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  1. Prewar Lviv (Lwow, Poland) and the first days of German occupation

    Prewar scenes in Lvov (Lwow, Poland, Lviv, Ukraine). VS, parade, floats with people and agit prop puppets, etc. Scenes after the German invasion. Nazi flags flying from buildings, etc. Crowds of civilians, peasants, women and children, in the streets, soldiers milling about. CU of military officer. In the first segment, the narrator speaks in Ukrainian over images of prewar life with shots of people (possibly in some sort of pageant) dressed as priests, bourgeois capitalists, and nuns in order to explain how the notion of "enemy" was created. There is a stall with a game allowing players to...

  2. 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...

  3. Survivors at Majdanek

    [The title is misleading - there is actually no trial footage in this story.] VS, CU, malnourished baby in diaper, CU, needle and syringe and hand, person is wearing a white lab coat. CUs of survivors, lying emaciated on the ground and in wooden beds. INT, still of room where bodies were decapitated. MCU, bushel of heads in a wooden fruit basket, resting next to a line of decapitated corpses in a wooden rack. Various CUs of the heads. Montage of familiar camp images: ovens, piles of metal, hair, and shoes. Translation of Ukrainian narration: A giant death industry was being created. More th...

  4. Soldiers celebrate

    EXT, soldiers clowning around outside of their barracks. Soldiers eat, sing, dance, pretend to be bull fighters, and generally have a good time.

  5. Liberation of Bessarabia, North Bukovina, June 1940

    People welcoming troops. Zhukov and military parade: main street. People demonstrate with banners, fists in the air. Timoshenko and Khruschev, with peasants, locals, Romanian POWs. VS of shackles, soldiers and POWs holding implements of bondage, torture. There are joyful scenes of reunion- men and women kissing and hugging each other, etc. Scenes are from several areas in Ukraine and Moldova, as well as Bessarabian villages.

  6. Luxembourg occupation discussed at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 534) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 1, 1946. MSs, Emil Reuter, President of the Assembly of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is sworn in and begins testifying. LS, French prosecutor Faure interrogates the witness. MSs, Reuter testifies about the German occupation of Luxembourg. He gives an account of the situation in Luxembourg immediately before the annexation by Germany, testifying that the continuation of government in Luxembourg was at the time secured, and the German government repeatedly expressed peaceful intentions. Faure speaking from the stand. LS, prisoners' dock.

  7. Doenitz testifies; US army parade in Frankfurt

    21:09:35 (Munich 155) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, May 8-10, 1946. Adm. Karl Doenitz leaves prisoners' dock, walks to witness stand, and is sworn in. MCUs, Doenitz testifying. SEQ: Capt. Otto Kranzbuehler examining Doenitz. 21:15:43 (Munich 153) Parade, Frankfurt, Germany, May 8, 1946. (silent) US troops parading. MCUs, civilian spectators. Excellent scenes, US troops armed with bayoneted rifles pass in review. Head-on shots, WAC contingent on parade. MSs, US MPs armed with rifles march in parade following by MPs in jeeps. LSs, generals of the Allied powers on review stand which i...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- GI tour of Holland

    First GI tour to Holland, part 2. Flowers, the Hague, Dutch countryside.

  9. Paul Koerner testifies re. Goering at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 40) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 13, 1946. Paul Koerner testifies under interrogation of a defense counselor. MSs, rear views, correspondents listening at trial. LSs, rear views, Chief US Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson cross examines the witness. Discussion of events in 1934....re. Goering and Thaelmann, in German. Break at 06:05, questioning beings in English. re. Thaelmann and Reichstag Fire. Koerner replies in German. Refers to Thaelmann in Buchenwald camp and complaints to Goering about conditions or treatment in concentration camps. 06:09:01 Would you tell us...ab...

  10. Communist female prisoner and other doctors testify at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 528) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 28, 1946. Dr. Hans Marx, defense counselor, questions Marie-Claude Vaillant Couturier. His questions are in German and answered in French. Dr. Marx asks the witness if her testimony is based on how she personally experienced things. She answers that it is based on her personal experience but has been confirmed through others. 08:02:50 Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence asks the defense counselors if any others wish to question the witness. LS, MS two witnesses, Dr. Jean Weith and Dr. Vic Dupont. 08:04:08 Dr. Weith enters the witness box...

  11. Ribbentrop visits Italy; Hungarian takeover of East Slovakia

    Reel 1. VS of German and Italian soldiers. Reviewing troops, parade, etc. Official visit of Joachim von Ribbentrop to Italy. Ciano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, is also present. He and Ribbentrop converse inside a place. People cheering and waving in the streets, carrying large letters that spell out "DUCE". 00:57:00 Hungarian takeover of East Slovakia. Hungarian troops enter easternmost town of East Slovakia (closest to Ukrainian border). Troops march through streets, welcomed by crowds of civilians with flowers, banners, etc. CU of older man, a decorated war veteran with many meda...

