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  1. SA propaganda

    The young worker and talented SA leader Fritz Brand constantly argues about the political future of Germany with his jobless Social Democratic father. He is also greatly involved with the ongoing street-fighting between the Nazis and Communists during the extremely violent final months of the Weimar Republic. Fritz's sixteen year old neighbor and half-orphan Erich Lohner is inspired by his example and joins the Hitler Youth. Participating in one of the first legal SA marches immediately after the SA ban is lifted on June 17, 1932, Erich is shot to death by Communists. Subsequently, the Nazi...

  2. Ardeatine Caves; FFI; torture chamber; corpses

    Corpses of Italians executed by the Nazis are removed from the Ardeatine caves; last rites are given the victims; this was most likely filmed in July 1944 by the March of Time. A funeral cortege for FFI dead moves through Paris. Shows a Gestapo torture chamber in the city; corpses of US airmen in a field at Gambsheim; the removal of corpses from a cellar in Bande, Belgium; and last rites and burial of the victims.

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- British Agriculture

    Shot with Leblay camera: Richmond Park being plowed up to grow potatoes. Shots of farm being plowed by night (in Dorset) with a tractor fitted with headlights. (This is part of the effort to put an additional million and a half acres into cultivation). Various shots of London suburb dwellers on their new allotments for the producing of their own vegetables. The sites are in Brockwell, Dulwich, and Battersea Parks, in the SE suburbs of London.

  4. Atrocities, Seeshaupt, Germany

    Atrocities, Seeshaupt, Germany. EXT, LS, pile of decomposed bodies. LS, German civilians opening mass grave. CU, partially exhumed body. MS, German civilians removing a body from a mass grave. LS, pile of decomposed bodies. CU, several decomposed bodies. MS, pile of bodies. CU, decomposed bodies. CU, decomposed face of a slave laborer (dead). MS, German civilians carrying a body on a stretcher. LS, pile of decomposed bodies. EXT, crowd of German civilians, building in BG. LS, crowd of German civilians, American soldiers in FG. MS, German civilians unloading bodies from a truck, others looki...

  5. Global Structures Convocation panel discussion on ICC

    Panel Discussion: "Permanent International Criminal Court" Global Structures Convocation, Crystal City, VA. February 3-6,1994. (tape 10 in conference series) Panelists include: Michael Scharf (law professor at New England College of Law), Walter Hoffmann (president of the Center for UN Reform Education), Melinda Borrell (activist, lobbyist), Diane Orentlicher (law professor at American University), David Kreeger (president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation), and Benjamin Ferencz. The moderator is John McDonald. Ferencz explains the precedent of an international military tribunal set up at...

  6. Children refugees; rehabilitation in Europe

    A War Department Film. Army-Navy Screen Magazine, no. 75 Reel 2: European children roaming among debris, hunger lines and mobs contrasted with peaceful suburbs in the US and loss of US soldiers abroad: "Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it." UNRRA supplies are loaded on ships in the US and later distributed to orphans in Europe and Asia. Emphasis on international teamwork to help refugees, teach children, and rebuild/restore/repair nations. Ruins are cleared. Money pitch: "The price of peace." Ill and deformed children. "What seeds of destiny will sprout from within t...

  7. Ferencz discusses international law and human rights to manage the planet

    The Planet is at Risk. A number of contemporaries offer commentary and suggestions to meet the challenges of the next century, including a) Nick Dunlop, Parliamentarians Global Action; b) Barbara Wien, Institute for Policy Studies; c) Norman Cousius, Author; d) Dieter Heinrich, World Association for World Federation; e) Patricia Mische, Global Education Associates; f) Benjamin Ferencz, Author; and g) Senator Paul Simon. Text of biographical informations scrolls at end of program. Ferencz asserts that international laws are defective but are improving (i.e. Court of Human Rights in Strasbour...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Home Defense

    03:13:35 Shot with Leblay camera: Barricade on road in England. Military sentry stopping passenger car to check papers. All cars going into protected area are stopped, those leaving are not. Lewis gun in FG. MS, officer stopping car. CU, driver of car handing over papers. Red Cross ambulance being passed through. Shot of improvised barricade made of farm implements and barbed wire. Cyclists are stopped. MS, troops building barricades, with bus having difficulties in passing. LS, same (control not yet established on this barricade). MS, building barricades, schoolchildren passing in BG, stop...

  9. Police Order (Polizeileche Anordnung) regarding formation of a new Jewish quarter in the city of Przemysl

    Police Order (Polizeileche Anordnung) regarding formation of a new Jewish quarter in the city of Przemysl, Poland.

  10. Newsreel film recording worldwide war activities

    Records world-wide war activities. Reel 1: (1941-42) Pearl Harbor is attacked. President Roosevelt signs a mutual aid pact with 26 other nations. Churchill inspects damage in London. Shows destruction in Russia and China. Industry is converted to war production. Draftees are inducted and trained. German submarines sink US ships. Wheat, factories, and bridges are destroyed by retreating Russians. Shows Cordell Hull.

