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  1. Nazi propaganda: anti-Polish

    This feature film opens in the German village of Emilienthal in the Polish district of Luzk in March 1939 as Polish authorities close a German school to turn it into a military police post. The teacher Maria Thomas constantly complains to the Polish mayor. Other Germans are angry about higher taxes for ethnic Germans and growing expropriations of land and houses. Maria's husband refuses to sing the Polish anthem and he is beaten up by Polish thugs who are said to thrive for the 'annihilation of...German pigs'. He dies because the police and the hospitals refuse to help Germans at all. Maria...

  2. Nazi propaganda: anti-Polish

    This feature film opens in the German village of Emilienthal in the Polish district of Luzk in March 1939 as Polish authorities close a German school to turn it into a military police post. The teacher Maria Thomas constantly complains to the Polish mayor. Other Germans are angry about higher taxes for ethnic Germans and growing expropriations of land and houses. Maria's husband refuses to sing the Polish anthem and he is beaten up by Polish thugs who are said to thrive for the 'annihilation of...German pigs'. He dies because the police and the hospitals refuse to help Germans at all. Maria...

  3. Five Cities

    Yiddish titles. English title: "Jewish Life in Lwow." Pan, overview Lwow city nestled in a valley. Large buildings, city square, monuments, trams, busy street traffic, pedestrians, promenade, important buildings, marketplace. Stylish men and women promenade through modern Lwow, also known as Lemberg. MSs, shopping for wares and sellers at marketplace. Parks and pavilions, public spaces, busy streets, people. 04:05:58 Scenes in the old and well-established Jewish community, following groups of well-dressed and Orthodox Jews, street scenes, daily activities, and showing the landmarks: Yad Har...

  4. Five Cities

    Yiddish titles. English title, "Jewish Life in Bialystok." Pan, overview of city of Bialystok. Street scenes illustrating city as an industrial and cultural center with buildings, shops, and pedestrians. Images of downtown shops and buses, market day with peasants and horses. 03:04:10 Scenes of the Jewish community, children, elderly, street scenes, schools and synagogues. 03:05:31 Tile-roofed home of Dr. Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto. Sholem Aleichem Library, signs in Yiddish. INTs, factory, smokestacks, power looms and textile workers. Nursery. TOZ sanatorium. 03:08:40 Community-run summ...

  5. Five Cities

    Yiddish titles. English title: "Jewish Life in Krakow" Pan of city of Krakow, buildings, tram, street scenes, statues, city square with pigeons. Streetcars share tree-lined streets with horse-drawn carriages. People conduct business under umbrella-covered markets and arcaded market halls. Jewish children, impoverished housing in Jewish quarter. Scenes of the famous Remu Synagogue and the Alte Shul, an orphanage, a hospital, and the Jewish Community Council. Street scenes with Jews showing the vitality of the community. Several schools. Parks and schoolyards host sports, games and animated d...

  6. Five Cities

    Yiddish titles. English title, "A Day in Warsaw" Pan, overview of city of Warsaw, street scenes, pedestrians, important modern multistoried buildings, cars, city square with pedestrians. Contrasted with old market square, narrow streets, Jewish quarter, including Zamenhof Street and the commercial Nalewki Steet where 400,000 Jews lived before WWII, and Jewish institutions, such as the community council, hospitals, schools and synagogues. Scenes of the modern parts of the city with large buildings, autos, and trucks meet with horse-drawn carriages, crowds, pushcarts, and porters in the bustl...

  7. Five Cities

    Yiddish titles. English title, "Jewish Life in Vilna" Pan, overview of the city of Vilna, showing broad streets, traffic, large buildings, pedestrians. Shows Vilna's famous landmarks: the Strashun Library, Shnipeshiker Cemetery, and the YIVO Institute. Elderly woman prays. In Jewish quarter, clocks displayed on EXT of buildings, Yiddish signs, narrow streets with shops, people engaged in the rituals and realities of daily existence at work selling wares on the street, resting. Men with horses and buggies wait for passengers at square. CUs, children. Street scenes, pedestrians, shops, signs,...

