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  1. Destruction in USSR

    LS burning building. Horses graze; cart, tree, etc. Sad couple looks on; woman is keening. Wrecked train containing supplies perhaps bags of food? Brief shot of Germans removing bags.

  2. Auschwitz liberated

    "Filmdokumente" on the German concentration camps, made under Soviet auspices with narration in English. This film was taken by a Soviet military film crew upon liberating Auschwitz in January 1945. eople in camp in winter with snow on the ground. CUs, prisoners behind wire (women and children). LSs, AVs, the camp covered with snow. Map of Auschwitz, plans for the crematorium. INT, women in rows of bunks. "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate. Barbed wire. INT, gas chamber. CUs women in the bunks. CUs albums of photographs (showing different nationalities). VS groups of survivors behind wires, worn face...

  3. Jewish Refugees in Shanghai

    Ship pulled in at port, people aboard wave. MS woman and baby are processed at desk. People filing off ship, boarding trucks, in bread line, eating outdoors, in English class, at leisure "playing" outside.

  4. Airship; Goldschmidt School, Berlin; Jewish students

    Airship under construction; hangar interior. Men in white coats examine machinery, hardware. Berlin: Goldschmidt Jewish Private School: Girl writes in Hebrew at blackboard, rear profile view (The girl's current name is Margot Segall). Male teacher in suit helping her at blackboard. Young girls at desks, take satchels and go, laughing. Unrelated Zeppelin footage, airship hangar. Goldschmidt School: Mixed class of adolescents at desks (including Stella Goldschlag, who passed as Aryan during the war and reportedly betrayed Jews in hiding), writing. Female teacher at front of class. Scenes outd...

  5. Ruhr regiment; "Deutschland ueber Alles"

    Ruhr regiment at attention plays "Deutschland Ueber Alles".

  6. Walking stick from Baranowitschi concentration camp

    Walking stick from Baranowitschi concentration camp. The walking stick is believed to have been carved by an inmate of a concentration camp. The inmate allegedly used a sharpened spoon to carve the decorations. Created by unknown inmate, January 1944, Baranowitschi concentration camp. Supposedly used during war by guard named Roberta, Buchenwald concentration camp. Given to Annette Rice by family friend.

  7. Hitler conducts election tour

    Title: "Hitler Conducting a Rapid Election Tour - Nazi Leader Holds Review of Uniformed Followers at Waldenburg and Fires Audience of 35,000." Low aerial shot of huge crowds, a group of SA marches in formation, bearing German flags. Martial music plays. Closer shots of crowds; SA in front, civilians behind, give Nazi salute and sing the Horst Wessel song. Camera pans left to right as crowd sings (in sync) "Die Fahne hoch." 02:26:14 A segment of Hitler's speech: "Vierzehn Jahre lang..." [For 14 years...] Wild applause of the crowd. Intertitles in English, original sound in German.

  8. Harvest Festival on Bückeberg Mountain

    Hitler attends harvest festival at Bückeberg, with thousands of people dressed in elaborate traditional folk costumes and headdresses; VAR CU. LS Hitler and other officials enter decorated town square; Hitler reviews and salutes troops. In large parade ground, SA march carrying many flags and standards (sound band, cheers). More shots of people wearing various traditional costumes, VO identifies them, band plays. Interesting shot of SS among festival attendees holding a "Blut und Boden" standard. Soldier blows bugle. Shots of Hitler in reviewing stand. Hitler with Goebbels and other officia...

  9. Nazis enter Gdynia

    Nazis enter Poland. POV front of truck into barricaded street in city of Gdynia, side view. Men (holding hands up in surrender) are searched and ID-checked by German soldiers. View of sandbagged building guarded by German soldiers. Poster reads: "Do Braci Polakow...Twierdza musi nam byc kazdy prog." Former state president speaks with and surrenders to commander of German troops. Men in civilian dress, some wearing white armbands, leave sandbagged building and march past camera (VO indicates they are Polish troops who had taken off their uniforms). VAR shots: masses of German troops in the s...

  10. Holiday celebration; street scenes; shops

    Reel 3. Intertitle: "Holiday Celebration". Street scene with townspeople in costume to celebrate the Easter holiday. People walk towards camera in street, dressed nicely. Women with packages pass by. Shops in BG. Men and women in fancy clothing. Umbrellas. LV, men and women walking. Religious procession past shops on square, man in front holds metal post. People walking towards camera. LV, cows, people roaming in streets, children playing. Man leads herd of cows. City streets, square. Family shops/businesses. Pan, signs of shops seen. Huts/houses. People walking/milling about.

