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  1. VE day in Paris; Latvian children in Germany; US soldiers; German surrender in small town

    01:34:36 (LIB 6426+6428) Paris Lights up on VE Day, France, May 8, 1945. Night shots, lights are on at Trocadero fountain, Arc de Triomphe, Place de la Concorde. Crowds milling about. Day shots, American and British soldiers dancing with civilians in the streets, celebrating VE day. 01:38:54 (LIB 6429) Latvian Children, Hahnenklee, Germany, May 4, 1945. INT, MSs, CUs, several small children, sick and undernourished, lying in beds. LS, MS, house in resort town which shelters Latvian and Polish children. MS, CU, sign at entrance to town: "Resort for Mothers and Children." 01:40:58 (LIB 6430) ...

  2. Anti-Bolshevik rally; stereotypical Jews in the world; damaged cathedral; Speer speaks to munitions factory

    05:34:05 20,000 Czech farmers at anti-Bolshevik rally in Czechoslovakia. Demonstration on market place, listening to speaker. Hugo Toscani. (no original sound or narration) 05:34:07 "Jews throughout the World" Classic antisemitic Nazi propaganda of stereotype of Jews around the world: in Moscow, during a distribution of prizes; in USA as street traders, black man tap dancing, Lower East Side, shots of stock market, Mayor LaGuardia, etc. (no commentary, jazz music in BG) 05:36:16 In Rouen, France, the gothic cathedral damaged by fire. Smoke, firefighters, destroyed houses, ruined roads. 05:3...

  3. March of Time: Nazi Germany

    Info from the MOT story card: Hitler has given every man a job and new-found security, but at the expense of freedom. Demands of the Nazi state, glorified by Goebbels, are extremely exacting. Nothing must be wasted, "collections" are actually compulsory, youth is regimented, Jews and Communists are blamed for everything. In the US, Fritz Kuhn and his Bund flourish openly. But one American town, surfeited, refuses to allow a Bund camp to open. However, the shadow of the future lies not only over Germany but the whole of Europe. What will it bring forth?

  4. Judge Ben Lindsey

    Judge Ben Lindsey on crime and criminals. Lindsey speaks on the need to protect criminals from society's vindictiveness by setting up special courts that examine the root causes of crime. Children must be taught how, and not what, to think. (filmed in NYC studio)

  5. Arthur Szyk drawing

  6. 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.

  7. Russian DPs cross Elbe; German prisoners clean camp courtyard

    (LIB 6898) Russian DPs Cross Elbe, Magdeburg, Germany, May 31, 1945. LSs, train carrying DPs arrive at station. MSs, CU, Russian civilians with their belongings waiting at railroad station. CU, child standing next to trunk, crying. MLSs, British officer directing and counting groups as they pass. MLS, US, British, and Russian officers watch the long column of civilians crossing bridge. LSs, trash in camp courtyard which was recently evacuated by Russians. MSs, INTs, two Russian women carving meat in camp kitchen. HSs, platoon of German prisoners marching toward camera under British guard. S...

  8. Verdoner children playing

    Yoka, Francisca and Otto Verdoner playing on the floor of their home in Hilversum, Holland. Yoka and Francisca play with baby Otto as if he were a life-sized doll. Their mother Hilde picks up Otto to rescue him from his sisters' affections. CU, Hilde and Otto. CUs, Otto attempting to crawl, holding his torso up, etc. Yoka and Francisca try to help Otto. Brief shot of Francisca sitting at a table eating.

  9. HG Wells in Moscow

    "H.G. Wells Welcomed," Moscow. Air liner lands at Moscow airport. Mr HG Wells alights and is greeted. Close shot of him with others speaking into microphone.

  10. Kan children perform skits; at the beach in Zandvoort

    Sign placed next to a pot of flowers. INT, Robert and Betsy perform skits, adults watch (presumably at the Villa Elsa in 1938). Robert wears a military style uniform with a hat and plume and a toy gun. He bows to the audience (not seen) and salutes the camera. CUs are not in focus. Betsy performs as a ballerina, wearing a costume with a flowered wreath on her head. 01:00:59 Betsy and Robert in costume. VAR shots of the children in other costumes with pans to show entire costume. Frits and a light-haired woman in evening attire. Others in costumes performing for an audience. Camera pans up a...

  11. POW camp; destroyed railyards; the Alps; US military discover Dachau death trains; destroyed Munich

    (black and white) LS of a POW (?) camp surrounded by wire fencing, inmates moving about, a watch tower is visible in FG. Camp is located in a large open field with mountains in BG. Planes fly overhead. On nearby road, two women in civilian dress walk along carrying luggage. Notice the camp's proximity to the main road. Two US soldiers along road get out of a "HQ1" vehicle and look at destroyed railway carriages, there are many of them. 01:01:42 Road with destroyed buildings and cars, tanks and turned over military vehicles. MS of soldier, possibly Col. Dockum. 01:03:10 Sign, "Liege 56K, Hou...

