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  1. Combat in Soviet Russia

    Military Film Report: On the German and Russian encounter in the area of Kharkov, Murmansk, Rostov and Sevastopol, Russia. 02:00:00 Reel 1: Part 1: The battle for Kharkov ["Die Schacht bei Charkow"]. Animated map of Kharkov-Poltava area illustrates the May 12, 1942, convergence of German ground and air forces. Germans take Russian prisoners after scrimmage of May 30, 1942. German Gen. Heinz Guderian visits Ukrainian front. German troops cross Dnieper and Desna rivers, encircle Gomel and Kiev. Odessa falls after two months of battle. 02:07:31 Part 2: From Murmansk to Africa ["Von Murmansk bi...

  2. Combat in Soviet Russia

    Military Film Report: On the German and Russian encounter in the area of Kharkov, Murmansk, Rostov and Sevastopol, Russia. 02:10:42 Reel 2: Part 3: "Sturm auf Rostow". German forces assault Rostov; boats land, troops billet. Shots of town after German occupation of July 23, 1943. 02:15:07 Part 4: "Kaukasusfront Elbrusbesteigung" Map locates Caucasus Mountains and Mt. Elbrus. German troops and pack animals travel through Caucasus and assemble on Mt. Elbrus. 02:19:15 Part 5: "Kampf um Sewastopol" German tanks, transport vehicles, and artillery advance on Sevastopol. German antiaircraft guns d...

  3. Combat in Soviet Russia

    Military Film Report: On the German and Russian encounter in the area of Kharkov, Murmansk, Rostov and Sevastopol, Russia. 02:23:45 Reel 3: Part 6: Advance on Sevastopol. ["Einnahme Sewastopols, der Staerksten festung der Welt"] German bombers and artillery attack Sevastopol, which falls on July 1, 1942. Shots of German Captain Gollab in his plane and of Gen. Fritz von Mannstein's inspection of new German artillery. German troops occupy and search Sevastopol, and raise Nazi flag.

  4. Russian News (1944, No. 1)

    Russian troops, tanks, and motorcycles cross the Dvina River on rafts and reach Vitebsk. Artillery fires on the city. Troops march through its ruins. Germans surrender and are marched to the rear. Citizens berate them, and embrace Russian soldiers. Rockets and artillery are fired. Russian planes pass over. Shows German dead, abandoned equipment, and German prisoners. Five German generals are interrogated by Russian troops.

  5. Russian News (1943, No. 73-74)

    Reel 1: Artillery shells Dobronske, White Russia. Tanks and infantry advance. A German observation tower is blown up and its occupants killed. Troops enter the rubbled town and are greeted; they cross the Soje and Dnieper Rivers in boats and on pontoon bridges that are heavily shelled. Titles in Russian.

  6. Russian News (1944)

    On the siege of Warsaw. Russian and Polish troops assemble near the Vistula; tanks are drawn up; Gen. Kozakov inspects a map. A night artillery barrage is begun. Russian bombers fly over demolished German tanks. Field guns are fired. Tanks emerge from a forest and roll across fields; infantry follows. Bombs are dropped on German installations. Shows abandoned equipment and German fortifications outside Warsaw. Officers examine the scene. Artillery tanks and infantry move through the suburbs. Shows house-to-house fighting. Wounded are treated at an aid station. Poles greet the Russian troops...

  7. Russian News (1944, No. E)

    On the liberation of Vilna, Latvia. Tanks and infantry move down a dirt road past cottages. "Road sign: Litovskaia SSR" [Road sign reads Lithuanian SSR]. Field guns and mortars are loaded and fired. Infantry runs past dead Germans. Soldiers advance from house to house. Flames pour from windows. Tanks pass through the streets. Machine guns are fired from rubble. Telephone wire is strung. Germans leave shattered buildings and surrender; long columns of them are marched to the rear. Troops march past two road signs indicating path to Grodno, Kaunas; and Kaunas Keningsberg. Victorious Russians ...

  8. Rommel in Africa

    Shows German tanks, trucks, and motorcyclists advance in Libya; narration mentions Bir Hakeim. General Rommel in a staff car; German 88mm guns and mobile anti-aircraft guns firing against British tanks; Stukas attacking British around Tobruk; a German ace landing and being congratulated on his victories; German antiaircraft guns firing at attacking British planes; flaming wreckage of British bomber; desert sandstorms; Germans banqueting with Arab chiefs; and German troops bathing at an Oasis.

  9. Fighting at Narvik

    UFA Newsreel. Title: Frontberichte der Propaganda-Kompanien. REEL 1: Part 1: on the fighting at Narvik. Shows German warships in the harbor. German demolition teams blow up a railroad. White clad alpine troops fire on attacking British troops; German dive bombers attack British lines. German paratroopers land, assemble, and go into action. Part 2: German planes take off from an airfield. Show wrecked planes on a French airfield. Dive bombers attack an allied marching column. Shows wrecked allied equipment and dead. Part 3: German bombers fly in formation over Antwerp.