  12. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin

    10 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killi...

  13. Liberation of Western Ukraine by Soviet troops, September 1939

    Area liberated by Soviet troops. Rebuilding road and destroyed bridges. Captured Romanian soldiers, barefoot, in leg irons. Red Army enters Chernovicy. Plane drops leaflets. Kishinev: people, including Jews, waving. Fists in the air.Nikita Khruschev, in uniform. Translation of narration: Along its way the Red Army received great support from the local population. Romanian soldiers (deserters), who left the army so they could stay in Bessarabia and become Soviet citizens, were roaming the streets. [Bessarabia is a region in Moldova that was a part of Romania from 1918-1940 and became Soviet ...

  14. Nazi propaganda: ethnic Germans victimized in Poland

    Hitler Youth in the East (Posen, etc). Intertitles. Danzig. Poles victimize ethnic Germans. Ruins, graves. "Erbe" "Polnische Kulturträger" Sarcastic, Polish 'untermensch'. "Juden, Juden, Juden!" Closeups of Jews. Stars of David. Healthy blond German children. HJ, BDM at work. Antisemitic propaganda (Lebensraum, etc). Boys boxing, boy sewing, shining shoes. 9 Sept 1940, sign on tree about a village gathering in the afternoon. Folk dancing. Military officers. Local SS, SA. Clapping. Milk can, laundry in wind.

  15. Factory/prison

    White wooden crucifix (grave marker) in a wide open field. A horse and plow move through BG. VS, wide angle and CU of Dubno prison. Four old women, sitting on a cement floor sorting through bits of rags. Dissolves into scene in a factory, several looms at work. Men operating the machines. VS pulleys, CU men at the machines. VS workers and peasants at work, in tattered clothing, MS and CU men, women and children standing around a sign, they are very poor. Children look directly at the camera. LS, across the lake of a chateau. Translation of Russian narration with Ukrainian citation at beginn...

  16. War Crimes Trials: Ministries Case (Case #11)

    (Munich 663) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 11 (Ministries Case), Nuremberg, Germany, December 20, 1947. CU, judge announcing that the court will hear the arraignment of the defendants. CU, an officer states that the defendants will rise when their names are called and answer the questions put to them by the Tribunal. MSs, CU, Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor at lectern. MCU, CU, Dr. Elisabeth Gombel, Bohle's assistant defense counsel, explains that the defense counsel, Dr. Ernst Achenbach, cannot attend due to the death of his secretary and chauffeur. She speaks in both En...

  17. Raeder, Commander in Chief of Navy, and Albert Toms questioned at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 173) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, May 17 and 20, 1946. Commander in Chief of the Navy questioned as to the impression a speech by Hitler made on him in which he announced that after a long time of not involving France and Britain in the war, he had now decided to attack. HAS, MCU, Dr. Walter Siemers, counselor for Erich Raeder, at lectern. English interpreter is heard translating (sound poor). LS, Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe and Dr. Siemers at lectern. HAS, Tribunal. HAS, US prosecutor Thomas Dodd questions Albert Toms, Frankfurt Reichsbank employee (not seen). Interpreter tran...

  18. Doenitz questioned at Nuremberg Trial; Emigrants on Marine Flasher ship

    20:32:04 (Munich 155) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, May 8-10, 1946. MSs, defendants in prisoners' dock. MSs, attorneys speaking to Adm. Karl Doenitz as MP stands to the right. LS, defendants talking with their lawyers before the session starts. Adm. Doenitz leaves the prisoners' dock and walks to the witness box where he is sworn in and cross examined by British prosecutor Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe. MSs, Maxwell-Fyfe questioning the witness. Pan to Doenitz answering. CU, Capt. Otto Kranzbuehler, Doenitz's attorney, sitting next to another lawyer. LS, defendants in prisoners' dock. Pan...

  19. "Victims of Bolshevik Terror"

    CU, women, crying. Bodies laid out (victims of the Soviets). International press visits the site. CU, personal effects of victims; clothing, photographs, papers, documents, all laid out on tables. Table of religious artifacts and relics (crosses, crowns, etc.) Translation of Ukrainian narration: European press representatives are shown the place of mass executions so they could be convinced of the barbaric tortures Ukrainian people were put through. These are the pits where victims are buried. Letters and other possessions of the tortured are used to help people to identify the dead. Items ...

  20. Prussian militarists and German combat

    US propaganda film about "The German personality" and its national psyche and history. Reel 2 contrasts the British and French tradition of representative government with the totalitarianism of Germany. Describes Prussia and Frederick the Great's wars with Austria. Shows portraits of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, founders of the General Staff. Describes the dictums of Clausewitz, crushing of the 1848 revolt, German emigration to the US, and Bismarck's policies. Dramatizes combat during the Franco-Prussian War, forming the German empire, and the crowning of Wilhelm I.