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  1. Eichmann Trial -- Session 75 -- Eichmann's testimony

    The video begins in the middle of Session 75 with Eichmann testifying that there were bureaucratic problems which hindered attempts at mass emigration of the Jews. Eichmann goes on to explain the role of Hinckel, the Reich cultural administrator in the Reich Ministry of Propaganda, in the promotion of Jewish emigration (00:07:27). This entire segment duplicates footage found on Tape 2096 (beginning around 00:28:45). After a cut, the footage resumes with some confusion about the next document to be presented. Defense attorney Dr. Robert Servatius reads from a document (in English) which indi...

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Brussels during liberation

    Riots in Brussels. Leftist rioting on streets of Brussels, trying to prevent meeting of "Royalists." People, trying to enter Flemish Theater for the meeting, being pushed away and chased by the crowd. Gendarmes stationed along street. 01:03:10 Charles de Gaulle visiting Brussels, with Prince Reginal. Taking to crowd from Royal Palace balcony.

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    The last days in Paris before the Arrival of US Troops. Street barricades; firing rifles from windows; FFI men rounding collaborators; captured German soldiers; Red Cross workers helping wounded; ceremony at City Hall; raising flag; new Prefect of Police; wounded man; barber.

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Paris during German occupation

    Paris Scenes during German Occupation, 1942-1944. Flags, travelling shots of Paris streets, poster, Metro Opera building. Riots in the Champs Elysee, burning the Great Palace, firemen fighting flames, ambulance. French prisoners of war. Laval with German officers, Longchamps race track. French collaborator Debrinon giving speech. INT shots of ceremony for the Legion against Soviet Russia. Swastikas on wall.

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    Paris Liberation, 1946-1947. INT of partisan headquarters in Paris. Fixing armbands with FFI. Examining revolver. Digging up cobblestones for barricades. Partisans firing rifles. Dead men lying the street. German car fleeing. FFI men carrying boxes of ammunition. Man reading "Liberation" newspaper. CU of "Liberation" front page.

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    Paris Liberation, 1946-1947. FFI men carying stretcher waving Red Cross flag, carrying wounded man. Holding captured Nazi flag. Captured collaborators being marched along by a group of FFI. French young woman having her head shaved. Tearing down German posters. Hitler's picture lying among the rubble in the street. Pan of Notre Dame. Men with machine guns.

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    Paris Liberation, 1946-1947. Overturned burning truck, exploding. Allied tank painted with cross of Lorraine. FFI men painting over captured German cavalry. French gendarme. Priest getting escorted under Red Cross flag. Man getting into ambulance. Gates of Paris, cemetary, graves of French patriots. Banner on the street with a German inscription. FFI men dismantling light machine gun.

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    Fall of Paris. American GIs marching on road in Etamps (outside Paris), holding pictures of Hitler and Goering on bayonettes. Road sign, "Paris 50." People waving at passing Americans. GIs in jeep unfurling American flag, crowd cheers. US tanks enter Paris, pass Eiffel Tower. Civilians building sandbag barricade. Tanks firing at snipers in Paris outskirts. Street fighting in Paris outskirts. Jeepload of prisoners, crowd tries to mob them.

  9. March of Time -- outtakes -- De Gaulle in Paris

    1251 TTT: Snipers Panic De Gaulle Reception in Paris, September 11, 1944. Mob cheering. Moving shots of vehicles. German snipers open fire, fire returned by GIs. Crowd panics. People race for shelter. 1251 UUU: 01:15:07 De Gaulle Receives Paris Ovation, August 26, 1944. De Gaulle and his aids approach the Eternal Light. Traveling shots of vast crowds cheering, applauding. Crowd outside Champs Elysee, outside Notre Dame. Sniper fire. Police carrying one of the snipers.

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- UNRRA in Berlin; Berlin during liberation

    1251 V: UNRRA-Berlin, August 2, 1945. UNRRA office in Berlin. Waiting room, job applicants, interviewing German woman, UNRRA officials. CU of application. 1251 W: 01:24:01 US Army(?) officials arriving at Berlin airport. Shots of bombed and destroyed Berlin. People in park selling food to Russian soldiers. Berlin stadium. Sign, "US Headquarters-Berlin District."

  11. Germany at liberation: refugees, destruction, etc

    French liberated prisoners. US soldiers and ammunition, firing from tank. Tanks on village street. Airplanes dive bombing. MCUs German POWs. German civilians. Damaged gate entrance reading in part "Trier." German civilians departing town; horse, oxen, and tractor drawn wagons loaded with possessions. 01:07:20 Slate reads "Luxembourg, April 14, 1945" Germans with belongings on carts. CUs, displaced persons in line for water on city plaza, waving to camera, holidng up water cans (staged). Digging with shovels. April 16, 1945 - MCUs, German children in park, in Wiesbaden, Germany, wrestling. A...

