar occupied Germany. Muddy faces of German POWs. CU, Hitler, swastika banners in street, Goebbels concentration camp gates, all "disappear." Ruins, small village. Bismarck's parade band, fighting on horseback across field. Idyllic country scenes, farming, dancing. Kaiser Wilhelm, "Deutschland ueber Alles", German troops marching in 1914 (scratchy), marchin...

  7. Dachau Concentration Camp

    General coverage of the German prisoner of war concentration camp at Dachau, showing condition of prisoners that are alive, and the heaps of dead bodies; showing also prisoner liberation ceremonies. Slate reads: MACK TT-25 DACHAU. General shots of the prisoners at Dachau concentration camp. MLS, survivors staring at camera, standing around. LS from roof, in between barracks, standing around, survivors looking up into sun and into camera, waving to camera (soft), sitting on ground, steaming cauldrons, sleeping, chipping wood. Corpses lying on ground near railroad cars/platform. A group of Am...

  8. Indoctrinating Russian soldiers

    Shows training and indoctrination of the Russian soldier during World War II. A patrol of Russian recruits on field maneuvers in mountainous, wooded country is briefed by officials on care of weapons and hygiene and foot care, climbs mountains, has point man set up stone marker at stream crossing point, and wades across stream despite swift current. LS beautiful, imposing views of mountains. Pan of mountains from peaks, rushing river, waterfalls. Soldiers at stream, crossing, seated on bank of hill, get ready to go. CU, two soldiers discuss plan and map. Soldiers hike up mountains, rest. Wi...

  9. 1936 Olympics: nature; sports; athletes

    Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 1: Italian titles (rolling). Nature scenes at the Olympic camp at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, bird in trees, crane on river bank, athletes running through forest, wading stream, taking steam baths, swimming in river, playing basketball, practicing shot put and javelin throw as they prepare for the Summer Games. Flags of the nations fly at the German Arena; athletes march onto the field carrying flags of their nations.

  10. Jewish war veterans, parade, protest

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 5, No. 130, Part 2. Release date, 03/23/1933. Jewish War Veterans parade in New York City to protest Nazi persecution of German Jews. The men are nicely dressed and some wear American flag pins in their lapels or carry American flags. There is a large crowd both watching and marching. Aerial view of two groups marching. MS of people watching the parade. Other parts of the newsreel include: 01:17:33 Washington, DC "Ban on beer lifted as President signs bill legalizing brew" 01:18:47 Chicago, IL "Windy City shivers as sleet and freeze greet gentle Spring" 01:19:28 Pal...

  11. Protest in New York, Jewish organizations

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 5, No. 131, Part 1. Release date, 03/27/1933. Meeting of Jews in Madison Square Garden denouncing Nazis' intolerance. MLS, well-dressed men in dark suits, crowding onto sidewalk, men pushing, pushed and organized by cops in long coats. Inside stadium: LS from high above of crowd/audience, CU Rabbi Stephen S. Wise (man with puffy eyes), speaker (former governor of New York, Al Smith) and microphones from CBS, WMLA, WOR, holding out hand, flashes. From above, audience clapping. Bearded old man in crowd with beret. Other parts of newsreel include: Mare Island, CA "Firs...

  12. Jews protest; anti-Hitler demonstration

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 5, No. 144, Part 3. Release date, 05/10/1933. Jews in giant protest parade seen from above, marching in New York City. Organized units/groups and scattered people. Ticker tape. Well-dressed men march towards and past camera. From above LS, mostly men marching (fills screen), closer, standing still. Horse and rider from above. Full parade in wide street. Sidewalk jammed, marchers in lines, street level, American flag. Other parts of the newsreel include: 01:32:10 Washington, DC "Vanguard of 2nd B.E.F. reaches the capital. Will live in tent city" 01:33:07 Chicago, IL ...

  13. Feature film about a Russian army officer: military school

    Feature film about a young Russian army officer. Begins with his participation at a Russian youth military school and follows him as he advances in the army. Film portrays youthful patriotism through the willingness of young Russian men and women to enlist. The inhumanity of war is illustrated through scenes of extreme and ruthless German aggression. There are many any scenes of camaraderie between soldiers, battles with the Germans, and the destruction of war. Reel 1: Soldier comes in from rain, talks to roomful of kids at night. At military school. "Old House Father" comes in.

