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  1. Airship and workers in hangar

    INTs, VS, airship hangar and work on ship's infrastructure. CS man working with tool high up on metal girder; young man climbing on girders. Workers at airbase at change of shift, GV of road and workers walking, riding bikes and motorbikes. Older man gets bicycle from rack, rides off. Others walking near hangar. EXT of hangar, doors open slowly, reveal airship inside. INT of office of airship designer, Dr. Hugo Eckener, older man in suit and tie, seated at desk, shots taken from various angles. Dr. Eckener smokes a pipe and speaks to his son off camera. Assistant enters office and they disc...

  2. Red revolution in Munich

    Poster of General Strike. WS, Munich railroads. Red troops with weapons. Kiosk on fire, smoke.

  3. Invasion of USSR

    Early morning street activities in Berlin on morning of invasion of USSR. Preparation of broadcast at radio station. At 5:30 AM Goebbels sits at desk and makes announcement. Shots of people listening. Von Ribbentrop walks into conference. Newspaper headline, then map of Eastern Front. Flare goes up in dark, silhouettes of troops in dark. Artillery fire and burning target presumably in East Prussia. Dismantling of border post. German troops move cautiously forward. Explosion in building interior.

  4. Annexation of Austria; Austrians welcome Nazis

    Hitler's (and German Army's) triumphant arrival in Austria. Many shots of wildly enthusiastic crowds (synch sound). Swastika-shaped confetti. Waves of Nazi frenzy through the countryside. Crowds lunging for miniature swastika flags. Rural folk line country road as German military rolls by. Steady tracking shot of Hitler's motorcade and thousands of people in Vienna, all gathered in square, hanging from trees, sitting on statues, etc.

  5. Jews being beaten

    Individual Jews are beaten by local civilians and dragged across street as Nazi soldiers watch. Narrator: "Anger of local population...against the cowardly Jews [who are] guilty of causing endless suffering...get their punishment."

  6. American woman speaks

    American woman Ruth Mitchell released from internment in Germany speaks about the cruelties inflicted on Jews in Germany. MS and CU of Mitchell speaking.

  7. Children in Third Reich

    Unidentified Kinderheim: children, some in Hitler Youth or BDM uniforms. Extremely regimental flag ceremony in front of the house: one boy gives the signal, and all the boys turn their heads and salute the raising of a huge swastika flag. Children at desks in classroom, mostly CUs of children writing on slates (in one shot it is clear that they write in Zutterling).

  8. Hitler at Autobahn ceremony; Goebbels speaks

    Brief: MS of Hitler (upbeat) waving to passing motorcade during celebration of completion of another section of the Autobahn (Muenchen to Kirchhaven). 04:30:26 Goebbels speaks at Gauparteitag [Regional Party Day]. At outdoor rally, Goebbels on platform speaks re: the Party is the pillar of the German State. Intercut with various good shots of SA, NSDAP party members, army, SS, and other contingents with flags and crowds listening. Huge banner with eagle/swastika on scaffolding. Shots of contingents marching. Sound: "Horst Wessel Lied" (the SA anthem).

  9. Hitler's first speech as Chancellor

    Hitler's first appearance since becoming Chancellor. Hitler speaks to SA and civilians at an enormous rally at the Berlin Sportpalast. Some LS from various angles of stadium filled with spectators, with a lengthy and excited voiceover narration from Goebbels, describing the building excitement and enormous size of the crowd. Among the crowd shots is a group of what appears to be Japanese people sitting in a row. A banner reading "Macht Deutschland frei vom Marxismus" is visible time to time. Hitler enters, walks through crowd, shakes hands. Introduced, good sound on "Heils." Hitler pauses a...

  10. Hitler at Siemens factory

    Hitler's speech to Siemens factory workers. Hitler (on circular platform) starts off calmly, becoming more emphatic: "I want not only peace and quiet/order, but also what is our right....I'm not interested in the intellectual, I'm interested in the German people...." Shots of the workers in white lab coats listening to his speech.

  11. SA marching through streets

    Hitler, Goering and others review marching SA troops. A title in German indicates that the whole population has turned out to greet the SA. SA men accept cups of water from bystanders. Hitler and the others salute the men as they pass by. Good shots from behind of the men marching down a street crowded with onlookers, who cheer and wave flags. A title says, "The second hour, and still no end." Another title, not entirely visible on the screen, seems to be mocking the KPD by saying that they KPD would claim that the lanes in the street were very narrow, and that only a few curious people mad...

  12. Swastikas, flags, posters of Hitler

    Fast cuts, good images. VAR newspaper printing sequence of the Völkische Beobachter; people hanging flags on buildings; VAR Nazi banners and flags hanging on buildings, portraits of Hitler. Brief cuts of rallies and Goebbels, Hess, Goering, speaking. Sequence of trains and planes with banners: "Ein Volk, ein Führer, ein Wille"; "Treue dem Führer." Swastikas strung overhead on street. Optical effects throughout. NOTE: This is propaganda about propaganda.

  13. Hitler meets with Petain, Laval, Franco

    MCU Petain gets out of car and shakes hands with von Ribbentrop. Petain crosses train tracks and shakes Hitler's hand. They are photographed. Hitler on train with Goering and military officers; Hitler laughing and in good spirits. Train passes saluting officers in Hendaye station, close to French/Spanish border. CU of town signs. Hitler and officers on train platform await arrival of Franco. Spanish train pulls in, Franco climbs out and he and Hitler warmly shake hands. Hitler salutes down line of Spanish officers and Franco salutes German honor guard. Hitler and Franco board train. [music ...

  14. 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.

  15. 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...

  16. 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.

  17. 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...

  18. Ruhr regiment; "Deutschland ueber Alles"

    Ruhr regiment at attention plays "Deutschland Ueber Alles".

  19. 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.

  20. 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.