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  1. Goering at Krupp factory; Luftwaffe formations; Launching PRINZ EUGEN ship

    Reel 3: (Symphony music track accompanies this entire story.) 07:08:59:29 "Goering and his wife visiting the Krupp Works 1935" ; "Luftwaffe" Goering inspects troops as German planes fly overhead. Goering salutes. Luftwaffe formations. 07:10:01:08 "Der Schoepfer der neuen deutschen Luftwaffe, Generalfeldmarschall Herman Goering bei einem besuch der Gussstahlfabrik" Goering and his wife arrive in automobile, greeting other officials, saluting. 07:10:48:08 On far right, Josef Grohe, Gauleiter of Koeln-Aachen. 07:11:00 Goering walks toward camera in procession followed by other officers, wife E...

  2. Ferencz lecture: Kean College

    Second in a series of lectures by Benjamin Ferencz at Kean College, New Jersey. (First lecture: RG-12.020*11). Ferencz discusses his vision for new world order, world security in the 21st century, the establishment of an international criminal court to try Sadam Hussein, and what constitutes international crime. He defines the need for international standards that declare what is permissable and not permissable ("the charter for the earth"). To curb the "Wild West" mentality of international relations, Ferencz proposes the following components of new world order and a peaceful society: 1) r...

  3. Arnstadt and Nordhausen concentration camps

    Arnstadt and Nordhausen after Allied soldiers arrive. General shots of corpses and survivors. Survivors receive aid. Some well-known shots of survivors as they board IRC van. (LIB 5566) Arnstadt Horrors, Arnstadt, Germany, April 14, 1945. EXT, Sequence- German civilians disinter bodies of concentration camp victims. CU, a cadaver with a damaged skull. LSs, CUs, dog kennel for watchdog. Pan from camp gate to tents used to house 1700 prisoners. LSs to MSs, corpses lying outside of grave from which they have just been exhumed. LSs to MSs, bodies laid out on ground are viewed by several US sold...

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- German-American Bund; office, meeting

    563 E: In office of German American Bund - staff at desk, going through papers. CUs, Fritz Kuhn. Sign, "Reichsgruendungs Feier." Staff prepares recruitment mailing. Folding pamphlets which read, "Purpose and Aims of German American Bund." "JOIN" letters. CU, poster for Bund event at Yorkville Casino on January 16, 1938. Men reading newspapers in office. VAR takes, man walks into office, communicates with secretary and uniformed German American Bund, heiling. 03:05:11 563 F: In office of German American Bund, file cabinets, staff, mailing, answering telephone, typing. MSs German newspapers a...

  5. Propaganda about Japan; troops preparing for Pacific

    Reel 1: "Japan" A cartoon shows Hirohito shoving Hitler aside and proclaiming himself the greatest conqueror, the operation of thought control in Japan, and US aid to Japan during the 1923 earthquake. "Here We Come" Shows troops from Europe showering, drawing new clothing, and preparing to embark for the Pacific theater.

  6. Polish mobilization; German troops

    Summary: The German viewpoint of events prior to and during the Polish campaign. Reel 2: describes Polish mobilization showing armor and aircraft. Shows burned farmhouses of German settlers in Poland. Danzig militia fighting Poles and German columns marching into the city. German cavalry, armor, horse-drawn artillery, and infantry enter Poland. Skirmishers advance. Artillery and machine guns are fired.

  7. Jewish religious service; destroyed drug stores

    Military Government, Cologne, Germany, May 31- June 2, 1945. Full screen view, former prisoners of concentration camps attending Jewish religious services. CUs, man's sleeve patch which reads "Buchenwald." Seq: Jewish religious services are held in remains of Cologne temple (this portion with synch sound). Silhouette shot, light passes through one remaining stained glass window of former temple and shines upon rabbi and cantor standing at altar. Seq: German civilians under MG direction remove drugs and other medical supplies from bombed drug stores.

  8. Poland destroyed; French troops; invasion of the West; refugees

    Reel 4 shows war-torn Poland: Warsaw is bombed, evacuated and burned. Hitler reviews his troops. French troops man the Maginot Line. Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgium are invaded. German films show the power of the army; big guns, mechanized equipment, paratroops, etc. Dutch refugees clog roads. Rotterdam burns.

  9. US generals; DP camp; Boxcar near Seeshaupt; Prisoners marching

    01:18:49 (LIB 6194) General Meets General, Delitzsch, Germany, April 28, 1945. SEQ: Maj Gen Terry Allen, CG of the 104th (Timberwolf) Div, meets Russian Maj Gen Sohonov, Division Commander of the 118th Div, 34th Corps, 5th Russian Army. The officers speak to one another through an interpreter. 01:20:00 (LIB 6195) Displaced Persons Camp, Camp Kray, Germany, May 1, 1945. VS, displaced persons unload loaves of bread from truck. The distribution is made by ARBN troops. LS, buildings and grounds of camp. (Campsite is a former German barracks). LS, MSs, CUs, DPs listening to loudspeakers set up o...

