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Language of Description: English

  1. Verdoner children bathing

    CU, Francisca Verdoner in the bath tub, being bathed by her mother Hilde. Hilde washes her hair, makes a shampoo "mohawk", etc. CU, Yoka in the bathroom, making faces for the camera, sticking her tongue out at the camera as Francisca's bath continues. ECU, Francisca crying when she gets soap in her eyes. CU, Francisca sitting calmly, shrowded in a towel after her bath. CU, Yoka undresses and gets into the bath. VS, CUs, Yoka wetting her head, lathering with soap, then the mother takes over and finishes washing her.

  2. Verdoner family walking in Hilversum and playing

    EXT, MCUs Francisca and Yoka Verdoner with their brother Otto in a stroller. Their mother Hilde walks along with them. The family walks through the streets of Hilversum, other people are seen on foot and on bicycle. INT, Otto, now with a full head of hair. VS, CUs of Otto, now walking on his own. The children play with a toy, a dancing, wind up monkey. CU of the monkey toy dancing. CUs, bare-bottomed Otto playing with the monkey, his mother Hilde is undressing him. VS, Otto crawling and walking about the room naked.

  3. Baby Otto Verdoner

    EXT, High angle shot, looking down on Otto Verdoner playing in his crib/playpen. CU of a stuffed elephant toy in the crib. VS of Otto in his crib and then crawling about on the lawn in the Verdoner family yard. The house is visible in the BG of several shots. Hilde Verdoner feeds Otto a cracker, Otto continues to prance around his crib and eat his cracker. MCU, a woman in the garden knitting while she keeps an eye on Otto. CU, Otto picks up a ball, he is playing with his sister who is off camera. VS, Yoka Verdoner playing with Otto. VS, Hilde and all three children (Yoka, Francisca and Otto...

  4. Excerpts of Auschwitz liberation film

    Excerpts of "Oswiecem" film showing Auschwitz after liberation filmed by the Soviet military. Film clips including: Men and women behind barbed wire, winter, snow, view from the air of concentration camp barracks, electrified fence, interior of the women's area, corpses in front of buildings with a woman and child walking near them, children's concentration camp, children behind barbed wires showing the numbers [tattooed] on their arms, emaciated corpses, crematoria where they were burned, canisters of poison gas, Soviet soldiers in front of open mass graves, piles of cut hair, dentures, go...

  5. Documentary re: the Slovak State (part 1)

    Presidential elections for Jozef Tiso. Opening of a German scientific facility in Bratislava. Awards ceremony for soldiers who have returned from Poland, speech of Slovak president Jozef Tiso, military inspection. Inspection of Wehrmacht soldiers on Wenceslaus Square in Prague on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Protectorate. On the grandstand is President E. Hacha, German representatives, and State Secretary K.H. Frank. Celebration of the second anniversary of the Slovak republic in Bratislava, parade of Gardists with flags, military inspection. Vojtech Tuka receiving an honor...

  6. Documentary re: the Slovak State (part 2)

    Shop on Obchodna Street, with a gardist flag and a swastika, sign saying "non-Jewish business." Hitler Youth parade. Flags in the street. Women and children going to church in a village, a child in the arms of a German soldier. Guarded entrance to the building of the Central Customs Office in Bratislava. Poster: Anti-Bolshevik exposition. Guarded Telegraph Office. 00:21:00 Broken shop window of Samuel Eckstein's candy shop in Bratislava. Bridge from Petrzalka, Bratislava. Building with broken windows, Primate's Square, palace with flags. Military column, guarded building, parade of civilian...

  7. Slovakian newsreel: Hlinka Guard; Tiso

    Slovak Sound Weekly: Hlinka guard swearing-in ceremony. Inspection of the first Bratislava regiment upon the celebration of the anniversary of the Slovak state. Jozef Tiso, president of the Slovak state, at the inspection of the Hlinka Youth, awards ceremony, inspection.

  8. Slovakian newsreel: Officials in Slovakia

    Slovak Sound Weekly: On the eve of Hitler's birthday, Dr. Vojtech Tuka delivering a speech from the balcony of the National Theater. State Secretary for the German Minority Frank Karmasin and President Jozef Tiso. Celebration speech made by Hans Bernard, Ambassador of the German Reich, followed by Alexander Mach.

  9. Slovakian newsreel: Germany-Italy-Japan agreement

    Slovak Sound Weekly: CU book with hand turning pages. Documentary about Slovak participation in the Tripartite Pact - Germany, Italy, and Japan - contract signing on November 24, 1940 by the President and Vojtech Tuka, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the new Reich office in Berlin.

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Soldiers; Munich Pact

    667 KK (09:01:12): Hilly countryside. Underground bunker with barbed wire. Group of soldiers going underground with rifles. Beds. Removing gear. Shaving, barechested. Pouring water from large bucket (preparing food?). Ladder. Switchboard. Nazi Party Rally. German horses, tanks, boats, submarines, planes. 667 MM (09:03:44) Heston Airport with Chamberlain leaving for Munich. Cabinet members at airport. 03:36:44 Plane taking off. 03:37:02 London street scenes, sandbagging. Marines jumping off truck. 03:38:08 Mussolini arriving with Adolf Hitler, entering hall where Munich Pact was signed. 03:3...

