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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Karl H. Frank: trial; execution by hanging

    LS courtroom during trial of Karl H. Frank. Shots of judges entering; spectators. Frank wearing headphones, listening to testimony. Frank stands before judges. Judge reads sentence. Frank listens. Various shots in courtroom. LS prison wherein Frank is held. LS gallows being erected; men work on construction of gallows. Crowds in prison courtyard to witness execution of Frank. MS newsreel camera on raised platform; newsreel men stand on top of car. LS crowd. LS Frank escorted by guards out of prison. Official reads pronouncement in Frank's presence. Crowd listening. MS three executioners on ...

  2. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 542) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. LS, Herta Oberhauser is cross-examined by attorney. Witness is asked if she gave injections to patients to relieve their pain or to kill them. She received awards for her work with the sulphanilamide experiments. She is questioned by a defense attorney. Answers by witness are in German (translation is not provided).

  3. Ferencz interviewed by Russel Harvey

    Interview with Benjamin Ferencz. Host: Russel Harvey. Benjamin Ferencz expresses his concern for world peace. He demands that the world clearly define laws for human behavior, and thus for international fundamentals. Ferencz encourages education, common sense, recognition of progress in peace-making, rational processes for settling differences, and planetary thinking.

  4. Former French officials; Jewish services; German soldiers returned

    01:13:46 (LIB 6421) Former French Officials, Augsburg, Germany, May 7, 1945. EXTs, Lt Gen Alexander M. Patch, Commander of US Seventh Army, talks with French officials liberated by unit. INT, CUs, Gen Maxime Weygand, Gen Maurice Gamelin, Paul Reynaud, Edouard Daladier, Madame Caillan, sister of Gen De Gaulle. 01:14:58 (LIB 6516) Jewish Services, Dachau, Germany, May 7, 1945. VS, US Army Jewish chaplains conduct services in concentration camp. CUs, various individuals (unidentified) attending services. (Some are weeping.) 01:17:17 (LIB 6517) German Soldiers Being Returned to Russians, Griebe...

  5. Troops meet at Torgau; Buchenwald, German civilians; German planes destroyed; rations

    Aerial shots. 08:03:21 Torgau, Germany. High military personnel, generals. Soviet and American soldiers seated outside at banquet, chatting, talking, dancing with each other (accordion player). Soviet flag. Big group of men. Three soldiers in front of "East Meets West" sign. CU, three soldiers. Street scene, red and white banner in Russian and English "Long Live The Victory of...." Alliance with America, British, and Soviet flag. Pan of soldiers. CU, soldiers in street with two women, chatting and flirting. Soldiers milling around field. Shell. MS, LS river, soldiers rowing boats. "East Mee...

  6. Landsberg camp and burials

    (LIB 6198) Stalag #4 Concentration Camp, Landsberg, Germany, April 29, 1945. US soldiers of the 103rd Division, VI Corps, Seventh US Army, round up civilian work detail and load men with picks and shovels into trucks. MS, CUs German civilians bury bodies of Jewish political prisoners. INT underground barracks used to house the prisoners. CUs emaciated bodies of dead Jews in the camp. CUs and long pan, double barbed wire fence surrounding camp. CU partially burned bodies are removed from buliding. MS, CUs several of the living inmates.

  7. Interview of prisoner, Dachau

    (LIB 6559) Interview of Prisoners, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MSs off-screen voice interviews Reverend Van Gestel, a Dutch priest who spent the years since 1940 in Nazi concentration camps. Rev. Van Gestel relates in English his experiences as a prisoner and explains the events leading to his arrest.

  8. Euthanasia

    Hanna, the wife of medical doctor Thomas Heyt, suffers from multiple sclerosis. He decides to 'redeem' her through a sleeping draught, giving her a 'merciful death.' Hanna thus voluntarily and peacefully ends her own life after unbearable suffering. Dr. Heyt's friend and colleague Dr. Lang (Mathias Wiemann) denounces him to the police, but changes his mind when a child he saved from death becomes mentally disabled. A court jury comprised of a cross-section of German society discusses all the moral, religious, and medical arguments in favor of and against euthanasia. Dr. Heyt argues, with gr...

  9. Belsen concentration camp; displaced persons

    Scenes of the Belsen Concentration Camp, and the Belsen Displaced Persons Camp. LS, barracks at far side of road, woods in BG. Displaced persons are fed and treated. MSs, dining hall, with tablecloths, survivors eating soup. INT, hospital barracks, beds filled, woman in lower bunk receiving medical care. German POWs remove dead DPs. Soldiers carrying corpses wrapped in blanket to truck. MLS, truck bed. Another body is carried through doorway. Distributing identity cards to DPs, women clustered around tables outside, writing. CU, "Allied Expeditionary Force / DP index card." MLS, men, women,...

  10. Shoebrush made by underground resistance member

    Shoe brush made by an underground resistance member, Michael Bochner, while hiding underground, circa 1941-1945, Poland.

  11. Poster announcing travel restrictions for Jews in German occupied Chelmno

    Order (Anordnung) concerning use of public transportation by Jews in area inside the district of Cholm (Chelmno).

