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  1. Slovakian newsreel: Tiso; Fascist youth at camp in Slovakia

    Slovak Sound Weekly: New Year's greetings from German Ambassador Hanns Elard Ludin on behalf of the diplomatic corps to President Jozef Tiso. (Narration and music only; no original sound on film) Ski class for Hlinka Guard Youth camp in Stoli pod Tatrami (mountains in Slovakia).

  2. Ohlendorf testifies at Nuremberg Trial re. Kaltenbrunner, SS and SD

    (Paris 486) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 3, 1946. Col. Amen (US) introduces Otto Ohlendorf. Chief US Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson administers the oath to the witness. Ohlendorf explains to the court the positions held in the SS and SD by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Miller, and Eichmann as he looks at the organization chart on the wall. Ohlendorf describes the command structures, etc. generally.

  3. 1936 Olympics: gymnastics

    Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 3: Opening shot of a woman jumping over the horse in Women's Gymnastics competition. Other events include: balance beam and parallel bars). Men's Gymnastics events include floor exercises, horse, rings, parallel bars, and horizontal bar. Alois Hudec of Czechoslovakia is first on the flying rings, Konrad Frey of Germany wins on the parallel bars, Aleksantevi Saarvale of Finland is first on the horizontal bar.

  4. Jodl questioned at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 211 and 222) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 1946. Alfred Jodl is questioned on the stand by an assistant British prosecutor. MS, Maj. Gen. William H. Gill in courtroom. MS, Jodl answering questions. LS, profile view of justices on bench. MS, US soldier and civilians in press gallery.

  5. War Front; FDR speaks about Fifth Column

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 12, No. 879, Part 2. Release date, 05/27/1940. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: 12:35:09 Part 2A: "On the War Front" Milan, Italy. As war fever soars in Italy, Count Ciano, Il Duce's son-in-law and foreign secretary, appears before a huge throng of 100,000. Alexandria, Egypt. Ready to move the minute Italy enters the war, French and British warships stand guard, to protect the vital Empire life-line to India. 12:36:02 Part 2B: "On the War Front" Norway. Graphic scenes of a British naval attack at Narvik, with Nazi bombers trying to silence the warshi...

  6. Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia

    VS of Lvov*. Liberated Western Ukrainian and Belorussian cities return to their normal life. VS of trains and train stations, people in transit, daily life in an urban area, families on train platforms, several shots of women and children, workers exiting trains with their bicycles in hand, people lining up outside of a movie theater, VS of workers at a textile factory, inspecting the raw materials for making fabrics. *This may not be Lvov; it seems to be Bialystok. There is a shot of the Catholic Cathedral in Bialystok. The entire section could be Bialystok, or it could be a quick cut to B...

  7. von Neurath testimony at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 262) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, June 25, 1946. HAS, MS, Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe questioning von Neurath about a statement he made. MS, von Neurath speaking to his attorney. MS, von Neurath speaking about the said memorandum. MS, Justice Biddle asking von Neurath about Himmler. MS, Justice Nikitchenko asking von Neurath a question. MS, Koedle speaking from the witness box. Different shots of justices in their chambers.

  8. Soviets deported to Germany

    Soviets citizens* (see Notes field) deported to Germany (Lemnitz). Scenes of river boats with Nazi flags on them, heading down river, full of mainly children. People are smiling, waving. Children run alongside the banks of the river smiling and waving as the boats head downstream. VS, children along the banks of river, waving, cut to LS of people in the boats waving back at them. MCU, children on the boat, singing with accordion accompaniment. Pans of countryside along the river banks. MCU of young girl taking photographs of the countryside from the window of the boat. Translation of Ukrain...

  9. German surrender; denazification

    US propaganda film about "The German personality" and its national psyche and history. Reel 6 describes the unconditional surrender of Germany. Shows prisoners and industrial ruins. Contrasts "lackadaisical" occupation in 1918 with the more complete occupation, the trial of war criminals, and denazification processes in 1945.

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- US Air Force flying bombers

    North American F86 breaking world speed record. Flying bomber. Air Force release.

