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  1. Construction, BDM, German children, flying club

    City of Berlin. Construction crew at work, pouring cement. City view, with radio tower. 00:17:02 "Reichskrafts" sign on building. Farm scenes. BDM (Bund Deutsche Maedel) girls with their arm badges, milking goat. Blond girl cutting bread for two children. CU of children at tables, eating, outdoors. INT, Kindergarten. Children painting, washing dishes. 00:19:51 Children go off together with school satchels on their backs in Essen, arms around each others' shoulders, various combinations of boys, girls. Smokestacks, city in BG, Krupp factory. 00:21:23 Flying club, gliders, young men carry gli...

  2. Concentration camp atrocities

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. A harrowing film record of post-liberation scenes at concentration and prison camps, with the message to the defeated Germans "Dass ist Fascismus, dass ist National Sozialismus." [That is fascism, that is Nazism]. Film of dead and barely surviving prisoners at thirteen camps. Shots include: Arnstadt: tents in camp; corpses Belsen: survivors; corpses; German civilians (under compulsion) viewing the atrocities; Josef Kramer; interrogation/detention of SS guards and camp officials Gardelegen: corpses; i...

  3. Kindergarten, Concert Party at Belsen

    Kindergarten at Bergen-Belsen. Bus arriving with children. Children leaving bus, entering school. Board reading KINDERGARTEN 9-12 2-5. CU children at desks, drawing. Milk and cookies distributed by Miss S J Reekie, a British trained nurse and child welfare specialist, in a beret. Concert at Belsen. Stage in theater. Band playing to audience. Soldier with children in audience, woman and children in audience. Group of women surround man playing piano. Three girls dancing "Hoki-Koki." Polish woman dancing peasant dance. Girl singing and playing piano. Girl playing violin, CU.

  4. Liberation of Kiev

    Titles: "Soviet Newsreel"/ "70-71"/ "Moscow"/ "November 1943" / "Directed by I. Kopalina"/ "Kiev is liberated" Aerial shots of countryside, aerial pan and various ELSs of Kiev. Titles: "The red army, successfully having infiltrated the Dnepr, has held fighting positions on the right side of the river and, having broken the German resistance, moved on toward Kiev, fighting as they approach the city." ELS Soviet soldiers loading and firing cannons. LS field of soldiers crawling across field. Aerial views of Soviet planes. CUs corpses, LS soldiers running across burning rubble. MS Medic bandag...

  5. "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) exhibition; BDM; farming; Reichsarbeitsdienst

    INT "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) exhibit, "Nehmen Sie Dada ernst" in Munich. 00:20:47 BDM girls place flag in ground, write letters. Landscape with ploughed fields, oxen and cart, between Nuremberg and Leipzig. Road between Nuremberg and Dresden with BDM girls, marching and singing with banner. CUs faces, braids, white blouses. While resting at roadside, two girls perform a singing act, flirtatious, very animated. Others seated, write in diaries, then march on. Ages range from 8 to 12, most in braids or bobbed hair. BDM girls eating, with group leader, CU BDM flag, reading magazine, r...

  6. French pilots; heroic Soviet soldiers

    Titles: "Soviet Newsreel"/ "12"/ "Moscow"/ "February 1944"/ "Directed by M. Fidelevoy"/ "The Red Army will follow comrade Stalin's orders with honor"/ ELS military procession. Soldiers march and salute while others look on. A message from Stalin is read to soldiers from an elevated platform. Title: "Infantry school" ELS long line of infantry at attention. LS officer reading Stalin's orders. Various CUs and MSs of soldiers. Title: "Moscow's salute" Various ELSs of fireworks lit up over Moscow cityscape. Title: "Stalin's order inspires new combat and labor achievements in the Soviet people"/ ...

  7. Fighting in Stalingrad

    Titles: "Soviet Newsreel"/ "80"/ "Moskow"/ "November 1942"/ "Directed by S. Gurova"/ "All for the Front, All for Victory" Series of shots of women harvesting grains, feeding chickens, painting farm building, men inspecting vegetables. Pan across a sign promoting a regional economic exhibition. Over the shoulder shots of men and women looking at vegetables. ELS of procession of carts carrying vegetables to Leningrad. Trains loaded with good for Leningrad. Scenes in a gun workshop. MSs and CUs of women sanding rifles. MS of boy fitting barrel into wooden rifle. 02:13:57 Titles: "Film-reportin...

