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Language of Description: English

  1. Oral history interview with James Barnett

  2. Large Fascist Meeting

    Narrator voiceover: "Third anniversary of fight against Bolshevists. ..." Eastern Front Brotherhood Organization (forerunner of Arrow Cross) welcomes members returning from Front. Large meeting hall, with giant banner with skull: "Fight to Victory." Sync statements by Joszef Ambross, leader of the organization, and Bela Imredy, National Leader of Brotherhood, re: need for unity, discipline, and sacrifice. Speaker warns audience to not take on the role of Judas.

  3. Children in Warsaw

    Children (mostly) exiting building, a man observes at left, a woman (teacher?) follows the children. Children are escorted through a gate, walking in line, dressed in uniform. Girls dance in a courtyard. Boys enter the courtyard, dressed in uniform, teachers stand aside them.

  4. Second transport of war criminals

    Second transport of war criminals. Former Arrow Cross leaders arrive from Germany, interrogated in former Arrow Cross headquarters. Including: Sandor Csia, Tribunal Judge Lajos Szasz, Supply Minister Ferenz Vas, Leader of Volksbund Emil Szakvari, Secretary of Gombos, Minister under Szalasi Pal Tider, Arrow Cross Count Peter Hain, Gestapo agent Kalman Kubai (L) chained with Laszlo Baky (R) State Secretary Karoly Beregi, Arrow Cross Defense Minister Mihaly Borcsa Kolozsvari, Szalasi Press Secretary Istvan Antal, Minister of Propaganda Ferenz Kiss, Actor Ferencz Fiala, Press Secretary Jeno Rac...

  5. Street scenes; POWs

    Children sitting in street. Shot of man in German uniform on street, pedestrians pass by. Man on street singing or talking to himself. Overall shot of market, very crowded. CUs of people in street. Corner storefront. CU of typhus notice: FLECKFIEBER. Street vendors. Shot of ghetto wall under construction? More street vendors. Pan of ruined buildings. Bombed building. Street with wall built across it. Poor quality newsreel footage of Jews on country road and Polish POWs (also in Bundesarchiv footage).

  6. Hitler with Degrelle & SS

    Hitler congratulates SS Generals Lieb and Gille and decorated Belgian fascist Leon Degrelle for escaping Russian encirclement at Cherkassy. Himmler is present. MS, SS General Lieb salutes, bows, and shakes Hitler's hand. SS General Gille salutes, Himmler walking beside him. Hitler shakes Gille's hand, and looks toward Leon Degrelle (the Belgian fascist) who is in SS uniform and saluting. Hitler shakes his hand and then clasps it warmly with other hand. MCU of the same. MCU hands decoration to Gille then to Degrelle. Camera moves in for good shot as Hitler and Degrelle shake hands warmly. Hi...

  7. Book Destruction

    Beginning of the destruction of Jewish literary products. Mihaly Kolozsvari Borcsa, State Secretary, throws the first book in the pulp mill.

  8. Nazi unit men's brass finger ring found by a US soldier

    Men's Nazi ring found by John W. Runkle, an American soldier.

  9. Blanket from Foehrenwald displaced persons camp

    Blanket bought by Charlene Schiff with cigarettes which she received in Joint Distribution Committee packages during her internment at Foehrenwald diplaced persons camp, near Munich, Germany.

  10. Buchenwald Aussenkommando scrip for SS Ko. Rottleberode, -.50 Reichsmark

    .50 Reichsmark Buchenwald Aussenkommando [Outside Command] coupon for SS Ko. Rottleberode concentration camp in Germany. Buchenwald opened on July 19, 1937, and issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. The simply designed notes were printed on coarse paper. There were two types of coupons: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades [Aussenkommandos.] In early April 1945, as US forces approached Buchenwald concentration camp, the German guards began to evacuate the camp. On April 11, the prisoners revolted and seized control of the camp. ...

  11. Exodus Jews in Germany

    Refugees washing clothes, sewing, near quonset huts and tents. Couple poses with young child. CU boy eating bread. Good view of tents. VAR CUs of refugees. Barbed wire enclosed camp. More general views of camp, people walking, talking. Nice CU of boy wearing a hat with "Exodus 47." Train station, British medical personel load ambulance. Refugees leave train, go onto trucks. British soldiers guard road, trucks pass. Soldier guards camp. More CUs of refugees.

