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Language of Description: German
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  1. Polish invasion

    Title: "Part IV Wars of Aggression 1939-1944" Title: "Invasion of Danzig 1 September 1939" German troops fight in Danzig. Hitler arrives to accept the surrender. Title: "Invasion of Poland 1 September 1939" Tanks, cavalry, and infantry cross the Polish border. Title: "Goering Discusses Invasion of Poland" Goering discusses the invasion as scenes of the Luftwaffe are shown.

  2. Invasion of Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands

    Title: "1940 " Title: "Invasion of Denmark and Norway, 9 April 1940" LSs of battleships, Nazi flag flying, men on deck. MCU, large gun, infantry with machine guns, troops looking through glasses, planes flying above harbor, Nazi troops parading through streets of Denmark, boats landing at Copenhagen. INT, airplane loaded with troops and bicycles. Airview of Norway coast. Planes landing, soldiers marching from field. Radio tower being guarded, view of Oslo with Nazi soldier on guard in FG, bombing of docks and marching through the streets. Title: "Invasion of Belgium and the Netherlands, 10 ...

  3. Krupp ammunition plant; Alliance of Axis countries; Invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece

    Title: "Hitler Pays Tribute to Krupp 13 August 1940" Hitler visits the Krupp ammunition plant. Hitler pays tribute to Gustav Krupp von Bohlen. MS Hitler shakes hands with Krupp as officers look on. Hitler talking to and gesturing to civilian in dark suit as officers look on. Large crowd of factory workers cheer and salute as Hitler walks past them toward camera, then steps up into car and remains standing. Title: "Signing of the Military-Economic Alliance by Germany, Italy and Japan 27 September 1940" Hitler welcomes delegates at the signing of the Germany-Italy-Japan alliance. LS Group of ...

  4. Hitler declares war on US, meets French diplomats; Himmler & Bach-Zelewski visit camp near Minsk

    Title: "Invasion of U.S.S.R. 22 June 1941" Early morning street activities in Berlin on morning of invasion of USSR. Preparation of broadcast at radio station. At 5:30 AM Goebbels sits at desk and makes announcement. Shots of people listening. Von Ribbentrop walks into conference. Newspaper headline, then map of Eastern Front. Flare goes up in dark, silhouettes of troops in dark. Artillery fire and burning target presumably in East Prussia. Dismantling of border post. German troops move cautiously forward. Explosion in building interior. Title: "Meeting with Petain, Laval, and Franco in Fra...

  5. Hitler and Mussolini; German-Japan pact

    Title: "1942" Title: "A Gift to Hitler February 1942" Title: "Axis Plans at Berchtesgaden 29 April 1942" Hitler and Mussolini confer at Berchtesgaden (1942). Title: "Japanese Submarine Welcomed in German Harbor 30 September 1942" A Japanese submarine is welcomed at a German port. Title: "1943" Title: "Signing of German-Japanese Economic Pact 20 January 1943" Ribbentrop signs pact. Title: "Arrival of Mussolini after his "Liberation" 10 October 1943" Mussolini visits Germany after his rescue from US captors.

  6. Hitler with Nazi officials; Hitler's 55th birthday; Aftermath of July 20, 1944 bomb plot; People's Court & Judge Freisler

    Title: "1944" Hitler confers with leaders. 04:17:16 Title: "55th Birthday of Hitler 20 April 1944." Berlin scenes; Hitler and high Nazi officials, military officers, including Keitel, Doenitz, Zeitzler, Goering, others. 04:19:04 close view of (L to R) Himmler, Warlimont, Hitler, Fegelein. 04:19:09 Title: "Conferences after Hitler's Escape from Bombing Plot 20 July 1944." Mussolini arrives by train at FHQ, Hitler's greets him with left-handed shake, Goering present. At Hitler's HQ in the Eas, Nazi leaders greet the Fuehrer to congratulate him on surviving the attack: Ribbentrop, Bormann, Him...

  7. Red Cross treats victims of Penig concentration camp

    Jewish Concentration Camp, Penig, Germany, April 17, 1945. German uniformed medics carry female survivors from concentration camp in Penig into hospital from Red Cross ambulances. VAR MSs and CUs, females on litters waiting to be carried. Survivors smile widely. Hospital sign, "Zum Luftschutz-Sanitaetsraum." 01:01:16 Ambulances traveling on road. LS, medics take survivors on litters out of ambulance and line cots on the grass. Medic talks to a survivor, helps another walk into the hospital. Red Cross nurses. INT, American doctors consult surviviors in their hospital beds, treat wounds. Aeri...

