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  1. Records of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Collection contains political reports, memoranda, general correspondence, records pertaining to legal, consular, general travel, repatriation, citizenship, charity, deportation, property, real estate, and miscellaneous personal issues, concerning arrested and interned individuals, and requests for information. The documents were created by the general offices and the Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Külügyminisztʹerium), and the Hungarian Embassies in Berlin, Brussels, Rome, Vichy, the Vatican, Washington DC, Bern, and the Hungarian Consulate in Amsterdam.

  2. Album

    Adolf Hitler - Bilder aus dem Leben des Führers [Adolf Hitler - Pictures of the Life of the Führer), a cigarette card album with 188 b&w and colored colored mounted cards, an encomium by Hermann Goering; text by Joseph Goebbels and others. Cigarette cards were a popular collectible item in Germany beginning about 1920. Large albums with text, but no pictures, were published for each series and the cards were collected to be added as illustrations. The album for this series has text and photo captions that tell the story of Hitler's life from birth in 1899, to his 1933 appointment as Cha...

  3. US Army and Navy chaplains perform Passover Seder

    Continuation of Story 4376. Members of the US Army and Navy celebrate Passover, perhaps in Hawaii (the originating unit is the 7th Hawaii). A woman identified in the NARA storycard as Mrs. Linczer lights candles. An Army and a Navy chaplain stand beside her. Officers and chaplains perform the ceremony. A view of the crowded hall. A slate identifies the cameraman as Sgt. Shivers and reads: "Jewish Passover APO 953 7th CCU 4-7-44." More shots of the ceremony. The participants seem very aware of the camera. Close-up shots of wine being poured, lit candles. Overhead shots of sailor and soldiers...

  4. Captured high-ranking Nazis, including Goering, Galland, Kesselring, Bodenschatz

    An American military truck carrying several high-ranking German officers arrives at an airfield. The officers get out of the truck and board a C-47 plane. Good shots but it is difficult to see their faces. The plane taxis and takes off. Shot of the sky and a formation of B-17s overhead. Sign beside a road lines with trees reads: "Only Road Surface Cleared of Mines." Two young women walk their bicycles down the road as American military vehicles drive by. An American interrogator stands beside a German general. Close-ups of the general. 01:15:47 Luftwaffe general Adolf Galland is shown on th...

  6. Resistance - women of the FFI (French Forces of the Interior)

    Two women of the Forces Francaises de l'interieur (French Forces of the Interior or FFI). One of them wears a badge bearing the double-barred cross that was the symbol of the French resistance. The camera pulls back to reveal several men in the room The FFI was a confederation of French resistance organizations.

  8. Barbie Trial -- Day 1 -- Barbie's activities after the war and history of the Nazis in France

    17:31 A clerk reads the list of Civil Parties. 18:07 The clerk lists what Barbie has been doing after the war. 18:14 The clerk discusses the Nazi police organization in France and the establishment of the "Final Solution." 18:23 The clerk lists the sentences against Barbie made in absentia, by the Permanent Military Court of Lyon on April 29, 1952 and on November 25, 1954, condemning Barbie to death. Due to France's Statute of Limitations, Barbie cannot be held acocuntable for these sentences.

  9. Prayer book imádságok zsidó nők számára

    The prayer book belonged to Ibolya Ungar and was saved by Cecilia Ungar, Ibolya's mother during the Holocaust in Budapest, Hungary.

  11. Egg crate used as a suitcase by family living in hiding

    Egg crate used as a trunk by the family of 2-year-old Uriel Cohn to move their belongings from one hiding place to the next in the Netherlands. Eggs were brought to auction in these wooden egg boxes packed in a bed of hay to avoid breakage. On July 15, 1942, the family received a summons from the German occupying authorities for deportation to a labor camp. They decided to go into hiding instead. Uriel’s 6-year old brother, Michael, was placed alone with one family and Uriel was hidden by Everdina and Marinus van der Beek. The van der Beek’s soon offered refuge to both his parents and they ...

  12. Records of the Baranya County Archives, Hungary

    Contains lists, reports, notifications, protocols, minutes, affidavits, certificates, requests, approvals, rejections, appeals, authorizations, powers of attorney, surveys, inventories, police and court records and official correspondence created by the respective offices of mayors; constables; prefects; district notaries; government commissioners; court, police, gendarme, and military officials; municipal finance managements; Jewish communities; Jewish Councils and other authorities of the region of Hungary called Baranya County, affecting the Jewish and Roma population, and regarding the ...

  14. Interwar Germany, Nuremberg rally 1923

    Scenes from "German Day," September 2, 1923, with onscreen titles that describe some of the action. This was a rally of nationalist parties, which took place two months before the Munich Putsch. The "German Day" rally was the prototype for the official Nazi Party Day rallies held in Nuremberg after the seizure of power in 1933. Men from various nationalist parties march down the street in Nuremberg. Among them are World War I veterans, Nazi SA members, and others. Crowds of onlookers line the street and lean out windows, waving flags or handkerchiefs. The angle switches to show the parade f...

  16. Dr. David Rosenberg photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight photographs of concentration camp scenes from either Dachau or Buchenwald taken immediately following liberation. Scenes depict victims being exhumed and reburied with German civilians and American soldiers taking part in the work, trucks containing victims, the interior of barracks, and a gallows.

  17. Factory interiors of Agro-Joint at Jankoi

    Factory interiors, generally very dark. Light comes in though windows of a long room. Dark shots in a blacksmith shop as man demonstrates the use of a trip hammer.

  18. German 50 pfennig scrip

  19. Pamphlet, "Beitrage zur Einheit von Bildung und Sprache im Geistigen Sein"

    Pamphlet published by Walter de Gruyter & Co. Berlin.

  20. American soldiers prepare a "propaganda bomb" to be dropped on German occupied territory

    An American serviceman salvages parts from wrecked planes to make shells for propaganda leaflets to drop over German-occupied territory. Three men load a "propaganda bomb" into the bay of a plane. The man shown collecting scrap brings the pieces to another man, who is constructing a shell. Interior of an office with a sign on the door that reads "ORDNANCE." A man seated at a desk speaks on the telephone, then studies a piece of paper that contains instructions for a "leaflet bomb" as well as a diagram of the bomb. The man, identified in the NARA story card as Lt. Kick, is shown arriving at ...