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  1. Farewell to SS-Galicia Waffen Division

    A parade is organized to send the newly-formed Waffen SS "Galicia" Division in Ukraine off for training. Large crowds attend, and a farewell speech is given by Dr. Otto von Wächter, the German governor of Galicia, in Lviv (Lvov, Lwow), Geramn occupied territory of Ukraine. This likely takes place in the summer of 1943, though the troops did not see action until early 1944. Ukrainian soldiers are presented with flowers by Ukrainian women in traditional dress. There is a clear display of Ukrainian nationalism alongside the Nazi pageantry. Large crowds gather in the city square to bid the recr...

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- US Navy carrier

    Navy Carrier USS Siboney in heavy weather.

  3. Molotov visits US; Sec. Hull; FDR at White House; women war workers

    Part 1, Soviet Commissar Molotov boards a plane at the Washington, DC airport (his secret visit to the US) Shows Secretary of State Hull. Part 2, Sec. Hull and Ambassador Litvinov sign a lend-lease agreement. Part 3, Grand Coulee dam is opened. Part 4, President and Mrs. Roosevelt greet King George II of Greece at the White House. Part 5, women war workers leave their children in nursery schools. Shows scenes at the schools and in industry. Part 6, U.S. bombers are ferried to Canada. Part 7, shows tin cans saved in scrap metal drives. Includes shots of aluminum being processed. Part 8, alli...

  4. Goering questioned by Jackson at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 53) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 18, 1946. LS, people in courtroom rise as Tribunal enters, then seat themselves and trial begins. Rear views, Chief US Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson questions Hermann Goering who in part of his testimony affirms his fealty to Hitler and says that until almost the very last he thought German victory possible. Goering says that probably in the beginning none of the defendants were really against Hitler ("trying to obstruct him"), but he clarifies that one has to distinguish different time periods, they were talking about almost 25 years ...

  5. German invasion of Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine

    Kiev [Kyiv] burning. German soldiers in the streets, on foot and on horseback. AVs of Kiev. VS, smoke, fires, destroyed buildings. The narrator notes that this is on Hreschatyk, the main street of Kiev. It is important to note, therefore, that the buildings were destroyed not by the invading Germans, but by the retreating Soviets, who planted explosives in these buildings to be detonated once the Germans had occupied them. 01:17:46 Synagogue(?) in Kiev. Firefighters with water hoses, trying to extinguish the fires. More AVs of burned out buildings, block after block of decimated buildings. ...

  6. Kesselring & Goering testify at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 47) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 13, 1946. MLS defense counselors sitting at tables in front of prisoners' dock as Chief US Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson interrogates Kesselring (Jackson's back is toward the camera). When Kesselring is asked if he advocated the invasion of England, he tries not to answer directly and is rebuked for that by the judge. Meanwhile, the camera shows Goering, who nods his head energetically as if answering for the hesitating Kesselring [interesting passage]. 01:16:15 Defendants in dock. Goering testifying on how he first heard of Hitler and...

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- MacArthur's speech to Allied Control Council, part 2

    General MacArthur's speech to Allied Control Council, continued. MacArthur speaking, praises proposed new Japanese constitution for its renunciation of war, respect for dignity of individual, freedom of speech and religion, lasting peace...

  8. Chart of Nazi party at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 374) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 22, 1945. Chart of Nazi party organization set up in front of courtroom. Ralph Albrecht, US assistant counselor, describes the different officers and positions of the National Socialist Party. "Hoheitstraeger," bearers of the sovereignty in the party, are pointed out in the chart. MS, Goering, Hess, Ribbentrop, Keitel, and others in prisoners' dock. MS, Goering and Hess lean over prisoners' dock and look at chart in lawyer's hand. MS, Goering makes notes as he listens with one earphone. LS, people standing during recess. MS, Goerin...

  9. Dr. Sievers on the stand at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 345) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 8, 1946. Dr. Wolfram Sievers charged with perjury is again put on the stand and questioned by Mr. Jones, a British assistant prosecutor. Sievers is questioned about his earlier given testimony, that he cannot name figures of dead since he had no insight in that. He said that he did not play a part in the creation of the skeleton collection at the University of Frankfurt, but he admits that the skeletons were expected to come from Auschwitz.

