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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Latvian

  1. War Crimes Trials: film used as evidence in Ministries' Case (#11)

    War Crimes Trials, Case 11 (Ministries Case). Footage pertains to Germany's entry into Austria. An old Austrian barracks is burned to the accompaniment of speeches, saluting, etc. Several night shots of the burning and collapsing building are featured. "Gros-Deutschland". Views of Graz, Bavaria: the streets, buildings, etc. Hitler arrives in his car, crowds heil. In a great hall, he stops on the way to the platform to smell a flower, shake hands with people. There are many WW I wounded in the audience. CUs, weeping and ecstatic people, wounded with crutches, etc. Himmler is among those list...

  2. Nazi propaganda poster

    The antisemitic poster was issued by the Nazi party in preparation for an election

  3. German educational film: soldiers build an igloo

    This short instructional film depicts German soldiers, in uniform, in an unidentified mountainous region surveying a snowy hillside to determine a fitting location to build an igloo. EXT, VS, a group of approximately 8 soldiers at work with shovels and saws in the snow, cutting and moving uniform 'bricks' of snow to construct their shelter. They load the blocks of snow onto a sled to transport them more easily. The soldiers work diligently to perfect their igloo, making sure to even out rough spots, and keep the bricks uniform and level. The igloo begins to take shape, there are now shots f...

  4. Nowogrodzki family papers

    Collection consists of six sets of notes written by the donor's stepmother, Helena Szefiner, after coming to the United States in 1946; the notes regard Mrs. Szefiner's experiences in the Warsaw ghetto. Includes 10 photographs relating to the donor's life in Warsaw before the war and her journey to Japan.

  5. Doll purse

    Julia Schor played with the doll purse while in hiding during the Holocaust.

  6. Antisemitic propaganda of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto

    Warsaw ghetto [many scenes same as Library of Congress footage on Film ID 2257]. German Jews arriving in Warsaw Ghetto. "Aufnahme Lager" [Intake point] Exteriors and interiors. Close views of individuals. Tracking shot inside. Jewish Council building, visitors. Inside the Chairman Adam Czerniakov's office. Meeting with Czerniakov at his desk, with candelabra. Street scenes, peddlars, children, shopfronts. Women, with armbands, shopping from carts. Cobblestone streets. Scenes of Jewish police menacing people with truncheons, moving them through the street. Scenes "directed" for Nazi propagan...

  7. IMT Verdicts: Schacht, Doenitz, Raeder, Sauckel, Jodl, von Papen, Speer, von Neurath, Fritzsche at Nuremberg Trial

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. Shot of dock as Justice Francis Biddle gives the Tribunal's conclusion on Hjalmar Schacht: not guilty under the indictment because his influence was not established beyond doubt. More footage of defendants, defendants' lawyers, as Justice reads conclusions of the tribunal on the prisoners: Schacht: Not guilty Doenitz (in French): Guilty under counts 3 and 4 Raeder (in Russia): Guilty under count 4 Sauckel: Guilty under counts 3 and 4 Jodl (in French): ?? (verdict not audible) Von Papen: Not guilty Unidentified defend...

  8. Dickens' books

    Actors portraying characters from Dickens' books outside the "Old Curiosity Shop."

  9. Bond Drive

    "Four Freedoms Set Key for Bond Drive" Arlington, VT; Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands; Denver, CO; Winter Park, CO; Washington, DC. America digs in to complete $13,000,000,000 second war bond drive, greatest financial undertaking in history of the world. Paramount news presents inside story of first sales of new issue, human-interest pictures of Mr. Roosevelt and White House staff. Start of the campaign! Artist Norman Rockwell's paintings of America's great four freedoms, background theme of second war bond issue. Vermont: Norman Rockwell with models and paintings of "Freedom from Want"; "Free...

  10. Book burning

    Paramount News Issue 84. University students collect and burn "un-German" books. Various INT CUs as black-listed works are gathered. CU, books to be destroyed. 01:02:08 Night scenes showing torchlight procession and books being thrown into bonfire (familiar scenes). Various shots. At night, crowd gathered outside building. Lights directed at building, parade, crowd heiling.

