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  1. Ardeatine Caves Massacre: identifying bodies

    Ardeatine Caves Massacre, Italy. CUs, doctor in white lab coat taking notes. CU, notes. Sign: "Reparto Riconoscimento." Men carrying coffin, with body. Doctor in office, meeting with civilians dressed in black who identify personal effects. CUs, women with personal belongings. A man enters office, to identify personal belongings. CUs, clothing, documents. CUs, human remains with no. 101, 106. VAR, bodies in open coffins. Blessing of bodies by priest. Woman viewing remains, being held up by two men, crying. Coffins with flowers. CU, nameplates: "Montezemolo" "Renzo Giorgini" Pan, relatives d...

  2. Interview of Prisoners, Dachau

    (LIB 6555) Interview of Prisoners, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MSs, American officer of the XV Corps (off screen) speaking to an Albanian, Doctor Ali Zeno Kuchi, who relates in English his experiences in the prison camps of Vienna and Dachau. The doctor was a newspaperman prior to the invasion of his country by the Fascists.

  3. Displaced Russians; Released prisoners of war

    (LIB 6780) Displaced Russians, Ohrdruf, Germany, May 22, 1945. MSs, CUs, Russian soldiers, using US 2 1/2 ton trucks, transport Russian DPs from camp. CUs, individuals with bundles board trucks. LS, huge crowd waiting for transportation. (LIB 6781) Release of Prisoners of War, Plauen, Germany, May 21, 1945. MSs, German prisoners in front of administration building. Seq: Camera follows the complete processing of an individual soldier as he has his papers stamped, undergoes physical examination, receives money allowance and discharge papers. Cut to uniformed soldier meeting his wife and child...

  4. Ardeatine Caves Massacre: burials

    Photographs and newspaper articles posted for 320 Italian civilians murdered in Ardeatine Caves massacre on March 24, 1944. It is likely that this film was recorded months later, during the summer of 1944. Blessing of bodies by priest, and burial of corpses. Crowds of Italians. Man in hospital bed.

  5. Ardeatine Caves Massacre: execution and trial

    Execution of Italian civilian connected with Ardeatine Caves massacre. INTs, civil court. Trial of Italian civilian connected with the massacre. Note: 320 Italian civilians were murdered in Ardeatine Caves on March 24, 1944. It is likely that this film was recorded months later, during the summer of 1944.

  6. Eva, Hitler, wedding of Eva's sister, Christmas, children

    Reel 5 of the private motion pictures of Eva Braun (Seized Enemy Records). COLOR. Title: "Ausflug zum Kehlstein." [Excursion to Kehlstein] Nazi flag reflected in headlight of Mercedes automobile (short). B/W. Car traveling on mountain road, group admiring scenery, taking pictures. Market, carnival. Group of actors filming "Der laufende Berg" in the Bavarian mountains. CU, actress Hansi Knoteck. Group shots include actors Paul Richter, Maria Andergast, and Hans Deppe. The actors, in the company of actor/director Fritz Kampers, in front of the door to the Kehlsteinhaus. COLOR. Country scenes,...

  7. Rescuing Allied airmen

    Project Gunn, Office of Strategic Services, Field Photographic Branch, Unit 24, 1944. Film Report: On a mission headed by Lt. Col Gunn during World War II to rescue by air Allied airmen in a POW camp southwest of Bucharest, Romania. REEL 2: Scenes of downed fliers in POW camp. Men in hospitals getting ready for evacuation. Bomb damage to Ploesti oil fields. Ambulant and wounded POWs board B-17's.

  8. Rescuing Allied airmen

    Project Gunn, Office of Strategic Services, Field Photographic Branch, Unit 24, 1944. Film Report: On a mission headed by Lt. Col Gunn during World War II to rescue by air Allied airmen in a POW camp southwest of Bucharest, Romania. REEL 1: AVs, Albanian coastline and Danube River as plane approaches Ploesti airfield. Romanian officials greet O.S.S officers to arrange evacuation of the prisoners.

  9. Hitler, high officials and entourage at the Berghof

    Reel 7 of the private motion pictures of Eva Braun (Seized Enemy Records). According to IWM shotlist, the following individuals appear in this footage: Gustl Schulze-Cossens, Karl Jesko von Puttkammer, Walter Hewel, Albert Bormann, Baldur von Schirach, Heinrich Hoffmann, Khalid al Hud, Martin Bormann, Wilhelm Brueckner, Dr. Theodor Morell, Fritz Wiedemann, Nicolaus von Below, Sepp Dietrich, Dr. Otto Dietrich, Hans Karl von Hasselbach, Arno Breker, Demetra Breker. COLOR. Title: "Wir gehen Gassi." Eva and her family with dogs on snow-covered road. Playing with dogs at a pond. Group seated aro...

  10. Germany Awake!

    Summary of film: Recounts Germany's wartime experience and encourages German citizens to help effect a successful peace. Reel 1: Explosion of Swastika in Nuremberg Stadium. Dead Germans and POWs. Rubble in Cologne, Nuremberg, Hamburg, and Berlin. Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery; Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta. Hitler, Streicher, Hess, Himmler and Goebbels addressing crowds. Germans are shown bodies in the Nordhausen and Belsen concentration camps. Gen. Eisenhower and Gen. Patton tour Ohrdruf concentration camp. Scene of burned bodies on truck chassis, as at start of Museum's pe...

  11. Yalta Conference

    Reel 2: FDR, Churchill, and Stalin pose. Shows views of Sevastopol. FDR entertains Churchill, Haile Selassie, Ibn Saud, and King Farouk aboard ship; Ambassador Winant, Admiral Leahy, and Hopkins are present. FDR addresses Congress on the conference.

