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  1. 5 revised video programs about the Holocaust: exiles, propaganda, Roma, the others, and collaborators

    Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). These five monitors were revised in 1993: 1. Fourth floor (4.29a) - To Safety/Exiles 2. Fourth floor (4.13) - Propaganda 3. Fourth floor (4.24a) - Roma 4. Fourth floor (4.24b) - Others 5. Third floor (3.15) - Collaborators (Mobile Killing Squads - Einsatzgruppen)

  2. Robert Ley in Italy

    Black screen with the words: "...mit Frontaufnahmen der Kriegsberichter: Elsaesser, Ertl, Hardacker, Huth, Hans Jacobi, Kester, Kramer, Meisenkothen, Oberhoff, Olesko, Paulsen, Rolf Richter, Schiffko, Waldmann." Presumably these are the names of the journalists/cameramen reporting from the front. Heroic music. Celebration of 20th anniversary of the March on Rome, which occurred in October 1922. Troops marching, playing drums, at the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, which is where Mussolini's offices were and the location of the balcony from which he gave his famous speeches (not shown). Robert Ley ...

  3. Japanese in South Pacific

    Japanese ships battling Americans and English in the South Pacific. Shots of Japanese sailors preparing for battle, shoes running across the deck and up stairs of the ship, exciting music. Japanese planes taking off from the deck of an aircraft carrier; shots of planes in the air. Battle scenes from the Japanese ship's perspective, including guns firing and low-flying planes, with dramatic music and occasional comments by the narrator. A graphic illustrates the number of American vessels destroyed by the Japanese. "In the first eleven months of the war, the Japanese navy has destroyed seven...

  4. Stalingrad (Battle)

    Animated map showing Stalingrad and surrounding area. The narrator announces "The Battle for Stalingrad." Stalingrad, which lasted from October 1942 to February 1943, and ended with a German defeat, was the turning point in the war against the USSR. This footage must be from the early days of the battle, when things were going well for the Germans. Two men, with their backs to the camera. One looks through binoculars into the distance. The narrator says that the Germans are firing on an ordnance factory. Shots of cannons firing alternate with shots of the city being shelled. Stukas flying o...

  5. Caucasus Front

    Animated map of the Caucasus region. The campaign in the Caucasus began in the summer of 1942, preceding Stalingrad. An airfield with a plane. Three men in flight suits study a map; one of them holds a dog. According to the narrator, they are preparing to fly a reconnaissance mission around the Terek river, looking for artillery emplacements. View of a plane from the ground, then the interior, with two men in the cockpit. Aerial view of the Terek river and surrounding area. The copilot studies the ground through binoculars. The scene switches to German soldiers on the ground, listening to r...

  6. Rommel at El Alamein

    Graphic of a map, labeled "Afrika". The narrator states: "On the Egyptian front." Panning shot of desert, showing a soldier on watch at the Qattara Depression, near El Alamein. Rommel giving orders to another officer, surrounded by soldiers. They peer through binoculars and consult a map. The narrator states that the defense of El Alamein is being discussed in detail. Italian and German paratroopers are shown carrying equipment across the desert. They are shown setting up and shooting guns and skirmishing with British troops, some of whom are captured in their trenches. German tanks during ...

  7. Home movies of Fuchs family at the beach

    Friends of Hana's parents -- Oskar Fuchs and Rosa (Krasa) Fuchs -- (one identified as Dr. Spousta) walking down street, car in BG. At right, Olga Klepetarova (Hana's aunt) drinking coffee with her friends. Boys on bicycles, including Hana's brother Jiri (George). At beach with frisbee. 01:01:50 Hana crawling at beach with her friend Inge, playing with frisbee. 01:02:14 CU, Hana and brother. Peeling apple, at table with mother. 01:03:30 (brief) Hana and friends walking down street, Hana in pants. 01:03:40 At beach, Dr. Klein digging in sand with his daughter Anna. 01:04:17 Dr. Spousta's daug...

  8. Home movies of Fuchs family at the beach

    Boy playing on rings, jungle gym. 01:01:02 Swimming, playing in water. 01:03:11 Hana's brother Jiri on bench eating. Fuchs family dressed well, preparing for departure. Eating at table, garden, playing cards (game called Marias). 01:03:55 Older woman? 01:04:06 at restaurant. 01:05:03 CUs of girls. Hana with tennis racket. 01:06:14 Hana's parents Oskar Fuchs and Rosa (Krasa) Fuchs, in garden. 01:06:27 Playing cards. 01:07:05 At beach, mountains, in water, slide. 01:08:03 In front of house, preparing to leave the beach, with motion picture camera. 01:08:47 Hana, dressed. CUs 01:09:06 At beach...

  9. Home movies of Fuchs family at the beach and in Czech village

    Family in garden, men playing cards (game called Marias). 01:00:41 Friends of Hana's parents -- Oskar Fuchs and Rosa (Krasa) Fuchs -- (one identified as Dr. Spousta) walking down street, car in BG. 01:01:59 Children, playing at beach, father. 01:02:39 Children walking to beach. 01:03:00 Father with girl, playing in sand. 01:03:59 (brief) Fuchs family at restaurant. 01:04:04 CU, blond girl. Hana and tennis racket. 01:05:04 Hana and friends walking down street, Hana in pants, kicking ball. 01:06:05 Long jump, rings. 01:06:47 Hana's mother (Rosa (Krasa) Fuchs), her friend Mrs. Prochazka, and H...