  11. German Army advances

    Building on fire. Long line of soldiers and horses marching. Smoke-filled sky.

  12. Nazis enter Krakow

    Slow pan of rooftops of Krakow. In regiments, German soldiers march into Krakow, passing a group of citizens who watch silently. VAR shots: stone dome, vertical pan of ivy-covered building, CU soldier, officers walking up steps to enter building; ornamental cast iron gates open to display of crossed gun and sword emblem (in a vault-like setting).

  13. KZ: Pictorial report of five concentration camps. Pictorial report of concentration camps

    A copy of the “KZ: Bildbericht aus fünf Konzentrationslagern” [KZ: Pictorial report of five concentration camps] pamphlet published in Germany in 1945. It was published quickly by the American War Information Office to increase awareness of the atrocities that had occurred. It contains post-liberation photographs at Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Nordhausen, and Ohrdruf concentration camps and the site of the Gardelagen massacre.

  14. Oral history interview with Carmit Gattmon

  15. Labor strike in Berlin

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 2, No. 97, Part 6. Release date, 12/01/1930. According to UN Motion Picture Release: News Paragraphs, Berlin, Germany. "Labor Strike Ends...." 140,000 workers. German metal workers returning to the factories. VS, workers filing into the factories, the street surrounding the factory; men, women and teenage boys visble in the crowds of workers entering the factory. Other parts of the newsreel include: 02:03:17 1: "New congress opens; favors jobless aid; red rioters quelled" 02:04:28 2: "Prize sprints stir jaded appetites of 6-day bike race fans" 02:05:22 3: "Leviathan...

  16. Dachau Concentration Camp

    April 30, 1945 MSs, three prisoners eating; in BG lies a corpse of prisoner. MCU, Jewish women prisoners including a fifteen year old Jewish girl. MCU, Jewish women prisoners speak with male prisoners thru holes cut in fence. LSs, Jewish women peer thru fence holes. CUs, faces of male Jewish prisoners. (Excellent composition) MSs, prisoners mill about camp grounds after release. (Men wear prison garb) HS, LS from guard tower with MG gun in FG, camp grounds, barracks. CUs, extremely emaciated male prisoners. One bares his chest for photographer. Seq: Maj Edward A. Jesser, Jr, US officer and ...

  17. Book burning; Hitler & high Nazi officials

    Propaganda film about the background of World War II (Orientation Film No. 1). Opening shot, AV Hoover Dam. CUs of New York Times newspaper headlines regarding The League of Nations, Tariff Act, Isolationism and Prohibition. Narrator compares free democratic system to the Nazi regime. 01:30:28 Books freely read in USA, including Mein Kampf. 01:30:34 Scenes of German bookburnings in Berlin. Optical mix of flames with CUs of banned books, including Heinrich Heine, Remarque, Hemingway, Thomas Mann, and Mendelssohn music, to 01:30:54 . EXT of a Gothic style church, INT of Church, boys choir sin...

  18. Rosenberg speaks on Nazi ideology, anti-Bolsehvik, anti-Jewish

    Alfred Rosenberg speaks to camera (interview-style) about the responsibility Hitler gave him in the occupied Eastern territory to eliminate Bolshevism and Marxism and complete the NSDAP revolution against [them and] Judaism and democracy. Also talks about German Volk and the different types of people. Partial translation from Raye Farr's notes (1972): "A battle of racial souls....In his writings...tried to establish a 'typos' of the German people, in contrast to other peoples. World history has been a battle of racial souls....the relation between Earth and Volk....Weltanschauung.... don't ...

  19. Polish and English POWs

    Views of extremely long line of Polish POWs trudging along road, including CU of bare and booted feet. LS of POW camp, POWs getting sandwiches. CUs of prisoners lying on ground, looking tired, CU faces. General views of camp, English POWs and Polish POWs. English military officer POW makes statement (in English, synch sound) on the good treatment he has received as a POW. Ethnic Germans in Poland identifying Polish prisoners, with some kind of confusion and angry finger-pointing. 02:07:15: Narrator says that one man recognizes another as the murderer of his brother.

  20. Boys view posters; propaganda

    CU, hand at vending machine for postcards and stamps, putting in coin and getting postcards. Sign indicates price of postcards is 6 RPF (Reichspfennig). EXT, VS, four young boys looking at posters on iron fence. Left to right: Wehrmacht Manoevers 1937; front page of "Der Stuermer" with antisemitic caricature of a Jewish face and headline: "4000 Year War"; and "Berliner Illustrierte," the special issue on Mussolini's visit to Germany. The boys backs are to the camera, they turn briefly and face the camera before moving on; one boy has a school satchel, one is holding a metal jug, one is hold...