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  1. Nordhausen; Hannover; Buchenwald

    Corpses at Nordhausen. US medical crews evacuate survivors. MS, corpses. Survivors assisted onto litters, evacuated for treatment, man praying/crying, eating, loaded onto ambulances. Victims buried in a common grave by German civilians, corpses carried (gruesome), priest at jeep. Civilians march with shovels. Soldiers stand by mass graves. Red Cross workers feed soup to Hannover survivors. CUs, men eating. Severely wounded men lying under blankets inside barracks. Burial. Several survivors gather for group photograph against barn wall, to document atrocities. Courtyard, "Jedem das Seine" ga...

  2. Civilians at Weimar

    German civilians march along country road to tour Weimar camp. Parchment made of human skin, shrunken heads, and emaciated/wounded survivors. Truck bed of corpses. Pan to crowd looking at inmates lined up behind barbed wire.

  3. US propaganda film: racial/religious prejudice

    Dramatizes, by animation, the mixing of "Dr. Hitler's purge medicine" (consisting of racial and religious prejudice) by Nazi propangandists. Efforts to see this "purge" tonic in the US are shattered on the rock of American tolerance.

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- The Fall of Schweinfurt; hanging German soldier; factory; interrogating Germans

    The Fall of Schweinfurt (via Paramount). Shots of German soldier who wished to surrender and was hung by the SS from a tree. MS American soldier cutting him down from tree. LS wrecked rubble of ball bearing factory. Shots of GIs inspecting ruins, examining boxes of ball bearings, plunging into boxes of ball bearings. Shots of GIs and officials checking civilians for unknown Nazis; civilians being interrogated. LS German youths (16-18 years) dressed in German uniforms who fought against the Allies. American officers questioning some of them.

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Studio scenes of German-American life & maps

    563 AA Exchanging US dollars and German marks. Drawing: "Design for Summer Camp, German American Bund, Fritz Kuhn, National Chairman." Der Stuermer, CUs of antisemitic drawings. Reading "Mein Kampf." Newspaper clippings re: zoning code for Bund Camp (September 1937). Christmas ornaments of a Jew hanging. More US newspaper clippings, CUs headlines, antisemitic caricatures. 563 EE Maps of Africa, US, Germany, and Western Europe.

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- Nazis in US; protest in NYC; Germans in US

    563 J (04:01:12): (shot in the studio) January 12, 1938. INT, two Nazi censors at work going through outgoing mail. CU, letter being opened. CU, letter placed back in envelope. 563 K (04:03:28): New York City, January 8, 1938. LS, Nazi propaganda workshop with artist making posters. CU, German drawing on bench of one of the artists. CU, finished poster held by Nazi officer. CU, poster only. MS, artist working, wall filled with German posters. MS, posters on wall. CU, folders inserted in envelopes by Nazi soldier. 563 L (04:08:01): New York City, December 24, 1937. EXT, main entrance to the ...

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees in Switzerland

    Jewish refugees in Zurich, Switzerland. All refugees at the camp are Austrians. VS of the kitchen with cooks at work. LS of the dining room with refugees helping themselves and eating. Mountains in BG, visible through window. Group of men and women carrying bags, etc, walking/escaping through the woods (set up/staged). LS of man peering through bush. VS of group arriving at camp and being welcomed by everyone. CU, man chopping wood and refugees arriving at camp. MS man and woman sewing and repairing clothes. Refugees waiting in line to have their name put on camp index cards. LS, refugees f...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Rally, NYC

    Citizens' Rally against oppression at Carnegie Hall, NYC. LS, from above, of Carnegie Hall then closer, men seated behind; second speaker, curly hair, "Dangers in situation in Germany..."; Man, older, waiting behind curtain; LS, crowd, well behaved. Participants (from March of Time card catalogue): Mayor LaGuardia, Victor Ridder, William Dodd, Theodore Green, Fulton Sheen, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, Bishop Manning.

  9. New Cabinet Meeting in Berlin

    Nighttime march of SS, SA, and stormtroopers. Hitler spotlit in upper window of Reichstag. Soft, murky tracking shots of crowd, torches, flags. A little hard to see, but creates an interesting atmosphere with the sounds and the swarming spotlight. Inside the Hotel Kaiserhof, before the Cabinet meeting begins. Everyone in suits, gathered around, mingling, a bit disorganized. Posing for their first official photograph. Cabinet members include (according to BA documentation): Hitler, Goering, von Papen, Seldte, Gerecke, von Schwerin Krosigk, Frick, von Blomberg, and Hugenberg. More shots of cr...

  10. War Front; FDR speaks about Fifth Column

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 12, No. 879, Part 2. Release date, 05/27/1940. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: 12:35:09 Part 2A: "On the War Front" Milan, Italy. As war fever soars in Italy, Count Ciano, Il Duce's son-in-law and foreign secretary, appears before a huge throng of 100,000. Alexandria, Egypt. Ready to move the minute Italy enters the war, French and British warships stand guard, to protect the vital Empire life-line to India. 12:36:02 Part 2B: "On the War Front" Norway. Graphic scenes of a British naval attack at Narvik, with Nazi bombers trying to silence the warshi...

  11. Postwar retrospective: Germany, war in Europe

    US propaganda/documentary film about World War II. A post-war U.S. narrative of intentions in Germany. Reel 1, Opening credits. HASs, MSs, Berlin's war ruins, rubble, buildings, street signs laying on ground. Allied victory celebrations in Paris and London. Lots of waving, happy crowds, parade. Flashbacks to war scenes show soldiers marching, amphibious landings, Allied planes bombing enemy cities, parachutists, airborne operations, and masses of war material being transported by railway, truck, and ship. Plane crashes. Soldiers embarking and disembarking from transports and landing craft, ...

