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  1. Female Austrian Jewish refugees at Czech-German border; England

    News of the Day: Czech-German Border. Jewish women refugees from Austria. Pan of tents on ridge, men and women; MS tents (loosely built) in rows. CU old women seated outside tents; CU old man. Piles of furniture, chairs, teapots. VLS: many people in field. England.

  2. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 619 and 620) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Judgment and Sentencing, Nuremberg, Germany. MHSs, defendants enter the dock. Camera remains on defendants presiding judge hands down the following sentences: Wilhelm Beiglboeck, fifteen years imprisonment Herta Oberhauser, twenty years imprisonment Fritz Fischer, life imprisonment Hermann Becker-Freyseng, twenty years imprisonment (Reel is silent from here on) LS, MSs, Tribunal as sentences are read. Cut-ins, defendant Waldemar Hoven (death sentence). LS, counsel tables. CU, Judge Walter B. Beals ...

  3. Various wartime scenes

    A film report examining Nazi methods to control morale. Consisting mostly of captured films. Civilians leave bombed cities and receive food. Shows Goering and Himmler and explains their civilian defense responsibilities. Streets are cleared and antiaircraft guns fire during an air raid. Shows wrecked planes, US POWs, and a bomber being shot down. A newsreel shows boxing, Axis troops, and, on the Russian front, mud, demolitions activities, and tanks being strafed.

  4. War Crimes Trials/war criminals

    Army-Navy Screen Magazine, no. 79. Reel 2: "Guilty Men" War crimes trials. War criminals are beaten and hung by their heels. Moscow declaration. Concentration camp scenes. Collection of documents for the trial. CUs, dead bodies of Himmler, Goebbels, etc. Disorder. Arrest of major war criminals. Belsen trial. Hangings. Mobs gather to view bodies. Other European war crimes trials of Caruso, Quisling, popes. German war criminals are tried and executed. German concentration camp scenes. Trial of some Japanese war criminals.

  5. Oral history interview with Bronia Lessing

  6. Oral history interview with Virginia Gatenio

  7. Frank Gierlach photograph collection

    Consists of nine photographs depicting the immediate aftermath of the Gardelegen Massacre, including images of the burial of victims.

  8. Ferencz interviewed by Fred Fiske

    Radio interview with Benjamin Ferencz. Host: Fred Fiske. WAMU-FM 88.5 Ferencz argues that war criminals should continue to be prosecuted today to indicate revulsion of the crimes committed. He mentions repeatedly that we need to remember man's inhumanity to man. He discusses the Kurt Waldheim controversy, the problems in selecting defendents for his trial at Nuremberg, and slave labor in German big business. He regards laws, courts, and a system of effective enforcement as necessary to achieve a peaceful world. Ferencz stresses that all genocidal acts should be condemned in an international...

  9. 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...

  10. Yalta Conference

    Reel 2: FDR, Churchill, and Stalin pose. Shows views of Sevastopol. FDR entertains Churchill, Haile Selassie, Ibn Saud, and King Farouk aboard ship; Ambassador Winant, Admiral Leahy, and Hopkins are present. FDR addresses Congress on the conference.

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Chamberlain returning from Germany

    (Leblay camera) Neville Chamberlain's trip to Berchtesgaden to see Hitler, 09/15/1938. VAR, Chamberlain at Heston Aerodrome, walking towards plane, delivering a speech into microphones. VAR, Lord and Lady Halifax, Herr Kordt, German Charge d'Affaires, and others. Chamberlain gets into plane. Plane taking off. (Leblay camera) Chamberlain returns to Heston Aerodrome from Berchtesgaden, 09/16/1938. Crowds of press awaiting Chamberlain's arrival. Lord and Lady Halifax awaiting arrival. Shots of plane arriving, Chamberlain getting out, reading King's message, delivering speech, surrounded by pre...

  12. Defendants read statements during Pohl case

    (Munich 632) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 4 (Pohl Case), Nuremberg, Germany, September 22, 1947. HS, Judges bench. Chief Justice Robert M. Toms declares that the Tribunal is ready to hear the statements of the defendants. Defendants Oswald Pohl, August Frank, Heinz Karl Fanslau, George Loerner, Erwin Tschentscher, and Rudolf Scheide read their statements to the court. Karl Sommer and Hermann Pook read their statements.

  13. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee

    Calling card for Lilly Bergl 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.

  14. German invasion of Poland, advance

    Summary: The German viewpoint of events prior to and during the Polish campaign. Reel 6: Camp of Polish POWs, long line of POWs marching on road, CUs feet. German troops move east, through rural terrain. Graphic of southern front (Lemberg). Troops cross River Sam, Hitler reviews. Hitler looks at map. German troops, tanks through burning town. Tired German troops and artillery along road. Troops rest by road, sleeping, cleaning equipment, washing shaving, etc. Read papers while marching. Tanks through terrain, villages

  15. Buchenwald

    French prisoners (dressed well, coats, shoes) standing by RC jeeps and in them. View from rear of jeep/truck, everyone getting off. MS, former prisoners talking amongst themselves. CU, three seated on bench, heavy white coat on. CU, on stretcher being taken away (smoking). Jeeps/trucks driving away, soldiers wave. From above, LS, camp square, barracks. People scattered around, walking. View directly down of civilians in square. MS, soldier walks by camera, in front of small stack of mostly naked corpses, winding a little camera; same pile, different angle, different soldier, crosses left. M...

  16. Kurt Grubler collection

    Contains a bound manuscript written by Kurt Grubler titled, "Death or Survival: A Survivor's Holocaust Experience," correspondence and documents relating to the Nazi persecution of Jews in Austria and Poland, and materials comprised chiefly of correspondence (1915-1948) and official documentation (1900-1942) of the Grubler and Littner families. The collection includes copies of drawings, photographs, and articles about the history and persecution of the Jewish community of Linz, Austria, as well as documents and copies of documents relating to Nazi propaganda and the Nazi occupation of Aust...

  17. "Minsk - Im lager der deutschen Juden"

    Photocopy of a published article by Karl Loewenstein, titled "Minsk--Im Lager der deutschen Juden," 16 pages, which originally appeared in "Die Mahnung: Organ des Bundes der Verfolgten des Naziregimes Berlin, e.V.," Vol. 4, No. 1, 1 January 1957. The article describes Loewenstein's experiences, from the point in which he was arrested by the Gestapo in Berlin in 1941, through his deportation to Minsk and what he experienced and witnessed there until his transfer to Theresienstadt the following year. He describes living conditions in the camp to which deportees from Berlin were assigned, the ...

  18. Materials relating to the imprisonment of Josif Gerber and the death of Teodor Gerber

    Relates to the death of Teodor Gerber, a Jewish youth who was killed by the Iron Guard in Bucharest in 1940, and his brother Josif, who was imprisoned on grounds of Communist connections.

  19. Records relating to treatment of Jews by Italian and German nationals during the Holocaust

    Relates to the general treatment, incarceration, deportations, repatriation of Jews by the Nazis and Italian fascists in the Balkans, Greece, Italy, Sweden, France, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

  20. Herman Seligman and Alfred Mayer papers

    The material pertaining to Hermann Seligman consists of: orders and instructions to the Jewish community in Germany which were distributed by the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland; a letter from the American consulate in Hamburg; and information regarding their settlement of Jews in Terezín (a.k.a Theresienstadt). Additional material in this collection consists of a letter from the American consulate in Hamburg to the American Senator James M. Mead, dated 20 February 1940, describing the status of one Heinz Langstaedter's attempt to emigrate to the United States from Germany; and ...