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Language of Description: English

  1. German invasion, occupation of France; Dunkirk

    Reel 7: Germans advance on Dunkirk. German troops eat and drink beer. British forces board boats as Stukas divebomb and a ship is set afire. Shows French and British POWs, the Dunkirk surrender ceremonies, debris on beaches, British corpses, abandoned Allied war material and a German flag. German trucks haul war material into France.

  2. Anschluss and Austrian enthusiasm

    Starting with a map showing the borders between Germany and Austria fading, this footage illustrates the occupation of Austria by German military forces on March 12, 1938 and the enthusiastic welcome by the Austrian population shouting 'Heil' and 'Hitler,' waving flags, and giving the Nazi salute. Special occasions include the crossing of the border at Kufstein, the destruction of the turnpike at Passau, the occupation of Salzburg and Graz, the fraternization between German and Austrian troops in Villach, and Hitler waving from a balcony in Linz. Most of the film is shot in Vienna, showing:...

  3. White monogrammed towel from Auschwitz

    The towel is a piece of stolen victim property from Auschwitz concentration camp.

  4. Buchenwald during and after liberation

    Mostly military scenes, group shots of soldiers, tanks and jeeps driving over bridges. CU, corpses with lime. MS, soldier (back to camera) looking into black doorway, taking picture. CU, dressed corpses, in loose pile on ground, blood on ground. WS, enormous mounds of white substance. Collapsed building, soldiers walking on top. LS tank driving over and into plane wreckage in a field. Tank driving towards camera. CU, four soldiers in tank. Refugees walking along road with oxen and big carts covered. Refugees on country path, bikes laden with belongings.

  5. Hitler Youth

    Heini Voelker (Juergen Ohlsen, an unidentified Hitler Youth) is a 15 year old and non-political apprentice in Berlin with a jobless Communist father. While at a Communist Youth camp to which he was sent by his father, Heini is deeply intrigued by the expression of discipline and comradeship at a nearby Hitler Youth camp. His mother gasses herself and attempts to gas the boy. During his recovery in the hospital, he is incorporated into a "substitute family" of Hitler Youth. Heini is stabbed to death by members of the Communist Youth while disseminating Nazi propaganda materials for the parli...

  6. Various wartime scenes

    A film report examining Nazi methods to control morale. Consisting mostly of captured films. POWs on the Russian front. Shows Goebbels and describes SS operations. Explains the high morale of German combat units in France. Describes a new cargo plane, a demolitions tank, and the V-1 bomb. Shows Hitler and Himmler and CUs of German POWs.

  7. Woebbelin concentration camp; Russians and GIs; US generals at bridge

    (LIB 6299) Prisoners of Concentration Camp, Wobbelin, Germany, May 4, 1945. MSs, CUs, weak starved inmates of the camp. CUs, extremely emaciated individuals. Seq: Emaciated prisoners are helped by other inmates into trucks. In many cases victims cannot stand on their feet. MSs, CUs, weak, sick prisoners lying on ground near barracks pleading for help. (LIB 6300) Russians and GIs, Sandau, Germany. INT, banquet given by Polish and Russian officers to liason pilots of the 102nd Division. Short scene: Russian and US soldiers speaking on the banks of the Elbe River. (LIB 6301) PWs and Infantry, ...

  8. Burial of Russian Jews

    Atrocity, Nuremberg, Germany, April 29, 1945. Seq: Reburial of murdered Russian Jews inside of town. MSs, CUs, coffins bearing bodies of victims. German civilians carry empty coffins to forest area where bodies are placed in coffins. Open coffins are carried into town for reburial. CUs, a few of the women weeping. Head-on shot, group of freed slave laborers preceded the line of civilians carrying the bodies. Bodies are carried to the cemetery.

  9. Hadamar; POWs raid for food; Breendonck torture devices

    Inquests are held at Hadamar with Dr. Wahlmann and Karl Muller (male nurse, morphine). At Meppene, soldiers delousing liberated Russian POWs. Amputees walk by. Prisoners search garbage cans for food. Crowd of disabled prisoners walk by camera in group. Survivors lying down outside, boy passes by in cart/wheelchair. Various shots of wounded/disabled prisoners eating soup, sleeping. Stretcher goes by with naked corpses. CUs, corpses. Three stretchers carried by four men at shoulder height pass in front of barbed wire fence. In Paderborn, Russian soldier argues with person off camera. Liberate...