  12. testing Krupp howitzer

    Reel 1: Map of Germany and the Ruhr. A Krupp-made field howitzer is test fired as company officials and military officers look on.

  13. Krupp's birthday celebration; Hitler visits factory

    Reel 6: (Krupp's birthday celebration continued from Reel 5 - Story 951, Film ID 911) A bust of Krupp is unveiled at Krupp's brithday celebration. Mrs. Krupp is present and featured at the celebration. Son Alfred Krupp von Bohlen, taller & dark, present. Speeches, portrait of Hitler, playing chess. 07:41:10:20 "Essen am 7 August 1940. Laesslich der Vollendung 70. Lebensjahres des Herrn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach" Hitler attends Krupp's birthday celebration. Bust of Hitler. Hitler inspects the Krupp plant at Essen. Workers salute Hitler. 07:44:07:17 "Hitler and Erich Mueller at Gun Tes...

  14. Krupp receives award; Krupp's birthday celebration

    Excerpt appears in "The Nazi Plan." Reel 5: 07:26:58:25 "Krupp receives the "National-Socialist Model Plant" Award, May 1940" ; "Firma Krupp NS Muster betrieb." Krupp with Nazi officials including Rudolf Hess and Robert Ley. Large hall with crowd heiling, officials seated at ceremony. 07:29:24 Nazi official next to dark uniformed man is probably Josef Grohe, Gauleiter of Koeln -Aachen. Wide shot shows him seated across the aisle to the right from Hess, Krupp and Co. Band, silent speeches by Nazi official, by Hess. Large number of flags and banners. Shaking hands, reviewing awards. Hess goes...

  15. Germany Awake!

    Summary of film: Recounts Germany's wartime experience and encourages German citizens to help effect a successful peace. Reel 3: German civilians are shown bodies in Nordhausen and Belsen concentration camps. People, body parts and objects from the Hadamar Institute are shown briefly. Brief shots of gold earings, teeth, etc. being sorted at Majdanek. American POWs shown. Female survivors being treated by Red Cross workers. Belsen- fields of decaying bodies, German civilians and soldiers placing bodies in trucks to be transported for proper burial. VS of high ranking Nazi officials. 08:14:00...

  16. Allied air attacks on Germany; Rhine offensive

    Staff Film Report no. 46; Combat Bulletin, no. 46. (with intertitles) Reel 1: "E.T.O. - Allied Air Attacks on Germany" AVs of bomber planes, bombs dropping, bombs exploding, many scenes shot at night or at dusk. 13 February: RAF Lancasters and German Scarecrow bombs exploding in mid-air. Pathfinder flares and incendiaries mark immediate targets. AAF Flying Fortresses bombing German communication centers and freight yards. Attacks on Dresden; destruction. 22 February: RAF planes over enemy territory, "a typical day of all-out bombing." RAF bombs highways and viaducts, onslaught on German tra...

  17. US Army infantry advances in Germany

    Staff Film Report no. 46; Combat Bulletin, no. 46. (with intertitles) Reel 2: The 29th Division crosses bridge at Jülich. Aerial views of the wrecked city of Jülich. Gen. Gerhardt and his G-2 officer report plans and conditions at a staff meeting. Troops cross a bridge under enemy fire. Gen. Gerhardt crosses the bridge. The 102nd Division liberates US prisoners at Erkelenz. Undelivered Red Cross packages intended for American POWs but used by Nazis are found in Heppendorf. The 1st Army battles toward Cologne; the 83d Division takes Neusse. Telephoto images of Düsseldorf under bombardment fr...

  18. Air attacks

    Staff Film Report no. 46; Combat Bulletin, no. 46. (with intertitles) Reel 3: A helicopter team removes valuable items from a wrecked bomber. Shows and describes the A-26 airplane. 08:39:49 "Pacific - Manila Clean-up" In Manila tanks and artillery fire across the Pasig River. The 129th Regiment crosses the river, machine guns the post office, and enters and fights in Intramuros (Feb. 23). The Legislative Building is attacked and entered by the 148th Regiment. Gen. MacArthur and President Osmefla visit the city and address the legislature.

  19. US Army advances at Iwo Jima

    Staff Film Report no. 46; Combat Bulletin, no. 46. (with intertitles) Reel 4: 08:46:30 "Pacific - Ulithi Anchorage" Shows aerial views of many ships anchored at Ulithi Harbor in the Carolines. Shows activities at an emergency landing field on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines. Guerillas help fuel and hide planes. 08:48:41 "Pacific - Iwo Jima" Troops and supplies reinforce Iwo Jima under enemy fire. Carrier planes bomb the island; ships and artillery shell caves. Shows dead Japanese and the flag raising on Mt. Suribachi.

  20. Potsdam Conference; troops invade

    Staff Film Report, no. 65; Combat Bulletin, no. 65 Reel 1: "E.T.O. Big Three Conference in Session" Truman and Byrnes inspect the 2nd Armored Division along the route to Potsdam and pose with Stalin and Molotov at the Russian headquarters. Churchill and Eden arrive. Truman talks with Eisenhower, Bradley, and Leahy. US and British Chiefs of Staff confer. 08:56:35 "Pacific - Navy Attacks Underwater Obstacles at Balikpapan" Shows beach obstacles exploding. Australian troops invade Borneo at Balikpapan (July 1) and advance under fire. 08:58:41 "Pacific - Additional Films Balikpapan Invasion" Sh...