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Language of Description: English
Country: United States

  1. Slovakian newsreel: Bratislava; Eternal Jew exhibition

    Slovak Sound Weekly: Normal life in Bratislava after the bombing. Anti-Soviet traveling exhibition ("Eternal Jew" art exhibition?) displayed in railroad cars.

  2. Repatriation in Prague

    News Film - The Week in Film: Ten thousand repatriates return home to Prague from concentration camps.

  3. Survivors of a detention camp return to Germany

    News Film - The Week in Film: Departure of Germans from a detention camp (labor camp) in Bratislava-Petrzalka back to Germany.

  4. Funeral for Mauthausen victims, Bratislava

    News Film - The Week in Film: Funeral for 24 victims tortured in Mauthausen camp in the Bratislava Cemetery in Slavice Udolie.

  5. Survivors arrive in US

    News Film - The Week in Film: Arrival in the US of citizens coming from concentration camps who lost their homes in Europe.

  6. Trial re: Slovak Jews

    News Film - The Week in Film: Dr. Anton Vasek before the National Court in Bratislava on trial for deeds perpetrated against Slovak Jews.

  7. Mass graves in Slovakia

    News Film - The Week in Film: Opening of mass graves near Zemiansky Kostolany in the presence of SS soldier Palkinger who had participated in the killing of civilians.

  8. Celebrating the Jewish state of Palestine

    News Film - The Week in Film: In the Slovak National Theater in Bratislava, celebration of the establishment of the independent Jewish state in Palestine.

  9. Luftwaffe officers & Goering's staff tour Mt. Vesuvius & Pompeii

    Scenes of Mt. Vesuvius and ruins of Pompeii in Italy with uniformed Luftwaffe men. Men in civilian clothes include at least 3 Luftwaffe staff or officers closely associated with Goering (they also appear in Film IDs 2548 and 2549): Fritz Goernnert in lederhosen; wavy-haired man in knickers who may be Kattengel; dark-haired man seen in target practice scenes; and the man with dark-rimmed spectacles and photo camera (Eitel Lange, the personal stills photographer for Hermann Goering, who joined Goering's staff in the summer of 1940). 01:01:02 WS with volcano. Priest in long black frock scamper...

  10. Hitler's butler's home movies; Oswald Mosley, BUF in London

    1938 color home movies of Kannenberg family in Germany. Two young girls (nieces) with Arthur Kannenberg and shiny black Mercedes flying small swastika. Intertitle: "Unser Vater an seinem 73.ten Geburtstag (Our father on his 73rd birthday) 21.6.38." Grandfather, grandmother, 3 young girls bring flowers. Family scenes, including storefront "Villa Luise." [1944 police document identifies Inger Poulsen of Elbingerode, niece of "Hausintendant Kannenberg", born 5 March 1923 in Kopenhagen, Denmark] 01:02:26 "Corporate Films Ltd. Present" "East London Blackshirt Rally" "Victoria Park 7th. June 1936...

  11. A. Fokker films: von Richthofen's "Flying Circus", WWI aces

    Various locations and dates, probably N. France and Belgium, between Autumn 1916 to September 1918. Contains activities of Jagdgeschwader 1 (the Red Baron's "Flying Circus"), comprising Jagdstaffel (Jasta) 4, 6, 10, 11, which was commanded by Manfred von Richthofen (MvR) until his death April 21, 1918 in a Fokker Dr.1. Hermann Goering became CO of Jagdgeschwader Freiherr von Richthofen No.1 on July 7, 1918. Film title at head: "RICHTHOFEN FILM aufgenommen von AHG FOKKER, 2. Teil" September 1917 Pilots, observers on wooden platform with dog, looking through range finders, field glasses. Town...

  12. A. Fokker films: von Richthofen, Goering, WWI flying aces, Fokker

    Various locations and dates, probably Northern France near St Quentin and Belgium, between Autumn 1916 to September 1918. Contains activities of Jagdgeschwader 1 (the Red Baron's "Flying Circus"), comprising Jagdstaffel (Jasta) 4, 6, 10, 11, which was commanded by Manfred von Richthofen (MvR) until his death April 21, 1918 in a Fokker Dr.1. Hermann Goering became CO of Jagdgeschwader Freiherr von Richthofen No.1 on July 7, 1918. Film title at head: "RICHTHOFEN FILM aufgenommen von AHG FOKKER, 1. Teil" German military men on roof of train during World War I, stationary, moving along curved t...

  13. Goering, Galland, Luftwaffe senior officers; Goering's train (Sonderzug) at HQ, Eastern Front; Goering's photographer Eitel Lange

    Air-to-ground views from plane, flying over pock-marked countryside. Pilot/officer's face briefly seen in cockpit of Fiesler-Storch at 01:01:00 may be Gen. Wolfram von Richthofen. Front view of propeller spinning after landing. Flying over W. Ukraine? Thatched houses. Landing at airfield under construction; corrugated structures, semi-circular. Man swinging hammer, shirtless in sun. Views of train in woods, presumably Goering's train. 01:03:41 Shooting practice with rifles. Eitel Lange, Goering's still photographer, takes position on his stomach and shoots. Military men, jackets off. 01:04:...