  11. Hitler's first speech as Chancellor, Berlin Sportpalast

    Nazi party rally in the crowded Berlin Sportpalast on February 10, 1933. Hitler in uniform explains the ideological reasons for the Nazi rise to power and their main political aims. He announces the indictment of the politicians responsible for the evils of the Weimar Republic and promises to 'resurrect' a "Neue Deutsche Reich" [new German Empire] undivided and rooted in 'healthy' soil. He does not openly address the Jewish question. Hitler closes with the last words of the Lord's Prayer and Amen. The audience of civilians and uniformed SA and SS rises, cheers, shouts 'Heil,' and gives the ...

  12. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy, sentencing

    (Munich 298) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Sentencing of Accused, Dachau, Germany, July 16, 1946. LS, spectators in courtroom. 1st Lt. Friedrich Crist sentenced to death by hanging. Maj Diefenthal receiving sentence of hanging. Gen. Sepp Dietrich receiving sentence of life imprisonment. PFC George Fleps sentenced to death. MS, defendants in dock as court president is heard sentencing Willi Heinz Hendel to death. PFC Joachim Hofman sentenced to death. PFC Friedel Kies sentenced to death. Mjaor Knittel sentenced to life imprisonment. Fritz Kraemer, Chief of Staff of the 6th SS Panzer, receiving ...

  13. Oral history interview with Suzanne Nozick

  14. Victory at Stalingrad; Casablanca conference; invasion of Italy; US troops attack by air

    Records world-wide war activities. Reel 5: (1943) The victory at Stalingrad is celebrated. FDR, Churchill, and de Gaulle confer at Casablanca. US and British troops meet in Tunisia; Gen. Eisenhower greets Gen. Montgomery. Bizerte, Tunis, and many German prisoners are captured. Sicily and Italy are invaded. Mussolini is ousted. The Italian fleet surrenders to Gen. Eisenhower. Naples greets US troops. Allied planes bomb and strafe enemy targets and down German fighters over Europe.

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Tito at Ambassador Allen's reception in Slovenia

    Reception given by US ambassador George V. Allen at his summer home, Villa Podkoron in Bled, Slovenia. For the first time in recent years, Marshal Tito was able to attend the reception. Guests included leading members of the Yugoslav Government and the Diplomatic Corps, many came to Bled specifically for the occasion. After cocktails, dinner was served to the guests, who sat a small tables in the garden. Tito left at midnight. Roll 1: Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Eduard Kardelj (wearing glasses) and Mrs. Kardelj arrive at the gates of the villa and are received by Ambassador Allen in...

  16. Delousing of DPs

    (LIB 6846) Delousing of DPs, Schwabisch Gmund, Germany, May 29, 1945. MSs, children of DP camp refill spray gun containers with insecticide powder. VS, US Army personnel using insecticide powder in air compressing machines and spray guns to delouse DPs in camp. The bodies of the DPs are sprayed as well as their outer garments and bedclothes.

  17. Truman desk

    President Truman meets with his cabinet: Oscar L. Chapman, William Averill Harriman, Maj. Gen. Phillip B. Fleming, John R. Steelman, Lewis B. Schwellenbach, Clinton P. Anderson, Robert E. Hannegan, James Forrestal, Robert A. Lovett, John W. Snyder, Tom C. Clark. Scenes of men at the table. Shots of President Truman at his desk.

  18. US Army weapons tested

    Staff Film Report, no. 65; Combat Bulletin, no. 65 Reel 2: Shows details in transporting, emplacing, manipulating, and firing the "Little David," the Army's 914mm mortar. 09:04:50 "Activities on Okinawa" US soldier is reunited with parts of his native family on Okinawa. On Okinawa, coral is dug, crushed by machines, hauled in trucks, and used to repair Kadena airstrip. Motors from wrecked trucks are steam cleaned and repaired. An M-4 tank is rigged with antipersonnel mines; General Hodges watches tests of the apparatus. Shows scenes during and after an ammunition dump fire; General F.C. Wal...

  19. Jewish Lads Brigade Camp, Walmar

    MLS of spectators at Walmar camp. MS boys in uniform in line inspected by Field Marshall William Birdwood. MLS of boys marching in rank, 1400 boys in camp. MS of marching wearing caps and white diagonal buckle, eyes right, tents in BG. MS Field Marshall on review stand. (camp been in operation since 1894). MLS reverse angle as boys go by. Birdwood speaking, then boys raise caps in salute as seen from behind speaker at podium. Narrator ends piece "Shalom Alechem" humor?

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Arrival of Romanian refugees

    Arrival of 600 Romanian Jewish refugees (liberated by Russians) near Haifa [coming from concentration camp in Trans-Dniestrie]. LS ship docked. MS refugees wave handkerchiefs. Authorities go aboard. LS ship with soldiers carryng arms; ambulances in FG. Unloading baggage with Commandant Morgan, Sea Transport Naval Officer, in FG. Refugees exit ship down gangplank; elderly, mothers with children. Filled baggage wagon passes in front of ship. Young refugees dance the "Hora" on the bridge of the ship. Refugees pass crowded train and board another. Arrival of train in Athlit camp. Members of the...