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  1. Paris; Workers/POWs

    German soldiers in Paris, placing wreaths at the tomb of the unknown soldier, flags, wreaths, etc. March in streets, rally, Vel d'Hiv. Speaker: Jaques Doriot. Workers (men and women, some POWs) in a factory, in mines, etc.

  2. Rosary beads with cross given to Jewish child baptized as Catholic while in hiding

    Rosary beads with a gold cross given to 12 year old Lida Kleinman upon her baptism as a Catholic in 1942. She was living in hiding in the Lomna orphanage under the assumed name of Maria Woloszynska. Lidia, her mother, Aniuta, and her father, Mendel, a physician, struggled to stay together after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. They fled to the Soviet controlled eastern sector and when the Soviets began to deport Jews, they moved to Turka nad Stryjem. Jewish persecution escalated with the sudden 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union. In 1942, Lidia’s mother learned that al...

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Iran, reel 5

    Reel 5: Iran. Russian supply dump, US trucks. Native children straightening nails. Tire recapping plant. Assembling trucks. Paid in rations.

  4. Olympic Contests

    Military riders from Germany, Italy, France and Great Britain jump their mounts over various types of rural hurdles and obstacles on the second day of the events for military riders in Berlin in 1936. With intertitles. Horseback riding, jumping, outdoors, "cross country." Horse and rider descend step. Crowd stands along edge of hill, watches competition. Struggle to get horse out of ditch. Horse into pond. Titles at beginning: Olympia vielseitigkeits prufung (military). Berlin 1939. Tag: Prufung in Gelande Hqtm. Stubbendorf Deutschland, auf nurmi Sieger der Vielseitgkeitsprufung Der Reiter ...

  5. Maps of aggression presented at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 386) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 27, 1945. MLS, Sydney Alderman of the US prosecution staff speaks of German aggression in Europe between 1938 and 1939, refers to maps which are posted in the court. MCUs, four charts outlining territorial aggression of Germany during 1938 to 1939. MS, Alderman addresses Tribunal. MS, some of the defendants' attorneys seated in front of the prisoners' dock. Rear views, Alderman reading an English transcription of Hitler's condemnation of the Versailles Treaty.

  6. "Incurably insane"

    A Nazi educational film (propaganda) [Aufklaerungsfilm] produced by the Rassenpolitische Amt [Office of Racial Policy] regarding "unheilbare Geistkranke" [the "incurably insane"]. Part 1: Nurses and people coming out of door, various, to camera (similar to opening scene of "Dasein ohne Leben"; uses same scenes). Food serving, eating. Title: "Kuenstlich ernaehrt." "Many must be fed artificially...only a few can do useful work." Men outside sweeping with straw. "Erbliche Fallsucht!" "Schizophrene!" "Idioten" - kept alive. "Besondere Schutzkleidung" [protective clothing]. "Erblich Taubstumm" [...

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Tojo on witness stand; Iran, reel 1

    1425 RR (15:54:25-15:55:13) Tojo on witness stand at his trial. Prisoners' box. Ex-premier Hideki Tojo on the witness stand. US army official reads from paper. Tojo listens and stands. 1425 XX (15:55:15-16:01:45): Teheran, Iran. REEL 1: The Shah of Iran and wife at military review and inspecting US installations. LSs, MS of statue of Shah of Iran in Teheran. Modern buildings and apartment houses. Royal Palace. Street scenes in Teheran. Camel caravans, automobiles. Veiled ladies, modern-dressed women. Marketplace. Natives and camels.

  8. Warsaw Rebuilds

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 19, No. 470, Part 3. Release date, 01/21/1946. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Rebuilding Warsaw" Warsaw, Poland. Citizens of this war-ravaged city bend their backs to the staggering task of digging their homes out of the rubble, and rebuilding Warsaw to its former splendor. Aerial shots of bombed out city. Reconstruction. MS people strolling along street/park lane. Child picking flower in park. "These children have no [knowledge of] brutality of war." (narration) Man pushing baby carriage. City street scene. Women with children, walking down stree...

  9. Goering testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 47) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 13, 1946. LS, Hermann Goering testifies about the violent opposition in Germany to the formation of the Nazi Party. MLS, prisoners in dock as Goering is heard talking about the Hitler Putsch. Pan from prisoners' dock to Goering on stand. Pan, prisoners in dock as Goering testifies that Hitler was to be the supreme leader of the new government and not in a secondary position.

