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  1. Damage to Polish railway system; Jewish forced labor

    (events in 1939) Film about the railroad system in Poland after start of war. Newspaper style titles: Reichs Railroad Film Unit. Early September 1939, map of Poland and railroad system. Bromberg (Bydgoszcz, Poland) Destroyed RR installations, RR bridges in Poland, areas close to German border. Narrator identifies different locations, damage. 01:21:45 "Refugees...Jews fleeing" (on wagons, with hats and coats). 01:26:49-01:28:14 Dwelling near the RR station damaged by bombs. The local inhabitants clear up. Jewish inhabitants, who often comprise more than 50% of the population, must do physica...

  2. 1936 Olympics: diving; swimming

    Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 7: Japanese athletes participate in fancy diving and swimming events.

  3. Handcrafted commemorative coin medallion created for a US crew member on an illegal immigrant ship

    Small medal commissioned by Paul Kaye to memorialize the imprisonment of the crew and passengers of the illegal immigrant ship, Hatikvah, on May 18, 1947, after their capture at sea by the British on May 17 during a voyage to Palestine. It was carrying nearly 1500 Jewish refugees, mostly Holocaust survivors. The medal was made from a hand flattened Cyprian piaster coin by an artist, name unknown, that Paul met in the internment camp on Cyprus. It is etched with the names, Hatikvah and Cyprus, an image of the ship, and an image of the detention camp; the initials of Paul’s nephew, Joseph Ros...

  4. Doctor testifies about Frick at Nuremberg Trial

    War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 11, 1946. Dr. Franz Blaha testifying on stand and being cross examined by several defense attorneys. One defense attorney questions Blaha as to Funk's visit to Dachau: when exactly he had visited. Attorney of Frick says that his defendant claims not to have ever been to Dachau. He asks Blaha from which distance he thinks to have seen Frick there. Blaha responds Frick passed by him with several people. Attorney asks if Blaha recognized Frick himself or was told by other prisoners that this was Frick. Blaha responds he had seen Frick before in se...

  5. War Criminals Hunt

    (LIB 7228-7229) War Criminals Hunt, Norway, June-July 1945. SEQ: US, British, and Nilorg (Norwegian Underground) troops entering German POW camp in the early morning and routing the prisoners from their sleep. The Germans are lined up outside of barracks and informers pass along the lines in an attempt to identify former Gestapo men. MLSs, MSs, German prisoners rush from their barracks in all manner of dress. In many instances the Norwegian troops boot the prisoners to hurry them along. MSs, informers pass along a line of women who had worked for the German government and are presently inte...

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- Democracy in Action; GIs with German girls

    Coburg, Germany. Democracy in Action in Germany. Mobs of German children and women (blonde/Aryan) around jeeps (GI) waiting for ride. CUs, faces of children in crowd. Trucks with kids. German infant. German boys in softball contest. Crowds, contestants. High jump. Wheelbarrow race. Red Cross girls. Grandstand. Prizes. Crowd. Lank Hannsa, near Berlin. GIs and German girls fraternize. MSs of GIs at tables at outdoor restaurant with German girls. Lake, beach, GI carrying rifle, walking across beach with girls. Two bosomy girls, walk by beach. On sand (seated), talking, sunbathing.

  7. Hitler youth; Nazi officials; Invading Leningrad

    Reel 1: Hitler Youth do farm work to support German war effort. MS boys with scout caps on, farming in a field. MS, lugging bags over shoulders. CU, smiling boys snacking. MS, girls. CU, young woman crouched in field, feeding hens. Two women herding geese. CU, milking a cow. CU, helping piglets nurse (holding in arms). Boys on tractor, carrying hay, (teens) to haystack. Women standing in truckbed and on ground, stabbing hay, petting horse. Women walking arm in arm. Hitler Youth take summer vacation at Oste River. Shirtless boys all seated outside at picnic tables, assembling planes. CU, fri...

  8. Hadamar Murder Mills

    (LIB 5168 - LIB 5170) Hadamar Murder Mills, Hadamar, Germany, April 7, 1945. SEQ: German civilians dig up bodies from graves. War Crimes Investigation Team arrives and performs autopsies on bodies. INT, MCUs Dr. Adolf Wahlmann, Karl Willing, and Adolph Merkle who were in charge of the asylum are interrogated. Note: In this insane asylum at Hadamar, 35,000 Polish, Russian, and German political prisoners were slaughtered.