  10. 11th US Armored Division Advances

    The 11th US Armored Division's advances through England, France, and Germany. Includes scenes of burning villages, surrendering enemies, tanks in fields. Black and white: US Army headquarters in England, pan of buildings. Skyline, factory, US soldiers on boat. Woman bicycling on path. LS, from train, Southhampton waterfront, warehouses, Cherbourg harbor, countryside. 01:03:45 Handing cigarettes and candy to women on train. City, shops, traffic in Paris, dark. 01:04:56 Color: In Bestogne, civilians on dirt road, snow, military vehicles in field, postwar destruction, dead animals, makeshift g...

  11. 56th Armored Engineer Battalion arrives at Mauthausen to bury the dead

    The 11th US Armored Division advances through Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Austria. Includes scenes of surrendering enemies and the 56th Armored Engineer Battalion at the liberation of Mauthausen. Color: Countryside from moving tank. Liberation of German town: flames, civilians, some waving white flags, church. Views of German civilians from tank as US army passes through, 2 men with armbands carry a Red Cross flag. US soldiers marching along road (dark) and through town. Shots of farm animals and barns on fire. 01:22:26 Group of men - brewery workers - exiting building with arms raised. Wo...

  12. Jewish wedding in German-occupied Netherlands, wearing stars

    Marriage of Dutch Jews Jim de Zwarte and Rosa Wertheim in the Nieuwe Synagoge [New Synagogue] in Amsterdam, 1942. The couple is wearing star of david badges.

  13. Jewish wedding in German-occupied Netherlands

    Marriage of Dutch Jews Collette de Zwarte and Gerrit Schellevis in the Synagogue Rapenbargerstradt in Amsterdam.

  14. Kaufbeuren Institution

    Nuns/nurses inside the Kaufbeuren institution. They are shown entering the building and walking around, up and down the stairs. Religious iconography and statues are visible. Separate scenes of group of male and female patients at leisure inside a large room. Interior of rooms with rows of beds. The interior of one room that looks like a private bedroom for a female patient. The interiors look large and neatly kept. Women outside sewing. One woman holds a cat in her arms. Shots of the women looking into the camera. Men sitting outside on a bench, playing cards.

  15. Kaufbeuren institution

    Men and women, presumably patients, perform agricultural tasks such as cutting and stacking hay in a field, blacksmithing, gardening, tending to livestock (ducks, pigs, beehives, others). This section opens with landscape scenes and milk being delivered to the institution on a donkey cart. Signs affixed to a tree identify the Birkenried and Kaufbeuren asylums. There are occasional close-ups of the animals.

  16. Kaufbeuren Institution

    "Agfa 1941" appears on the film leader. Young patients in a room who manifest signs of being severely mentally disturbed and/or disabled. Close up of a girl rocking back and forth and a boy repeatedly sticking out his tongue. Older patients are also present. Nurses attend to a crying female patient. A shot of an older man in what might be a different room. Patients in beds; the camera pans down to show the malformed and very thin legs of one of the patients. More than one of the patients is in a straightjacket. Some of the patients are shown eating. A couple of the patients talk animatedly;...

  17. Kaufbeuren Institution

    Men at various tasks outside the Kaufbeuren Institution. Landscape and livestock shots; fruit on trees. The season is spring or summer. An airplane flies over the building. A man in a white coat enters the frame, picks up a tree limb and hands it to a patient, who poses with the limb for the camera. Scenes inside the building, including patients in beds. They appear to be very ill and one of the men is naked.

  18. Mental patients

    Scenes of adult patients performing agricultural work interspersed with footage of children outside in a yard. A woman feeds chickens, a man operates a plow drawn by bulls, and men and women pick lettuce. Lots of shots of the animals. Close-ups of children in a yard, nurses visible in the background. More scenes of patients working ain hay field; some of the men take snuff (tobacco). The children are led out of the building by nurses. Some of the children lie on blankets. A couple of them are naked and their deformed bodies and very thin limbs are visible.

  19. Kaufbeuren Institution

    A title on the screen states that this film is about the construction of a lecture room or hospital ward [Saal] at the Kaufbeuren Institution during 1936/1937. The camera pans back and forth across the exterior of the institution. The rest of the film shows the stages in the building of the structure. Construction workers and machinery; occasional shots of men overseeing the work -- at one point three men consult blueprints or other plans. Many shots of men working on the structure - laying bricks, welding, nailing boards into place. The film ends with a shot of men on the rooftop below a S...

  20. Kaufbeuren Institution

    "Agfa 1941" leader. The film shows the various types of work performed by the patients. A man butchers a large animal (a cow or pig?) hanging from a hook and grinds up the meat in a grinder. Both women and men are shown doing ironing and sewing. Women in a kitchen prepare a meal for a large number of people - it's an institutional kitchen with large vats for cooking. Other activities include: bread baking, weaving, furniture upholstering, shoemaking, woodworking, laundry, bookbinding, A brief shot of what appears to be a nurse and a doctor shepherd a couple of patients out of a room where a...