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  1. Village festival; Communists; UNRRA; La Guardia in Czechoslovakia

    EXT, green, hilly countryside. CUs and LSs of people attending a fair or festival. Countryside as seen from car, snow-capped mountains. Graffiti mocking Hitler, includes caricature of Hitler with large puffy cheeks. Women washing rugs at a river. Train moving along tracks through town as people pass by. People going to a house of worship (not certain whether a church or a synagogue). People in horse drawn wagon. LS, house of worship. Woman and girl laying flowers at memorial with American flag (several takes). LS, field. Building "OBCHODNI DUM". Children in red shirts, some of the boys are ...

  2. A. Fokker films: von Richthofen's "Flying Circus", WWI aces

    Various locations and dates, probably N. France and Belgium, between Autumn 1916 to September 1918. Contains activities of Jagdgeschwader 1 (the Red Baron's "Flying Circus"), comprising Jagdstaffel (Jasta) 4, 6, 10, 11, which was commanded by Manfred von Richthofen (MvR) until his death April 21, 1918 in a Fokker Dr.1. Hermann Goering became CO of Jagdgeschwader Freiherr von Richthofen No.1 on July 7, 1918. Film title at head: "RICHTHOFEN FILM aufgenommen von AHG FOKKER, 2. Teil" September 1917 Pilots, observers on wooden platform with dog, looking through range finders, field glasses. Town...

  3. American entry into Paris

    (INV 1481) Slate reading "Marthey - 3 Paris" 00:04 Back view of three soldiers wearing helmets watching Army vehicles drive. Cars driving in street with some civilians. 00:20 American soldier, officer, and French soldier leaning over to examine documents (map?). Some civilians attempt to look also. 00:32 Red Cross workers speak to soldier in jeep. Soldier smoking cigarette. Street with Army vehicle driving through. A man across the street stands under a "photo" store sign waves to soldiers driving by. A British flag on the upper left corner. Street scene. 00:50 Army vehicle with a soldier h...

  4. Verkehrskommandanturen der Wehrmacht

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Dem Chef des Transportwesens im Generalstab des Heeres unterstanden im Heimatkriegsgebiet sowie auf den einzelnen Kriegsschauplätzen Dienststellen und Truppen verschiedener Art als durchführende Organe der ihm übertragenen Transportaufgaben. Bei den ersteren wurde nach ihrer Gliederung und Ausbildung für den Einsatz unterschieden: Transportdienststellen bei Kommandobehörden (General des Transportwesens, Bevollmächtigte Transportoffiziere, Transportverbindungsstellen, Tansportoffiziere); transportbearbeitenden Dienststellen (Wehrmachttransportleitungen, Wehrma...

  5. Vollweiler family collection

    The Vollweiler family collection consists of identity documents, family history materials, and correspondence related to the Vollweiler family, originally of Heidenheim, Germany. Justin Vollweiler was arrested on Kristallnacht in 1938 and imprisoned in the Dachua concentration camp. He was able to immigrate to the United States after his release. His wife, Else and daughter Inge were able to join him in May 1939. His son Jack was born in the United States in 1940. Includes identity and education information, a postcard sent to Justin while he was imprisoned in Dachau, and extensive correspo...

  6. Gusen; Mauthausen; Nordhausen

    "Mauthausen Concentration Camp" [Footage shows mixed sequences from Mauthausen and Gusen.] High pan of concentration camp Gusen for slave laborers. 01:14:15 Pan of buildings at Mauthausen. Execution site with gallows and shooting wall in Gusen, with 2-3 men standing alongside it, courtyard wall behind. 01:14:23 Soldiers provide "tour" of crematorium and camp Gusen. 01:14:45 American POW Lt. Jack Taylor (U.S. Air Force) talks about his experience at Mathausen, "fortunately my turn hadn't come." He had been captured in Mauthausen for a few weeks from April 1945 to liberation. He talks of two ...

