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  1. Race and heredity

    A Nazi educational film (propaganda) regarding questions of race and heredity of national/political value. [Aufklaerungsfilm ueber Rasse- und Vererbungsfragen / Praedikat: staatspolitsch wertvoll] Title on film: Kulturfilm-Abteilung Atelier 2. Woman calls on professor to show him what the beetles are doing. Additional colleagues join; a cameraman films them. Professor explains beetles' behavior - woman should not be sentimental. The weak are naturally destroyed. He finds it odd if cats and mice (and other pairs) live together. The professor takes a phone call. They watch a film about sunflo...

  2. Kiev church service

    The Kiev-Pechersk Monastery at sunset (the campanile is clearly visible), and then the cupolas of what appears to be the Cathedral of Dormition (within the monastery). Night-time exterior of Saint Andrew's Church (not at the monastery), followed by interior shots of an Orthodox mass. The choir is singing, and the worshippers stand listening, crowded beneath the iconostasis. Translation of Russian narration: On the occasion of Easter the German high command in Kiev ordered to convey restored Orthodox churches to the Ukrainian people. The people responded to the restoration of their religious...

  3. Field Marshal von Paulus testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 552) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 13, 1946. Ex-Field Marshal von Paulus takes the stand and is questioned by Dr. Otto Nelte, Keitel's attorney (in German). Von Paulus is questioned about military orders, i.e. who signed them (Hitler, Jodl, Keitel). In particular, they talk about order no. 21, attack on Russia(?). ... He is later questioned about a telegram (letter) to the Soviet government concerning the battle of Stalingrad and the effects on Russian civilian life and prisoners of war. Nelte asks reproachfully why there is no mention of the sacrifices of German so...

  4. Anti-Jewish propaganda film: Jewish education; religious observances

    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 7 Narrator: "To understand these customs, one must look more closely at the...

  5. Rosenberg questioned at Nuremberg Trial ; US publishers observe

    (Munich 111) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 16, 1946. MS, LS, Alfred Rosenberg testifying. US publishers seated in press section of audience. Rear and side views, US prosecution counsel Thomas J. Dodd questioning Rosenberg. First Rosenberg talks about a blockade (Stalingrad?) and the necessity to reconsider the food provisions for the German people, which meant also consideration of an evacuation of Russian forced laborers once they were no longer "employed" in German industries [He refers to document 1056 of German Ost Ministry.] Later, when Dodd hands him a document and ques...

  6. Meeting of Allies; Hanging; Shrunken head

    03:08:09 (Paris 440) First Meeting of Allied Control Council, Berlin, Germany, December 17, 1945. INT, meeting of the Council in the Allied Council Authority building. Members are seated around a square table. For France: Col. Marcel Rotivel, Col. C. Vialet, Louis Koeltz, Pierre Koenig, Ambassador J. de St- Hardouin, Consul Jean Baudier, Mr. Calvy, and Capt. Henry Joos. For Britain: Lt. Col. Eric Greenwood (Allied Secretary), N S Sir William Strang (Polish Adviser to CPC), Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, Lt. Gen. Sir Brian, Chief of Staff Robertson, Brig. T Neville Crazebrook, and Maj....

  7. German Newsreel selections

    Trieste (Monfalcone), Laying the keel for the first of two cruisers to be built for the Royal Thailand Navy in St. Marks Shipyards. The Bishop of Trieste officiates. Present: The Minister of Thailand, members of the commission, the Prefect of Trieste and other civic authorities. The launching from the Monfalcone shipyard of the 2nd unit of the mercantile fleet of Italy, the motorship "Vettor Pisani". Godmother was the wife of the Prefect of Fiume. It was blessed by the Archbishop of Goriza. Venezia, A visit to Venice by Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda. Mostly LS, at night, Piazza...

  8. Schacht testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 134) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 30, 1946. Prisoners under MP guard walk into courtroom, stand in dock, and talk with each other and their counselors. "Take your seats" is announced, and everyone is seated. Hjalmar Schacht in witness stand is questioned by his counselor, Dr. Rudolf Dix. Schacht quotes something in English (not clear). MCU, Schacht testifying. MS, Julius Streicher and Walther Funk in prisoners' dock. MCU, Robert H. Jackson seated next to an American officer at the prosecution table.

  9. German TV documentary film on antisemitism (reel 11)

    Jews being loaded onto trains in Warsaw as the narrator reads a quote from Globke: "The Jew is a foreign body in all European lands." Still photographs of Himmler visiting Auschwitz. Footage of present-day West German politicians. Himmler becomes Globke's boss and assigns him certain responibilities in other countries, including Italy (footage of Mussolini, Italian troops) and Greece (Globke's connection to foiling the efforts of the Red Cross to rescue the Jews of Salonika). Audio interview with Max Merten, a Nazi who was stationed in Greece and now lives in West Germany, after serving a l...

