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  1. Jewish forced labor in Yugoslavia

    Jewish men clear rubble of fortress; thin yellow star armbands visible.

  2. Von Papen and Hitler on election day

    Hitler's car pulls up to a curb and he gets out, dressed in a suit and tie, and salutes a small crowd. People in the crowd take photos of him. There are election posters and placards outside of the bulidng that Hitler enters. Hitler is shown exiting the same building. A larger crowd salutes enthusiastically. As Hitler prepares to drive away, someone in the crowd shouts "Unser Fuehrer!" Hitler hands an envelope (a card?) and a bouquet of flowers to a man in the backseat of the car. A car pulls up outside a different building and von Papen gets out. He wears a black armband (mourning) and car...

  3. Nazis enter Czechoslovakia

    Brief: animap of Hungary-Czechoslovakia region. VAR standard shots of the German military entering Czechoslovakia: soldiers ride bicycles, tanks, and motorcycles on the snowy roads. Military enters the cities of Jihlava and Německý Brod. and completely fill the squares with military vehicles. Soldiers and police (in long coats) stand around, eating, conversing. "PRAHA" sign. Swarms of people wave as vehicles drive down wet streets and then enter gated square. Snow falling and blowing. Crowds swarm to see Hitler, who is driven into the square. Wearing a long coat, he walks in the square amid...

  4. Speeches; Boycott of Jewish Stores

    Hitler and Hindenburg at night (1/30/33), at window of Hotel Kaiserhof. Crowd goes wild. SA putting up antisemitic signs in Jewish stores, painting windows, wearing signs on the day before the boycott of Jewish stores (3/30/33). Crowds watch. SA pile into open truck, driving through street, chanting: "Kauft nicht bei Juden." Goebbels' speech (4/1/33) at Lustgarten announcing boycott of Jewish businesses. LS of crowd. Heiling. MS of Goebbels on balcony. Hitler's speech (4/8/33) to SA and SS at the Berlin Sportpalast. Title: At the Berlin Sportspalast, the Reichschancellor thanks the assemble...

  5. Jewish families before the Holocaust in Slovakia

    Reel 3. Women from the Sommer, Klein, and Grosman families gather for the camera. Intertitle: "My Home Folks - Mother, Sister, Their Family and Friends." Family (well-dressed) walk and pose for camera. Pan of entire family (including the visiting Americans, Hermann Klein, and Jacob Grosman (the father of Ladislav at 01:03 in a light-colored suit)). Children playing on swing. Posing in front of the family shop and walking down the street towards the camera. 01:23:58 Another family on the main street.

  6. Stalhelm parade, speeches

    Title: "German royalists recall war in military show - Stahlhelm reviewed by von Papen, Crown Prince, and Gen. von Mackensen." Scenes of the Stahlhelm marching with banners. Crown Prince Wilhelm shown watching the parade and saluting. Franz von Papen, Wilhelm von Gayl, and Kurt von Schleicher are also shown briefly. The camera then focuses on General August Mackensen, a well-known World War I field commander. He is shown wearing the uniform and large furry hat of the Death's Head Hussar regiment. The camera switches back to the Stahlhelm troops, panning left to right over them standing and ...

  7. New Cabinet Meeting in Berlin

    Title in German identifies the new cabinet. Sitting from left: [Hermann] Goering, [Adolf] Hitler, [Franz] von Papen; Standing from left: [Franz] Seldte, Gerecke, [Lutz] von Schwerin Krosigk, Dr. [Wilhelm] Frick, [Werner] von Blomberg, and Dr. [Alfred] Hugenberg. Scene opens inside the Hotel Kasierhof, before the cabinet meeting begins. Everyone wears suits, they mingle and talk to each other. Hitler, Goering, and Frick speak briefly. Hitler escorts von Papen to sit in the chair beside him, while Hugenberg stands behind von Papen's chair. Flashbulbs go off as people off-camera take photograp...

  8. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 100 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.

  9. Leipzig Concentration Camp

    Mass Murder, Leipzig, Germany, April 20, 1945. HSs, burned building in concentration camp with bodies lying in wreckage. CUs, two escaped prisoners from the camp. CUs, partially burned bodies entangled in electrified barbed wire fence. CUs, partially burned bodies in a shed and burned barracks. MCUs, Russian women, enforced laborers, crying near barbed-wire fence. Summary: A detachment from Leipzig concentration camp was assigned work in the nearby aircraft factory. When the US invasion of the city was imminent, the Waffen SS guards prepared to leave the city. Those prisoners who were in go...

  10. Soviet soldiers dead in field

    Tanganng?, USSR. Bright, expansive sky, wide vista, flat. MS many dead horses. Low embankment on dirt road. 40-50 bodies of Russian soldiers scattered around. Wind blowing through grass. Soviet POWs walk down road, 3-4 across, around and past the bodies, looking at them. More horses, dead men, cart wheels. The narration indicates that almost 658,000 prisoners have been taken.

  11. German Army and Russian women prisoners

    Russian villagers (women and kids) stand outside their log cabin homes, hands up, while Germans search the house.