  11. Hangings; Russian Correspondents at Nuremberg Trial

    Hangings. 10:07:34 (Paris 494) Trip of the Russian Correspondents to Germany, January 12, 1946. Russian correspondents accompanied by American officers walking around factory yards and interviewing foremen and workmen. Cars bearing the group enter gates at Bad Tolz. Party on tour of grounds and buildings. Group interviews a German woman at window of her home. MS, Russian taking notes. LS, group on grounds of Heidelberg University. Party entering Bucholz prison. Group watches military execution by hanging of a German accused of murdering unarmed American prisoners. MS, group getting into thr...

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- King; Lotta Women's Auxiliary Organization feeding soldiers

    1021 C (09:17:20): Swedish King Gustav V playing tennis. King (with glasses and hat) autographs papers for children. 1021 F (09:20:50): Man at desk, writing, reading. Two men exiting office, walking. Military review, parade. Various shots, soldiers talking, civilians in BG. CUs, tanks. 1021 X (09:24:59): September 25, 1944 (Lavender) Lotta Women's Auxiliary Organization. Several shots of Swedish soldiers in winter uniforms walking to open-air kitchen run by the Lottas in the snow. Soldiers standing around eating. Soldiers at a Lotta field kitchen set up in front of a tent (ground covered wi...

  13. Doctor's bag

  14. Anti-Jewish propaganda film: rich Jews; "degenerate" art; prominent Weimar Jews

    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 5 An animated diagram illustrating the population of Germany, with the narr...

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Danzig Nazi flags/banners; Hitler and Goering; Nuremberg rally

    Trims. German city of Danzig with swastikas, Nazi flags/banners. Closeup of Danzig election poster 1935. Julien Bryan outtakes from Nuremberg party rally 1937. Quick shots, church, military on guard. Nazi officials exiting building. Goebbels. Long military coats. Hitler Youth at attention. Poster. Hitler speaking. Goering speaking, with hand out (sound). At night (with sound), torches, Hitler, crowds. (without sound) Goering and military review. Hitler in automobile (Julien Bryan outtakes, Nuremberg 1937). Crowds. Hitler speaking.

  16. Allies declare war

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 11, No. 803, Parts 1 through 3. Release date, 09/04/1939. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: 12:13:39 Part 1A: Dramatic scenes of a new conflict that may envelop the world in flames. Hitler's war machine rolls into Poland-encouraged to strike by the new pact with Stalin's Red Russia. With Danzig seized, Polish infantry and cavalry rally to the defense of their homeland. Italy remains in the background, while Nazis pour into the Siegfried Lines to stem a possible Allied thrust. 12:15:31 Part 1B: England. Tense eleventh-hour scenes in London, as Prime Mi...

  17. Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 348) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 12, 1946. Former Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt enters courtroom and is sworn in at the witness stand by Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence. Von Rundstedt is cross-examined by British prosecutor Peter Calvocoressi.

  18. Funk testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 359) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 15, 1946. Walther Funk testifying under questioning of his lawyer, Dr. Fritz Sauter.

  19. Field Marshal von Paulus testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 552) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 13, 1946. MLSs, ex-Field Marshal von Paulus on the witness stand. MS, defendants in prisoners' dock. LSs, three defense counselors speaking in the courtroom (one is Dr. Fritz Sauter, talking in German). Attorney questions von Paulus about his strong reserves "against such an enterprise" ("gegen ein solches Vorhaben", probably referring to an attack on Russia). Von Paulus testifies his reserves were of a military as well as a moral nature and were shared also by Generalstabschef Halder, his direct superior, to whom he talked about t...

  20. French and Soviet prosecutors' summary at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 327) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 29-30, 1946. Charles Dubost, assistant French prosecutor, delivering the closing pages of his summation. MS, Dubost is congratulated by Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, Thomas J. Dodd, and others after his speech. Justice Geoffrey Lawrence is heard introducing Lt. Gen. R A Rudenko of the Russian prosecution to deliver the first part of his summation.