  10. Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities: people with extreme deformities

    Reel 6 of 8: Toddler without legs or arms, unclothed, close views in bed. Stumps. Disfigured face of child, CU. Man with elephantitis in one leg. Very crooked body in bed. VAR extreme deformities. Female dwarf; crying young person, CU. 00:36:56 Lit for effect, menacing, tough man. VAR CUs for dramatic effect. VCU: sticking out tongue, etc.

  11. Nuremberg Trial - Robert Servatius, defense counsel

    (Munich 195) Sauckel's case was presented on May 28 - 31, 1946 Robert Servatius, defense counsel for Fritz Sauckel, examines Sauckel (Sauckel is not seen). Thomas Dodd sits at the table behind Servatius. The questions Servatius asks and Sauckel's answers are translated in English voiceover. 19:32:09 shots of prisoners in the dock. Several of the defendants are taking notes. 19:34:49 May 27, 1946 Defense counsel Fritz Sauter questions witness Hartmann Lauterbach about his service with Baldur von Schirach. There is an English voiceover, this time the voice of a woman.

  12. 1936 Olympics: crowds; Hitler; races

    Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 10: Shows crowds in stands at the German Arena, Hitler, Goering and Goebbels among them; relay races are held; garlands of victory are placed on the brows of US, British, and Finnish contestants.

  13. German soldiers; Crimes in Ukraine

    German soldiers, people leaving (unidentified locations). Civilians are lined up and gunned down by German soldiers [This scene seems highly edited - for instance, one cut appears to be German soldiers in a field with a machine gun killing civilians in the middle of a city. It is unclear whether this is real film or anti-German propaganda. It also could have been shot in a Jewish ghetto.] Execution by hanging: nooses are placed around the victims' necks, then the camera cuts to another shot (see Story 4913, Film ID 2910 for longer, better quality version of this hanging). Men of the SS-Gali...

  14. Slovakian newsreel: Officials in Slovakia

    Slovak Sound Weekly: On the eve of Hitler's birthday, Dr. Vojtech Tuka delivering a speech from the balcony of the National Theater. State Secretary for the German Minority Frank Karmasin and President Jozef Tiso. Celebration speech made by Hans Bernard, Ambassador of the German Reich, followed by Alexander Mach.

  15. Nazi propaganda about Jewish ghetto living conditions and racial hygiene

    Antisemitic propaganda film showing living and housing conditions in a Jewish ghetto in Poland, typhus patients, and measures against the spreading of lice. Reel 1: Ghetto scenes (in Warsaw, according to Bundesarchiv annotation), streets, crumbling houses. Staged views of Jewish people sleeping. Open gutters, cobblestones. 00:23:20 Orthodox Jews walking through the ghetto (not natural). View from camera in courtyard, up several stories, wooden railings. More Orthodox men. More shots of courtyard. 00:24:19 INT, men at sewing machines. Woman with baby. Woman scrubbing. Woman putting shoes on ...

  16. German TV documentary film on antisemitism (reel 8)

    Turning to the West Front, the narrator says that Globke worked with the Alsatian "fifth column" against France. The leader of the Alsatian Nazis was Karl Roos, who was executed by the French in February 1940. A photogaph shows Frick with Globke, Stuckart, and others among a group of Alsatian Nazis who had been confederates of Roos. Footage of Hitler arriving at the train car at Compiegne (surrender of France). Globke earns another medal for his service in France. Imposition of the anti-Jewish measures in France and Holland. A quotation from a survivor over footage of the Warsaw ghetto (str...

  17. Kesselring testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 47) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 13, 1946. LS, showing left side of prisoners' dock; all defendants listen attentively to testimony of Gen. Albert Kesselring. MS, Chief US Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson seated at a table taking notes. LSs, MLSs, Ludwig Babel, defense counselor, questions Gen. Kesselring. Kesselring first talks about the air attack on Coventry, the distribution of aims and the calculations of the likelihood of missing them. He says he was happy about the "choice" Coventry because it was actually a military target, and not some civilian one. He is then q...

  18. German TV documentary film on antisemitism (reel 3)

    Scenes of the April 1, 1933 boycott against Jewish shops. The narrator further establishes Globke's responsibility for anti-Jewish measures by demonstrating his connection to Frick and Goering (he was subordinate to them in the interior ministry) and to Streicher. Shots of the Nuremberg Reich Party Day as the narrator talks about the Nuremberg Laws and the announcement of mandatory military duty.

  19. Landsberg Hangings

    (Munich 191) Hangings at Landsberg, Germany, May 28, 1946. Continuation of military hangings of three German civilians in courtyard, including Capt. Felix Freeman. MS, captain reading death sentences. Coffin containing bodies of executed men being moved out of courtyard.

  20. Confiscated art and chart discussed at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 453) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 12, 1945. Robert G. Storey tells of the vast quantities of objects of art confiscated by the Nazis. As evidence he presents 39 volumes listing the seized art. MLS, judges examining catalogs (Justice Robert Falco (France) is the only judge seen). Storey claims that if all art objects seized by the Nazi were cataloged they would fill 350 to 400 volumes. The lights are turned off in the courtroom as slides are shown (presentation not filmed). LS, Storey explaining chart on wall showing advancement from Hitler Youth to SS. CU, chart on...