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  1. 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.

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Feature film about a Russian army officer: military school

    Feature film about a young Russian army officer. Begins with his participation at a Russian youth military school and follows him as he advances in the army. Film portrays youthful patriotism through the willingness of young Russian men and women to enlist. The inhumanity of war is illustrated through scenes of extreme and ruthless German aggression. There are many any scenes of camaraderie between soldiers, battles with the Germans, and the destruction of war. Reel 1: Soldier comes in from rain, talks to roomful of kids at night. At military school. "Old House Father" comes in.

  6. Warsaw after bombing 1939, aerial views

    Low aerial shots of Warsaw after bombing.Warschau 1939 (in German print) Nuer fuer den Dienstgebrauch! Dies ist ein geheimes Gegenstand im Sinne des 88 Reichs Strafgesetzbuchs (04/24/34) [I.e,. secret, military documentation.] Low aerial of city. Buildings some with smoke. Bombed out houses and apartment blocks. Thick black scratch. Facade of big municipal buildings, interior bombed out. Pan up wreckage of brick building, wrought iron balconies, twisted to sky. View down an alley, bombed out buildings. MS and MLS QF, people and sidewalk, deserted rubble of courtyard. Pedestrians. Rain soake...

  7. Jews in ghetto of Dabrowa Gornicza & Bedzin, Poland; street scenes, workers, sewing workshop of Rossner

    Jews walking on sidewalk, nicely dressed, past storefronts, including "Schumacherei". Jewish Stars marked "Jude" worn on clothing, mostly young adults. CUs. Funny angle up, Jewish star on clothes of boy and his dad. 01:00:24 Policeman passing quickly close to camera. 01:00:30 Large group of many smiling women with Jewish stars close together, elevated camera angle. CU, pan CU to more faces. 01:00:31 Wider shot, big crowd on street in front of building. Pan up brick building to window with bars, three men lean heads out window. CU men from elevated angle. Serious-looking man, grim woman, two...

  8. German Newsreel selections

    Trieste (Monfalcone), Laying the keel for the first of two cruisers to be built for the Royal Thailand Navy in St. Marks Shipyards. The Bishop of Trieste officiates. Present: The Minister of Thailand, members of the commission, the Prefect of Trieste and other civic authorities. The launching from the Monfalcone shipyard of the 2nd unit of the mercantile fleet of Italy, the motorship "Vettor Pisani". Godmother was the wife of the Prefect of Fiume. It was blessed by the Archbishop of Goriza. Venezia, A visit to Venice by Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda. Mostly LS, at night, Piazza...

  9. Hindenburg speaks at rally

    Goebbels in profile in trenchcoat. At Lustgarten, Berlin. In BG soldier and journalist in bowtie and hat. Big camera visible too. Great MLS of camera on tripod. Pan out across swarming crowd. Hindenburg walking through crowd, up to podium. Looks very professorial. "Heils"; holding top hat. Hindenburg speaks, greets crowd. Reads from paper with big print in gloved hand (age). Then, hurrahs, big cheers with raised fist, National Anthem. Remainder of reel contains: Hysterical crowds at another event. Nazi banners. Fireworks. Spotlights. Train station?

  10. Refugees in Italy

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 17, No. 287, Part 3. Release date, 04/20/1944. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Italian Refugee Problem" The Allied Control Commission humanely handles the thousands of pathetic refuges who require clothing, food, and bivouac until the tides of war roll by. Italian refugees mill around courtyard/piazza with duffel bags. Little kids are dressed. Children and adults are fed. Mostly CUs. MLS courtyard/square. People stand around with bundles. CU kids with bandages and scarves wrapped around head. Baby bounced. CU little girl. MS people enter building, ...

  11. Propaganda film on eugenics/Nazi racial science

    Opening title sequence with production company, credits. Propaganda on genetic analysis. Family visits the doctor, who records their hair color, eye color, skull size with the appropriate equipment. (Some of these devices are artifacts displayed at the USHMM.) Family in waiting room. Doctor measuring skull size of man, woman, and their son, using calipers. Doctor checks hair coloring of mother against his hair color-spectrum samples; same process with eye color of mother, child.

