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  1. Belsen immediately after liberation

    Overturned truck burning (same trucks which carried corpses in earlier shots) - Sgt. Lewis writes it was necessary to burn the wagon in order to "prevent any danger of Typhus spreading". British soldier gives cigarette to female survivor; he sits in jeep. View of mass grave over right shoulder of (Father?) Morrison. Profile of Jewish priest Reverend L.H. Hardman. MS of Father Morrison and Father Kadziolka, a Polish priest in civilian clothing, as they stand by grave and perform ceremony. Barbed wire in background. MCU, survivor seated, looking off in distance. VAR CUs of male survivors, sam...

  2. Warsaw Ghetto; Jewish boys in ghetto prison

    Jewish boys being herded out of the ghetto prison. CUs of emaciated boys crowded in a prison cell.

  3. Hitler at outdoor rally

    People arriving at outdoor site of Hitler speech, handed Nazi flags. SA with Nazi banners part left and right through crowd. Hitler greeted by crowd waving swastika banners. Hitler speaks. Crowd.

  4. Passport and visas of Julien Bryan

    CU of Julien Bryan's USA passport, hands turning pages. Address and personal information revealed: 19 Perry Street NY, 05/23/1899, 5'10 1/2". Parents: (SS Bryan) Titusville, PA, Julien Hequembourg Bryan. VCUs of stamps in passport indicating places and dates traveled to: Estonia 1937; England, 06/25/37; Romania, 02/38; Finland 1936, 1937; Poland, 1934?; USSR, 1936; Italy. Additional pages.

  5. Nazi Party Rally, Nuremberg, 1937

    Nazi Party Rally, Nuremberg main square, crowds. Nazi banners decorate town square, Nazi leaders and officials present. Swastika banners are hanging from every window, people watching from windows looking onto the square. Marching units enter square, march past and salute. Crowds including large numbers of SS and SA men, cameras on tripods among them, gathered as Hitler arrives, walks past quite close. Hitler seen against cobblestones, CS, saluting in direction of camera; military and SS men in BG. CS profile of people giving Nazi salute. LS Hitler standing in car, taking salute as units ma...

  6. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 10 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  7. Oath-swearing

    Rudolf Hess arrives at Koenigsplatz in open car, through crowds. Massive columns of Koenigsplatz seen behind soldiers. MLS on platform, crowded with other officials. Hess leading oath: "Ich schwoere Adolf Hitler, unverbrechliche Treue..." Crowd repeats. VAR views of crowds, buildings decorated with garlands, flags, swastikas with eagles, torches, etc. (grainy). High LS of memorial with huge torchlights burning.

  8. A Holocaust survivor returns to Bergen Belsen 20 years later

    Notes from the NFB/ONF online catalog: A Jewish Holocaust survivor takes a holiday from his glazier's shop to join an emotional pilgrimage to Bergen-Belsen. In traveling through new Germany, this man remembers. Scenes still vivid in his mind are recalled in flashback. The memorandum was Hitler's dealing with the solution to the "Jewish problem."

  9. Civilians/POWs arrested

    Simple country houses, white-washed fences. Some arrests in track area of railroad station. According to BA paper records: Arrests of Serbian soldiers in Northern Greece.

  10. Woodworking class at trade school

    Adolescent boys at Zinnowaldschule: in white lab coats in woodworking shop with a few adult instructors present. Boys working on assembling wood for model airplanes. CU blond boy measuring wingspan; CU very earnest looking boys studying the plans on paper.

  12. Hitler renews bid for power

    Title: "Hitler Renews His Bid for Power - At Lustgarten in Berlin Nazi leader begins fierce campaign to supplant aged Hindenburg." Cars drive through huge crowds as Hitler arrives at Lustgarten. Hitler stand on the balcony preparing to speak - he steps forward and pats the cheek of a young girl, who gives him a Sieg Heil salute in return. Two young men step forward holding "Deutschland Erwache" banners. The point of view switches to that of the crowd facing the Lustgarten. Close up profile of Hitler starting his speech switches to a wider shot. Shot switches back to crowd giving the salute,...

  13. Marketplace

    VAR shots of marketplace on Sunday. Families. Open air food stands with banners heralding wares. People dressed for church, buying goods. CU, mother and son. Many men in Lederhoesen; groups of men, big moustaches, Tyrolean hats, smoking, smiling. Local artist at work, carving in Oberammergau, Germany; scene of the Last Supper; Nativity figures. More shots of churchyard and door, people entering.

  14. Scheunenviertl (a Jewish section), Berlin, ca. 1938 or earlier

    VAR shots of Oranienburg Synagogue, arches, dome, Hebrew writing. Brief but good shots of the Scheunenviertl of Berlin, small shops, including Jewish bookstore "Hebraische Buchandlung, M. Gonzer." Orthodox Jewish pedestrians (men). "Sally Rosner" store. Shots of Reichstag.

  15. Burial at Belsen

    LS (very jumpy at first) of scattered bodies, Nazis push two truckloads through field while British troops urge them on. Nazis look very haggard. MS to female SS in trailer, followed by a trailer with British troops. Crowd of women ex-prisoners gathered, clapping, rush after Nazis, angry. MLS of bulldozer digging communal grave. Lorry passes with female SS and accompanying British guard. SS women unload corpses from truck and carry bodies to edge of communal grave where they are dropped in. Male SS doing the same at the other end of the grave. MS of women carrying and swinging corpses into ...

  16. Hebrew Scouts with bikes

    Jewish scouts: boys with bikes in mountain region, sit by side of road, look at map, eat, repair bikes. Sign in BG reads "Fussen 5 km." Ride off [soft focus].

  17. Ukrainian labor for Germany

    Propaganda footage. Young Ukrainian men and women being relocated to work in German factories. Young Ukrainians being taken from Kiev to Germany to help with the war effort. Arriving at station, boarding bus, going through town. CU of young men and women in bus intercut with street scenes (what they're seeing through the windows). Factory INT: young men and women at work wearing traditional Ukrainian clothes (embroidered blouses, caps, etc.). Inspirational-sounding music.

  18. Jewish Service at Belsen

    Jewish religious service outdoors, which cameraman describes as having a "simple sincerity." Two rabbis assisting Reverend R.H. Hardman are both ex-POWS - Rabbi H. Helfgot (Yugoslavian, bearded) and Rabbi B. Goldfinger (Polish, clean shaven). Sunny day, large gathering, organized event, lots of people. Young women with arms around each other, staring without apparent emotion. Rabbi holds up Torah. Makeshift ark, tapestry. VLS from above of gathering, big circle of people crowded together, outer ring of people stand on benches. Long line of little kids coming together, join and enter circle....

  19. Goebbels talks to US reporter Ward Price

    Josef Goebbels speaks to Ward Price (US reporter for the Daily Mail). MS Goebbels and Price, both in suits, seated on a park bench. Partial translation from Raye Farr's notes (1972): Goebbels: "I am of the firm conviction that peace must be kept in Europe. If war were to come, it would be the greatest misfortune for the world. And however it might end for the victors, the conquered would endure the most terrible suffering. And so it will be the Reich government's policy to try to keep peace no matter what, and to relieve the people's suffering, their anxiety, their unemployment." [original ...

  20. Ticket

    Ticket from a Swedish ferryboat given to Sientje (Cissie) Rabbie (Raynor), on the trip between Denmark and Malmoe, Sweden when she and other young women were exchanged by the Nazis for war material through the Count Volke Bernadotte of Sweden Action. As head of the Swedish Red Cross, Bernadotte received permission from Himmler for the transfer and rescue of 40,000 prisoners from from February 19, 1945 until May 8, 1946.