  10. Anti-Jewish propaganda film: ritual animal slaughter; antisemitic legislation; Aryan ideal

    A propaganda film declared as a "documentary film contribution about the problem of world Judaism," in which antisemitic stereotypes are disseminated by the Nazis, including scenes showing: Poland as a nesting place for Judaism; the comparison of Jews with rats; the difference between Jews and Aryans; "international crime"; "financial Judaism"; "assimilated Jews"; the Jewish influence on economics, culture, and politics; and Jewish religious practice with a portrayal of haggling and misused sacred Jewish texts. REEL 8 More shots of Jewish men at prayer in a synagogue, with the commentary: "...

  11. Slovakian newsreel: Hlinka Guard

    Slovak Sound Weekly: Celebrations in Nitra, swearing in of the Hlinka Guard, speech made by the head of the Hlinka Guard Alexander Mach and President Jozef Tiso.

  12. Hygiene

    Propaganda film about hygiene with good graphics. 01:31:31 Animated text is on fire and exclaims, "Aus Not Geboren!" A picture of a city is slowly covered with black smoke and overlying text refers to a nutrition problem. Title card states, "Abgeschlossen von Luft und Sonne verbringt der Großstädter sein dasein." Different apartment buildings and big city streets show crowded conditions. Men and women work in dirty factories (modern life). Text reads, "Das ist der Tag des Großstädters." [This is the day of the urban dweller] 01:33:02 An illustration shows how factory workers spend a majorit...

  13. Lammers & Wielen questioned at Nuremberg Trial

    20:10:05 (Munich 94) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 8, 1946. Mostly empty courtroom, camera set up on tripod in corner, sound test heard. Dr. Alfred Seidl, defense counselor for Hess, questions Hans Heinrich Lammers, member of the German Secret Cabinet, who is a witness for Keitel. 20:12:45 (Munich 96) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 10, 1946. HAS, Dr. Alfred Seidl questions Hans Heinrich Lammers, member of the German Secret Cabinet. Pan from Seidl to Goering, Hess, and Ribbentrop in dock. CU, Dr. Otto Stahmer, defense counselor for Goering. HAS, Tribunal; Chief J...

  14. Kivilsha & Grigorjov testify at Nuremberg Trial

    23:11:07 (Munich 13) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 26, 1946. LSs, Eugene Kivilsha, Red Army physician, testifying on stand identifies a photograph presented to him. (The witness and counsel speaking in Russian.) LSs, Dr. Hans Laternser, defense counsel for the German General Staff and OKW, questions the witness in German. LS, audience attending trials. MLSs, prosecution staff in courtroom. LS, court adjourns; judges file out. 23:16:09 (Munich 14) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, no date (silent). HSs, Tribunal as witness Jacob Grigorjov testifies. HSs, Eugene Kivilsh...

  15. Review of 1938 events

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 36, No. 87, Part 2. Release date, 10/24/1963. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Twenty Five Years Ago" A quarter of a century ago history recorded fifteen days of international crisis that forever shaped the destiny of man. There were riots in Sudetenland as pro-Hitler Germans backed his demand that this Czech territory and its people be returned to the Reich. At Munich, England and France allowed Hitler to take over....appeasement did not work. Less than a year later war raged in Europe. Other parts of the newsreel include: 15:08:31 "Operation Big L...

  16. Babi Yar

    VS, rubble and bodies intermingled on ground. VS, wood and corpses stacked together. MCU of charred skeletal remains, smoke rising from the ashes. Pan, piles of bones and fragments of bones. Quick cut to a MLS of the countryside, trees silhouetted against the sky along a dirt road; smoke is rising along the road. Translation of Ukrainian narration: Excerpts from the protocols of the State Commission. Testimonies of Isaac Brodsky, [name not entirely clear], Yakov Koper and other members of the death team #1005. The Nazis brought here [to Babi Yar] granite monuments and iron fences taken from...

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hitler on KdF ship, Robert Ley; Hitler in Prague and Berlin

    Trims. Hitler on boat with Robert Ley and relaxed German civilians (probably the maiden voyage of the "Kraft durch Freude" (KdF) ship Robert Ley, spring 1938. Harbor building with large letters: Hitler and group walking, friendly greetings with citizens of Heligoland. German submarine seen alongside from ship. Hitler reviews sailors on board boat; Hitler and babies; German planes in air over Prague, Czechoslovakia; Hitler on reviewing stand with Henlein and Syrovy in Prague; INT of the Reichstag where Hitler answered Roosevelt's cable, various shots. Hitler in car through Prague streets. Tr...

  20. Survivors arrive in US

    News Film - The Week in Film: Arrival in the US of citizens coming from concentration camps who lost their homes in Europe.