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  1. Barbie Trial -- Day 7 -- The prosecution and defense question expert witnesses

    18:12 Prosecutor Jakubowicz asks the witnesses to comment on an argument of Barbie's defense, in which he claimed that the Jews declared war on Germany in 1939; the witnesses reply that this defense is 'stupid.' 18:13 Prosecutor Klarsfeld asks for a precision as to the date on which Barbie received instructions to arrest Jews. The witness says those instructions came the 14th of April, after the Izieu raid. 18:14 Prosecutor Welzer asks the witnesses to comment in a precise way on the 'Night and Fog' decree. 18:17 Defense attorney Vergès asks why, if the witnesses are so sure of Barbie's gui...

  3. The Gardelegen atrocity....As I saw it

    A memoir entitled "The Gardelegen atrocity...As I saw it" by Robert P. Schmidt is writting in letter form describing the Gardelegen massacre from the perspective of a soldier that encountered the scene upon liberation. A notation at top indicates that text was "passed by SHAEF/ FIELD PRESS CENSORS."

  4. U.S. soldiers; airplanes entering Germany

    Three US Army soldiers in dress uniforms with combat helmets, posing in front of tent, walking toward camera, smiling. MCUs, on an airfield, prop plane, pilot winds propeller manually to start it, plane takes off, several bare-chested men are standing on airfield surrounding plane. VS, traveling shots from inside a moving vehicle, panning landscape of unidentified town, some destroyed buildings are evident. MS, US soldiers dressing/undressing at camp. CU, sign reads: "YOU ARE NOW ENTERING GERMANY; THERE WILL BE NO FRATERNIZATION WITH ANY GERMAN." A second sign reads: "FRANKREICH BRIDGE."

  5. German POWs

    German POWs in military vehicles, including one with a red cross insignia (medical troops), travel down a road in a town. German civilians wave at them from the side of the road. Shots of German civilians, including many children. Germans pick through an enormous, still-smoking pile of rubble for salvageable items, which they put into carts. Very brief, dark shot of a slate which indicates that the cameraman is Lindsay. Low aerial shots of towns, roads, and vehicles. Another very brief shot of a slate, then scenes of Germans riding in horse-drawn carts down the streets of a town. They carry...

  6. Recycling of Polish books into Nazi-approved books; anti-Semitic propaganda

    A woman's hands are shown tearing apart books and placing the pages in a basket. Most of the titles are in Polish, but one is "Bismarck" by Emil Ludwig. In an obviously staged scene, three Jews are shown shaking their heads, presumably in dismay at the destruction of the books. One of them wears an armband. More shots of the hands tearing pages, then the interior of a paper recycling facility, with huge piles of book pages. Workers throw the pages into a large receptacle, where they are ground into a powder by large stone wheels. The rest of the recycling process is shown. The end products ...

  7. German Generals confer at Eastern Front; Hitler and Mussolini arrive by plane; other OKH commanders

    Reel 2: 00:38:30 Local civilians: women, children, men, bearded old men. CUs of local men reading a paper, children laughing and an older man gesturing (obviously wants something) to someone off screen. Friendly exchange between a German with a pail and locals. He hands out candy to a crowd of gathered local children, CUs of children smiling and eating candy. Reel 4: 00:40:03 Group of military officers conferring, numerous military vehicles waiting and traveling along a road. Sign: "General". Soldiers play for officers and others: violin, two accordions, percussion. General Zorn and others....

  8. Barbie Trial -- Day 17 -- A witness testifies

    15:48 A witness, Mrs. Francine Gudefin, testifies; she describes torture carried out by Francis André and by Barbie, and being forced to watch her brother being waterboarded; the witness describes a serious injury to her ear, as well as to her vertebral column; she describes the "chambre des torturés" (room of the tortured people) in the basement of the Gestapo headquarters at Place Bellecourt; description of an injury sustained during torture which left her face permanently disfigured 16:07 President Cerdini asks the witness how many times she was interrogated, and whether Barbie ever expl...

