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  1. Combat in Soviet Russia

    Military Film Report: On the German and Russian encounter in the area of Kharkov, Murmansk, Rostov and Sevastopol, Russia. Reel 2: Part 3: "Sturm auf Rostow." German forces assault Rostov; boats land, troops billet. Shots of town after German occupation of July 23, 1943. Part 4: "Kaukasusfront Elbrusbesteigung." Map locates Caucasus Mountains and Mt. Elbrus. German troops and pack animals travel through Caucasus and assemble on Mt. Elbrus. Part 5: "Kampf um Sewastopol." German tanks, transport vehicles, and artillery advance on Sevastopol. German antiaircraft guns down Russian bombers and t...

  2. Russian News (1944, No. 1)

    Russian troops, tanks, and motorcycles cross the Dvina River on rafts and reach Vitebsk. Artillery fires on the city. Troops march through its ruins. Germans surrender and are marched to the rear. Citizens berate them, and embrace Russian soldiers. Rockets and artillery are fired. Russian planes pass over. Shows German dead, abandoned equipment, and German prisoners. Five German generals are interrogated by Russian troops.

  3. Summary of trial judgment in Medical case

    (Munich 619) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Judgment and Sentencing, Nuremberg, Germany. LS, MS Army photographer setting up camera in booth. LS, MS Judge Beals giving a summary of the trial and how the defense and prosecution conducted the case and what points the defendants were tried and convicted on.

  4. 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.

  5. Defendants at Medical trial; Welt Im Film: Berchtesgaden and US diplomats in Stuttgart

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Scenes of defendants Genzken, Blome, and Rose making their statements. CU, judge. 00:05:45 Welt Im Film. Obersalzberg Today (CAD) Pan, ruins of Berchtesgaden. Bomb damaged Berghof. INTs of the Berghof's air raid shelter. Pan and shots, the countryside showing the damaged country home of former Nazi officials. Martin Bormann's villa totally destroyed. The damaged SS barracks. American soldiers and some civilians enter the underground shelter of Hitler's Eagles Nest. View of the mountains. Byrnes in S...

  6. Karl Brandt makes final statement at Medical trial

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Judge Beals announces that the Tribunal has convened to hear last statements of the defendants of Case 1 and that the defendants do not have to make statements unless they desire to. Karl Brandt, once Hitler's personal doctor, makes his statement.

  7. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 480) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MLS, MS Prosecutor McHaney interrogating Dr. Wolfgang Lutz. HS, McHaney questioning Lutz. LS, prosecutor's table. McHaney asks a question about Field Marshal Erhard Milch. Pan, defendants in dock. CU, Dr. Alfred Seidel, defense attorney, speaking.

  8. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 486) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. German civilian attorneys cross-examining an unidentified witness. Witness Walter Neff is sworn in and is informed by Walter Beals, the President of the Tribunal, that since he may be tried as a war criminal later on he can refuse to answer any questions which in his opinion will incriminate him.

  9. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 529) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. High and MCU, prosecution counsel James McHaney interrogating witness. Unidentified defense lawyer at speaker's stand. Short shot, defense attorney Seidl Ratz. Judges filing into court. Unidenfitied witness being interrogated by his lawyer.

  10. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case; Welt im Film no. 57

    (Munich 529) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Courtroom, dock. MS, defendant Oskar Schroeder is interrogated by his defense counsel, Dr. Rudolf Merkel. 09:29:41 Welt im Film no. 57: "Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas in Hamburg, Germany" SEQ: Douglas arrives in Hamburg, Germany to attend a session of the Zones Advisory Board. He greets the members of the Zones Advisory Board and in his speech says that his appointment coincides with the beginning of a new phase of British policy regarding the British Zone. "The Scholl Case." The first ses...

  11. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case; Tiergarten; Mauthausen Trials

    Welt im Film, issue no. 79. December 9, 1946 "Beginning of Trials against German Doctors" Courtroom personnel stand as tribunal files in. Pan, courtroom. An American officer calls out names of chief defendants as camera pans the defendants in dock, including Karl Brandt, Siegfried Handloser, Paul Rostock, Schroeder, etc. Telford Taylor addressing court (no sound). HS, tribunal. 09:36:54 Karl Brandt standing, pleads not guilty. Handloser and Herta Oberhauser also plead not guilty. Welt im Film, issue no. 52. "Tiergarten Plowed Up, Berlin" Pan of Tiergarten. British tractors help cultivate so...

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Nazi conquest of Austria, Vienna, 1938

    LS, facade of former Austrian War Ministry with Nazi flag. The Ring and Karntnerstrasse (Opera) with flags and posters showing Hitler's picture and the words: "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer." 01:01:53 Man shining shoes. Army trucks with food supplies. Stand erected in the Ring. Monument to Austrian Victims of the War. 01:02:32 LS, Danube Canal. Jews sitting on a bench. Vienna's Jewish shop district. Car with Schupos on Danube Bridge. Trams, Hitler posters. 01:03:23 Peasants at work. 01:03:56 Village street near Vienna, Deutsche Wagram, Bocek. Soldiers and children in village. 01:04:14 Sol...