  12. VE Day in Washington, DC

    Downtown traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue, U.S. Congress building, automobile traffic, buses, trolleys, pedestrians. Hotel Washington. WS of the White House, flag at half mast for FDR's death. EXT, the Navy Department and the Department of the Interior. Military and civilians entering building. Pedestrians and street traffic. CU of "Washington Afro-American" newspaper front page title: WAR ENDS IN EUROPE. Front page of "Jewish Journal and Daily News" in Hebrew. Woman at gates of the White House. Group of naval officers and civilians enter Navy Department. DC newsstand with V-E Day headlines.

  13. DPs; German prisoners; VE Day in Paris; German civilians

    VE Day in Wiesbaden, Germany (April 19, 1945). MCUs, long line of Russian displaced persons, marching and carrying Stalin's picture and red flags (with inscription in Russian). Speeches in courtyard (slates indicated date of February 24, 1945), women marching. Bomb damage, town streets, ruins, civilians & military, US military jeeps passing by. Fast aerial shot of road crowded with German prisoners and surrendering Germans, trucks. Railroad damage. 01:06:37 VE Day in Paris. Waving US, British and French flags. MCUs, huge crowd greeting de Gaulle, marching. Aerial shots, strafing in fore...

  14. Refugees/POWs; VE Day in London; postwar Nuremberg

    Railroad. Entrance to bunkers. Piles of ammunition near Leipzig (wired to blow all the ammunition when captured by the Americans). Sign: "Munitionsabhol = kommandos hier melden." CU of German eagle with swastika. Tanks. Liberated Russian POWs waving at camera. German POWs guarded by US soldiers. Repatriated English soldiers. French refugees walking down road. German prisoners enter POW cage, march across shallow river. 01:22:13 Sir Winston Churchill in his office. Saluting crowd from car. LS of Big Ben. Crowd on streets of London, running towards passing car, waving flags. British soldier (...

  15. Airplanes; German POWs; VE Day in Paris

    Planes flying over countryside. Pilots getting onto planes. Taking off, landing. Man holds Nazi flag. 01:41:05 German POWs in front of barbed wire, speaking (no sound). 01:42:25 Celebrating VE Day in streets of Paris. People waving flags, parade, crowd cheering. Nurses and soldiers on Army hospital grounds. Beautifully dressed women, families on the street, marching, saluting. Soldiers kissing women. VAR CUs, French women. Girl with flag. Families. US cameraman on tank. VAR shots, excited civilians posing for the camera. Airplane.

  16. Berlin after liberation

    Bomb damage in Berlin. Shots of Kaiser Temple, French Cathedral, Victory Column, Berlitz School sign above Mercedes-Benz entrance, theater, Cafe Vienna, Kaiserhof Hotel (Hitler's balcony). Civilians cleaning up debris, bucket brigade. Field Marshall Montgomery and Marshal Zhukov inspecting troops. Civilians pulling wagons loaded with possessions. MCU of children.

  17. Liberation; strafing; VE Day in England

    GSAP strafing marshalling yards and rockets firing at factory area. MS of pilots firing on range. Crowds of people outside of Buckingham Palace on VE day. GSAP strafing trains and vehicles on road. Outdoor pilot briefing. GSAP dive bombing town and marshalling yards, rockets firing. Formation of P-47s flying over airfield.

  18. Liberation (England); troops; VE Day

    GSAP strafing buildng, train and marshalling yard. Ground crewmen. Two enlisted men reading newspaper in front of 308th Bomb Group store; headlines of newspaper: GERMANY QUITS. Street scenes in London [01:34:11-01:35:33 in slow motion]. More GSAP strafing vehicles on road, trains, buildings.

  19. US Air Force; VE Day in London; Strafing

    Formation of A-26 airplanes in flight. 8th Air Force band, colors, and troops passing in review. 01:03:55 Crowds in London on VE Day, double decker bus. Aerial shots of GSAP strafing vehicle on road, factory area, buildings, town, trains, parked aircrafts (shots of flights taken by various pilots, named by cameraman on slates). 01:06:53 VE Day in London, crowd cheering and waving the British, USSR, US, French, and Norwegian flags. Shops with signs, crowd gathered outside Buckingham Palace. 01:08:11 More GSAP strafing footage.

  20. Strafing; VE Day in London

    Aerial shots of GSAP strafing town, vehicles on road, trains (pilots' names indicated on cameraman's slates). Dive bombing marshalling yard. 01:20:26 CU of Winston Churchill, the King, Allan Brooke, etc. Large crowd behind the gate leading to Buckingham Palace. Square filled with people. More GSAP strafing targets.