  12. Nazi propaganda on ideal Aryan woman

    A film report by the Nazi Welfare Organization (NSV). Healthy Aryan living, children on the land and outdoors. Ship, rough waters. Bucolic countryside: cottages, stream, animals, farm, trees. Daily morning ritual for young boys: getting out of bed, showering, shining shoes, laundry. Drums, trumpet, heiling to Nazi flag. Woman serving breakfast, children eating. Sailing, playing accordion, fishing, kitten, woman making a fire. Child walking to school. CUs, Aryan children. Boy in adult boots. Children playing at beach, in water. Boats, one with hay. Peasant couple eating. Boys marching on bea...

  13. VE day in Paris; Latvian children in Germany; US soldiers; German surrender in small town

    01:34:36 (LIB 6426+6428) Paris Lights up on VE Day, France, May 8, 1945. Night shots, lights are on at Trocadero fountain, Arc de Triomphe, Place de la Concorde. Crowds milling about. Day shots, American and British soldiers dancing with civilians in the streets, celebrating VE day. 01:38:54 (LIB 6429) Latvian Children, Hahnenklee, Germany, May 4, 1945. INT, MSs, CUs, several small children, sick and undernourished, lying in beds. LS, MS, house in resort town which shelters Latvian and Polish children. MS, CU, sign at entrance to town: "Resort for Mothers and Children." 01:40:58 (LIB 6430) ...

  14. Anti-Bolshevik rally; stereotypical Jews in the world; damaged cathedral; Speer speaks to munitions factory

    05:34:05 20,000 Czech farmers at anti-Bolshevik rally in Czechoslovakia. Demonstration on market place, listening to speaker. Hugo Toscani. (no original sound or narration) 05:34:07 "Jews throughout the World" Classic antisemitic Nazi propaganda of stereotype of Jews around the world: in Moscow, during a distribution of prizes; in USA as street traders, black man tap dancing, Lower East Side, shots of stock market, Mayor LaGuardia, etc. (no commentary, jazz music in BG) 05:36:16 In Rouen, France, the gothic cathedral damaged by fire. Smoke, firefighters, destroyed houses, ruined roads. 05:3...

  15. March of Time: Nazi Germany

    Info from the MOT story card: Hitler has given every man a job and new-found security, but at the expense of freedom. Demands of the Nazi state, glorified by Goebbels, are extremely exacting. Nothing must be wasted, "collections" are actually compulsory, youth is regimented, Jews and Communists are blamed for everything. In the US, Fritz Kuhn and his Bund flourish openly. But one American town, surfeited, refuses to allow a Bund camp to open. However, the shadow of the future lies not only over Germany but the whole of Europe. What will it bring forth?

  16. Judge Ben Lindsey

    Judge Ben Lindsey on crime and criminals. Lindsey speaks on the need to protect criminals from society's vindictiveness by setting up special courts that examine the root causes of crime. Children must be taught how, and not what, to think. (filmed in NYC studio)

  17. Arthur Szyk drawing

  18. 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.

  19. Russian DPs cross Elbe; German prisoners clean camp courtyard

    (LIB 6898) Russian DPs Cross Elbe, Magdeburg, Germany, May 31, 1945. LSs, train carrying DPs arrive at station. MSs, CU, Russian civilians with their belongings waiting at railroad station. CU, child standing next to trunk, crying. MLSs, British officer directing and counting groups as they pass. MLS, US, British, and Russian officers watch the long column of civilians crossing bridge. LSs, trash in camp courtyard which was recently evacuated by Russians. MSs, INTs, two Russian women carving meat in camp kitchen. HSs, platoon of German prisoners marching toward camera under British guard. S...

  20. Verdoner children playing

    Yoka, Francisca and Otto Verdoner playing on the floor of their home in Hilversum, Holland. Yoka and Francisca play with baby Otto as if he were a life-sized doll. Their mother Hilde picks up Otto to rescue him from his sisters' affections. CU, Hilde and Otto. CUs, Otto attempting to crawl, holding his torso up, etc. Yoka and Francisca try to help Otto. Brief shot of Francisca sitting at a table eating.