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  1. Red Cross ship at NY harbor

    REEL 3: Unedited footage shows Canadian and American Red Cross parcels and mail being loaded aboard ship for delivery to prisoners of war in Japanese camps, stocks of food supplies on the ship, two women in their cabins, and customs inspectors examining baggage.

  2. War Crimes Trials: Einsatzgruppen Case

    (Munich 638) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 9 (Einsatzgruppen Case). US assistant prosecutor John Glancy reading prosecution's opening statement and discussing the evidence against the four units of the Einsatzgruppen. He specifically addresses the crimes of Adolf Ott (Commander of Sonderkommando 7b of Einsatzgruppe B), Waldemar Klingelhoefer (Leader of Vorkommando Moscow of Einsatzgruppe B), and Franz Six (Leader of Vorkommando Moscow of Einsatzgruppe B). Einsatzgruppe C killed 80,000 people. Glancy specifically refers to the crimes of Erwin Schulz (Leader of Einsat...

  3. Damaged planes; corpses at Dachau; Berchtesgaden

    Tank. Train. Damaged plane at edge of road and forest, tanks going by. 11:03:32 LS enormous pile of naked corpses at Dachau. Damaged planes. 11:05:38 Beautiful vistas of alpine countryside and mountains, Hitler's Mountain Retreat. Bombed out mountain houses, villages. CU, (bust size) of colored portrait of Hitler. View into train of stolen art, rugs; soldiers display the items of loot delivered to Berchtesgaden. CU (dark), religious artworks in train. 11:11:08 Alpine views. Four hikers, CUs. Tent damage. More mountain views. Destruction of village homes.

  4. Ferencz lecture: Wiesenthal Holocaust Center

    Ferencz lecture. Wiesenthal Holocaust Center, Los Angeles, CA. Second in five part series on Nazi war crimes trials. Ferencz discusses how the Nuremberg proceedings informed his life, his involvement in major restitution programs, and his understanding of "Never Again" through developing international law, an international criminal court, and defining aggression. He explains the legal precedents established at Nuremberg, including a) crime of aggression; b) crimes against humanity; c) trying heads of state; and d) guaranteeing rights to every prisoner (innocent until proven guilty in a cour...

  5. American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France

    An American anti-war propaganda film produced by the U.S. Office of War Information to educate US soldiers before going to France. Some scenes are staged. Reel 4: Shows French POWs in a German camp, the Free French fleet and air squadrons, scuttled French warships in Toulon, and advancing Allied troops. French troops are reviewed by de Gaulle and in Great Britain, and Russian and French underground fighters kill German sentries, blow up bridges, and ambush German motorcycle columns. Germans seize and execute French hostages.

  6. Dachau Concentration Camp & Trial

    (Paris 446) Dachau Concentration Camp Trials, Dachau, Germany, December 11-12, 1945. LS, truck passes through entrance of camp. VS, building and church on the grounds. HAS, barracks. VS, German prisoners unload huge containers from trucks. LS, German civilian and military prisoners marching on grounds. LS, ovens in crematorium. LS, wax figures of guard beating prisoner. Prosecution counsel during summation in court. LS, commission at bench. Pan to courtroom and spectators. MSs, accused prisoners in courtroom. Pan, MSs, judges seated at bench include Col PO Ward, Col Blanchard, Col Richards,...

  7. Euthanasia

    Hanna, the wife of medical doctor Thomas Heyt, suffers from multiple sclerosis. He decides to 'redeem' her through a sleeping draught, giving her a 'merciful death.' Hanna thus voluntarily and peacefully ends her own life after unbearable suffering. Dr. Heyt's friend and colleague Dr. Lang (Mathias Wiemann) denounces him to the police, but changes his mind when a child he saved from death becomes mentally disabled. A court jury comprised of a cross-section of German society discusses all the moral, religious, and medical arguments in favor of and against euthanasia. Dr. Heyt argues, with gr...

  8. 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...

  9. Rescuing Allied airmen

    Project Gunn, Office of Strategic Services, Field Photographic Branch, Unit 24, 1944. Film Report: On a mission headed by Lt. Col Gunn during World War II to rescue by air Allied airmen in a POW camp southwest of Bucharest, Romania. REEL 1: AVs, Albanian coastline and Danube River as plane approaches Ploesti airfield. Romanian officials greet O.S.S officers to arrange evacuation of the prisoners.