  10. Babi Yar

    Compilation of still photos of atrocities. MCU, hanging corpses. VS, a group of journalists in the Babi Yar area. They are writing in notebooks, taking down the words of one man who stands in the center of the circle of journalists, as a witness, there are a few women in the crowd. Journalist speaks to camera, by a ravine, explaining the story of what happened during the massacre. Camera pans down and across the ravine. Several other journalists are standing along the downward slope of the ravine. Translation of Ukrainian narration and Russian witness testimony: Novograd-Volynskyi, Zhytomyr...

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Daily life in Gothenburg, Sweden

    City of Gothenburg from the harbor. Model flats in Gothenburg, shot from rubber-neck boat. Old houses in Gothenburg, from canal. View of the old city from the canal. MS, canal, street scene. Norra Hamnagatan with German church in BG. Shot down Ostra Hamnagatan. Similar shot in opposite direction. Views of park. View looking down Kungsportsavenyn from Art Museum steps. Front of Art Museum. CU Poseidon statue. Shopping center, crowd outside picture theatre reading posters. Ice cream stall on bridge. Newspaper shop window with people reading news sheets. CU, citizen reading. Newspaper posters....

  12. Operation of translating system at Nuremberg Trial

    War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 1946. SEQ: standing before photo mural of the Nuremberg Trial in session, Commander Steer of the US Navy explains the operation of the Multilingual Simultaneous Interpreting System. (Photography is bad in spots.)

  13. Alfred Rosenberg's "Myth of the Blood" presented at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 483) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 9, 1946. Rear views, prosecution presents evidence of Alfred Rosenberg's "Neo-Pagan Myth of the Blood" to the court. The counsel also discusses the looting of art objects in Nazi-occupied countries, which was a part of Rosenberg's dealings. LS, prisoners' dock during attorney's address to the court.

  14. Evidence collected for Russelsheim Case

    Russelsheim Case, Russelsheim, Germany, July 21, 1945. LS, Frankfurterstrasse. Pan, Arc Hotel, where accused are billeted. Pan, from Frankfurterstrasse to Tannusstrasse. SEQ: US soldier walks route taken by American fliers. The solder points out where they were beaten, stoned, and finally died. LS, cemetery, sign in FG: "Bensheim American Military Cemetery." SEQ: men and women accused of murdering the fliers coming out of courthouse in Darmstadt and boarding truck under MP guard. CUs, still photographs showing civilians digging up the bodies. Three sketches showing wounds that killed the me...

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  16. Dodd speaks about slave labor at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 436) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 11, 1945. MS, US prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd continues his indictment of slave labor. MLS, prisoners' dock which now includes the twenty-first prisoner Ernst Kaltenbrunner, as they listen to Dodd's testimony. MS, some of the defendants' lawyers making notes during the address.

  17. Signal Corps Cameramen; Nazi SS Trial

    21:00:41 (LIB 6866) Combat Cameramen, Germany, March-April 1945. LS, jeep pulls up to street corner, camera team gets out and still man pockets film in paratroop trousers. MLSs, CUs, two soldiers lead cameramen through rubble-strewn street. Cameraman stops to take pictures with a Speed Graphic. LS, still cameraman takes pictures of two infantrymen walking past burning building in Schweigen. LS, officer takes picture with still camera of advancing column of the 100th Div in Nussloch. LS, cameraman takes pictures of two soldiers as they pass burning rubble and buildings. CUs, cameraman using ...

  18. Soviet partisans; military

    Reprisals against Soviet partisans in village. Military in Smolensk. VS, soldiers in the field. CUs of the faces of soldiers, smiling, talking, etc.

  19. Case against Hans Fritzsche, broadcast propaganda at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 519) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 23, 1946. US Capt. Drexel A. Sprecher addressing the Tribunal in the case against Hans Fritzsche. Tribunal and court members leaving the courtroom for adjournment. MCU, Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and Lt. Gen. Lucian Truscott sitting in the courtroom balcony. (Railing covers their faces.) Rear view of Capt. Sprecher reading a document written by Fritzsche about German broadcast propaganda. MS, court stenographers at work during the trial.

  20. German TV documentary film on antisemitism (reel 7)

    Part 2 (repeats some of Reel 7, part 1). Invasion of Czechoslovakia. A faked-looking photo of Stuckart and Globke at a conference relating to the future of the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Film of a Jewish family of three as they leave their home, presumably to be deported. The narration says that this scene was filmed by an SS troop and discovered in Prague. The suitcases carried by the family are echoed in the next shot, which shows the piles of suitcases at Auschwitz. Spotlight on a document that purports to prove, by virtue of the fact that he was exempted from military service,...