  9. German TV documentary film on antisemitism (reel 4)

    Close-up of the Nuremberg Laws, as published in the Volkischer Beobachter. Aerial shots of rows and rows of tents at the Reich Party Day are followed by aerial shots of rows and rows of barracks at Auschwitz. Staged scene of a Nazi judge sentencing to death a Jew who violated the Nuremberg Laws. Biographical information on Wilhelm Stuckart, a Wannsee conference participant and his connection to Globke: they co-authored a commentary on the racial laws. Quick shots of Nazi judge Roland Freisler presiding at the trial of the 20th of July plotters. Bookburning scenes and post-liberation scenes ...

  10. Goering testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 48) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 13, 1946. Hermann Goering testifies about the organization of the State Police. Goering talks about the creation of the "Geheime Staatspolizei," as opposed to the civil police that was under the jurisdiction of the various German Laender. Shots of defendants, counselors, and judges listening. HAS, courtroom. Dr. Otto Stahmer, Goering's attorney, addresses the Tribunal. MS, Keitel, Rosenberg, and Kaltenbrunner listen to Goering's testimony. HAS, Tribunal. Justices Francis Biddle (US), John J. Parker (US), Henri Donnedieu de Vabre (Fran...

  11. Soviet prosecutor Rudenko questions witness about Katyn Forest Massacre at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 272) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 1 and 29, 1946. LS Tribunal. Russian prosecutor Lt. Gen. R A Rudenko questioning witness (not seen). MLS, former colonel of German signal regiment, Ahrens, is questioned by Russian prosecutor. Russian witness Professor Boris Vasiltevich Bazilevsky testifying about the Katyn Forest massacre. MLS, Rudenko interrogating Bazilevsky. Shots of prominent US newspapermen seated in visitors' gallery: (left to right) Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Publishing Editor of N Y Times; Lee Hills, Managing Editor of Miami Florida Herald; John C. Ostreicher, F...

  12. Paternity suit; genetic testing

    Dramatized propaganda film with actors explaining a paternity suit and genetic testing. Reel 1: Titles, credits. Nurse with baby in nursery, various scenes. Toilet training. In doctor's office. Doctor reading papers, calls nurse. Concerning Frau Weber, four years ago she thought her baby was switched with another. Now I've heard from her lawyer. Nurse: "that's crazy!" "Crazy or not..." Court case in Munich: Weber vs. Brugger. 01:09:37 Family enters room, with little boy. Blood test, from mother's ear, boy's ear, father's ear. Measuring mother's head, boy's, father's. Doctor calls out result...

  13. Russian testimony at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 13) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 26, 1946. LSs, witness Jacob Grigorjov, a Russian peasant who remained in German-occupied territory from July 1941 and whose wife and two children were killed by the Germans, is sworn in and questioned by a Russian prosecutor. MSs, Justices A F Volchoff (USSR), Birkett (Britain), and Lawrence (Britain). MSs, girl in audience looking through binoculars. MCU, Russian prosecutor speaking. LSs, Eugene Kivilsha, a Red Army physician, testifying that he was imprisoned in a German prison camp in the Ukraine. Note: All testimony is in Russ...

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Conference in Korea

    Official Motion Picture Release - Bureau of PR #1600. Seoul, Korea. Representatives of the Russian army and the US army confer.

  15. Slovakian newsreel: Fascist youth at camp in Slovakia

    Slovak Sound Weekly: Representatives of the Croatian Ustashe Youth during a visit to Slovakia in Piestany, escorted by the leader of the Hlinka Youth, Alojz Macek.

  17. Hans Richter testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 272) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 1 and 29, 1946. Hans Richter is sworn in, identifies himself, and starts testifying. Russian counselor is heard asking questions; witness answers in German.

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  19. Paternity suit; genetic testing

    Dramatized propaganda film with actors explaining a paternity suit and testing. Reel 2: The boy, "der kleine Georg" [Little George]. Blood test on slide under microscope. Microscopic view of slides and explanation by doctor. Blood is not the only factor analyzed. Eye color. Illustrates eye colors of both boys (in disputed baby case) and their parents. 01:18:39 Hair color. The doctor knows from the analysis the mother is really a dark blond, though her hair is bleached. Hair form and texture. 01:20:23 Ears. CU photos. Nose holes. CU : 'Are you beginning to trust us now?' Hand prints. 'Frau W...

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Fundraising dinner for Polish Jewry; map

    09:24:09 477 D: "Meeting of Polish Jews in NY" at a round table, formal dinner, reportedly on December 1, 1931. Palm tree in BG. Benjamin Winter, President of the Federation of Polish Jews in America, and President of the World Federation of Polish Jews: "Condition of Jews in Poland is one of the Great Tragedies"; "...constantly discriminated and propagandized...Jewish children denied proper education...help these people... our need is $1 million." Fundraising speech [Mute] 09:31:58 477 I: Boat in fog, mist [without sound] 09:33:17 477 N: Map of Poland. CU Russia.