  14. Goering's private train (Sonderzug) and staff; Luftwaffe officers at HQ Eastern Front; Romanian air force visitors

    Events seen may be 1941 to 1943, many are 1942. Brief scene of rifle practice at shooting range in Rominten, near Goering's HQ (train) with Luftwaffe men, including Eitel Lange, Goering's still photographer (see also Film ID 2551). Goering in summer uniform under trees with Romanian air force visitors including tall dark officer, & German officers, including Adolf Galland. (May be 4 October 1941 according to Goering photo album #39 at LOC) 01:00:32 - 01:00:36 glimpse of Goering's valet, Robert Kropp, walking unobtrusively behind the group, very close to the train. Goering & others w...

  15. Hitler's butler's home movies; maiden voyage of KdF ship "Robert Ley"

    Amateur films of Hitler's major domo - "Hausintendant" Arthur Kannenberg, some events are early 1939. Landscape in Grillenburg, an estate near the town of Tharandt which was owned by Martin Mutschmann, head of the Nazi party in the State of Saxony from 1925 until May 1945. MS, statue (bronze stag) commissioned by Mutschmann around 1937 when he had the "New Hunting Lodge" or "Neues Jägerhaus" constructed. An archway engraved with Mutschmann's image at the center. Views of the New Lodge, stone bridge and lakes, and the original lodge from 1855. Kannenberg with chimney sweeps in front of shop....

  16. Goering, Messerschmitt, Galland, Milch, Luftwaffe troops; Goering & the fast train in E. Prussia

    Copy of a newsreel with fades between segments, scratch throughout, near center of frame, to 01:06:38. [corresponds to newsreel at Imperial War Museum dated 1943.] Goering touring factory with Luftwaffe officers & civilians, visiting workers. Goering walks with Prof. Willy Messerschmitt (dark leather coat), others. Friendly greetings, salutes as Goering drives slowly in open Mercedes. 01:00:56 Airfield, Goering arrives, out of car, reviews troops, followed by Adolf Galland (no Iron Cross), Bruno Loerzer, others. 01:01:04 Far left: Josef 'Beppo' Schmid (Iron Cross). Goering chatting with...

  17. Oswald Mosley, British Union of Fascists, Manchester

    Cobblestoned streets, Manchester, England. Double decker bus, shops, some signs. Civilian men marching. Small band, people. Some Union Jack flags. 01:08:15 color footage of Oswald Mosley and large rectangular microphone. Speech to closely gathered crowd. Pan of crowd and Manchester brick buildings in background. Red armbands visible. Scuffles, man with bleeding head, bandaged. Speech continues, police among crowd. Fainted woman is carried off. 01:10:18 b/w footage again. 01:10:35 "Fascism means war!" written large in white on wall behind crowd. Speeches continue. Mosley shot from low angle,...

  18. Home movies: Hitler's major domo swimming; swans; rowboat

    Amateur films of "Hausintendant" Arthur (a.k.a. Willy) Kannenberg, major domo/house manager to Adolf Hitler. Lily pond, swans, rowboat, swimming (possibly a male relative of Kannenberg; similar facial structure). Teasing and feeding swans from end of rowboat. 01:04:20 Kannenberg swimming and frolicking with a blond woman, probably his wife Freda, from the rowboat. Surface dives. Both climb into boat. 01:08:55 Swans among the lily pads, filmed from rowboat. 01:11:25 The blond woman and Kannenberg in hats, in the boat. Two swans at water's edge.

  19. War in the Pacific, kamikaze attacks, USS Franklin bombed

    Documentary with intertitles produced for the home movie market by Castle Films Productions. War in the Pacific: kamikaze attacks, boats, US soldiers, fighting at sea and on land in Japan, USS Franklin bombed, fighting the fire, medics and chaplain attend to the wounded, columns of smoke, Statue of Liberty, Purple Heart ceremony. THE END

  20. Anschluss: Annexation of Austria

    Newsreel footage of events surrounding the German invasion of Austria. Intertitles read as follows: Austrian Chancellor Kurt Von Schuschnigg who failed to satisy Hitler's demands. Hitler's answer to Austria: INVASION! The modern Caesar triumphantly re-enters the land of his birth. Nazi troops give "Heil salute" casually, individually, to crowds as they pass in jeeps, armored vehicles. Some shop signs seen in background: Kastner, Wagons-Lits/ Cook, Mercedes. Hitler exits car to walk in street. From the balcony of the Imperial Palace he screamed, "75,000,000 people in one nation- - No force o...