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  1. German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

    01:04:12:20 CU, shot from low angle of signs on a large contemporary, concrete block apartment building- the address and other information are visible - written in Polish, identifies construction company, etc. located in Warsaw, Poland. Camera then pans the building, which looks deserted, although the bombing has not damaged it. 01:04:23:17 MLS of a destroyed area of Warsaw; it seems to be a bridge over one portion of the river and an entrance into the city from an outlying suburb. Polish soldiers on horseback patrol the bridge, some people are walking along the bridge, one cyclist passes b...

  2. German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939

    INT, hospital scenes- a pregnant woman lies in a hospital ward- these are scenes from the Catholic hospital that was destroyed in Warsaw during the German air attacks in September of 1939. Lying next to the pregnant woman is a wounded man. VS of the wounded being cared for by nurses in the hospital. 01:08:19:18 The inhabitants of the maternity ward are now lining corridors, several nurses, mothers and their newborn babies are seated on the tile floors of the hospital corridors. VS, CUs of mothers with their infants, some with a doctor as well: this is all mentioned in Julien Bryan's book "S...

  3. Trims Nazi Germany 1937: Goldschmidt school brochure; Bryan's passport; Nazi propaganda

    Sequence of outtakes. VS, CUs of a brochure for the Goldschmidt Jewish School in Berlin, Germany. CU of a piece of zinc ore in someone's hand as they demonstrate the contours of the rock. CU of a propaganda poster with Hitler and past German leaders. CU of Julien Bryan's passport from his travels through Europe. He flips through page by page. CU of someone holding the newspaper DER STUERMER, featuring Anti-Semitic propaganda and caricatures of Jews on the front page. Several CUs of various pages of the paper, one showing caricatures of the Soviets, the Brits, etc. Ends on a CU of a caricatu...

  4. Dutch war volunteers; Italian coast; German troops; Eastern Front; Russian prisoners

    Reel 2: Part 7 continued from Story 3712, crews take off. 01:11:04 Part 1, plane of Captain Leopold Fellerer (Knight's Cross) lands; he is greeted by other pilots. 01:11:37 Part 2, Italy: supply trucks of the NSKK underway with supplies, loading of heavy artillery shells on trucks; artillery position on the Italian coast; preparations of defensive positions; camouflage of a tank; enemy planes attack; anti-aircraft fire, German fighters attack; bombing, shot of stick of bombs hitting a ridge; a bomber is shot down; pieces of wreckage; fighter base; return of fighters; on leave at a ski area;...

  5. Relocation of displaced persons

    INT, MS, IRO refugee processing center. Several displaced persons gather around the Canadian representatives at their desk at the processing center (staged). The two representatives answer questions from the group, made up mostly of young men, and a few young women. MCU, two young refugees talk to the representatives. EXT, LS, DP camp Ebelsberg in Linz, Austria. Refugees gather with their belongings to begin their journey to Canada. VS, refugees helping each other close and label their luggage for the journey. The refugees load into open trucks in order to make the trip to the train station...

  6. Folk dancing in southern Poland

    Folk dancers in Zakopane, the southern Polish region near the Carpathian/Tatras mountain ranges. They dance in a circle around a cross. VS dancing. Several shots are in slow motion. 01:13:54 Quick shot of three male dancers playing with their hats and horsing around, taking a break from dancing. Sequence of folk dancing continues, the camera captures the dancers at various angles.

  7. Ruhr; shipbuilding; Doenitz; Dutch war volunteers; Rommel; troops

    Reel 1: Part 1, 10th anniversary of the death of Professor Paul Ludwig Troost; still photos of Troost and shots of the House of German Art and the Koenigliche Platz in Munich. 01:02:06 Part 2, The Ruhr: Captain Ruempler (Oak Leaves) and his comrades visit a mine, and go underground; shots of the miners and the soldiers. 01:02:50 Part 3, Germany: report on the hard and dangerous work of stevedoring; loading and unloading ships; ships with the coat of arms of Bremen. 01:03:40 Part 4, Stettin: Day of maritime transport, January 19, 1944; Admiral Doenitz speaks (no original sound); among the au...

  8. Krakow street scenes; children; shops

    In Krakow, MCU young boys with caps with the number "21" walking in unison and looking at the camera. Girls in berets and matching coats with fur collars walk along the street by a castle-like building. Most of the girls have their backs to the camera. Some boys in the group also wear berets. Shop windows, no sign is visible in its entirety. LS, more of the schoolchildren on their outing. MCU, three people looking in the window of a bookstore. The people linger before going inside.

  9. German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939

    EXT, VS night time scenes of the Jewish quarter of Warsaw on fire. This event occurred on September 16, 1939 during Rosh Hashanah. The Germans deliberately chose this day to set the Jewish quarter on fire, burning and destroying more than 20 full city blocks. Camera pans, but it is difficult to make out the shadows, at 01:16:45:14 there is a more vivid shot of the flames, illuminating a street lamp.

