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  1. Delousing DPs; medical examination; interview w/ Russian DP

    (LIB 3385-3390) Displaced Persons, Verviers, Belgium, February 10-13, 1945. MSs, MCUs, delousing displaced persons. Short scene, small child and woman undergo medical examination. MCU, US Army officer through German/Russian interpreter, interviews a Russian displaced person. The security examination of the Russian reveals that he served with the Russian army and was captured by the Germans in 1943, hospitalized for six months, and returned to the German front as a forced labor battalion member.

  2. Dr. Franz Boaz

    Dr. Franz Boaz speaking on human capabilites, how mental capacity is not dependent upon race. (filmed in studio)

  3. Verdicts on Ribbentrop, Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg, Frank, Frick, Streicher, Funk at Nuremberg Trial

    Verdicts delivered on Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg IMT, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. MLS of prisoners dock as Justice reads conclusions on the cases of Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Hans Frank, Alfred Rosenberg, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, and Walter Funk: Unidentified defendant (in Russian): ? Ribbentrop: Guilty on all 4 counts (the main foreign policy advisor to Hitler & Ambassador to Britain) Keitel (in French): Guilty on all 4 counts (no attenuating circumstances accorded) [screen goes black] Kaltenbrunner: Guilty under counts 3 and 4 Rosenberg ...

  4. Judge Ben Lindsey

    MS, Judge Ben Lindsey pleads for humanizing the treatment of girls who go "morally wrong." He proposes a "House for Human Welfare." (filmed in studio)

  5. Leon Trotsky

    EXT, day. Various scenes of review/parade of Red Army soldiers. MLS, Leon Trotsky taking salute from reviewing stand. MLS, pan, Trotsky, with staff, marching past camera.

  6. Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair delivers campaign speech. MS, Sinclair speaking about New Deal Economic Policy in California. States that California supports President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

  7. US battalion lays cable; DPs interrogated

    (LIB 4607) Co "C" 93rd Signal Bn Lays Communication Cable, Nierstein, Germany, March 24, 1945. SEQ: Cable on reel is let out from boat to men on shore who tie it to trees along bank of Rhine River. Engineers dig trench along river and lay cable in it. Telephone terminals are set up on shoreline. Lt. Gen George S Patton Jr and Maj Gen Manton S Eddy speak with engineer personnel. MSs, CU, approximately 18 displaced persons gather on the east side of Rhine River who are French, Italian, and Polish (formerly of the slave labor battalions used by the Germans) are interrogated by 5th Inf Div sold...

  8. Tarot cards

    Julia Schor played with the cards while she was in hiding during the Holocaust in the Netherlands.

  9. Kan family vacationing during winter in Switzerland

    "Arosa 1935-6" drawn in the snow. Mountains, trees, and a bridge (possibly shot from inside a train car). Jeanne, Betsy, Robert and a woman sit outside next to a building, pine tree in BG. Robert makes faces at the camera. Jeanne, Betsy, and Robert ice skate. 01:01:43 Waiter delivers champagne glasses on a tray. Robert and Betsy on a sled. CUs, children look at the camera, smile, and sled. Robert wears new goggles. Children feed squirrels in the forest. Snow-covered mountain landscape. 01:03:29 People walk up the mountain. Jeanne with her back to a ski lodge. People walk up a mountain. Land...

  10. Women: Nazi propaganda on the Aryan ideal

    Statues. CUs, women, some with swimming caps. Women playing with girls, gymnastics, all blond/Aryan. Gymnastics class. Playing with ball. Exercising, running, stretching in swim suits. Race with hurdles. Tennis. Rings. Playing at beach. Kayaking, canoeing. Walking in line, in unison. Practicing dancing and exercises. Jumping (some scenes in slow motion). Balancing ball, throwing ball. Discus (some scenes in slow motion). Shot-put. Archery. Javelin on the beach. Women running into water.

  11. Doll vest

    Julia Schor played with the doll vest while in hiding during the Holocaust.

  12. Children's birthday party

    Children's birthday party. Francisca and Yoka Verdoner are present, there are many other (unidentified) children present as well. Many of the little boys are dressed in sailors uniforms, the word "MARINE" is visible on one of the little boy's hats. The children blow out a candle on a cake. Documentation from original film indicates that this is Yoka's fifth birthday party. MCU, Yoka, playing a harmonica, table of children playing at party in BG.