  12. Mr. Martin Strauss papers

    Martin Strauss papers consist of a German passport issued to Martin Strauss, January 13, 1939, including a visa for Palestine issued by the British Consulate in Dresden, Germany. Also includes a U.S. alien registration card issued in April 1947 to Martin Strauss (c/o Hugo Freund) by U.S. Dept of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service; establishes that Martin Strauss registered in New York under the Alien Registration Act, #6647577.

  13. Romani traveling wagon from prewar Czechoslovakia

    Wooden traveling wagon made for a Lovari family, a Romani people, who specialized in horse dealing in the Czech and Slovak regions. The wagon with metal hoops for a canvas covering was custom-made for members of the group in the mid-1930s. In 1939, there were about a million Roma in Europe. The Roma were judged as racially inferior by Nazi ideology and singled out for persecution by Germany, in ways that paralleled the treatment of Jews. The Lovari were imprisoned, made to perform forced labor, sent to concentration camps, and killed outright en masse. About 220,000, or one quarter of the R...

  14. Roehm and Himmler

    September 23 and 24, 1933. Ernst Roehm, Heinrich Himmler and others at (outdoor) military event (Reichsfuehrer Day?). Many flags with the German Cross. Parade in Hannover. Jodphurs and big boots. Lots of MS, MLS, LS. Happy atmosphere of soldiers. MS of participants. Nazi entourage walks up to podium, Roehm in center, Himmler behind him. Franz Seldte speaks (man with glasses). Roehm and Himmler on viewing stand. Kronprinz Wilhelm signing autographs.

  15. Nazi Party Rally, Nuremberg, 1937

    CUs Nuremberg stadium stands with saluting BDMs, RAD and civilians. Good MS and CUs of Hitler standing in car in Nuremberg stadium watching parade of work corps. CA to BDM. Good goosestepping RAD. Informal shots of young men in uniform seated on stadium ground, drinking from canteens. LS of stands. Longer shot, POV stands, Hitler watching parade, shots of marchers, band from various angles. Shots of various members of audience in stands, including military, SS, BDM, SA, civilians. POV stands, officials enter stadium in cars. Himmler climbs stadium steps as SS line walk way. POV high in stan...

  16. Bruening speaks

    Title: "Germany can pay no more, says Dr. Bruening - Chancellor with dictatorship powers makes an important statement on reparations." Heinrich Bruening, seated at a desk, reads a prepared speech in English. He speaks of the hardships suffered by Germany and the punitive nature of Versailles. He ends with the statement that the war will never truly be over until "the account is closed and payment has been made in full." Bruening, the leader of the Catholic Center Party, served as German Chancellor from 1930 -- 1932.

  17. Deportation of Bessarabian Jews to Transnistria

    Low aerial shots from a plane show the destroyed city of Balti. Pan across dead bodies, with the narration that the KPU and their "Jewish helpers" had perpetrated the murders. The next shot shows the forced march of Bessarabian Jews in the area of Balti, Romania, part of the deportations to Transnistria, late fall, 1941. The narration describes how these "eastern Jewish types" overran Europe after the World War I and attempted to destroy the culture of the non-Jews. Long line of impoverished people moving along a country road and over a low wooden bridge. Some are barefoot. Most carry bundl...

  18. Hindenburg and Wachtruppe

    Intertitle reads, "Aufnahmen aus dem Leben Kaiser Franz Josefs laesslich der 100. Wiederkehr seines Geburtstag." Hindenburg leaving building (Reichstag?), salutes camera. Other officers stand around. Intertitle reads, "Berliner Wachtruppe pfing den Besuch des Reichspraesidenten." Berliner Wachtruppe greets Hindenburg as he reviews the troops. Profile of Hindenburg as he walks back and forth, salutes an officer.

  19. American anti-Nazi protests

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 720. Release date, 11/15/1938. Contains various Universal Newsreel clips of anti-Nazi protest speeches of prominent US leaders. 01:54:28: "FDR Leads Nation in Protest Against Nazi Persecutions" Denouncing Nazism. FDR at desk, quick flash, ready to speak, waiting (FDR does not actually speak). Street scenes, broken windows (quick) in Czechoslovakia. Bald man giving testimony. 01:54:51: Herbert Hoover at Palo Alto, CA. CBS microphone MCU. "Americans should be indignant at terrible outbreak of Jewish persecution in Germany... brutal intolerance...no parallel; e...

  20. Siegfried and Alma Seligmann family papers

    The Siegfried and Alma Seligmann family papers consist of biographical materials, camp documents, and emigration and immigration records documenting the Seligmanns’ journey aboard the MS St. Louis, return to Europe and brief stay in Belgium, internment in France, and immigration to the United States via Lisbon. Biographical materials include identification papers, German and Belgian registration certificates, and vaccination certificates. Camp documents include lyrics to the Gurs and St. Cyprien camp song “Ich kann sie nicht mehr seh’n die Pyrénéen,” a summons to appear in Gurs, and a certi...