  12. German attack on Poland, invasion

    Summary: The German viewpoint of events prior to and during the Polish campaign. Reel 5: Fighting at Gdynia. German troops enter Gdynia, prisoners taken. Hitler enters city (only POV from car). German soldiers greet Hitler, surround him. Hitler and officers eating at field kitchen. Headquarter scenes, interior of railroad car. Hitler consults with officers, including Goering, Rommel, Himmler, generals. Graphic - German movement to Vistula up to Radom. German troops on the move, many Polish soldiers surrender arms, equipment. Aerial of captured artillery.

  13. Stern and Pächter family papers

    The Stern and Pächter family papers include biographical material, correspondence, testimonies, cookbooks, poems, and documents relating to Mina Pächter, Anny Stern, and their family’s experiences in Prague and Theresienstadt. The collection includes a document instructing Mina to report to Theresienstadt, copies of Mina’s biography and the Pächter family tree, letters from Mina to her daughter, Anny, and one of her sister, Red Cross letters from Mina to her son-in-law Georg and from Josef Stern to Fritz Lederer, copies of transcripts of Anny Stern and Elisabeth Laufer’s oral testimony, a c...

  14. Army film showing Nazi aggression, refugees, FDR & Hull

    Orientation Film no. 7, Reel 5. International events cause the US to enter into World War II. Cranes move scraps of metal in a junkyard and protestors carry picket signs saying "Embargo Japan." A sign over a doorway reads, "Mr. Acheson Assistant Secretary of State." Dean Acheson sits at a desk and summarizes the conflicts involved with exporting goods to Japan. 05:22:15 "April 9, 1940." Hitler looks over a map with other Nazi officials. A graphic shows the Nazi party taking over Western Europe. "May 10, 1940" is superimposed on a CU of soldiers marching in boots. People sit in their homes a...

  15. Hitler Youth

    Heini Voelker (Juergen Ohlsen, an unidentified Hitler Youth) is a 15 year old and non-political apprentice in Berlin with a jobless Communist father. While at a Communist Youth camp to which he was sent by his father, Heini is deeply intrigued by the expression of discipline and comradeship at a nearby Hitler Youth camp. His mother gasses herself and attempts to gas the boy. During his recovery in the hospital, he is incorporated into a "substitute family" of Hitler Youth. Heini is stabbed to death by members of the Communist Youth while disseminating Nazi propaganda materials for the parli...

  16. Mass funeral service, Neuenberg; UNWCC visit to Buchenwald

    (LIB 6133) Atrocity, Neuenburg, Germany, April 29, 1945. Seq: Civilian population gathers for reburial of slave laborers killed by the German SS troops. Wooden coffins are carried by women and men to lawn of government building. CUs, faces and bodies of murdered victims. VS, procession of men carrying bodies in open coffins marches through streets. (LIB 6114) Buchenwald Concentration Camp, near Weimar, Germany, April 26, 1945. Seq: United Nations War Crimes Commission officers visit camp site. Group tours camp. Included in those photographed are Mr. Oldham, Australia; Mr. Stavropoulos, Gree...

  17. Food conservation leaders in US

    Part 3: US will eat less to feed Germany. Shows food conservation leaders: Hoover, Truman, Herbert Lehman, Henry Wallace, Eric Johnston, and Henry Luvce. Sec. Anderson asks America to help. Unrelated footage: Part 1: Shanghai Hails Chiang Kai-shek: Chiang deplanes, is greeted by Gen. Wedemeyer, and cheered in the city; Part 2: Gen. Homma Sentenced to Die: Japanese Gen. Homma is tried and sentenced to death by the US Military Commission in Manila; Part 4: US Soldiers go Skiing in Japan: Soldiers ski at the 8th Army Enlisted Men's Rest Center on Honshu Island (Japan); Part 5: Giant Machine Bu...

  18. People with disabilities and heredity

    Nazi propaganda film -- Aufklaerungsfilm [Instructional film] -- depicting life on earth as a permanent struggle for food, reproduction, and survival between strong and weak animals. This analogy is extended to the sphere of human beings, in which the survival of the Aryan race is threatened by 'hereditary' phenomena like mental disabilities and criminality. Allowing those considered "unworthy of living" to live in "palaces" for the disabled and congenitally ill at the expense of the healthy living in shabby conditions perpetuates this sin against the laws of nature. Shows footage of extrem...

  19. Judge Brand & T. Taylor open Krupp case; defendants

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 10 (Krupp Case), Nuremberg, Germany, December 8, 1947. Profile shot of presiding judge James T. Brand opening the Krupp case. LS, defendants in dock. Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halback is on the far left followed by Loeser, Houdremont, Mueller, Janssen, Pfirsch, Ihn, and Everhardt. MS, Gen Telford Taylor, chief prosecutor, making the opening statement telling on what counts the defendants are guilty. Taylor gives a brief history of the Krupp concern and a resume of the Krupp family until the outbreak of WWI.

  20. Freezing experiments presented at Medical trial

    (Munich 480) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MLS Prosecutor Alexander Hardy speaking of the freezing experiment reports. MLS, Hardy reads a letter from Sigmund Rascher who writes of his work and asks for captured Russians to be used for freezing experiments. MS, defendants in dock.