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  1. Memorial service at Buchenwald concentration camp; burials at Gardelegen

    (LIB 5903) Concentration Camp, Buchenwald, Germany, April 19, 1945. MS, CU, brass band. MSs, CUs, liberated prisoners in concentration camp marching at memorial ceremony for the 51,000 persons killed in the camp. CUs, liberated prisoners marching and carrying French, Polish and Russian flags. CUs, freed prisoner places wreath at foot of monument dedicated to those who died as victims of Nazi brutality. MS, effigy of Hitler hangs in front of camp building. MLS, speaker on platform at dedication ceremony. (LIB 5904) Burial at Gardelegen, Germany, April 22, 1945. Seq: Civilians of the town rem...

  2. Ferencz discusses war crimes and Sadam Hussein

    A BBC Production, aired March, 1991. Includes segments of interview with Benjamin Ferencz, among others. Program asks whether or not Sadam Hussein should be brought to justice. Ferencz speaks about enforcing the principles founded at the Nuremberg trials, including laws that define 1) planning and waging a war of aggression; 2) war crimes; and 3) crimes against humanity. In Sadam Hussein's case, these standards were violated and are going unpunished. He says that we cannot walk away from the horrors of Sadam, or else we will encourage more strife: "We should get serious about this!" Because...

  3. FDR's death; Nordhausen concentration camp

    (LIB 5407) Roosevelt's Death, London, England, April 13, 1945. CUs, three US soldiers in Grosvenor Square read headlines announcing the death of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt. MCUs, flags flying at half mast over US Embassy. CUs, US soldiers and British civilians reading papers in Leicester Square. VS, two soldiers look at paper enclosed in glass showing photo of Pres. Roosevelt and VP Harry S. Truman. LS, US and British flags at half-mast on other buildings of city. EXT shots, soldiers and civilians enter and leave Westminster Abbey. (LIB 5568) Concentration Camp, Nordhausen, Germany, April ...

  4. Hitler Youth

    The fifteen-year-old Johannes von Redel returns to his father's rural estate in Prussia after his mother dies. Johannes lived with his mother for ten years in Argentina, where he is portrayed as an urban, decadent, and fastidious Auslandsdeutscher [German living abroad] alienated from his German roots. After encountering trouble with his father, he enters a "Napola" [Nazi elite boarding school] where fellow students ridicule his alien customs and behavior. It is only after accomplishing a heroic deed during a military summer drill that he gains the comradeship of the elite pupils and is inc...

  5. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

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

  6. Docu-drama on the Nuremberg trials

    Stanley Kramer's docu-drama examining Nazism and the Nuremberg Trials.

  7. Background to German invasion of W. Europe

    Reel 1: German troops swear loyalty to Hitler. Shows panormaic views of the countryside, mountains, people harvesting crops, German cities, a cathedral, steel mills and coal mines. Shot of German colonial post and troop reviewing there. German troops advancing in WWI, and Generals Hindenburg and Ludendorff. Maps show powers arrayed against and allied with Germany in WWI, the extent of German advances and the effect of the Versailles Treaty on Germany's borders. Forts are demolished, cannon and hangars destroyed, ships scuttled and planes junked. German communists arouse crowds. Shows commun...

  8. 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...

  9. 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.

  10. 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...

  11. Oral history interview with Vered Cruthers

  12. 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.

  13. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

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

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

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

  17. 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...

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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)