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  1. FDR; bombing of German cities; atrocities

    Part 1: scenes at St. Paul's Cathedral and at Notre Dame Cathedral where services are held honoring President Roosevelt at his death. Personages in London: Ambassador Winant, Adm. Stark, King Haakon VII, King Peter II, Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Juliana, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, and Princess Elizabeth. In France: Ambassador Caffery and Gen. de Gaulle. Part 2: Hamburg, Essen, and other German cities are bombed. Part 3: 3rd Infantry division fights in Bromberg, and citizens of Frankfurt am Main come out of hiding. Part 4: investigation of atrocities at former German prison camps. G...

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Destruction of Prague

    LS, war wrecked buildings in Prague, debris in FG, gutted windows of building, wrecked wall of church. LS, cathedral framed through building debris, destroyed rooftops. HAS, destruction in Prague. Pan, square with people walking. Pan, shots of devastation of buildings in Prague, steel skeletons. CU, workmen picking up shovels to clean up. CUs, picks, shovels, electric drills used to clear piles of debris. Men using torches to break down girders, tossing building bricks. Crane dragging broken concrete. Workers constructing factory, bricklayers, carpenters, skylight. CUs, machine tools.

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- MOMA Film Library and the motion picture industry

    Title: "Special Academy Award, RKO Radio Pictures. TIME the weekly news magazine presents a new kind of pictorial journalism. In this issue, The Movies March On! The March of Time, New York City." MLSs, street scenes, Fifth Ave, NYC, entrance to MOMA, the "spanking new home" for modern art, "no dusty storehouse for old masters." CU, sign above entrance to the film library. VS of Abbott and Barry at work, screening films, smoking and discussing films. VS, the MOMA vaults, CU of film cans. A clip from "The Great Train Robbery" is shown. VS, studio lots, production in progress on the set of a ...

  4. US army in Dachau; Germans flee Russian army

    (LIB 6069) 20th Armored Division, Dachau, Germany, April 1945. CU, sign: "Stadt Dachau." RVs, MS, M-24 tanks and vehicles of 20th Armored Division followed by infantrymen on foot enter city. Seq: Released Russian prisoners, civilians and soldiers rush to greet US soldiers. Short scene, German prisoners march through streets followed by US MPs in jeep. MCU, Russian soldier speaking with two US soldiers. VS, large group of slave laborers in courtyard of concentration camp. VS, US infantrymen attached to the division cautiously advance thru broken fences, backyards and across fields. (LIB 6070...

  5. Ardeatine Caves Massacre: execution and trial

    Execution of Italian civilian connected with Ardeatine Caves massacre. INTs, civil court. Trial of Italian civilian connected with the massacre. Note: 320 Italian civilians were murdered in Ardeatine Caves on March 24, 1944. It is likely that this film was recorded months later, during the summer of 1944.

  6. German invasion, occupation of France; POWs

    Reel 11: German cavalry and infantry cross a river. Artillery bombards the Verdun forts. French troops surrender. Shows wrecked forts, a WWI monument, German infantry parading past the forts, civilians and French POWs. German forces passing abandoned war material and thru French towns. German tankmen studying maps, and a battle. French troops load guns in the Verdun forts. German infantry cross a river in motor launches.

  7. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 488) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Dr. Leo Alexander speaking in English describes a mutilating scar on Maria Kusmierczuk's leg. Kusmierczuk, a messenger in the Polish underground, received the wound at Ravensbrueck concentration camp. MCUs, prisoner's dock. Pan from defendants to Dr. Alexander. He examines Kusmierczuk as she sits on the stand. The doctor explains the leg wound. MS, doctor and Kusmierczuk as seen from the attorney's podium, shot of the attorney's back. More of Dr. Alexander, Kusmierczuk, and defendants.

  8. Majdanek: objects of former inmates

    Pan, "graveyard" outside death chambers, bones on the ground. The cremation ovens are shown, also the family photographs of a victim. CUs, women weeping. Pan down, from one woman to a pile of bones. The tall chimney of the camp and burial ground are shown, also the vegetable garden. CUs, clothing and piles of belongings salvaged by the Nazis. These include: shoes, gloves, toys, glasses, etc. The commission continues questioning. CUs, passports,indicating prisoners from Poland, Holland, France and other countries. CUs, prisoners who survived. Ceremony for the dead. A monument is dedicated; a...

  9. Dachau Concentration Camp

    (LIB 6519) Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, May 1-4, 1945. CUs, dead bodies in railroad cars. MS, huge pile of discarded prison uniforms. CUs, prisoners unloading bodies from wagons in front of cemetery. Large group of prisoners is sprayed with DDT powder. MS, prisoners in courtyard waving from behind barbed wire fence. In FG can be seen dead German guards. VS, prisoners parading in camp, carrying flags of various nations and pictures of Stalin and Tito. CUs, prisoners quarreling and fighting for food container (seems staged). MS, CUs large pile of bodies in front of building. CUs, sick,...