  14. Warsaw after bombing 1939, aerial views

    Low aerial shots of Warsaw after bombing.Warschau 1939 (in German print) Nuer fuer den Dienstgebrauch! Dies ist ein geheimes Gegenstand im Sinne des 88 Reichs Strafgesetzbuchs (04/24/34) [I.e,. secret, military documentation.] Low aerial of city. Buildings some with smoke. Bombed out houses and apartment blocks. Thick black scratch. Facade of big municipal buildings, interior bombed out. Pan up wreckage of brick building, wrought iron balconies, twisted to sky. View down an alley, bombed out buildings. MS and MLS QF, people and sidewalk, deserted rubble of courtyard. Pedestrians. Rain soake...

  15. Jews in ghetto of Dabrowa Gornicza & Bedzin, Poland; street scenes, workers, sewing workshop of Rossner

    Jews walking on sidewalk, nicely dressed, past storefronts, including "Schumacherei". Jewish Stars marked "Jude" worn on clothing, mostly young adults. CUs. Funny angle up, Jewish star on clothes of boy and his dad. 01:00:24 Policeman passing quickly close to camera. 01:00:30 Large group of many smiling women with Jewish stars close together, elevated camera angle. CU, pan CU to more faces. 01:00:31 Wider shot, big crowd on street in front of building. Pan up brick building to window with bars, three men lean heads out window. CU men from elevated angle. Serious-looking man, grim woman, two...

  16. German Newsreel selections

    Trieste (Monfalcone), Laying the keel for the first of two cruisers to be built for the Royal Thailand Navy in St. Marks Shipyards. The Bishop of Trieste officiates. Present: The Minister of Thailand, members of the commission, the Prefect of Trieste and other civic authorities. The launching from the Monfalcone shipyard of the 2nd unit of the mercantile fleet of Italy, the motorship "Vettor Pisani". Godmother was the wife of the Prefect of Fiume. It was blessed by the Archbishop of Goriza. Venezia, A visit to Venice by Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda. Mostly LS, at night, Piazza...

  17. Hindenburg speaks at rally

    Goebbels in profile in trenchcoat. At Lustgarten, Berlin. In BG soldier and journalist in bowtie and hat. Big camera visible too. Great MLS of camera on tripod. Pan out across swarming crowd. Hindenburg walking through crowd, up to podium. Looks very professorial. "Heils"; holding top hat. Hindenburg speaks, greets crowd. Reads from paper with big print in gloved hand (age). Then, hurrahs, big cheers with raised fist, National Anthem. Remainder of reel contains: Hysterical crowds at another event. Nazi banners. Fireworks. Spotlights. Train station?

  18. Refugees in Italy

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 17, No. 287, Part 3. Release date, 04/20/1944. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Italian Refugee Problem" The Allied Control Commission humanely handles the thousands of pathetic refuges who require clothing, food, and bivouac until the tides of war roll by. Italian refugees mill around courtyard/piazza with duffel bags. Little kids are dressed. Children and adults are fed. Mostly CUs. MLS courtyard/square. People stand around with bundles. CU kids with bandages and scarves wrapped around head. Baby bounced. CU little girl. MS people enter building, ...

  19. Propaganda film on eugenics/Nazi racial science

    Opening title sequence with production company, credits. Propaganda on genetic analysis. Family visits the doctor, who records their hair color, eye color, skull size with the appropriate equipment. (Some of these devices are artifacts displayed at the USHMM.) Family in waiting room. Doctor measuring skull size of man, woman, and their son, using calipers. Doctor checks hair coloring of mother against his hair color-spectrum samples; same process with eye color of mother, child.

  20. Trains and their manufacture

    Large locomotive starting up, VAR conductor, engineer pulling gears, signals changing. Picturesque view of sky and countryside from train window; stoking coal for engine; HA over the rails. VAR dissolves, then fade to black.