  12. Forced labor construction of giant submarine pen

    French POWs, concentration camp inmates, Polish and Soviet POWs from Neuengamme subcamp Bremen-Farge - forced labor at U-Boat construction site "Valentin" in Bremen. 00:02:09 Good establishing shots of construction complex and adjacent Weser River. Train pulling into site, LS men working at base of high wall under construction. Guiding crane. 00:05:50 VS French uniformed POWs digging, lifting girders. 00:06:17 LS concentration camp inmates in striped clothing unloading bags of cement and carrying them on their shoulders, MS then MCU. 00:07:03 LS of train, and pan of buildings, cranes and co...

  13. Hans Frank in Poland

    UFA #688: Hans Frank, Governor General of Poland, visits Pilsudski Tomb and dines at castle. MS of elaborate scrollwork on entryway to tomb, group of Nazi officials enters, shots of tomb and overhead of people in room. Outdoors in courtyard of castle, Frank and aide are introduced to various people, CU as he shakes hands while in BG Nazi officers stand around. LS of people seated outdoors at table. Good MCU of Frank without his cap, shot of castle exterior.

  14. Westerbork Arrival

    Arrivals at Westerbork transit camp. Workers and guards at train station. Train pulls in. People get off trains with bundles; chaotic feeling. Freight train pulls in, Jewish prisoners from Vught concentration camp wearing clogs and work clothes, get off, line up. They have been sent to Westerbork for punishment. Brief INT of registration (out of focus).

  15. Norwegian Fascist Police; German homefront propaganda

    Narrator explains (in English) that this item was released in Portugal. Portugese narration heard under English commentary. Interior, family sitting around table eating. Close-ups of family meant to show that Germans are not suffering from lack of food, despite war. Women working in railroad and postal occupation. Narrator states that "Germany's postal system... increased its employment of women after the July 25th total mobilization announcement." Upbeat music as smiling women drive postal truck. Men working in factories; woman welding. Miners working underground. "Several sequences here h...

  16. Hitler Youth in Baltics

    Hitler Youth digging trenches with Baltic civilians along German border. CU Hitler Youth blows whistle, LS Hitler Youth in uniforms rush to get in formation, 3 CU, then MS of them in ranks with shovels. MS, boys marching with shovels over shoulder through gate with swastika, MLS of them marching down road. CU as they march toward and past camera. Assist in digging a wall of fortifications along the entire eastern border. Another group of Hitler Youth with shovels approach, then a group on bicycles approach the camera. They leap in along the full length of trench. VS of boys digging under su...

  17. German army helmet found by a US soldier

    World War II German helmet given to Alan Levitt's father by a friend who fought in WWII.

  18. Warsaw after bombing 1939, aerial views

    Low aerial shots of Warsaw after bombing.Warschau 1939 (in German print) Nor fur den Dienstgebruch! Diest ist ein geheimer Gegenstand im Sinnedes 88 Reichs, Strufges etzbuchs (04/24/34) Low aerial town, buildings some with smoke Augsgebrannte haufer and Gebaude blocks; thick black scratch; facade of big municipal buildings, interior bombed out, pan up wreckage of brick building, wrought iron balconies, twisted artfully in to sky; down an alley, bombed out buildings; MS and MLS QF, people and sidewalk, deserted rubbly courtyard; in front of palace only facades, pedestrians, down a humble str...

  19. Herman Taube papers

    The Herman Taube papers consist of articles, manuscripts, poetry, presentations, and translations by Herman Taube, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, as well as correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Taube's career as a writer, journalist, and educator, which was often influenced by his own Holocaust experiences in Łódź, Siberia, and the Second Polish Army. The collection also includes biographical materials documenting Taube's wife's Czech stepmother, Marie Koreffová, who survived Auschwitz, Theresienstadt, and Flossenbürg, as well as translations of evidence presented ...

  20. Refugees in Transylvania

    200,000 refugees from Ukraine entering Transylvania, fleeing "Red Hordes." Everybody brings livestock. Large open field, with many people of different regions with wagons and livestock.