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  1. Gate; Judenrat building; Czerniakow in his office

    German soldier checking papers at wooden gate. Judenrat/Jewish Council sequence: rabbis approach and enter building, up stairs. CU signs. Interiors. Men enter office of Czerniakow, head of the Jewish Council. Czerniakow greets men, sits at desk, talking to them and to a man standing beside him. Pictures are on the walls, including a portrait of Pilsudski. Staged scene of meeting. See: "The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow": May 3, 1942 -- "At ten the film crew from the Propaganda Office arrived and proceeded to take pictures in my office. A scene was enacted of petitioners and rabbis enterin...

  2. Hitler Youth Reviewed by SS

    CU Iron Cross, pan down to poster that reads "Welcome to War ... of the Greater Germany Division", and in small print mentions Hitlerjugend. MCU jumble of smiling girls give smiling boys leafy lapel boutonnieres. German military band marches down cobblestone city street. Many civilians and soldiers watching. CU marching legs. Young uniformed troops marching with rifles. CU of reviewing SS officer. LS procession of new recruits in coats, marching. HS lines of soldiers in caps watching. Many townspeople on sidewalk. Marchers turn left in the square, camera follows them away. MS Young Hitler Y...

  3. Children Parade; Hitler Youth

    LS Children parade down street of Jihlava, Czechoslovakia in this very regimented series of events. Various views of spectators lining sidewalk; man in SA uniform; boys marching through field in costume, carrying what seem to be toy rifles with bayonets. LS pan over field with Nazi banners, onlookers on hillside. Parade grounds and children marching in formation. CU children. Narrator tells of Germany's gradual replacement of population in region (German for Czech.). CU medieval banner. CU Nazi officer speaking. VS of children in costume. Night bonfire: LS then MS Hitler Youth in a row, hol...

  4. Signal Corps photographs

    Contains thirty photographs taken by the U.S. Army Signal Corps; primarily consists of images of liberated concentration camps.

  5. Roma with dancing bear

    "Dancing" bear with muzzle performs for a crowd in the street under the guidance of a male Roma (who wears a fez and balloon pants).

  6. Hitler Youth flag

    A Hitler-Jugend Organisationsfahne (Hitler Youth Organization flag).The Hitler-Jugend (HJ, Hitler Youth) was founded in 1926, as one of several youth organizations in Germany. It was a branch of the Nazi party’s paramilitary group, the Sturmabteilung (SA, also called Stormtroopers), until May 13, 1932, when it became an independent organization. Following Adolf Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, the many other German youth organizations began to disband or merged with the HJ. The HJ divided its male members into two main groups: those between ages 10 to 14, a...

  7. SS Totenkopf (Death’s head) ring taken from an SS officer by a liberator and later given to a Holocaust survivor

    SS Ehrenring [honor ring] given to Benjamin Meed on October 24, 1992, by a liberator, who removed it from the finger of an SS officer in Germany in 1945. The rings, also called Totenkopfrings [Death’s head rings], were engraved with Himmler's name and were a highly prized award for SS officers. The SS (Schutztaffel; Protection Squadron) controlled the police forces and the concentration camp system for the Nazi Reich. In 1939, they created the Final Solution to eliminate the Jewish problem. Benjamin and his wife Vladka were Jewish resistance members in Warsaw, where they lived in the Ghetto...

  8. Bombing of Warsaw

    Aerial views of damage to Warsaw in 1939. 3:10:56 Interior of plane, pilot's compartment, bombardiers seat, map. 3:11:25 AV Squadron and bomber in flight. 3:12:08 Intertitle: Fliegerbomben auf Warschau; AV City of Warsaw attacked, bombs being dropped, smoke. 3:12:50 MS Damaged factory building. 3:13:10 LS Civilians on city streets going by damaged buildings. Pass huge bomb crater. LS of top floor of building bombed in. 3:13:45 Intertitle: Brandbomben auf Warchau; AV Suburbs of Warsaw. Firebombed buildings, much flame and rubble. 3:14:09 AV (see plane's wing) Good view of city smoking. 3:15:...

  9. German invasion of Poland, POWs, Hitler in Gdynia

    Fighting at Gdynia. German troops enter Gdynia, prisoners taken. Hitler enters city (only POV from car). German soldiers greet Hitler, surround him. Hitler and officers eating at field kitchen. Headquarter scenes, interior of railroad car. Hitler consults with officers, including Goering, Rommel, Himmler, generals. Graphic - German movement to Vistula up to Radom. German troops on the move, many Polish soldiers surrender arms, equipment. Aerial of captured artillery.

