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  1. Trial of Marshal Henri Petain

    Trial of Marshal Henri Petain, Fortress Montrouge (outskirts of Paris), July 1945. MSs, crowds entering palace courtyard after credentials are checked by guards. VS, Palace of Justice. MSs, Pierre Mongibaud, President of the High Court, enters palace. Anteroom shots (dark), civilians and military enter; group watches from stairs. MSs, EXT, bedroom window of palace. Room formerly occupied by Petain. MSs, CUs, correspondents working in press room. LS, policemen and firemen on palace roof. INT of courtroom, Petain enters, sits in chair flanked by guards. INT, witnesses appear; Michael Clemence...

  2. Hitler Protest in NYC

    "Gigantic Hitler Protest, New York" Ground shot of parade, flag bearers. Rabbi Wise is at the extreme right. Maj. Gen. O'Ryan, Commander of the 27th Division, leads the parade. Crowd shot. CUs, Jewish onlookers. CUs, placards. Shot of crowds at Battery Park. LS, Gen. O'Ryan speaking to crowds at microphone: "The principle that all citizens of a state stand equal before the law in relation to their persons and property has long since come to be recognized as a test of civilized government."

  3. Kan family vacationing during winter in Switzerland

    Hand-drawn title card with a ski hill, Swiss flag, and building: "Winter 1931-32 St. Moritz." At a train station. Scenic shots of the city of St. Moritz and surrounding mountains. Jeanne, wearing a hat, fur coat, and heels; walking up an angled street towards the camera. Cresta Run toboggan course. Scenic shot of the city, more shots of the toboggan course. 01:01:46 LS, ice rink. From a distance, people ice-skating with the Swiss Alps in BG. Closer view of the ice rink with figure skating performance. Various acts, audience, Alps in BG. 01:05:14 Ice rink from the side. Couples skate as the ...

  4. War Crimes Trials: I.G. Farben Case

    (Munich 617) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 6 (I.G. Farben Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Shots of defendants pleading "not guilty" to the indictment. The defendants rise and plead to charges in the following order: Carl Krauch, Hermann Schmidt, Georg von Schnitzler, Fritz Gajewski, Heinrich Hoerlein, August von Knierien, Fritz ter Meer, Ernst Buergin, Paul Haefliger, Max Ilgner, Friedrich Jaehne, Hans Kuehne, Walter Duerrfeld, Heinrich Gottineau. The other defendants standing trial but not answering to pleas are visible in the prisoners' dock: Christian Schneider, Otto ...

  5. Promoting need for war crimes trials; bookburning

    Film promoting the need for war crimes trials in Nuremberg. Narration explains the various trials established to prosecute war criminals. Opening shot, statue of Thomas Jefferson in Jefferson Memorial, Washington DC. Ext CUs, Adolf Hitler addressing German people at Nuremberg rally (translated into English). CU, concentration camp victims; weeping relatives/civilians. Piles of corpses, atrocities. CU, documents. US soldiers shot in back, victims of Nazi persecution. Wagons loaded with corpses moving through streets. Marching with swastikas. 12:10:50 Book burning (all familiar images, good d...

  6. Kan family postwar in US: Robert's child

    Color. Robert gets into a car, out of the car, and walks to the house. Robert walks out of a house with a boy. They walk down the sidewalk and wave. LS, mother in the doorway of the house. She then walks toward the camera. The boy gets into a car and sits in the driver's seat. 01:07:06 City skyline. Boy plays with children on a sidewalk, children line up for the camera. 01:07:56 Robert holds the hand of a younger child in a blue snowsuit who looks and waves at the camera. Robert and his wife, seen earlier, walk down the sidewalk with the children.

  7. Justices provide summary, judgement and verdicts at Nuremberg Trial

    Judgments rendered on Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg IMT, Nuremberg, Germany, 30 September 1946. Pan of courtroom from tribunal to prisoners' dock. LS, prisoners' dock and their attorneys sitting in FG as Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence reads from the Nuremberg Charter. MSs, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder. MS, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg. Albert Speer and Fritz Sauckel sitting behind them. MS, Alfred Jodl, Hans Frank, Franz von Papen, Wilhelm Frick. Pan, von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Julius Streicher, Speer, Walter Funk...

  8. Yugoslavia: houses; factory; city scenes; market

    Reel 3: Residence of the British Ambassador, Ralph R S Stevenson. Walking to garden; talking. Stevenson; weaving looms in operation; Yugoslavian women working looms. Parliament building; trolley cars passing by in FG; dome. Yugoslavians in Kalenica Guvno marketplace, trading and dealing. Cuetnitrg Market on Sunday morning; basket of eggs, barrels of cheese, onions, chickens and garden vegetables sold at the market; curbside stalls, buyers walking through.

  9. Joseph Wulf phonograph records

    Two original record discs (LPs) of recordings by Holocaust survivor and historian Joseph Wulf (b. Chemnitz, 1912 - 1974, Berlin). Includes songs composed by Joseph Wulf, accompanied on piano by Friedrich Scholz.

  10. Kan family: daily life in Netherlands; children at play

    House shot from across the street. Jeanne and children on sidewalk. Two children walk hand in hand in backyard. Four older men look down hill in yard, woman and two children in BG. Children stand by a window looking out. 01:10:14 Two older women stand next to little girl (Betsy?) and watch the little boy walk towards the camera. Little boy (Robert?) walks around the yard and plays with a ball. Woman and children cross street, walking. Boy eats in chair and points to the camera with Betsy(?) on the right. Shot of both children. 01:11:43 Scenes of a band playing on the beach. People gathered ...

  11. Judgment at Nuremberg Trial

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence tells of Robert Ley committing suicide and Alfred Krupp unable to attend trial for his physical and mental condition (similar to Story 2611 but from a different perspective). Jackson gives summary of what prosecution claims and demands. French Justices Henri de Vabres and Robert Falco reading statements from bench. [The sound is partly gone, sketchy, four totally different scenes, partly in French before Biddle explains the Charter.] MS of Justice Francis Biddle speaking of the Nuremberg...

  12. Kan family vacationing during winter in Switzerland

    "Grand Hotel Tschuggen" reservation slip. Handmade picture of the hotel and "1937." Robert, Betsy, and Frits ice skate. People in observation bleachers next to the rink, waving. One woman taking photographs or film. People skate. Landscape shot of the mountains. Betsy and Robert pull their sleds. Jeanne walks behind them. Betsy ice skates. Frits ice skates. 01:02:49 Boy (unidentified) with skis and ski poles. 01:03:23 The boy skates with Robert and Betsy and the Kan family. Robert wears new ski goggles. 01:05:30 color Ice skating. Older man and woman outside the hotel, smiling and waving. R...

  13. Hitler; bookburning

    WS, huge crowd, Hitler with Goering and other elite. Hitler giving Nazi salute, swastikas, Hitler in uniform, crowd, SA, burning books. "We thought he was funny that Nazi paper-hanger...and that Nazi salute, we thought that was funny too." CU, Hitler watches bookburning. Britain's Chamberlain and France's Daladier deplane airplane. "You saw the burning of the books, the non-Aryan books, remember? You thought that such hysteria wouldn't spread, that Chamberlain and Daladier would contain such poison inside Germany." MLS, defenses of France's Maginot Line. WS, Nazi rally at Nuremberg. VS, cro...

  14. 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...

  15. Nazi propaganda poster

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

  16. 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...

  17. 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.

  18. Doll purse

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

  19. 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...

  20. 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...