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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Russians liberate of Warsaw

    The Battle for Warsaw. Russian Newsreel. Russian Red Army advancing towards Warsaw. Russian infantry running through streets of Warsaw. Russian soldiers presented with flowers from girls, receiving food and wine. Smoke rising from burning Warsaw. Russian officers.

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- The Russian Front

    The Russian Front. Russian Newsreel. Shots of artillery firing, shells exploding. Russian bombers (squadron) in flight. Russian tanks advancing. CU, observer in tank. INT, tank driver. Line of Russian soldiers advancing. Dead German soldiers. Road signs in German. German prisoners under Russian Guard. Slave laborers behind barbed wire. Russian peasants helping children (mostly girls) out of dugout. INT, slave labor camp. Russian soldier carrying children out of camp, into truck.

  3. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 73, 81, 85, and 86 -- Sassen; Hungary; liberation of Bergen-Belsen; Stalingrad

    This tape contains parts of the following sessions: 73; 81; 85; 86. Session 73. Dr. Servatius reads the Sassen memoirs. He reads a section citing the inability to define Eichmann's role with the camps. He says that there are no examples of Eichmann acting in the camps without Mueller as an intermediary. He concludes with a quote saying that there were no reports of Eichmann disobeying the orders to stop the deportations of Jews. 00:07:22 The Attorney General Hausner submits passages, including a few that were already submitted by the Defense. He reads about Eichmann's proposal to trade Jews...

  4. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 73 and 74 -- Sassen document legality and value; Bergen-Belsen liberation; savior of the Arabs

    Sessions 73. Tape jumps often, but does not seem to lose any footage. Attorney General Hausner describes the Sassen memoirs, saying that he does not deny it, and thus it can be considered created by Eichmann. He says that the Defense says that the document is incomplete, but this does not affect the submission of the document, and it must be determined what value that missing portion has. He cites precedent, saying that the court must warn itself that this is not the entire document. The Judges discuss problems with the corrections to the document, the validity of the document, and other re...

  5. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 74, 78, 79, 83, and 80 --- Sassen Document; Yugoslavia

    Session 74. Empty courtroom. Eichmann enters and people begin to enter. He and Dr. Servatius communicate on their private microphone line. We cannot hear what they are saying. Various shots of the crowd and Eichmann. 00:15:38 Judges enter. They open Session 74 and approve the Sassen documents, but none of the additional texts involved with it. It also accepts the testimony involved in the validating of Eichmann's handwriting. 00:18:50 Video image freezes. The audio skips, beginning an unknown amount of time later. Eichmann answers a question about a rejected application to go to another cou...

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation by Russians

    On the Eastern Front. Russian Newsreel. Village street with road sign in Russian. Russian infantry advancing past wrecked building. Russian cavalry. Germany surrenders. Concrete fortifications with underground furnaces. Yugoslav and Serbian men (in striped coat), Jewish woman with black eye. 01:12: EXT of German prison, iron handcuffs. Pile of dead bodies in the prison yard (4,000 in all). Entire prison yard filled with corpses. To 01:14:03 Street fighting, house to house fighting. Soviet soldier helping wounded comrade. Concealed pill boxes.

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Red Army advances; destruction of Warsaw

    On the Eastern Front. Russian Newsreel. Slate in Russian: "Front Issues-First Belorussian Front, 1945" Russian officers studying map. Explosions on Visla riverbanks. Underground bunkers. Map with Russian names of the Western Front, showing Red Army advancing. Dead German soldiers. Russian and Polish soldiers put up a Polish flag (Polish Hymn heard in BG). Destroyed Warsaw. Ruins of: University; theater; Chopin's home; streetcars. Sign "Adolph Hitler Platz." Warsaw inhabitants march on street with orchestra. Red Army, Polish Army, crowds.

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation by Russians

    On the Eastern Front. Russian Newsreel. Prison at Posnan. Death chamber with guillotine. Pictures of Nazis who ran the prison. Bodies, women crying. German prisoners, men trying to hit them. Man handing out paper reading "Glos Interpolski" to crowd. Polish flag raised. Soviet soldiers talking on field phone. German General Mattern (with Russian captions). Aerial view of the Vistula River. Polish girls, former slave laborers showing their passports to Russian soldiers. Barracks of slave labor camp. Sign, "Lagerwache."

  9. March of Time -- outtakes -- Yugoslavia during liberation

    Jeep with Russian officers going through cheering crowd. Yugoslav partisan army. Russian army and partisan leaders, proclamation from stage. Marshall Josip Broz Tito reviewing partisan troops. Allied observers present. Wounded partisans in the parade. Russian tanks through outskirts of Belgrade. Street fighting. Carrying wounded on stretcher. Russian artillery advancing through streets of Belgrade. Prisoners (Germans?) being marched through Belgrade streets. Aerial view of Belgrade.