  8. Breendonck; Hannover; Arnstadt

    "Breendonck" Views of Breendonck camp in Belgium. EXTs of prison used to house Belgian patriots. Blood-stained coffins are exhibited as evidence of brutality Inmates demonstrate the methods used against the prisoners, such as beatings with barbed wire poles, chaining them into a vise, thumb screws. Victims reveal results of beatings and cigarette burns; a woman also reveals scars on her hips. 01:09:40 "Hanover Concentration Camp" [Neuengamme] General views of the camp where only 200 remained of 10,000 Poles. INTs of the camp, few remaining inmates mill about. VS, Red Cross clubmobiles enter...

  9. Gusen; Mauthausen; Nordhausen

    "Mauthausen Concentration Camp" [Footage shows mixed sequences from Mauthausen and Gusen.] High pan of concentration camp Gusen for slave laborers. 01:14:15 Pan of buildings at Mauthausen. Execution site with gallows and shooting wall in Gusen, with 2-3 men standing alongside it, courtyard wall behind. 01:14:23 Soldiers provide "tour" of crematorium and camp Gusen. 01:14:45 American POW Lt. Jack Taylor (U.S. Air Force) talks about his experience at Mathausen, "fortunately my turn hadn't come." He had been captured in Mauthausen for a few weeks from April 1945 to liberation. He talks of two ...

  10. Buchenwald; Dachau

    "Buchenwald Concentration Camp" General views of the camp at Buchenwald. Red EXT of camp. HSs of the area. "Jedem Das Sein" gate closes. Red Cross trucks from Switzerland enter the camp grounds. Male survivors leave the camp. Among the survivors are 1000 boys under 14. Evidence of crimes: CUs of dead with numbers tattooed on stomachs; emaciated survivors; stacks of bodies outside and inside the crematorium; the experimental building where various toxins were tried; truckloads of the dead; CU weapon of torture; INT, crematorium ovens showing skeletons inside and piles of bone ash. 1200 Germa...

  11. Jewish DPs leaving Berlin, Germany

    DPs (Jewish) Leaving Berlin, Germany, May 17, 1949. Semitrailer truck loaded with personal belongings of families pulling away from apartment house. LS, neighborhood in German city, truck standing in courtyard. MS, few civilians standing at entrance as workmen are taking out personal belongings. MS, middle-aged woman holding infant child; several people in BG. Household goods standing next to truck. CU, truck. Hand-written on truck "Lufttransport Munchen Frankfurt." LS, man carrying suitcase in litter-strewn yard. LS, semitrailer truck loaded with household effects going into courtyard entr...

  12. Jewish Brigade, 1940-1949

    The Jewish Brigade in action in Italy: Mortars firing; soldiers showing Star of David on tank. Brig Gen Benjamin talking to Major Jackson. 25 pound gun in action. CUs, soldiers, badges. Night fighting patrol lined up and receiving instructions from officer. Funeral ceremonies for member killed in action, Star of David tomb marker. German prisoners captured by the Jewish Brigade. VAR, CUs of Germans and smiling Brigade officers.

  13. Parade of soldiers in Nuremberg, Germany

    LS, Parade of US soldiers in Nuremberg, Germany. Military air review.

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- French discuss Czechoslovakia's problems; parade

    French Army Commission discusses Czechoslovakia's problems at a special meeting. General view of committee listening to its president expose the problem of Central Europe. Committee President, Miellet, deputy of Belfort, points to Czechoslovakia on the map and stresses the gravity of the present situation. CU, President Miellet. The members discuss measures to safeguard France and agree to ask the government to increase French armaments. General shot of Czechoslovak officers surrounding their chief Colonel Kalina, Military Attache at the Legation (wearing spectacles). Colonel Kalina convers...

  15. Victims of massacre

    Emotive footage: Rows of clothed bodies laid out, both men and women. Women with kerchiefs on heads mourn over dead and begin to bury them.

  16. Jews mistreated; Russian prisoners

    Chaos. Jewish men beaten in street, dragged around. CU, faces of Russian prisoners.

  17. Russian monuments destroyed

    Man smashing plaster statue with a sledgehammer. Group of men pulling down bust of statue with ropes. Man cutting into a tapestry picture of Stalin's head. Crowd cheering.

  18. Battle Front; Destruction in Riga

    Airplanes and pilots flying. Map of USSR showing Jonava, Kovno, Vilna, Riga, and other cities. Military tanks storm Riga. Views of military destruction and ruins in city streets. Men and women civilians clearing up rubble from street.

  19. Jewish forced labor

    Jewish men get off of truck with shovels and begin to dig by the road. Religious Jew made to take off his shirt while digging (famous shot). CU, man rolling a rock up hill.

  20. Burying the dead

    Bodies of Latvian Nationalists murdered by GPU in or around Riga. Men carrying dead bodies on stretchers. Placing bodies into coffins. CU, woman mourning. CU, two young boys dead on ground. Woman with kerchief on head wailing over a dead man, wringing her hands, her wailing is audible.