  13. Funeral of Iron Guard Leader

    01:34:42 LS funeral cortege coming out of church. 01:34:48 CU of General Antonescu and Nazi official Baldur von Schirach leading group down steps. Crowds in street along route saluting and holding banners. 01:35:04 Casket being carried by many bareheaded men in dark uniforms. 01:35:11 Overhead of street procession. German soldiers carry funeral wreath. LS of formation in shape of crossed arrow. Women in black. Men carrying iron cross symbols. Man crying. 01:35:41 Arrival at cemetery with casket. Huge banners with men's portraits on them. CU of officials saluting. LS large crowd there saluti...

  14. Auslandorganization Leader

    Ernst Bohle, head of the Auslandorganziation (AO) greets German farmers in Austria (?). Men lined up for review. CU of AO Armpatch. 01:39:15 Ernest Bohle reviews these men and speaks to one. 01:39:37 MS uniformed men sit and listen to man at lectern. 01:39:44 Cutting down tree with axe and saw. CU & MS. 01:40:00 MS planting trees on hillside. Pairs of men carrying trees to be planted between them on pallets. Planting tree with shovel. 01:40:12 High angle of men marching with shovels. 01:40:19 to 01:41:20 Workers build apartment complexes in Linz, Austria to alleviate housing shortage. 0...

  15. Yalta Conference

    Reel 1: Generals Wood, Smith, Marshall, and Somervell deplane in Malta; British Gen. Alexander, Admirals King and Cunningham, Ambassador Harriman, and Anthony Eden debark from a ship. Churchill salutes as President Roosevelt debarks. The Allied leaders enplane for Yalta after a conference. Molotov greets FDR, Churchill, Stettinius, Eden, and Hopkins as they deplane in Yalta. A Soviet honor guard is inspected. Stalin arrives at the conference site.

  16. Red Cross ship at NY harbor

    REEL 3: Unedited footage shows Canadian and American Red Cross parcels and mail being loaded aboard ship for delivery to prisoners of war in Japanese camps, stocks of food supplies on the ship, two women in their cabins, and customs inspectors examining baggage.

  17. Landsberg camp and burials

    (LIB 6198) Stalag #4 Concentration Camp, Landsberg, Germany, April 29, 1945. US soldiers of the 103rd Division, VI Corps, Seventh US Army, round up civilian work detail and load men with picks and shovels into trucks. MS, CUs German civilians bury bodies of Jewish political prisoners. INT underground barracks used to house the prisoners. CUs emaciated bodies of dead Jews in the camp. CUs and long pan, double barbed wire fence surrounding camp. CU partially burned bodies are removed from buliding. MS, CUs several of the living inmates.

  18. US airforce; Ohrdruf on fire; bones at Buchenwald

    Slate reads: "OSS USAF LT. ARMISTEAD ROLL #19" AVs, view from planes of bombs being dropped over Germany. B-26s and B-17s in the air and on ground. American soldiers on airfield unloading airplane with baggage. 05:03:56 Slate reads: "CAPT. BROWNING C-22 A-83 APRIL" Pilot in cockpit. Soldiers unloading a plane and boarding a truck, smoking, gesturing for the camera. On airfield, moving equipment with trucks. 05:06:45 Slate reads: "CAPT. BROWNING C-21 A-83 APRIL" American soldiers getting off a truck with bags, working at the airfield, marking document. CUs of soldiers as they smoke, dole out...

  19. Bomb damage in Germany

    Various aerial shots of bombed military installations and marshalling yards. Bomb damage in Wiesbaden concentration camp. Damaged buildings in Wiesbaden. MLS trainer parked on airfield. Aerial shots of bomb damage in marshalling yards near Wiesbaden and destroyed town, bridge. Prison camp showing refugees in square. Bomb damaged train and buildings along track. Aerial shot of bomb damage in Durkheim, including town, marshalling yards. Bomb damage in Worms, Germany. Shots of bombed bridges in Frankfurt (hazy). Aerial shot of refugees in prison camp. Bomb damage in marshalling yards, building...

  20. Hadamar; POWs raid for food; Breendonck torture devices

    Inquests are held at Hadamar with Dr. Wahlmann and Karl Muller (male nurse, morphine). At Meppene, soldiers delousing liberated Russian POWs. Amputees walk by. Prisoners search garbage cans for food. Crowd of disabled prisoners walk by camera in group. Survivors lying down outside, boy passes by in cart/wheelchair. Various shots of wounded/disabled prisoners eating soup, sleeping. Stretcher goes by with naked corpses. CUs, corpses. Three stretchers carried by four men at shoulder height pass in front of barbed wire fence. In Paderborn, Russian soldier argues with person off camera. Liberate...