  8. Gathering, sorting, burning books

    Two men go through stacks of books. Piles, books scattered all over room. CU, pan of books as they are sorted through. EXT, young men (probably university students) throw books onto truck. One man with SS armband. CU, books loaded onto truck. LS, Hitler Youth girls (BDM) marching by fire with banners, tossing books. Marchers throw torches into main fire. Goebbels speaks with animated gestures. Crowd throws books into fire. Elevated wide shots. Strong impression of books flying through the air in arcs into the fire. CU, bookthrowing.

  9. Process of isolating, labeling, deporting, murdering Jews

    DER KRIEG. Germans enter Poland. Lwow pogrom amateur footage; stills. Nazis entering towns via truck; Hitler speeches; clips from Nazi propaganda and newsreels, Jews forced to work for Germans in occupied territory, roundups in Jonava, Latvia. Hangings in occupied territory. German raid, checking papers, in various Polish locations. Riga scenes of harassing Jews. (locations and images intermixed) Jews in Balti, Romania, moved in large numbers along road. Krakow ghetto created, Jews moving in, others moving out. 10:06:45 [01:06:12] DAS GHETTO. Warsaw Ghetto scenes (includes b/w version of sc...

  10. Postwar Europe: destruction; burial; Berchtesgaden

    Home movies filmed during the liberation of Germany. Chicken in grass. Milt Ramoy talking, with Earl Soltan, a German woman, and other soldiers. Milt with a typewriter. 03:59:24 Bombed rubble of German village, remains of buildings. LS, field, convoy of military vehicles. Tank traps built by the Germans line the fields to prevent US tanks from crossing, CUs, called "Dragon's Teeth." 04:00:15 Devastated, bombed German town, gray ashen buildings. Milt poses in front of buildings, moving through town. LS, field of mines. Military convoy/jeeps, yellow sign for Ohrdruf, ruins of town, dead horse...

  11. Nuremberg: War Crimes Trials - Soviet compilation

    Russian film produced by the Central Studio of Documentary Films in Moscow about the War Crimes Trial (IMT) in Nuremberg, 1945-46. War footage: Warsaw destroyed, Operation Barbarossa, transports. Courtroom scenes: prosecutors and defendants enter, seated. Courtroom. Gen. Rudenko, Soviet prosecutor. Reel 1 begins with shots of defeated Berlin, Allied troops marching, hoisting flags and piloting tanks. MS of Nazi officers surrendering. Tracking and still MSs of Goering, Keitel, Doenitz, Goebbels' corpse, Jodl, Ribbentrop. Tracking shot of empty bombarded Nuremberg juxtaposed with archive foot...

  12. Nuremberg: War Crimes Trial (IMT) - Soviet compilation

    Russian film produced by the Central Studio of Documentary Films in Moscow about the War Crimes Trial (IMT) in Nuremberg. Reel 4 begins with archival footage of Warsaw bombardment: Goering pointing to a map, quickly cutting to an aerial LS of a descending German plane cuts to an aerial shot depicting bombs dropping past lens. CU Goering in courtroom. Montage of archival footage depicting German soldiers entering Paris, often smiling at the camera intercut with MS of French prosecutor addressing court. MS British Prosecutor Hartley Shawcross. Montage of footage of German U-boats under Doenit...

  13. Sinti Persecution

    Finished 1987 documentary film about the Nazi persecution of the Roma/Sinti. Photographs of family members, interviews with surviving members of family. Color footage of children (01:34:31-01:36:54): playing at recess, dancing with nuns, before taken to Auschwitz, boys shining shoes in street, playing games.

  14. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 53, 62, 63 and 64 -- Excerpts from diary of Grand Mufti Hajj Amin Al-Husseini and other witnesses

    Session 53. Witness Margit Reich is questioned by State Attorney Gavriel Bach. Bach asks about correspondence she received from her husband after he was sent to the Kistarcsa camp in Hungary. She reads from a postcard thrown from a train and a letter written on toilet paper that she received from him. Footage cuts to Session 62 at 00:10:44. Witness testimony from Leslie Gordon. The witness speaks in English, which is translated into Hebrew. He tells of being put to forced labor in Buczacz, Hungary, where the SS and SD forced him to dig ditches. A German truck painted with the words "Deutsch...