  7. Kurt Ferber: personal papers

    This collection, comprises a set of correspondence between Kurt Ferber and a friend in Berlin; material relating to the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur; miscellaneous contemporary newspapers and cuttings; and unidentified notes. The correspondence is of particular interest for it provides a fascinating insight into the mentalities of 2 ordinary German citizens with special reference to their political and cultural interests. The provenance of the material is not known. Nor is anything known about the history of its custody prior to deposit. Olga Bruewitsch-Heuss' political stance is made clea...

  8. Samuel and Franka Baral papers

    The Samuel and Franka Baral papers consist of biographical information, correspondence, immigration documents, and testimony relating to Samuel Baral and Franka Baral’s experiences fleeing Kraków, internment in a ghetto, going into hiding, and immigrating to Palestine and Australia. The collection includes a certificate of naturalization and a certificate of registration for Australia issued to Franka and travel documents for Samuel to return home as well as a letter from Samuel’s mother, Juda, to the German Compensation Collection Agency and a copy of Jakob Baral’s birth certificate. The c...

  9. Steffi Steinberg Winters papers

    The Steffi Steinberg Winters papers consist of newspaper clippings related to Jewish refugees at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York; compositions written by Steffi Steinberg (later Winters) during her time at Oswego High School; and two photographs of Jewish refugees at Oswego High School. The poem included in the collection was composed by Steffi Steinberg on the occasion of the resignation of Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter Director, Joseph Smart.

  10. Becker family papers

    Biographical materials and photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of the Becker family of Budapest, Hungary. Biographical materials include Ivan Becker’s Swedish protection document issued by Raoul Wallenberg and postwar documents from the Bad Gastein displaced persons camp; identification documents of his father Dezsö Becker, grandmother Frida Becker, and sister Anna Becker; his mother Kato Becker’s handwritten Hungarian cookbook; and a family history. Photographs include depictions of World War I, family photographs, and postwar photographs from Bad Gastein. Biographical ma...

  11. Archief van het Distributiebureau en de Distributiedienst

    Inleiding. De voorloper van de Gemeentelijke Distributiedienst, het Distributiebureau, werd in 1916 opgericht Het bureau had tot taak: uitvoering van en het toezicht houden op de naleving van de wetten, de ministeriële beschikkingen en besluiten met betrekking tot de distributie van levensmiddelen, brandstoffen en huishoudelijk artikelen. Het Distributiebureau werd in 1920 een gemeentelijke Dienst voor de Levensmiddelen, als onderdeel van de Centrale Dienst voor Levensmiddelen, met vier afdelingen: - Algemene Zaken, - Boekhouding, - Brood en meel - Winkels en magazijnen. Als gevolg van de E...

  12. War-time and post WW II trial records of soldiers and civilians, accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity during WW II

    Selected trials of members of the Gestapo and the SD, soldiers, people who collaborated with Germans, high-ranking members of the French armed forces, and civilians accused of war crimes against humanity during WWII. The trials took place at the Military Tribunals in several places, e.g. Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Metz, Paris,Tunis, and others, and consider following subjects: Camps, Criminales de Guerre (Individuals tried for war crimes); Gestap-SD; Massacres. The trials did not necessarily took place in the geographical region where the crimes were committed. On the contrary, the trials a...

  13. Anti-Jewish propaganda film: Jews in Poland

    A propaganda film declared as a "documentary film contribution about the problem of world Judaism," in which antisemitic stereotypes are disseminated by the Nazis, including scenes showing: Poland as a nesting place for Judaism; the comparison of Jews with rats; the difference between Jews and Aryans; "international crime"; "financial Judaism"; "assimilated Jews"; the Jewish influence on economics, culture, and politics; and Jewish religious practice with a portrayal of haggling and misused sacred Jewish texts. REEL 1 Rolling title card: "The civilized Jews we know in Germany give an incomp...

  14. Aned

    Il fondo è costituito dall'archivio dell'Aned nazionale, ente ancora attivo con sede in via S. Marco 49 a Milano, e raccoglie documentazione dalle origini dell'ente ad oggi. Nello specifico, si estende per un arco cronologico dal 1945 al 2008, con antecedenti dal 1921 al 1944, originali o in copia, presenti come allegati o come sezione documentaria; contiene anche un documento in copia risalente al 1849. Ha una consistenza di 1455 fascicoli, distribuiti in 337 buste, ed è conservato, a titolo di proprietà, presso la Fondazione Memoria della deportazione Biblioteca archivio Pina e Aldo Ravel...