  12. Trains and their manufacture

    Large locomotive starting up, VAR conductor, engineer pulling gears, signals changing. Picturesque view of sky and countryside from train window; stoking coal for engine; HA over the rails. VAR dissolves, then fade to black.

  13. Jews beaten, bodies, crowd (Lwow); soldiers' corpses after Russian massacre

    Exhumation of victims of the NKVD in Brygidki prison in Lviv in the summer of 1941. Laying out the bodies of officers and soldiers. Crowd gathered around bodies. (VQ, very soft, dark) Women poking at bodies which are being laid out in the courtyard, sweeping them clean? Woman running after and beating a man in the crowd. Soldiers pull her back and comfort her. Woman keening. A Ukrainian militiaman, recognizable by his armband, beating a Jewish man in Brygidki prison in Lviv. This was during the "prison action" of the Lviv pogrom of 1941. Many bodies laid out in foundation of building/baseme...

  14. Road Building Project Near Auschwitz

    Men working on a road building project. VAR shots of construction, workers and a tractor. Closeup of sign: "Strassenbaugesellschaft / W. Schallinger u. Co. / Wien / Zweigniederlassung Krakau / Baubuero Jedrzejow"

  15. Kharkov Trial; Executions

    Scenes from wooded courtroom of men on trial for crimes committed against Soviet civilians and soldiers. The judge reads the sentence before a standing audience. The convicted men are led outside and are hanged at a public hanging. The names of the men are read: Reinhard Redslav, Wilhelm Langfeld, Hans Riitz, Mikhail Bulanov.

  16. Goebbels speech; Anniv. of German-Japan agreement; Invading China; Oath swearing-in ceremony

    06:00:40 Goebbels speaks theatrically and confidently at an orchestra concert celebrating the fifth anniversary of the "Reichskulturkammer" and the "NS-Gemeinschaft KdF." Civilian crowd, well-dressed, and Nazis. Ley and Funk in the loge seats. Goebbels speech (original sound, close-up): "Der Ausdruck, Wir danken unserem Fuehrer sei ein Zeichen der tiefsten Verpflichtung, das die Nation der Fuehrung gegenueber empfinde. Auch der deutsche Kuenstler habe diesen Ruf aufgenommen. Er beneide die anderen Voelker nicht mehr Verantwortung dem Staat gegenueber mitbeteiligt zu sein und seine Teil mit ...

  17. Nazi children/soldiers

    Workers Party Day. Montage of CUs, headshots of Workcorps, HJ, BDM, and Wehrmacht. Admiring faces in the crowd. All look Aryan. All EXT shots.

  18. Goering speaks about power

    State celebration of justice on the occasion of the formation of the German Reichs-Justice-Administration on April 2, 1935. Goering speaking to lawyers at a gathering at the State Opera House in Berlin. MCU Goering speaking with CAs to overhead shots of theater. Judges on stage, Hitler and other officials in audience. Speech re: guarantee of rights can only be found in the Recht des Volkes, which is the basis of the State.

  19. Goebbels at Handel concert

    Goebbels speaks at a commemorative concert for Bach, Handel and Schutz, re: "...Forms change, but the soul remains. The meaning of German [Culture] remains so long as the German people live. To keep their Immortality is the the duty of each generation..." Goebbels also speaks of Gleichschaltung, the spirit of German creativity, and a mix of culture and politics. MS of Goebbels speaking with CUs of audience, performers, theater (stage draped by swastikas). Several views of orchestra and chorus performing Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus."

  20. Faces of International Hitler Youth

    HJ-Stabsfuhrer Hartmann Lauterbacher, deputy head of the Hitler Youth (HJ) speaking (partial), his speech continues over dramatic shots of Hitler Youth listening to him, holding Nazi flags, HJ banners, and signs/flags of various countries (Costa Rica, Cuba). Lauterbacher tells the youth that they are not strangers in Nazi Germany; that Nazi Germany is the home of all Germans.