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  1. Slave labor camp liberated

    (LIB 6223) Slave Labor Camp, Flossenbruck [Flossenbuerg], Germany, April 30, 1945. Snow on ground in Cheb? MS, CU, banner on picket fence "Prisoners Happy End! Welcome!" CU sign "Arbeit Macht Frei" on concrete plaque by gate. CU, "Vorsicht Hochspannung Lebensgefahr." CU electrified barbed wire, guard towers, steel gates. Civilians standing outside. Horse-drawn cart with covered coffin and civilians moving through the gate. In Flossenburg, CU, four naked male survivors: two Jewish, one French, one Polish, with numbers tatooed on their chests. Pan down to feet (2 have pants pulled down). CU s...

  2. Dr. Lutz testifies at medical trial

    (Munich 480) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. CU, defense counsel Dr. Wille. LS, Dr. Wolfgang Lutz testifying on stand. Pan of courtroom during testimony of Lutz.

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees in Switzerland

    Jewish refugees in Zurich, Switzerland. All refugees at the camp are Austrians. VS of the kitchen with cooks at work. LS of the dining room with refugees helping themselves and eating. Mountains in BG, visible through window. Group of men and women carrying bags, etc, walking/escaping through the woods (set up/staged). LS of man peering through bush. VS of group arriving at camp and being welcomed by everyone. CU, man chopping wood and refugees arriving at camp. MS man and woman sewing and repairing clothes. Refugees waiting in line to have their name put on camp index cards. LS, refugees f...

  4. Oral history interview with Vered Cruthers

  5. Air attacks

    Staff Film Report no. 46; Combat Bulletin, no. 46. (with intertitles) Reel 3: A helicopter team removes valuable items from a wrecked bomber. Shows and describes the A-26 airplane. 08:39:49 "Pacific - Manila Clean-up" In Manila tanks and artillery fire across the Pasig River. The 129th Regiment crosses the river, machine guns the post office, and enters and fights in Intramuros (Feb. 23). The Legislative Building is attacked and entered by the 148th Regiment. Gen. MacArthur and President Osmefla visit the city and address the legislature.

  6. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

    One of a set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski

  7. 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...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- street scenes and pedestrians

    Life in Czechoslovakia, street scenes, urban life. VSs, monument of President Woodrow Wilson in park and traffic passing. Various shop windows with people looking in (grocery and butcher shops). City street, cars, streetcars, pedestrians. People reading newspapers in cases on the walls. Shop in Jewish quarter. Bata Shoe Co. store on the main street called Vaclavske, taken at night--neon sign of illuminated map showing London, Paris, New York, and Prague marked on it. VSs, buildings in old quarter of Prague. Building, churches, clocktower. Czech children on merry go-round, riding tanks and g...

  9. Honey cookie crumbs from a package sent by her parents to a Hungarian Jewish girl

  10. Martin M. West letter

    Contains a letter written by Sergeant Martin M. West of the U.S. Army's 4th Armored Division, to his family in the United States, dated June 11, 1945. The letter is written on the back of a handbill depicting corpses stacked at the Mauthausen concentration camp. Transcription letter: verso: black ink; "Helen return this back please./I want you to see it./June-11.-45/Dearest one an son/Hi kid will try an write you a few lines to night an let you know I am ok I know you waunt think mutch of the paper I am writing on But this is what I have seen that why I am writing on it I want to see for my...

  11. American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France

    An American propaganda film produced by the U.S. Office of War Information to educate US soldiers before going to France. Some scenes are staged. Reel 1: Allied troops and war material go aboard transports for the invasion of France. Soldiers (actors) discuss the war.

  12. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Stamping passports/visas, crowds

    01:01:15 568 S: Official at desk. Well-dressed men and women waiting to have their passports checked, visa?, immigration? Group of men standing/talking. Official recording passport information on a chart. Official at door checking eye color and visas. 01:05:18 568 U: Various shots of a group of men, waving hats. (staged)

  14. Program on war

    Presented by the National Film Board of Canada. Gwynne Dyer, a journalist, military historian, and officer of three Navies, presents his commentary on the evolution of modern war. Tape includes episodes 1, 4, 5, 6, 7. 1: "The Road to Total War," describes what war has become and traces the road that led the great powers to the concept of total war, 00:00:55 to 00:58:08. Director: Barbara Seals. Producer: Barbara Seals. Cinematographer: Bonnie Andrukaitis; Simon Leblanc; Michael Mahoney; Serge Lafortune. 4: "The Deadly Game of Nations," explains the reasons why people support governments tha...

  15. Oil fields in Italy, Hungary, Rumania

    Consists mostly of views of social and economic conditions in Italy, Hungary, the Danube, and Rumania. (with intertitles) NARA calls this story reel one, but the slate indicates that it is Part 2, and shows several oil fields in Italy: Naples, wells near the River Po and Montechino, Cento Pozzi, Venice (nice shots of gonodals on the Grand Canal), as well as the Hungarian market of Mezokovesa near Budapest, Hungary. A grain mill and oil barges on the Danube. An oil port in Giurgiu, Rumania. A view of Russe, Bulgaria on the river. Army encampments with irrigation and cultivation. Roma (?). A ...

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

    Reel 1 The opening title indicates that the film was written and begun in 1942 and that it is based on historical events. The first scene takes place in Breslau in 1813. General Wilhelm von Gniesenau bursts into the chambers of King Friedrich Wilhelm III and chastises him for refusing to enlist the citizenry to aid in the war effort against Napoleon. Gniesenau reminds the King of the perfomance of the citizens and especially the Mayor of Kolberg. The film flashes back to Vienna in 1806, where Franz II renounces his throne under the peace imposed by Napoleon. Veit Harlan, the director of Kol...

  17. Italian prisoners; war on Russian front; FDR; weapons

    Reel 7 shows Italian prisoners in Libya. Shows activities in Russia: Stalin confers with citizens, wheat is harvested, factories produce, soldiers and citizens gear to war. Shows General MacArthur in the Philippines and in Australia. President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act, U.S. industry turns out material of war, and military developments are increased in a total war campaign.

  18. German concentration camp in Holzen; destruction in German town

    (LIB 5215) German Concentration Camp, Holzen, Germany, April 8, 1945. LSs, soldiers of 329th Regiment, 83rd Division, near German concentration camp. CUs, Russian, Polish, Czech and Jewish prisoners behind barbed-wire fence. VS, undernourished prisoners. MS, internee picking lice from body of another internee. Officers and soldiers speaking with internees. 02:11:58 The newly liberated prisoner, Adriaan Thomson, with his hands clasped together talks to an American officer. MSs, officers leaving cave where French and Italian slave labor was employed making V-1 buzz bombs. (LIB 5216) Pockets, ...

  19. Oral history interview with Dorothy Finger

  20. US Army Air Force in Germany; Ohrdruf in flames; planes

    The clip that is viewable online is a selected excerpt from the complete story - timecode 09:04:04 to 09:10:07. Diving on bridge over river. P-47 dives on town. Strafing railroad, road, town. Large formation of P-47s in the air. MS, CU C-47 taking off. 09:04:04 MS German officers waiting evacuation. CU Hugo Sperrle, former chief of staff. MCU as officers climb into C-47 for evacuation. German officers. MS German prisoners awaiting air evacuation. MS as they board C-47. CU pilot and nose of C-47 as he turns over engine. MS A-20 buzzes and flies over field. 09:05:53 MS burning barracks ...