  10. Dress worn by a child while in hiding

  11. Leica camera and camera case

    The camera was purchased with money awarded as war reparations.

  12. Ben Shahn poster with an image of a hooded man protesting the Nazi destruction of Lidice

    Poster created by Ben Shahn for the US Office of War Information as a response to the Nazi-led annihilation and destruction of communities throughout the Czech Republic, including Lidice. It also protests the retaliatory measures taken for the attempted assassination by Czech resistance members of Reinhard Heydrich, director of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, under the Nazi occupation.

  13. Oral history interview with Sarah Lenson

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Clearing ruins/rubble of Warsaw

    LS ruins of Warsaw. In FG, Polish cart. German prisoners of war clearing the ruins of the Ghetto. German prisoners of war working on future tram line which will cross the ex-Ghetto as a prolongation of the main street of Warsaw. A detachment of the garrison of Warsaw marching among ruined houses with shovels on their shoulders. In FG, civilians working among rubbish. Soldiers marching and singing. Soldiers loading lorries with rubble. LS at sunset, ruins of highest concrete building in Warsaw. Men and women clearing the ruins of Warsaw.

  15. Berghof: Sepp Dietrich, Eva's family, dogs, colleagues

    Reel 3A of the private motion pictures of Eva Braun (Seized Enemy Records). COLOR. Scenes taken from an airplane. Woman with two young children. Gen. Joseph (Sepp) Dietrich, Chief of Waffen SS, CUs on terrace reading documents, playing with Albert Speer's children, holding little girl on lap. Eva with members of family. Scenes of a town. B/W. People conversing possibly on a moving train, including Otto Dietrich, Dr. & Mrs. Morrell, Braun sister, and a woman in suit and tie. COLOR. Scenes of dogs playing on terrace. Black Scottie with German Shepherd pups; black Scottie pups. B/W. Puppie...

  16. Program on the Bush administration, peace, and nuclear arms

    Host: Marvin Kalb. First aired during Election 1988 as part of the national security debate. Program discusses how the Bush administration could reduce the risk of nuclear war while maintaining national security. It assumes our greatest challenge is making sure that nuclear weapons are never used again. Program offers four policy options: 1) military superiority; 2) arms control; 3) building missile defenses; and 4) eliminating all nuclear weapons. The segment provokes discussion about the nuclear future.

  17. Eva Braun with her family; Berchtesgaden terrace on Easter

    Reel 4 of the private motion pictures of Eva Braun. (Seized Enemy Records.) COLOR. Scenes of buildings, boats, in Copenhagen. Eva with her family on a boat. Scenes of city and the water. Women selling fish. Out at sea, military boats, other boats. Hands from deck of boat in Nazi salute. Docking, man shaking woman's hand. Scenes in countryside taken from car. Herta Schneider and her two children on Berchtesgaden terrace playing with Easter toys. Women and children playing with rabbits. Woman in a rowboat. Children playing, scenes with dog. Military man with wife and toddler. Woman playing wi...

  18. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 176) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 21, 1946. Kenneth E. Kingston, former American officer, tells how he and his unit surrendered and how some of the soldiers were massacred. Kingston is questioned by Lt. Robert E. Byrne, US prosecutor. K. Ahrens, another former soldier, testifying about his surrender and how US soldiers were killed. Pointer on map indicates the route which Ahrens' unit followed. MS, Capt Ralph Shumacker, prosecution counselor, questions Ahrens.

  19. German civilians view atrocities

    (LIB 6215) German Atrocities, Suttrop, Germany, May 3, 1945. MSs, German men, women, and children walk past exhumed, decomposed bodies of murdered Russians lying in woods. CUs, various types of civilians and their reactions as they view the dead. VS, bodies including a woman with a month-old baby. CUs, several bodies with their skulls crushed. CUs, German civilians remove bodies from common graves and bury them individually. MSs, Russian woman puts flowers in grave. MCUs, 95th Div. chaplain conducts services. MS, sign in Russian at burial site.

  20. Idealized picture of Prussia to garner German support for total war

    Reel 2 opens inside a busy cafe, where Mayor Nettelbeck discusses Napoleon with two other men. Young Claus, the son of Nettlebeck's close friend Werner, hands Nettlebeck a proclamation in which Napoleon claims that he wants only to secure peace and prosperity in Europe. Nettelbeck is the only one of the three who thinks that Prussia should attempt to stand up to Napoleon. Back to the festival, where Nettelbeck's goddaughter Maria (Claus's sister) breaks off her dance to join Nettelbeck and her father inside their farmhouse. Nettelbeck tells Maria that he worries about her brother, who has b...