  10. UFA Anschluss footage; Parade; Hitler speaks

    Case XI, Ministries-Keppler, "German Entry into Austria", Vienna, Austria, 1938. German Narration. German army motorcade up country hill road, people salute from roadside (wearing swastika). POV car, into Vienna. A procession of cars and trucks enters Vienna. The Nazis are cheered and saluted as they pass public buildings. Crowds, HJ. Civilians parade also, chanting Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuehrer. HAS crowds at city center, German soldiers control crowd, CUs, children wave small Nazi flags. Hitler rides in open car through the streets with Seyss-Inquart in some shots, in other shots Seyss...

  11. Tree stump from the Palmiry Forest with an embedded bullet shell

    This "AB-AKTION" was referred to by the Nazis as the "Ausserordentliche Befriedigungsaktionen (extraordinary pacification operation). Clerics, intellectuals, academics, politicians, and suspected resisters were murdered there.

  12. Five Cities

    Yiddish titles. English title: "Jewish Life in Lwow." Pan, overview Lwow city nestled in a valley. Large buildings, city square, monuments, trams, busy street traffic, pedestrians, promenade, important buildings, marketplace. Stylish men and women promenade through modern Lwow, also known as Lemberg. MSs, shopping for wares and sellers at marketplace. Parks and pavilions, public spaces, busy streets, people. 04:05:58 Scenes in the old and well-established Jewish community, following groups of well-dressed and Orthodox Jews, street scenes, daily activities, and showing the landmarks: Yad Har...

  13. Westerbork Deportation

    Deportations at Westerbork transit camp. People with Star of David on their coats at railroad station, with bundles. Barracks can be seen in the background. Well dressed men and women. People getting onto freight cars. Confusion. MS, crowd in front of freight car. Two officers walking by. People wave goodbye from inside of train. Sick woman (Ms. Frouwke Kroon - 1882-1944) lying on a wooden cart being wheeled into train station. Guards with dogs. 00:07:38 Sophia de Groot at far left of the door opening on train wagon #9, gesturing to someone on the platform. Boxes filled with food, cigarette...

  14. FDR and Churchill meet in North Africa

    President Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Casablanca. They ride in a jeep and review Allied trooops. FDR inspects US troops in Liberia and meets President Vargas in Rio de Janeiro, Other personages: Adm. King; Gen. Marshall; Gen. Arnold; Brit. Gen. Alan Brooke; Adm. Alfred Dudley Pound; Gen. Giraud; Gen. de Gaulle.

  15. Dark and light blue tapestry with 2 skeletons riding skeletal horses accompanied by skeletal dogs

    Tapestry created by Jan Yoors in 1958.

  16. German troops

    German troops evacuate Finland. Refugees bound for Sweden on a road. Refugees with belongings at railroad station. German men and equipment in retreat on the Western front; they are loaded aboard ship and move out. Wounded loaded into ambulances. Engineers repair bridge. Destruction in Belgrade. Rocket barrage fired on the Russian front. German antitank and machine guns fired. Russian T-34 tanks advance. Bazookas destroy some. German tanks counterattack. Good combat footage, may have cut in some Russian footage.

  17. Warsaw Surrenders

    Surrender and occupation of Warsaw in 1939. German in trench behind wire observing, Hitler w/binoculars. LS Howitzer fires at train, burning. Howitzer fires, LS of city, plume of smoke, mortar fire. Plane takes off, aerial shot of columns of smoke. AV craters, bombed domes. Surrender, Polish officer goes into railcar. Trucks of German troops enter city and soldiers on foot. "Komend Miasta Warszawa" sign on building, pan down to Polish officers, long column of Polish POWs shot from above, horses and carts. Bomb damage, wrecked train cars. Civilians digging through rubble, and with POWs makin...

  18. Nazi banner captured by a US soldier in Algeria

    Nazi banner captured by Private William Andress of the Army First Infantry Division at Oran, Algeria on November 11, 1942.

  19. Collaborators volunteer for German army

    Quisling in Norway, French volunteers, Latvian and Lithuanian volunteers for German army. MS Vidkun Quisling reviews with Nazi officer a line of Norwegian police in Norway. CU of insignia patch of eagle and swastika (uniforms suggest military volunteers rather than police). MLS French officers review bereted volunteers for German army on grounds of Versailles. CU several of them. They march out and off to train station. Good MCU as they sort through baggage, say goodbye and board train. 5:12:26 MCU as crowd of Latvian and Lithuanian volunteers for German army and civilians marching toward c...

  20. Ante Pavelic on parade

    Ante Pavelic decorates Croatian troops and rides at head of parade. LS Street scenes in Zagreb, MS of banner and portrait of Pavelic in room, Croatian banner hanging from building facade. Group of men lined up to receive award and having it pinned on. Uniformed horsemen, then Pavelic on horseback MS coming toward camera, enthusiastic crowd, unit of German? troops marching, quick CU of Pavelic, then MS of artillery piece pulled. Additional footage follows this clip: Soccer game in Munich. 03:42:32 to 03:43:59 Hitler and Mussolini meet in Berlin. Mussolini, General Keitel, and Graziani inspec...