  10. Refugees arrive at Ellis Island

    Refugees arriving at Ellis Island on the "Marine Flasher" ship. Crowd waving. A scuffle breaks out among refugees, one woman is visibly upset and yelling toward the camera. Refugees embrace, some with bundles. CU of a woman holding a baby. Side view of a boy waving. Various shots of two children. Two women show tattoos to camera (they seem to be mother and daughter, but this is not confirmed.)

  11. Refugees arrive at Ellis Island

    Women showing tattoos. Two men, twins, pose for camera. People getting on/off boat to Ellis Island with luggage. Relatives waiting/waving on ship. Sonia Weissman appears briefly at 05:01:51.

  12. Refugees arrive at Ellis Island

    People on dock waving to refugees aboard ship, the Marine Flasher. Men, women, and children arriving at New York City on May 20, 1946 after a voyage that departed Bremerhaven Germany on May 11, 1946. CU refugees on board. Crowds waiting. Guards behind barrier. Women hugging. Survivors show tattoos. Children and women. The young man with tattoo B3073 is Berek Gola (also called Bernard Gola) a 19 year old Jewish man from Poland. He had been imprisoned by the Nazis at Treblinka and Auschwitz (where he received the tattoo).

  13. Refugees arrive at Ellis Island

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 19, No. 504, Part 1. Release date, 05/20/1946. Refugees arriving at Ellis Island on board the "Marine Flasher". LS, boat lined with passengers. View from boat, silhouetted FG men with hats, crowd waving. MS family waving, standing at edge, packed crowd behind fence/barrier of Ellis Island. Dark interior. Slow pan people on boat; happy. CU old woman with flowered hat and younger woman yelling at guard. MS, young women, Sonia Weissman (survivor of Warsaw Ghetto), running to hug and kiss. Crying women embracing. Similar shots, including hugs, tears, man kissing woman, ...

  14. Refugees arrive at Ellis Island

    Refugees wave from ship, the Marine Flasher, to people at dock. Men and women kissing, toting luggage. Children waving to camera. Refugees showing tattoos to camera. Scan of people waiting for refugees to arrive. Seqeuences repeated, although there are a few additional scenes and color bars. Weber family with tags standing together at 06:05:40 (top row: Gertrude, Senta, Ruth, Alfons; bottom row: Renee, Judith, Bela). Sonia Weissman appears briefly at 06:05:50.

  15. Eisenhower lands

    Airplane glides into landing on runway. President Eisenhower walks down stairs and onto runway.

  16. Allied invasion and conquest of W. Europe; Belsen at liberation

    Miscellaneous excerpts: 06:13:17 Parts of Reel 1, with an introduction, scenes of Nazis in power, and a map. German officers inspecting coastal defenses in France. 06:14:15 Parts of Reel 9, POWs marching. Belsen prison camp is occupied, shows scenes of Nazi atrocities, corpses. Josef Kramer going on trial. Women yelling. Pan, Belsen with survivors, emaciated bodies, corpses. Mass pit; woman crying; woman holding soldier's hand. Voiceover of British soldier: "We'd taken the Belsen Concentration Camp. Uh...I'm not squeamish. I've seen amputations, operations, deaths, long before I went into t...

  17. Refugees arrive at Ellis Island

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 19, No. 504, Part 1. Release date, 05/20/1946. Refugees arriving at Ellis Island on board the "Marine Flasher". LS, boat lined with passengers. View from boat, silhouetted FG men with hats, crowd waving. MS family waving, standing at edge, packed crowd behind fence/barrier of Ellis Island. Dark interior. Slow pan people on boat; happy. CU old woman with flowered hat and younger woman yelling at guard. MS, young women, Sonia Weissman (survivor of Warsaw Ghetto), running to hug and kiss. Crying women embracing. Similar shots, including hugs, tears, man kissing woman, ...

  18. Refugees; Einstein; Belsen liberation

    Excerpt from "Genocide" documentary film. Still photos and archival footage fade into one another. Immigration. Refugees. Einstein on boat. 06:21 Chamberlain. Boycott. Newspaper headlines. Kristallnacht (the audio recording of C. Brook Peters reporting the events of Kristallnacht was recreated for the film - it is NOT an original radio broadcast) Destruction of synagogues. Newspaper headlines. Propaganda posters. 06:22:55 Einsatzgruppen murder (long, graphic). Military trucks, peasants. Mass graves at Belsen, bulldozers. German civilians forced to confront atrocities. ***Other parts of the ...

  19. Hitler speech, motorcade

    Hitler enters hall and takes podium, speaks to crowd (no sound). Crowd cheers (sound) and salutes. Hitler exits hall and parades (in jeep) through streets lined with Nazi flags. Hitler's motorcade in streets of Germany. Swastikas, HJ boys.

  20. Belsen liberation, atrocities

    Sequence of Bergen-Belsen at liberation from the pre-completed and pre-restored version of "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey," formerly known as “Memory of the Camps,” transmitted by WGBH/PBS FRONTLINE in May 1985 with commentary specially recorded by the actor Trevor Howard. Narrator's voice is not heard throughout. Belsen sign; child survivors behind barbed wire with Luba Tryszynska; eating; emaciated survivors. 06:28:25 Woman (Mrs. Rosalie Weisner) kneels to kiss the hand of a British soldier on the day of liberation (April 15, 1945). Corpses; burials at Belsen; British soldiers...