  10. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

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

  11. Oral history interview with Gerald C. Caskey

  12. Senators visit Buchenwald; checking IDs; destroyed trains; military vehicles

    (LIB 5927) Congressional Group, Weimar, Germany, April 24, 1945. MSs, CUs, officers speaking to the Senators at Buchenwald concentration camp. MSs, Senators viewing stack of naked bodies. MS, Senator Alben W Barkley standing next to pile of bodies. MSs, black soldiers speaking with group of senators. VS, Gen Omar N. Bradley talking with the senators. Seq: Senatorial group is met by Lt Gen Walter B Smith at the airfield. MS, Gen Dwight D Eisenhower and group of Senators come out of building and enter car. (LIB 5928) Checking Civilians at Duisburg, Germany, April 23, 1945. Seq: Soldiers of th...

  13. Polish Refugees Leave Teheran for Palestine

    350 Polish Refugees Leave Teheran for Palestine, (no date, originally reviewed March 27, 1944) INTs, Teheran railroad station. Polish refugees on platform bustle about as some bid farewell to departing friends. Persian/Arabic inscriptions. Pan, wall of newsstand/booth. Dolly shot, relatives and friends bid one another farewell from train windows; along railcars, more crowded, various men in uniform. Belongings on platform. Men, women, and children mill about, looking anxious and excited, some dressed well, some with hats (mix of Middle Eastern and Baltic looks). CU, native porter salutes in...

  14. Ration card

    Ration card issued to Helene Wiesenberg, March 1945.

  15. Global Structures Convocation panel discussion on peacekeeping

    Panel Discussion: "Peacekeeping versus Peacemaking" Global Structures Convocation, Crystal City, VA. February 3-6,1994. (tape 23 in conference series) Panelists include: Ambassador H. Sardenburg (to United Nations from Brazil), Erskine Childers (dedicated life's work toward strengthening peace), Michael Stopford (director of UN Information Center; respresentative to UN Secretary General in Washington, DC), Phyllis Bennis (UN and Middle East correspondent for Pacifica radio), Louis Sohn (distinguished professor of law at Harvard, director of Peace Institute), and Harold Stasin (the only livi...

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Church patriarch elected; Exarcat leads mass at Church

    1150 W: Election of the patriarch of "Czech Church," Prague, Czechoslovakia, June 29, 1946. Priests and laymen elect patriarch of Czech Church. The liturgical service is sung in Czech. LS and CU of Christ hanging on the wall behind the altar. Several shots taken during the Office of three bishops who pray/sing in front of the Assistance. Several shots of the Assistance. MS lifting the host. CU lifting the ciborium and the host (the ciborium is the coat of arms of the Czech Church). CU the Holy Communion. LS and CU of the Assistance. Priests on the left and laymen on the right. LS of the Pre...

  17. Dried pressed flower brought to the US by an Austrian Jewish refugee

    Dried pressed flower found in the autograph album, 1994.53.6.1, owned by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  18. 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. The audience of civilians and uniformed SA and SS rises, cheers, shouts 'Heil,' and gives the Nazi salute (several times during the speech). This is Hitler's "...

  19. American officers/POWs in Mauthausen

    (LIB 6495) Concentration Camp, Mauthasen, Austria, May 7-8, 1945. Sound interview with Lt Jack H Taylor, US Navy, who tells of his work in the German-occupied countries of Europe, his capture, and his treatment as a prisoner. Sound interview with Sgt Louis Biagioni, US Army, who tells of his service behind the lines serving with Italian partisans in the the northeast section of Italy. The Sgt relates his capture by the Gestapo and treatment while in the prison camp. Transcription: Jack H. Taylor U.S. Navy, CA. "Interview with American Officer in Austria, October 44. Captured in December by ...

  20. Jewish refugees

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 17, No. 224. Release date, 04/08/1944. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. At railroad station, refugees getting off train, walking towards camera. Sign: "Canada... You." Welcomed by friends; getting into friends' cars; CU Jews getting into car, child, woman, man; CU baby in mother's arms.