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  1. War Crimes Trials: Flick Case

    (Munich 543) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 5 (Flick Case), Nuremberg, Germany, 1947. Rear view, American prosecutor Telford Taylor reads the indictment and tells about the subjection of civilians and prisoners of war to slave labor. MS, Friedrich Flick, Otto Steinbrinck, and Konrach Kaletsch (right to left) listening to indictment.

  2. 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...

  3. Keith Suter interviewed on nuclear arms and peace

    Radio interview with Dr. Keith Suter from the Trinity Peace Research Institute. Host: Jenny ? 6UVS-FM Perth, Australia. Suter explains the importance of an American publication by US Armed Forces General Kidd, "Strategic Cooperation Initiative" (1990). Kidd argues that instead of going ahead with "starwars," Americans should opt for an alternative strategy which would emphasize cooperation with the Soviets. Suter received the book via mail from Benjamin Ferencz at the Peace Research Center at Pace University, NY. Suter continues to lecture on the campaign to end the arms race.

  4. Oral history interview with Jalmer A. Lake

  5. Gusen camp

    (B-1222) KZ Gusen, Austria, May 11, 1945. MSs, CUs, large pile of bodies and individual bodies at Gusen, a sub-camp of Mauthausen. MSs, CUs, weak, emaciated prisoners wandering in the camp. CUs, starved prisoners. MSs, inmates of women's section. CUs, starved, naked prisoners being cared for by other inmates. MSs, CUs, German SS troops pulling carts containing bodies. VS, bodies being gathered throughout camp area and loaded onto wagons. MSs, German civilians digging graves. HLS, pan, camp area showing barracks, barbed wire fences and guard towers. VS, liberated prisoners crowded in open fi...

  6. ANNOUNCEMENT Despite public warnings and the threat of execution... Announcement (Bekanntmachung) issued for the Lublin ghetto

    Ghetto announcement (Bekanntmachung) issued for the District of Lublin, Poland.

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Street scenes, singing/dancing in beerhouse

    Street scenes in Yorkville, New York ("Little Germany"). "Cafe Hindenburg." Pedestrians. "Barber shop" "Platzl Dance" "Rudi's and Maxl's Brau-Haus" Store windows. Newspaper stand. "86 St. Garden" theater with English titles. "Europe" theater. Ticket window. "Deutsche Plassen." INT, women and men dancing and singing, drinking beer, accordion, at table [with SOUND]. The crowd is singing Bavarian songs: "Ein Prost, ein Prost der Gemuetlichkeit" and "Wenn am Sonntagabend die Dorfmusik Spielt." Theater. Neon signs for delicatesen. EXT, "Brau-Haus." "86 St. Garden" Deli, CUs meats and cheeses.

  8. Keith Suter interviewed by Clare McNamara

    Interview with Dr. Keith Suter from the Trinity Peace Research Institute. Host: Clare McNamara Suter discusses immigration and the refugee program, United Nations reform, world citizenship, World Federation, Miskito Indians, and the US election.

  9. Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 100 kronen note, issued in German occupied Czechoslovakia

    Occupation currency note, valued at 100 kronen, issued in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in 1940. Germany occupied these Czech provinces in March 1939, and created the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia as part of the Greater German Reich. The Czech garrison town of Theresienstadt (Terezin) was located within the Protectorate near the extended German border.

  10. German campaign in Poland: Polish troops surrender; Hitler

    Summary: The German viewpoint of events prior to and during the Polish campaign. Reel 8: Polish troops surrender and are marched to the rear. German troops parade through the city. Hitler salutes bystanders and German troops.

  11. Identification tag from the crematorium at Buchenwald

    Tag issued under the Nazi regime to be used for identification purposes of a deceased victim.

  12. 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 ...

  13. 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).

  14. 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.

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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...

  20. 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,...