  10. School children in south central Poland, circa 1936

    INT, CU of a man wearing a uniform with an elaborate hat, a fez with a large plume and a metallic embroidered emblem in the center of a hammer and anvil. He slowly removes the hat. Cut to a CU of a framed painting of a woman or man in medieval dress, holding a chalice in one hand and a sword in the other (biblical painting?). Zinc quarry with a CU of a worker drilling into the rock. EXT, MLS, two nuns lead a group of kindergarten age children from a schoolyard onto the street (a rural dirt road). The children file out and smile at the camera. INT, MS, inside the classroom, the young childre...

  11. Women working at sewing machines; fashion

    INT, women sitting at tables and sewing clothing in a large room. A woman walks through the room with two shirts. A woman stands in front of a mirror in a dress that a seamstress is adjusting and pinning. CU, book of fashion. A designer sketches a dress. CU, Singer sewing machine. Camera pans over a city street in Russia, closes in on a sign on a building (in Cyrillic). INT, large group of women sitting around a table. Garments hang and rotate from mirror panels on a wall. CU, high heels as the camera pans up the body of a woman trying on a dress. INTs, women work at sewing machines. CU, fa...

  12. 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....

  13. 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

  14. Nazi rally, 1937 - Hitler, Himmler, Reichsarbeitsdienst parade; Anti-Bolshevik exhibit crowds; Berlin streets crowded for Mussolini visit.

    Nazi party rally at Nuremberg, pan of stadium, regiments already assembled on the field; more still entering, an injured man is carried away on a stretcher. 01:06:45:00 Some MCUs on the young soldiers on the field, some look back at the camera, all are chewing gum--the bare-chested regiment-- Nazi "beefcake". MCU of the beefcake singing in unison. Cut to the young women assembled in another area of the field. VS of flags waving; military milling about the stadium. Scenes outside of the Anti-Bolshevik Exhibit (Antibolschevistische Ausstellung); uniformed Nazis with armbands line up to enter ...

  15. Nazi Germany outtakes: Nuremberg Rally, Army Day; Cologne Cathedral; trains

    Highlights of this reel of decomposed footage include: Army Day at Nuremberg Nazi Party rally; Cologne cathedral; night time stadium performances in Nuremberg; army cook preparing food for the crowds; youth flight club launching a glider; scenes of the Obersalzburg and its passengers on an airstrip; trains moving through the countryside.

  16. Documentary Appendix to U.S. and Allied Efforts to Recover and Restore Gold and Other Assets Stolen or Hidden by Germany During World War II

    Consists of photocopies of documents and memorandum used in the preparation of the 1997/1998 report entitled "U.S. and Allied Efforts to Recover and Restore Gold and Other Assets Stolen or Hidden by Germany During World War II" (also known as the Eizenstat report), which was prepared by the Interagency Group on Nazi Assets. Documents were culled from the archives of the agencies which participated in the preparation of the report (US Department of State, etc.). Also includes 23 CIA documents used in the report.

  17. Polish refugees in Persia

    Title: Polens Heer ersteht neu in Persien. [Poland's multitudes rise again in Persia]. Long line of people (look like refugees) moving across a desert landscape. They carry bundles. Some are barefoot. A group sitting, resting. A woman rocks her baby in her arms. Brief fade-out then title: Poland 1939. Refugees on the road on foot and by horse-drawn cart. Food distribution. Bedraggled woman waiting in line with a bowl. Map showing Europe and the Soviet Union. Line drawn from Poland toward USSR south around the Caspian Sea, in direction of Persia (Iran). Group of refugees in desert reach shel...

  18. German activity at the Westwall and the French border

    Title on screen: Ozaphan 12/39 Monatschau; Die Wacht am Westwall [The watch on the West wall]. The West wall was a German defense line along the western German border. Two German soldiers sit on a hilltop overlooking a river. One looks through binoculars and points into the distance. German soldiers march down into a concrete bunker (part of the West wall) with a relief of a soldier carved around the doorway. Soldiers running around a structure that appears to be camouflaged with tree limbs. A cannon, camouflaged with tree branches, rises up out of the woods. Germans fire cannons, presumabl...

  19. Funeral; construction, daily life in Warsaw, 1936

    A Christian funeral procession of an unidentified individual through Warsaw, several people walk behind the horse drawn carriage that carries the casket, the pallbearers are in elaborate uniforms. MS construction site in Warsaw, multi-story apartment buildings are going up, the foreman in a dark coat barks orders to all of the workers laying the concrete. MCU, kiosk featuring various newspapers.

  20. German invasion and occupation of Poland; arrest of men in Bromberg (Bydgoszcz)

    Titles on screen: Ozaphan 10a/39 Monatschau [monthly show]; Krieg in Polen [War in Poland]. Scenes from the invasion of Poland, including cannons firing and German soldiers, shot from a distance, moving across a field. Title on screen: Die Fliegerbilder werden sofort Ausgewerten [the aerial photographs are immediately evaluated]. Soldiers develop and analyze aerial photos at a mobile lab in the field. Familiar (newsreel) footage of Goering and Hitler with other officers. Back in the field, shots of soldiers with bombs, German airplanes taking off, and destroyed buildings on the ground. Titl...