  10. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee

    Calling card for Ella Nussbaum found in the autograph album, 1994.53.6.1, owned by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  11. War Crimes Commission: Buchenwald and Dachau Concentration Camps

    "Buchenwald Concentration Camp" General views of the camp at Buchenwald. Red EXT of camp. HSs of the area. "Jedem Das Sein" gate closes. Red Cross trucks from Switzerland enter the camp grounds. Male survivors leave the camp. Among the survivors are 1000 boys under 14. Evidence of crimes: CUs of dead with numbers tattooed on stomachs; emaciated survivors; stacks of bodies outside and inside the crematorium; the experimental building where various toxins were tried; truckloads of the dead; CU weapon of torture; INT, crematorium ovens showing skeletons inside and piles of bone ash. 1200 Germa...

  12. Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation

    Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany, April 17, 1945. LHSs, concentration camp area with internees and visitors walking about. MLS, soldiers entering camp area. MSs, picture of Joseph Stalin on camp building. In FG, arms are raised in Communist salute. Head-on-shot, Red Cross trucks with "Switzerland" on bumpers enter camp grounds. MLS, group of young inmates marching from the camp. Many of them wearing the striped prison uniform. MSs, CUs, two former inmates remove bodies from hand truck, place them upon a pile of bodies near building. CU, Pan, dead bodies in a long pile. ECUs, faces of ...

  13. Prayer book

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- State Department Library; Passport office; Div of Communication and Records

    665 NN (02:10:57) Various shots in the State Department library. Man with books. CUs document, treaties signed by officials. People in library, CUs books. Pan right to card catalog. Sign, "Library - US Department of State - For the use of the Department - Not open to the Public." CUs treaty. 665 OO (02:14:48) Men typing at desks, telegrams with Secretary of State emblem. Office in Paris? Sign, "Passports Applications and Information. Renewal and Amendments." Passport office. CUs woman filling out paperwork, passport application. Sign, "Division of Communications and Records." INT, office, m...

  15. British MPs investigate atrocities

    Part 3: British MPs Investigate Atrocities (06:40:03-06:43:12) Shows bodies of persons killed in German concentration camps and devices used for killing and torture. Camp officials are arrested. Shows the bodies of the mayor of Leipzig and his family who took poison to avoid arrest. Unrelated footage: Part 1: Allied Drives Split Germany; Part 2: Army Day in Coblenz

  16. Records of the Estonian State Archive, Tallinn (Fonds R-82, R-64)

    Contains selected records of the Standortkommandantur in Tallinn, the Estonian Sicherheitspolizei und der SD in Tallinn, and work assignments of prisoners in Klooga concentration camp.

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Czechoslovakia

    1150 B (11:01:12): Several shots of street scenes (Prague and Bratislava) and decorated places, monuments, graves, memorials. Passers-by stop to commemorate. 1150 C (11:06:19): Prague, Czechoslovakia, October 3, 1946. Huge gathering of Czechs sunbathing on the Vtlava riverside. Czech and Russian flags on a little stage for the entertainment of the bathers. Czech crowds swimming or sunbathing. LS and MS people playing cards on the beach. CU of Jewish woman, survivor of Auschwitz, with tattooed number on arm.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Nazis in US; protest in NYC; Germans in US

    563 J (04:01:12): (shot in the studio) January 12, 1938. INT, two Nazi censors at work going through outgoing mail. CU, letter being opened. CU, letter placed back in envelope. 563 K (04:03:28): New York City, January 8, 1938. LS, Nazi propaganda workshop with artist making posters. CU, German drawing on bench of one of the artists. CU, finished poster held by Nazi officer. CU, poster only. MS, artist working, wall filled with German posters. MS, posters on wall. CU, folders inserted in envelopes by Nazi soldier. 563 L (04:08:01): New York City, December 24, 1937. EXT, main entrance to the ...

  19. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 250) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, June 21, 1946. MCU, Lt. Col. Ellis interrogating witness Joachim Peiper (#42). Col. Ellis hands Peiper document and asks if the signature is his. Peiper answers in the affirmative. Peiper answers Col Ellis's questions concerning PWS.

  20. French liberation: FFI, Germans, collaborators, POWs

    Reel 2: FFI and German units fight in the streets. Collaborationists are rounded up. Gestapo torture chambers are examined; prisoners are released. FFI wounded are treated. A rifle is seized from a wounded German. FFI riflemen fire from barricades at German tanks. Shows smashed German vehicles and German POWs. Allied tanks and motorized info enter the city. The tricolor is raised and German signs torn down. Machine guns and rifles are fired at German snipers in the Place de la Concorde.