  12. Overview of Germany, the German character, and lust for conquest

    US propaganda film about "The German personality" and its national psyche and history. Reel 1 shows panoramic views of the German countryside, its people, music, schools, offices, and factories ('a modern, educated, musical, industrious nation'); dead and living victims of Nazi concentration camps; crematoria, gas chambers, victims' clothing, and articles made of human skin; and victims of Nazi atrocities in Rome, Lublin, Belgium, and Malmedy. Describes the lack of democracy in medieval Germanic states through World Wars I and II focusing on an ideal German soldier named Karl Schmidt. Shows...

  13. Postwar devastation; poverty; hunger; opening of Nuremberg Trial

    Reel 1: "Europe 1945" Panorama of war devastation: buildings and cities laid to waste, rubble, mother climbing out of trap door shelter with naked baby in arms, people in hunger and despair emerge from shelters, children running down steps, clambering for food, poverty, homeless people, begging for food, weeping woman. 05:03:01 "Nuremberg 21 November 1945" EXT and INT Nuremberg Palace of Justice. CU, document announcing trial and listing the accused. Seating of International Military Tribunal. 05:04:26 Chief US prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson presents the opening statement and Count 1 of the ...

  14. US War Department Orientation Film for US Military Personnel in Occupied Germany

    Orientation Film no. 8. U.S. propaganda film telling the history of Germany with various atrocities and depicting Germans as friendly, trustworthy people. This film was used to demonstrate proper conduct to U.S. military personnel in postwar occupied Germany. Muddy faces of German POWs. CU, Hitler, swastika banners in street, Goebbels concentration camp gates, all "disappear." Ruins, small village. Bismarck's parade band, fighting on horseback across field. Idyllic country scenes, farming, dancing. Kaiser Wilhelm, "Deutschland ueber Alles", German troops marching in 1914 (scratchy), marchin...

  15. Dachau Concentration Camp

    General coverage of the German prisoner of war concentration camp at Dachau, showing condition of prisoners that are alive, and the heaps of dead bodies; showing also prisoner liberation ceremonies. Slate reads: MACK TT-25 DACHAU. General shots of the prisoners at Dachau concentration camp. MLS, survivors staring at camera, standing around. LS from roof, in between barracks, standing around, survivors looking up into sun and into camera, waving to camera (soft), sitting on ground, steaming cauldrons, sleeping, chipping wood. Corpses lying on ground near railroad cars/platform. A group of Am...

  16. Indoctrinating Russian soldiers

    Shows training and indoctrination of the Russian soldier during World War II. A patrol of Russian recruits on field maneuvers in mountainous, wooded country is briefed by officials on care of weapons and hygiene and foot care, climbs mountains, has point man set up stone marker at stream crossing point, and wades across stream despite swift current. LS beautiful, imposing views of mountains. Pan of mountains from peaks, rushing river, waterfalls. Soldiers at stream, crossing, seated on bank of hill, get ready to go. CU, two soldiers discuss plan and map. Soldiers hike up mountains, rest. Wi...

  17. 1936 Olympics: nature; sports; athletes

    Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 1: Italian titles (rolling). Nature scenes at the Olympic camp at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, bird in trees, crane on river bank, athletes running through forest, wading stream, taking steam baths, swimming in river, playing basketball, practicing shot put and javelin throw as they prepare for the Summer Games. Flags of the nations fly at the German Arena; athletes march onto the field carrying flags of their nations.

  18. Jewish war veterans, parade, protest

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 5, No. 130, Part 2. Release date, 03/23/1933. Jewish War Veterans parade in New York City to protest Nazi persecution of German Jews. The men are nicely dressed and some wear American flag pins in their lapels or carry American flags. There is a large crowd both watching and marching. Aerial view of two groups marching. MS of people watching the parade. Other parts of the newsreel include: 01:17:33 Washington, DC "Ban on beer lifted as President signs bill legalizing brew" 01:18:47 Chicago, IL "Windy City shivers as sleet and freeze greet gentle Spring" 01:19:28 Pal...

  19. Protest in New York, Jewish organizations

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 5, No. 131, Part 1. Release date, 03/27/1933. Meeting of Jews in Madison Square Garden denouncing Nazis' intolerance. MLS, well-dressed men in dark suits, crowding onto sidewalk, men pushing, pushed and organized by cops in long coats. Inside stadium: LS from high above of crowd/audience, CU Rabbi Stephen S. Wise (man with puffy eyes), speaker (former governor of New York, Al Smith) and microphones from CBS, WMLA, WOR, holding out hand, flashes. From above, audience clapping. Bearded old man in crowd with beret. Other parts of newsreel include: Mare Island, CA "Firs...

  20. Jews protest; anti-Hitler demonstration

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 5, No. 144, Part 3. Release date, 05/10/1933. Jews in giant protest parade seen from above, marching in New York City. Organized units/groups and scattered people. Ticker tape. Well-dressed men march towards and past camera. From above LS, mostly men marching (fills screen), closer, standing still. Horse and rider from above. Full parade in wide street. Sidewalk jammed, marchers in lines, street level, American flag. Other parts of the newsreel include: 01:32:10 Washington, DC "Vanguard of 2nd B.E.F. reaches the capital. Will live in tent city" 01:33:07 Chicago, IL ...