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Germans arrive in Sudetenland; Sudeten refugees

    Big crowd mourning, (German) women in tears, talking; Nazi speaker heard. People in courtyard silently heiling. Pan, women cries as she heils. Sad faces of children and women boarding streetcar. Men on bicycles rush down street, men with QF ruined room. Border, gate going up, grinning Nazis on horseback go through. Lots of marching Nazis, heiling (hesitant). Nazis on carts, peasant women, flowers, heiling on cue, others being taught to heil. CU, elderly woman watches and does nothing. Goering with children. SS feeding people in square. Families standing together for camera, looking happy. F...

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hitler in Sudetenland

    Hitler in Sudetenland. MCU on Hitler, acknowledging crowds, cheering throngs. Nazi elite, including Goebbels, behind Hitler, looking pleased. Crowd, policemen four deep. Hitler, Goering walk down street, in motorcade, town covered with swastika banners. EXT banquet of Nazis. Himmler at Hitler's left, ring of Nazi soldiers surround them. Hitler in motorcade. Great shots of crowds and people everywhere: windows, corridors, women crying from joy and chanting. MCU Hitler. Chaos. Flowers.

  13. Interview of prisoners, Dachau

    (LIB 6558) Interview of Prisoners, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MCUs American officer (off-screen) interviews Professor Popovitch, Yugoslavian prisoner, who relates his experience in German prison camps. MCUs Captain Boullard, Dutch officer, is interviewed by off-screen voice. The Captain was taken prisoner in Holland and later transferred to Dachau. (Prisoners speak English).

  14. Interview of prisoner, Dachau

    (LIB 6559) Interview of Prisoners, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MSs off-screen voice interviews Reverend Van Gestel, a Dutch priest who spent the years since 1940 in Nazi concentration camps. Rev. Van Gestel relates in English his experiences as a prisoner and explains the events leading to his arrest.

  15. Point system discharge; Interview of prisoners, Dachau

    01:23:09 Point System Discharge, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, May 30, 1945. Interview of three Staff Sgts eligible for discharge on point system. Each tells of the combat duties and delight in being able to return to the US. 01:27:33 (LIB 6562) Interview of Prisoners, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MCU off-screen voice interviews Dr. Hussarek of Czechoslovakia, who tells how he was hung by his wrists to the point where he could not even feed himself. (The doctor speaks in German.)

  16. Interview of prisoners, Dachau

    (LIB 6560) Interview of Prisoners, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MSs, CUs continuation of interview of the Dutch Reverend Van Gestel. MSs off-screen voice interview of Mr. Haullot [Arthur Haulot Dachau, Dachau prisoner number 39095] of Belgium and Mr. Haussermann [Oskar Häusermann, Dachau prisoner number 23878] of Germany. (Both men speak in German.) They relate their experiences in prison camps.

  17. Interview of prisoners, Dachau

    (LIB 6561) Interview of Prisoners, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MSs, CUs off-screen voice interviews Mr. Demagala of Poland. Mr. Demagala explains how the prisoners were used for medical experiments by German doctors. MSs Father Michalowsky, a Polish priest, tells his experiences as a prisoner of the Nazis, as does another Polish prisoner. MSs, CUs Mr. Cirkowietz, a German medic who worked in the malaria section of the camp, relates his experiences. MSs Dr. Hassarek of Czechoslovakia tells how he was hung by his wrists. (All prisoners speak in German).

  18. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 167) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 24, 1946. First witness for the prosecution, US Army Lt Wiiliam R Pearl, interrogator for the War Crimes Branch, identifies Gen Joseph Sepp Dietrich. Pearl tells about his interview with Dietrich who told him how he was kicked in the back by a Polish guard. Pan, map of the Malmedy campaign as Lt. Col. Barton J. Ellis, Chief Prosecutor, tells of the killing of American and Allied prisoners by men of the SS Panzer Regiment. Pan, approx 75 prisoners in dock as Ellis reads the charges. CU, Col. Ellis reading charges.

  19. Arnstadt and Nordhausen concentration camps

    Arnstadt and Nordhausen after Allied soldiers arrive. General shots of corpses and survivors. Survivors receive aid. Some well-known shots of survivors as they board IRC van. (LIB 5566) Arnstadt Horrors, Arnstadt, Germany, April 14, 1945. EXT, Sequence- German civilians disinter bodies of concentration camp victims. CU, a cadaver with a damaged skull. LSs, CUs, dog kennel for watchdog. Pan from camp gate to tents used to house 1700 prisoners. LSs to MSs, corpses lying outside of grave from which they have just been exhumed. LSs to MSs, bodies laid out on ground are viewed by several US sold...

  20. War Crimes Commission: Leipzig and Penig Concentration Camps

    Foreword: "This is an official document made by U.S. military photographers as they advanced into Germany," etc. Two exhibited affidavits attesting to the authenticity of scenes in the film are shown, one signed by Lt Col George E. Stevens and the other by Capt John Ford. A map shows the location of concentration camps in Germany and Europe. "Leipzig Concentration Camp" MLS, empty field, barbed wire, remaining foundation of burnt out building. Three men stand near bloody and burnt corpse. CUs, piles of burnt bodies by barbed wire. At the Leipzig camp more than 200 were burned alive in a bui...