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  1. Military Economic Alliance between Germany, Italy, Japan signed

    Signing of military economic alliance by Germany, Italy, and Japan. 3:20:15 LS Group of men led by von Ribbentrop, Ciano, and Japanese delegate striding down long, wide corridor. 3:20:27 Same men coming into conference room. Ciano standing at conference table. Others file in. CU German officers. 3:30:32 Hitler coming into room, salutes and is saluted. CU audience observing meeting. Approaches Ciano, shakes hand, then approaches Japanese delegate. MCU as he takes seat. 3:20:58 LS of Hitler, Ciano and Kurusu (?) at table with their aides standing behind them. Two shots of Ciano and Hitler, pa...

  2. Peasants; small town in Russia

    There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. There is no way to order a clean copy. Shots of poor Jews in fields. Peasants. Peddlers. Horse-drawn carts. HAS small town with dirt roads, church in BG.

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- German Lutheran Church

    INT, German Lutheran church service in New Jersey, LS of Pastor before his congregation, then MS and CUs with sound as he speaks to them in German saying in effect that Christianity is never mass movement. Clear caution that belief comes from heart of each individual and people need to be wary of being swept up by leader and mass rallies.

  4. Bohemia and Moravia: Axis Collaborators

    Hitler confers with leaders of Bohemia and Moravia. MS through door of hotel or guesthouse come two men in suits and two German officers. They greet Hitler, salute and shake hands. One man hands Hitler an envelope, which Hitler hands to aide. Shake hands again.

  5. Oral history interview with Anna Stern

  6. German anti-American propaganda film

    Eleanor Roosevelt momentarily shown as fashion model. Narrator claims she personally propagated "swing." Narrator makes fun of "inferior" Black American's swing music and dancing and its cultural acceptance among whites. Jitterbugging, swing, and endurance dancing shown. Black baptism in river seen closeup. 02:03:08 Max Ernst and cubist and surrealistic "degenerate art," FDR speaks, and rabbis watch as Jewish War Veterans march. Baptism in river, pro-wrestling match, women wrestling, mud wrestling, and man jumps to death from building.

  7. Germans occupy Copenhagen; panic in town square

    Germans takeover all Danish military installations and personnel and declared Martial Law. Two German soldiers marching up street lined with trees, in front of castle. CU, Martial Law document introduced on August 29, 1943 posted in window, reading "Militaire Undtagelsestilstand ihele Danmark." HAS street scene with German soldiers and Danish civilians, some with bicycles, around Town Hall Square in Copenhagen. HAS German military vehicle entering square. Automobiles, more bicycles. HAS men and women gathered around central building in square. German soldiers trying to keep a well-dressed m...

  8. Liberation at Duben

    American GIs and cameramen encounter labor camp at Duben, probably a subcamp of Buchenwald. CU stretchers, emaciated corpse with name "Orlich" and number written on body. Stevens and Moffat talk to survivor in striped shirt through window. MS of other former prisoners sitting in windows. Survivor in striped shirt and camp standing outside talking to Stevens and others, woods in BG. Panning shot of barracks and camp. MLS of sign "Holzverwertung." Survivor with Red Cross armband (French POW) walks past with two soldiers. Ambulances and Red Cross tents. Men taken by stretcher to ambulance (not...

  9. Germans in Occupied Ukraine

    Footage shot by a German cameraman during Germany's occupation of Ukraine in World War II. Footage with German photographers traveling through the Ukraine photographing cities, villages, and collective farms. The most extensive footage is taken with a female photographer from her trip to Ukraine in the summer of 1943. She traveled by plane and car from southern Ukraine (the Melitopol region) just north of Crimea, then along the Dnepr River northward over Dnepropetrovsk to Kiev and then due west to Rovno and then the border of General Government. Reel 9: 06:20:07 LS Horses lined up on both s...

  10. Tadeusz Sarnecki and Ewa Sarnecka papers

    The Tadeusz Sarnecki and Ewa Sarnecka papers include false identification and labor papers for Tadeusz Sarnecki and Ewa Sarnecka under the aliases Kazimierz Hutecki and Regina Cybulska and a book of poetry titled Z Otchłani published by Tadeusz Sarnecki under the alias Jan Wajdelota including contributions by Sarnecki, Mieczysław Jastrun, Michał Borwicz, Czesław Miłosz, and Jan Kott.

  11. Basket

  12. Exhumation of Labor Battalion

    Exhumation in field, officials look and take photos. Narration: "A barbaric Nazi act in Hungary on October 18, 1944. The German SS took 25 labor battalion members to Cinkota, promising them after completing work they will be released. They had them dig trenches, they were shot, and thrown into the trenches." Exhumation and identification of the victims. One of the labor battalion members escaped and [after liberation] brought the authorities to the massacre site.

  13. Street scenes; Jewish police; traffic

    High overhead shot of busy street scene, with tilt-up to get very long view of the street. Ground-level shot of Jewish policeman (watching camera) letting horse-drawn carriages pass through gate on a city street. Line of bicycle-rickshaws moving alongside a wall, carrying well-dressed men, a family. Some men remove hats as they pass by.

  14. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  15. Ghetto conditions; soup kitchen; eating in street

    Various ghetto scenes: people, including children, eating in muddy and garbage-infested building courtyard. People line up for food at soup kitchen. Woman washes clothes in small tub. Woman sells food from stall heated by charcoal. Child takes food from wired street vendor box.

  16. Oral history interview with Arline Kuznetz

  17. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 10 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  18. Funeral of Iron Guard Leader

    01:34:42 LS funeral cortege coming out of church. 01:34:48 CU of General Antonescu and Nazi official Baldur von Schirach leading group down steps. Crowds in street along route saluting and holding banners. 01:35:04 Casket being carried by many bareheaded men in dark uniforms. 01:35:11 Overhead of street procession. German soldiers carry funeral wreath. LS of formation in shape of crossed arrow. Women in black. Men carrying iron cross symbols. Man crying. 01:35:41 Arrival at cemetery with casket. Huge banners with men's portraits on them. CU of officials saluting. LS large crowd there saluti...

  19. Prison camp, slave labor, atrocities

    Slave labor, workshops, atrocities and leaders of camp are highlighted during war and at liberation. 01:01:09 Scrolling text, camp/place names superimposed over shots of atrocities, titles and credits. 01:03:49 AV Town and camp of Jasenovac, ruins of town. More scrolling text, HAS of photographer Steiner, (survivor/witness?) 01:06:33 MS of rounded up men being brought into labor camp by both German and Ustasa, archway of labor camp.

  20. Nazis visit Krupp firm

    "Nazi officials visiting the Krupp Firm" Soldiers marching, holding flags with swastikas, delivering speech, distributing Hitler's book, "Mein Kampf."