  13. Nazi prisoners work

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 17, No. 278, Part 2. Release date, 03/20/1944. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Nazi Prisoners Work" Michigan. Nazi prisoners of war volunteer for forest duty in the north woods. Warmly clothed, they work like beavers. Then they devour their food, and return to the recreation rooms for checkers, ping pong and music by a German band. Other parts of newsreel include: 06:16:50 1: "Yanks Daylight Raid on Berlin." 06:19:26 3: "Rubber from the Sea" 06:20:00 4: "Caribbean visitor" 06:20:32 5: "HMS Bataan" 06:21:08 6: "US Task Force destroys Japs" 06:22:28 ...

  14. Lutze in the East; Generalgouvernement celebration; German soldiers; Captured French clothing and tanks

    05:22:04 LS, castle. Viktor Lutze, chief of staff of the SA, in Marienburg, East Prussia with other SA (inspecting areas in the East). At a soldier cemetery near Łódź, Lutze honors SA Obergruppenfuehrer Meyer-Quade at his grave, presenting wreath, flag with swastika. In Posen, Lutze walking past officers, speaking to large crowd. Inspecting areas in the East. 05:23:03 In Litzmannstadt, a large demonstration celebrating the day of Łódź's release from Polish control. Crowd of soldiers. 05:23:20 Generalgouvernement celebration (one-year anniversary) in Krakow. Crowd welcoming Frank and other o...

  15. Green knapsack used by a Hungarian Jewish man in forced labor

    Large, two pocket rucksack used by Elek Brust while a forced laborer from 1941 and 1943-1944 in Hungary. He then used it while living in hiding with his family during the German occupation through February 1945. Elek was a manufacturer and prominent member of the Jewish community in Budapest where he lived with his wife Lilly and young daughter Eva. In 1941, Jewish males were required to do forced labor service and Elek was sent to a labor camp. Lilly obtained his release a few months later with black market papers. In 1943, Elek was again drafted, and not released until March 1944. On Marc...

  16. Pink pillow

  17. German educational film: 1936 Olympics, Berlin

    This short film depicts the scene at the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin, Germany. General, establishing shot of the entrance to the stadium, followed by a series of shots inside the stadium, of crowds saluting Hitler, and of the procession of participating countries. MCU of Italian delegation marching on to the field, their athletes in black shirts, saluting Hitler. CU of Hitler surveying the crowds. Cut back to the various countries rounding the track inside the stadium. CU of Hitler saluting, cut to Nazi flag being carried into the stadium. MS, crowds in the bleechers wave and cheer. L...

  18. US Army vehicles; Army-Navy Game

    US military supply vehicles travelling down dirt road, arrive at Army barracks. 01:01:19 (black and white) Army vehicles, labeled 104 HQ1. "HQ 1st BN 104th F.A. Message Center" sign. Soldiers sending telegrams. Map. 01:03:25 Camouflaged weapons. 01:05:16 (color) soldiers with map, dead fox. "104th Battalion" title. Play fighting. 01:08:15 Building, CU military car, vehicles lined up in building, military equipment lined up. 01:11:30 "Philadelphia 1939 Army vs. Navy" title. Tickets. Stadium, woman waving flag for Navy, band on pitch. 01:14:10 "This is the Navy field Goal" title. "Match" 01:1...

  19. Trial of Marshal Henri Petain

    Trial of Marshal Henri Petain, Fortress Montrouge (outskirts of Paris), July 1945. MSs, crowds entering palace courtyard after credentials are checked by guards. VS, Palace of Justice. MSs, Pierre Mongibaud, President of the High Court, enters palace. Anteroom shots (dark), civilians and military enter; group watches from stairs. MSs, EXT, bedroom window of palace. Room formerly occupied by Petain. MSs, CUs, correspondents working in press room. LS, policemen and firemen on palace roof. INT of courtroom, Petain enters, sits in chair flanked by guards. INT, witnesses appear; Michael Clemence...

  20. Hitler Protest in NYC

    "Gigantic Hitler Protest, New York" Ground shot of parade, flag bearers. Rabbi Wise is at the extreme right. Maj. Gen. O'Ryan, Commander of the 27th Division, leads the parade. Crowd shot. CUs, Jewish onlookers. CUs, placards. Shot of crowds at Battery Park. LS, Gen. O'Ryan speaking to crowds at microphone: "The principle that all citizens of a state stand equal before the law in relation to their persons and property has long since come to be recognized as a test of civilized government."