  8. Yaffa Margules Shnitzer and family papers

    Consists of photocopies of correspondence related to writing and attempts at publishing a memoir entitled "I Survived Belzec Crematories," by Jaffa Margulies Shnitzer (alternate: Schnitzer), dated from the 1970s through the 1990s.

  10. Oral history interview with Judith Schanda

  11. Harvey S. Mamat photographs

    Consists of eight photographs of corpses at the liberation of the Seeshaupt concentration camp in Germany, April 1945.

  12. Soap issued to a concentration camp prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau

    Soap issued to Esther Moses, October-November 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Esther Zelmanovits Moses was interred in Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was given this bar of soap when she was sent to work in Hamburg on November 26, 1944. She carried it with her for the remainder of the war. Her husband, Herbert Moses hid the bar of soap in his father-in-law's, Sam Zelman, store in Kansas.

  13. Nazi propaganda: anti-Soviet

    Images of the Dnieper River and a forest, excavations of corpses in advanced degrees of decay with visible bullet wounds. Swedish narration claims that the victims shown are Polish officers murdered by the Soviet secret police GPU in the forest of Katyn. The corpses are examined by an European commission including the former minister president of Poland Prof. Koslowski and coroners said to be from Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, and Bulgaria. Piles of dead bodies are pictured, most of them hardly identifiable. Remnants of the Polish Gen. Smorawinski are shown. Relatives try to identi...

  14. Children at Belsen

    Multiple shots of a set of three swings, children playing on swings, British troops push the swings. CU of (unnamed) soldier pushing swing. MCU of children crowded on jeep, moving through camp. CU of boy's face as he sits on the hood of the jeep. Children eating soup. Shot as children file from left to right, given biscuits and chocolate. Russian Jewish woman (former internee, wearing Red Cross uniform) ringing bell as children, smiling, swarm past her, entering doorway. CU of woman (unnamed). Row of six swings set up by REME. Children playing on swings. Two close up shots of young girls sm...

  15. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin

    10 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killi...

  16. Nazi propaganda: history of Germany

    This historical feature film begins in 1862 with King Wilhelm I appointing Otto von Bismarck as head of the Prussian government. Since Germany was divided into 35 different political entities and transferred to various principalities, the nation is portrayed as desperately longing for national unity. Bismarck's first political action of dissolving the Prussian parliament because the opposition leader Virchow refused to finance a military reform and rearmament plan is followed by tough censorship of the press. From 1866 to 1870, Bismarck wages wars against Denmark, Austria, and France accord...

  17. Unloading stretchers; digging graves

    Ambulance enters camp. Sign reading DDT CENTER. Women and men unloading stretchers from ambulance. Pan, cemetery, men digging graves, crosses erected. Tents. Doctor and patients walking about. LS camp, watchtower, people walking, some with shovels.

  18. Verdict at Dachau trial

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. (Very brief) Forced open air cinema show in the jungle of Burma. "Dachauer Prozess: DAS URTEIL" The verdict at the conclusion of the trial of Dachau officials. Courtroom scenes, including numbered accused in the dock. 02:15:32 Commandant Martin Gottfried Weiss (#1) 02:15:37 Josef Jarolin (#3) 02:15:50 Dr. Claus Schilling (#15) 02:16:11 Fritz Becher (#27). Witnesses give testimony (one identifies a defendant). Prisoner's mid-day meal. Verdict and sentences.

  19. Invasion of Norway

    Pan, German ships and troops in Norway. Pan, city of Oslo, Norway. Bicycle troops at railway station. German DDs. German boat steaming at high speed in water. Captain on bridge. Guns firing off forward section of boat, plane catapults. German troops on deck, snow-covered hills in BG. Machine gun firing on British plane. German seaplane landing on bay. Harbor, many ships. High mountains on side of fjord. German troops passing baggage from ship to tugs. Tug loaded with troops. German seaplane taking off from harbor, city and hills in BG. German troops along road, disembarking from ship. Tanks...

  20. Captured German officers; press; Belsen atrocities; forced confrontation

    War Pictorial News was the official newsreel sponsored by the British Ministry of Information and the US Office of War Information. Brief shots of soldiers placing branches on top of and inside a torpedo/plane, soldier getting inside. LSs, pan planes (silent). SEQ, with sound in English: Men in German uniform, including Doenitz, Jodl, and Hans Georg von Friedeberg (now POWs) exiting an airplane. Mass arrests of civilian officials. Men in courtyard and street marching. Nazi personalities exiting building with hands behind head, guarded by British soldiers with guns, civilians watching. Shots...