  15. Reichswehrministerium / Reichskriegsministerium

    Bestandsbeschreibung Der weitaus überwiegende Teil des Schriftguts des Reichswehrministeriums wurde noch kurz vor der Kapitulation auf Befehl des Chefs des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht vernichtet. Nur einige Splittervorgänge zu Fragen der Organisation und des Heeresaufbaus sowie einige Archivalien zum Aufbau des neuen Heeres (u.a. eine Denkschrift Groeners aus dem Jahre 1919), persönlicher Schriftwechsel der Reichswehrminister v. Schleicher und v. Blomberg sowie der Chefs des Ministeramtes v. Bredow und v. Reichenau, des weiteren einige Protokolle und andere Unterlagen des Reichsverteidigung...

  16. Eichmann Trial -- Session 79 -- Eichmann's testimony re: Wannsee Conference, sterilization, "Lidice Children", and evacuation

    The tape begins in the middle of Session 79. Defense Attorney Dr. Robert Servatius questions Eichmann about his feelings of satisfaction at the end of the Wannsee Conference, as indicated by the Sassen document. Willem Sassen, a Dutch fascist, conducted an interview with Eichmann in Argentina in 1956. This interview was used heavily in Eichmann's trial. Servatius' next question is missing and the footage continues with Eichmann testifying about how a particular memo regarding the final solution came to be written and circulated. Eichmann maintains that the letter, written as a consequence o...

  17. Deutsche gesetzliche Unfallversicherung

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 321
    • German
    • 1914-2009
    • Schriftgut 3280 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 49,1 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Das Unfallversicherungsgesetz vom 6. Juli 1884 (RGBl. S. 69) sah die Bildung von Berufsgenossenschaften als Träger der gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung vor. Diese waren als genossenschaftliche Selbstverwaltungskörperschaften des öffentlichen Rechts organisiert und umfassten - räumlich in Bezirke gegliedert - alle Betriebe eines Gewerbezweiges, für die sie errrichtet wurden. Die Rechts- und Fachaufsicht oblag dem Reichsversicherungsamt. Die Aufgaben der Berufsgenossenschaften beschränkten sich zunächst auf die Einkommenssicherung der Arbeiter nach Unfällen im B...

  18. Germans and Czechs in the Sudetenland

    Reel 1 Anna lives with her German father Mayor Jobst at a rural estate near Budweis in the Sudetenland. Her mother, of Czech origin, killed herself because of an unfulfilled desire to return to her native town of Prague. Already engaged to a young peasant from the village, Anna is attracted to the engineer Christian Leidwein from Prague and travels to the 'Golden City' to visit him. While staying with the family of her mother and working in their tobacco store, she is seduced and made-pregnant by cousin Toni Opferkuch. Her changing morals are accompanied by her changing appearance -- jewelr...

  19. Germans and Czechs in the Sudetenland

    Reel 5 Anna lives with her German father Mayor Jobst at a rural estate near Budweis in the Sudetenland. Her mother, of Czech origin, killed herself because of an unfulfilled desire to return to her native town of Prague. Already engaged to a young peasant from the village, Anna is attracted to the engineer Christian Leidwein from Prague and travels to the 'Golden City' to visit him. While staying with the family of her mother and working in their tobacco store, she is seduced and made-pregnant by cousin Toni Opferkuch. Her changing morals are accompanied by her changing appearance -- jewelr...

  20. Germans and Czechs in the Sudetenland

    Reel 4 Anna lives with her German father Mayor Jobst at a rural estate near Budweis in the Sudetenland. Her mother, of Czech origin, killed herself because of an unfulfilled desire to return to her native town of Prague. Already engaged to a young peasant from the village, Anna is attracted to the engineer Christian Leidwein from Prague and travels to the 'Golden City' to visit him. While staying with the family of her mother and working in their tobacco store, she is seduced and made-pregnant by cousin Toni Opferkuch. Her changing morals are accompanied by her changing appearance -- jewelr...