  15. Eichmann Trial -- Session 54 -- Witnesses A. Gordon, T. Ferencz

    Session 54. Cuts into testimony of witness Avraham Gordon, Hungarian Jew. Describes labor he was forced to do - digging trenches in Eichmann's residence under direction of Slawik (possibly Eichmann's bodyguard). 00:04:48 Gordon looks at photographs - identifies Eichmann. Picture submitted to court [exhibit T/1152 or T/37(7)]. 00:06:52 Gordon describes Eichmann, villa, boy (Salomon) being punished for stealing cherries. 00:12:59 Gordon asked to draw sketch of villa. Describes sketch and what happened to Salomon [exhibit T/1153]. 00:23:36 Gordon describes Eichmann and Slawik taking Salomon in...

  16. Eichmann Trial -- Session 55 -- Testimony of Dr. G. Gilbert re. Nuremberg witnesses

    Session 55. Court has not commenced. 00:05:33 Witness of general information - Professor Gustave M. Gilbert, Professor of Psychology at Long Island University, USA. Military psychologist (first Lieutenant), then intelligence officer during War. Then assigned to the Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. Questioned about role at Nuremberg. 00:13:38 Discusses the Nazi's knowledge and reaction to Gilbert being Jewish. Gilbert discusses the defendants' sanity (Rudolf Hess is talked about), psychological tests and personalities. 00:21:57 Gilbert explains about notes he took on the Nazis and a diary he ...

  17. Eichmann Trial -- Session 55 -- Testimony of Dr. G. Gilbert

    THIS MASTER TAPE DOES NOT ACTUALLY EXIST. DISTORTION AND DROP-OUT WAS SO SEVERE THAT THE ENTIRE TAPE WAS BLANK. Session 55.

  18. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 55 and 56 -- Testimony of Dr. G. Gilbert, J. Brand

    Session 55. Repeats Tape 2067 with Professor Gustave M. Gilbert, Professor of Psychology at Long Island University, USA. He served as the chief psychologist at the jail in Nuremberg where many SS officers were interned and in that capacity spoke to many of the prisoners while they were awaiting trial. He also published his diary which describes his experiences. Testimony stops and starts, jumps from scene to scene. 00:06:06 Höss' statement about transportation, extermination, and figures. 00:08:59 Cuts out. Talks about what else Höss said to Gilbert about Eichmann, referred to him as "chief...

  19. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 57 and 58 -- Psychologist Gilbert re. Nuremberg. Report of Moshe Sharett; witness H. Brand

    Session 57. Starts with Attorney General [Video translation is inaccurate refers to exhibit T/1777 when means T/1177, June not July]. Submission of documents from Central Zionist Archives and Weizmann Archives. Attorney General describes letter from Hall, of the British Foreign Office, to Dr Weizmann, stating proposal for swapping Jews for trucks and goods (referring to Joel Brand's testimony in Tape 2069, Session 56). 00:03:25 Video translation and transcripts continue to vary. Communications between Britain and Jewish Agency continue. 00:08:30 Report by Mr. Shertok (Moshe Sharett) from Lo...

  20. Eichmann Trial -- Session 59 -- Witness Joel Brand testifies re. negotiations with Eichmann

    Session 59. Joel Brand being questioned again. 00:01:12 Cuts out, starts from beginning again - the Wehrmacht's role in the destruction of the Jews. Talk of Bandi Grosz, Hungarian Jewish quadruple agent. 00:05:22 to 00:06:32 Court has break. Between 00:06:32 and 00:10:54 The court is preparing itself. Mr. Brand is looking at "Report of the Jewish Rescue Committee" - asked by Judge Halevi to read certain pages. Brand claims the report to be untrue. 00:19:33 Brand is challenged as to why he went to Turkey, what he thought of Eichmann's deal. 00:24:45 Asked about the Hagana, the Jewish self-de...