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Russian, Polish, Yugoslav governments; War Crimes Trial: Romanian war criminals

    1251 GGG: January 23, 1946. Russian Newsreel. Moscow, Russia. Members of the Polish government with Russian ministers (Molotov, Bulanin, Vishinsky, Osubka-Moravsky, Gomulka, Sir Kerr, etc.). Warsaw rebuilds, brigades of volunteers. 1251 HHH: 01:26:24 Russian Newsreel. Moscow, Russia. Yugoslsav President Marshal Josip Broz Tito with Russian Minister Molotov. Marshall Tito visits Lenin's Mausoleum, takes a boat ride at Volga Canal. 01:30:38 Bucharest, Romania. Trial of Romanian war criminals: ex-Marshall Ion Antonescu, General Alexianu, ex-chief of Police Vasiliv, etc. Reconstruction of Dneip...

  11. Eichmann Trial -- Session 75 -- Eichmann's testimony

    The footage begins in the middle of Session 75 with the defense's submission of documents. The first document concerns Eichmann's dismissal from the Austrian Vacuum Oil Company. The defense attempts to show that he was released not because of his membership in the NSDAP but because of his marital status. Eichmann is questioned by defense attorney Dr. Robert Servatius about another document recognizing him as a "specialist." Eichmann states that this designation referred to his experience in the field of emigration (00:06:16). The footage cuts out from 00:06:46 to 00:06:57 then resumes with ...

  12. Eichmann Trial -- Session 75 -- Eichmann's testimony

    The footage begins in the middle of Session 75 following a brief intermission, with a shot of Eichmann standing in the booth and Judge Moshe Landau sitting down. Landau asks the accused to rise and take off his headphones. He asks Eichmann whether he wishes to testify in his defense and if he wants to take the oath. The judge warns Eichmann that if he chooses to take the oath then the District Attorney will be entitled to question him. Eichmann opts to take the oath. It is decided that the accused will testify from the booth. Servatius makes some introductory remarks about how evidence will...

  13. Eichmann Trial -- Session 75 -- Eichmann's testimony

    The video begins in the middle of Session 75 with Eichmann testifying that there were bureaucratic problems which hindered attempts at mass emigration of the Jews. Eichmann goes on to explain the role of Hinckel, the Reich cultural administrator in the Reich Ministry of Propaganda, in the promotion of Jewish emigration (00:07:27). This entire segment duplicates footage found on Tape 2096 (beginning around 00:28:45). After a cut, the footage resumes with some confusion about the next document to be presented. Defense attorney Dr. Robert Servatius reads from a document (in English) which indi...

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Brussels during liberation

    Riots in Brussels. Leftist rioting on streets of Brussels, trying to prevent meeting of "Royalists." People, trying to enter Flemish Theater for the meeting, being pushed away and chased by the crowd. Gendarmes stationed along street. 01:03:10 Charles de Gaulle visiting Brussels, with Prince Reginal. Taking to crowd from Royal Palace balcony.

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    The last days in Paris before the Arrival of US Troops. Street barricades; firing rifles from windows; FFI men rounding collaborators; captured German soldiers; Red Cross workers helping wounded; ceremony at City Hall; raising flag; new Prefect of Police; wounded man; barber.

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Paris during German occupation

    Paris Scenes during German Occupation, 1942-1944. Flags, travelling shots of Paris streets, poster, Metro Opera building. Riots in the Champs Elysee, burning the Great Palace, firemen fighting flames, ambulance. French prisoners of war. Laval with German officers, Longchamps race track. French collaborator Debrinon giving speech. INT shots of ceremony for the Legion against Soviet Russia. Swastikas on wall.

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    Paris Liberation, 1946-1947. INT of partisan headquarters in Paris. Fixing armbands with FFI. Examining revolver. Digging up cobblestones for barricades. Partisans firing rifles. Dead men lying the street. German car fleeing. FFI men carrying boxes of ammunition. Man reading "Liberation" newspaper. CU of "Liberation" front page.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    Paris Liberation, 1946-1947. FFI men carying stretcher waving Red Cross flag, carrying wounded man. Holding captured Nazi flag. Captured collaborators being marched along by a group of FFI. French young woman having her head shaved. Tearing down German posters. Hitler's picture lying among the rubble in the street. Pan of Notre Dame. Men with machine guns.

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    Paris Liberation, 1946-1947. Overturned burning truck, exploding. Allied tank painted with cross of Lorraine. FFI men painting over captured German cavalry. French gendarme. Priest getting escorted under Red Cross flag. Man getting into ambulance. Gates of Paris, cemetary, graves of French patriots. Banner on the street with a German inscription. FFI men dismantling light machine gun.

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    Fall of Paris. American GIs marching on road in Etamps (outside Paris), holding pictures of Hitler and Goering on bayonettes. Road sign, "Paris 50." People waving at passing Americans. GIs in jeep unfurling American flag, crowd cheers. US tanks enter Paris, pass Eiffel Tower. Civilians building sandbag barricade. Tanks firing at snipers in Paris outskirts. Street fighting in Paris outskirts. Jeepload of prisoners, crowd tries to mob them.