  9. Crocodile hunting in Asia

    Somewhere in Asia, possibly Cambodia or Vietnam. At riverside, bird, men on expedition, canoeing, hunting crocodiles with a spear. Larger boat with flag passes in BG. Men feed the crocodiles. LS, landscape, view of men in knee-deep waters herding the crocodiles, slapping wooden sticks in the water, pulling crocodile on muddy ridge.

  10. Mother of pearl pendant

    Pendant that originally belonged to Magda Lowy. She received it before the beginning of World War II in 1939 and entrusted it to her aunt, Jolie, for safekeeping. Jolie survived the Holocaust by living in hiding in Belgium. In June 1944, 21 year old Magda and her family were deported from Satu Mare, Hungary (Romania) to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in Poland. She and her sister, Elizabeth, were able to stay together at Auschwitz and at Ober Hohenelbe, the labor camp in the Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) where they were sent in November. They worked as forced labor in a factory making ele...

  12. Susan Camis papers

    The papers consist of three photographs, two letters, a telegram, and two certificates documenting the Kollmann family during the Holocaust. Includes a letter and photograph sent to Susan Camis from Anna and Ernst Kollmann, Susan Camis's great aunt and uncle, who fled to Shanghai, China, from Vienna, Austria, in 1939; a telegram from Anna and Ernst Kollmann prior to their immigration to the United States in 1949; a photograph of Herta Kollmann, Susan's great aunt, with her mother; a photograph of her with her husband, Walter, Susan's maternal grandmother's brother; a birth certificate issue...

  14. Drawing

  15. Dunson family at Christian mission; church choir; U.S. soldier

    At the Kiamichi Mountain Christian Mission in Nashoba, Oklahoma, where Harold Dunson and his family were sent as missionaries in 1947. Screen image is mostly decomposition, but behind the emulsion loss and water damage there is an intermittent image of a group of adults in black robes- seems to be a church choir. Various people, friends, family, filing out of building, standing on street corner, talking, etc. VS, soldier and woman (also in military-type uniform) loading items and getting into a car with others. VS, little girls playing outside of a house.

  16. Mascha Benya Matz scrapbook

    The scrapbook consists of photographs and clippings about Mascha Benya Matz's life in Germany as an opera singer with the Kulturbund organization.

  18. Barbie Trial -- Day 11 -- Victims testify

    15:47:55 Mario Blardone was a Resistance fighter assigned to assassinate Barbie. In May 1944, he suffered 18 days of interrogation and torture and was then deported to Dachau. He tells how he saw Barbie watch prisoners return from interrogation, wait until they reached the third step of the prison, and draw his revolver and shoot them. At 16:08:50, President Cerdini calls for recess; video continues until 16:10:06 as audience chats and judges enter chambers. Tape-recording ceases and continues 20 minutes later when judges return to courtroom at real time 16:34:26, although tape time code re...

  19. Anti-semitic and anti-British propaganda

    Excerpt from a propaganda film about the dangers of listening to foreign radio broadcasts. Sergeant Weber, a patient in a hospital, is admonished by a nurse for listening to a BBC broadcast. He begins to argue with her, but she assures him that he will feel better in the morning and leaves the room. She hears him turn on the radio again and stands outside the door, listening, as Weber tunes the radio to the BBC. As the radio music ends and an announcer's voice comes on, the nurse opens the door (she is silhouetted in the doorway) and says, "No, my dear! That is the Jew!" A "Jew" standing be...

  20. Barbie Trial -- Day 14 -- Witnesses testify

    13:42 President Cerdini calls the session to order; asks that the accused present himself; Barbie refuses to appear; Cerdini calls on the bailiff to compel the accused to appear 13:43 The bailiff reads the names of the witnesses scheduled to give testimony in the session 13:45 Cerdini suspends the session while the bailiff goes to Barbie to compel him to appear 14:12 Cerdini calls the session to order; the bailiff reads Barbie's statement, explaining that he refuses to appear; one of the witnesses scheduled to appear has not responded to contact attempts, and is not present 14:16 President ...