  12. Judgement delivered on Frank, Frick, Streicher, Doenitz, Raeder at Nuremberg Trial

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, 1 October 1946. Justice Francis Biddle (US) reading part of judgement on Hans Frank: "a willing and knowing participant in the use of terrorism in Poland; in the economic exploitation of Poland in a way that led to the deth by starvation of a large number of people; in the deportation to Germany as slave laborers of over a million Poles; and in a program involving the murder of at lest three million Jews. Conclusion: The Tribunal finds that Frank is not guilty on Count One but guilty under Counts Three and Four of the indictment."...

  13. Sentencing Sauckel and von Papen at Nuremberg Trial

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. HMS, Fritz Sauckel, German Labor Leader, listening to Justice Francis Biddle giving a resume of his career. Justice Biddle says that Sauckel is responsible for the deportation of some 5 million people into labor camps, and he was informed about the dire conditions there. He seems not to have taken any initiative to alleviate the situation for these workers. HS, MS as Biddle reads the tribunal's verdict on Sauckel: guilty on counts three and four in the indictment. HMS of Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence (British) declar...

  14. FDR at the polls

    "New Deal Dominates America" Hyde Park, NY; New York City, NY; Pennsylvania. Cartoon (from the library) of Uncle Sam at the crossroads. Good shots of FDR at the polls, giving his name to the registrar. CUs, Mrs. James Roosevelt, his mother. Casting their votes for Gov. Lehman. Shot of citizens lined up at the polls. CU, electioneering sign. Map showing how FDR carried all but the six shaded states in 1932, whereas today, other states have swung toward the New Deal. CU, Senator David A. Reed, Republican spokesman, and CU of New Dealer Joseph A. Guffey who defeated him. This was a blow to con...

  15. Baby Otto Verdoner

    EXT, High angle shot, looking down on Otto Verdoner playing in his crib/playpen. CU of a stuffed elephant toy in the crib. VS of Otto in his crib and then crawling about on the lawn in the Verdoner family yard. The house is visible in the BG of several shots. Hilde Verdoner feeds Otto a cracker, Otto continues to prance around his crib and eat his cracker. MCU, a woman in the garden knitting while she keeps an eye on Otto. CU, Otto picks up a ball, he is playing with his sister who is off camera. VS, Yoka Verdoner playing with Otto. VS, Hilde and all three children (Yoka, Francisca and Otto...

  16. Children's playing cards

    Julia Schor played with the cards while she was in hiding during the Holocaust in the Netherlands.

  17. Armband stenciled Judenrat worn in the Plaszow labor camp

    The armband was worn by Dr. Edmund Goldenberg in a labor camp in Płaszów, Poland.

  18. Yugoslavia: railroad yard; bank; villagers; Ustashi prisoners marched through streets; scenes in Belgrade

    Reel 9: Railroad yards in Belgrade, locomotives. Kalemegdon Park, French Military Museum in BG. Pan across old fortified area overlooking mouth of Sava River; Danube River on right. People lined up in front of various banks to exchange old dinars for new dinars. Sign on bank telling people to exchange money. People leaving bank, guard standing by door. Yugoslavians looking at displays of new dinar money. Street scenes showing damages to residential section and hospital. CUs, faces of townspeople. Group of Ustashi prisoners marching under guard to concentration camp; Serbians beating prisone...

  19. Verdicts delivered on Speer, von Neurath, Fritzsche, Raeder, Rosenberg at Nuremberg IMT

    Verdicts rendered on Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg IMT, Nuremberg, Germany, 30 September 1946. Russian Justice, Justice Francis Biddle, and Justice Geoffrey Lawrence stating conclusions of the tribunal on Constantin von Neurath and Albert Speer. Speer: Guilty under counts 3, 4 (only the beginning and end of his verdict are audible). Von Neurath (in French) (sound cut off). Fritzsche: Not guilty under the indictments, because he was subordinate to Goebbels and Dietrich. LS, courtroom as Justice Lawrence states that any appeal of the defendants to the Control Council for clemency must be lodged w...

  20. Łódź becomes Litzmannstadt, reel 2

    Germans build new planned city for German Volk. Łódź being "rebuilt." Reel 2: School. Man painting. Poles in factory. Germans in dining area. Slow pan, eating/smoking in dining area. Sign: Staedtliches Krankenhaus Mitt. Hospital. Nurses caring for bed-ridden. Medical examinations, X-rays. Hitler Youth, drums. Stadium, sports, calisthenics. Track race, soccer, long jump, swimming, women's track race. Women doing calisthenics. Drums. Book: Das Wappen vom Litzmannstadt. CUs, swastika. Unveiling new city seal with Greiser.