  10. Ferencz discusses slave labor

    A BBC Production, aired November 11, 1990, 10:05 PM. Includes segments of interview with Benjamin Ferencz, among others. British Prisoners of War who worked for the German company I.G. Farben now want compensation for their years as slave laborers. After the war Farben was forced to sell its assets, so the question of compensation was impossible. But since the unification of Germany Farben has been trying to re-claim lost assets estimated at two billion pounds. Joan Bakewell investigates the POWs hopes for compensation. Ferencz tells of the absence of a Nuremberg trial on behalf of the Brit...

  11. Ferencz lecture: slave labor, "Less Than Slaves"

    Book and Author Luncheon, Benjamin Ferencz, "Less Than Slaves," Harvard University Press, 1979. Introduction by Ted Friedman, program director of the Anti-Defamation Leage of B'nai B'rith. Second introduction by Telford Taylor. Taylor praises the book for its unique content and contribution to the "new and amorphous field of the subject of international penal law." Benjamin Ferencz provides an outline of the book and answers many questions from the audience. In the book, Ferencz deals with the German plan of Vernichtung durch Arbeit ["destruction through work"] in which millions were coerce...

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Atrocity at Nuremberg; burials

    Atrocity at Nuremberg (via Fox). VSs, bodies of massacred Jews lying in woods. VSs, American soldiers arriving and inspecting the bodies. MCU, German civilians carrying coffins along road. CU, man weeping at sight of the bodies. VSs, German men and women carrying coffins thru the woods and along road. CU, weeping German woman. LS, Germans lining route over which coffins are being carried. Travelling shot, Germans standing beside open coffins. VSs, Germans carrying coffins along road and people weeping as they pass. Germans placing coffins down in cemetery. VSs, German men and women looking ...

  13. Mildred G. Hunter photograph collection

    Contains three photographs taken shortly after the liberation of a concentration camp.

  14. Armistice Celebrations in Washington, DC, New York and Paris

    Armistice Celebrations in Washington, DC, New York, Paris, and London, 1918. Revised version, 1936. Summary: Reel 1: President Wilson leaves the White House and rides down Pennsylvania Avenue. Shows parade units and crowds in Washington, DC. The Kaiser is hanged in effigy in New York City. Jewish man with Hebrew paper blowing horn. British Gen. Haig, French Gen. Petain, Italian Gen. Diaz and King Albert of Belgium review troops outside Paris. President Wilson reads a Washington newspaper.

  15. Ferencz lecture: Unitarian Forum

    Final lecture in the 1986 series, Unitarian Forum, San Francisco. Practical Programs for Peace. Benjamin Ferencz speaks about the evolution of the concept of world law, the role of the US constitution at Nuremberg, using law as the instrument for protection of peace, and what people can do today to effect peace. Ferencz emphasizes the need for social justice. He indicates law, courts, and enforcement as critical to the peace process. Responding to a question near the end of the session, Ferencz says, "It's my conviction that if humankind has the intelligence to develop the means of destroyi...

  16. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 294) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, July 11, 1946. Lt. Col. Burton J. Ellis concluding his summation. LS and LMS, defendant #22 reading his plea to the court. Army officer for the defense reads statement for a mitigation of verdict of one of the defendants. Col. Willis M. Everett, chief defense counsel, reading his final plea before closing of the court.

  17. Program on nuclear weapons

    Host: Carl Sagan. Guest: George Kistiakowsky (1900-1982), designed and built the chemical charge that triggered the first nuclear explosion. Sagan interviews Kistiakowsky about his involvement in nuclear weapons. Program discusses the history of the nuclear arms race and the "grave threat" of the human future. Kistiakowsky says that a nuclear war is probable and that only our efforts will help stop it.

  18. Ferencz interviewed by Lynn Samuels

    Radio interview with Benjamin Ferencz. Host: Lynn Samuels. WBAI. Interview focuses on Ferencz's involvement at Nuremberg and in negotiations with the West German government for restitution of property. The Reparations Treaty provided a) a lump sum (3 billion DM) to Israel paid in German goods over 10-12 years; b) $100 million to Jewish charitable organizations over a ten year period for relief work outside of Israel in reestabishing Nazi survivors and Jewish communities; and c) special new laws in Germany for compensation to survivors if they prove injury from Nazi persecution [injury inclu...

  19. Germany Awake!

    Summary of film: Recounts Germany's wartime experience and encourages German citizens to help effect a successful peace. Reel 1: Explosion of Swastika in Nuremberg Stadium. Dead Germans and POWs. Rubble in Cologne, Nuremberg, Hamburg, and Berlin. Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery; Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta. Hitler, Streicher, Hess, Himmler and Goebbels addressing crowds. Germans are shown bodies in the Nordhausen and Belsen concentration camps. Gen. Eisenhower and Gen. Patton tour Ohrdruf concentration camp. Scene of burned bodies on truck chassis, as at start of Museum's pe...

  20. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

    One of a set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski