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  1. 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...

  2. War Crimes Commission: Breendonck, Hanover, Arnstadt Concentration Camps

    "Breendonck" Views of Breendonck camp in Belgium. EXTs of prison used to house Belgian patriots. Blood-stained coffins are exhibited as evidence of brutality Inmates demonstrate the methods used against the prisoners, such as beatings with barbed wire poles, chaining them into a vise, thumb screws. Victims reveal results of beatings and cigarette burns; a woman also reveals scars on her hips. "Hanover Concentration Camp" General views of the camp where only 200 remained of 10,000 Poles. INTs of the camp, few remaining inmates mill about. VS, Red Cross clubmobiles enter, issue hot soup, ciga...

  3. Aerial views of Berlin devasted by bombs & shelling

    Aerial views from plane flying over severely bomb damaged Berlin, including shots of damage to marshalling yards, airstrip, and factories. Long travelling shot with clear views of buildings, housing, and ground from plane. More of other city areas, flying lower. Bomb craters on ground along canal or river. Flying lower over bomb damaged Berlin zoo, showing empty cages.

  4. Buchenwald; bombing of countryside

    Slate: "Mainzer / SFP 186 / Buchenwald / Roll MM-8 / 4-16-1945". MS, shirtless thin man sitting against red barn wall at Buchenwald camp. Another man, older with a shirt on. German civilians walking inside camp, forced to confront the atrocities. Two inmates in striped uniforms seated on a bench against barracks. Civilians walk through an opening in wooden barricade/wall. Slate: "Mainzer / SFP 186 / Buchenwald / Roll MM-9 / 4-16-1945". Pile of corpses with barracks in background. Bodies on flatbed, faces, feet, from various angles. German civilians touring the camp, survivors peering over w...

  5. Star of David badge with Juif printed in the center

  6. Jewish children return home

    "Going Home", Weimar, Germany, June 5, 1945. MSs, CUs, Jewish orphans boarding train and some saying goodbye; train pulls out as children wave from windows. LSs, MSs, CUs, Jewish flag hanging from train window. CU, signs on side of train. "Going Home", Buchenwald, Germany, June 5, 1945. LSs, MSs, Polish, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian and Jewish orphans board train with their belongings. CUs, of individual children. MCUs, children looking out of window of train. Jewish flag hangs beneath window. LSs, MSs, signs hanging from train: "Vive Truman, Stalin, Churchill"; and in French: "Our beginning ...

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Masaryk; Prague; destruction

    VSs, the late Thomas G. Masaryk, father of Czechoslovakia, at his desk signing a document presented to him by his secretary, Dr. Samal. MSs, CUs, same as above. CU, Masaryk talking with Edvard Benes. VSs, Masaryk in his library. HAS, pan of Prague. Pan, Prague Square with statue in picture at all times. Tracking shots of streets of old Prague. HASs, bridges in Prague. Tracking shots, statues in Prague. Tracking shots, street scenes in Prague. HAS, part of the city. MS, people walking on the street. LS, city, wipes to HAS of park. MS, from rear, people on park bench. LS, city, wipes to LS of...

  8. War crimes in Herzenheim

    (B-1190) War Crimes, Herzenheim, Germany, May 10, 1945. LSs, MSs, German civilians digging up bodies in concentration camp. CUs, bodies of men, women and children showing signs of violent death. EXTs, concentration camp buildings, crude and filthy interiors. CU, corpses laid out in field. INTs, camp buildings. CU, naked female corpses laid out. VS, Men burying corpses.

  9. March of Time -- outtakes -- Germany invades Austria; Vienna

    NAZI CONQUEST- AUSTRIA, Vol 4.9, 1938. Hitler entering Austria, March 13, 1938. German army trucks on the Ring, Vienna's most important street; crowds, Kurt Schuschnigg's house. LS, Mariahilferstrasse, street where most Jewish stores are located. Hitlerjugend parading; poster with Kurt Schuschnigg's picture; swastika flags and banners. Policemen and newsboys. Nazi war veterans marching. Reisebüro MITROPA - HAPAG (Travel agency MITROPA - HAPAG.) Crowd on the Ring. Officers marching. Hitler's picture. Chancellor's Palace. Opera House. Parade of German troops in the Ring at night. General Keit...

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- US Embassy in Paris: Ambassador's office; Office of Counselor

    665 P: Using Camereclaire: US Embassy, Ambassador's Office. (Sequence depicting daily morning routine.) Ambassador William C. Bullitt enters office, sits at desk, rings for personal secretary Carmel Offie, lights Camel cigarette. Offie enters with cables and mail, converses with Ambassador. Ambassador reads mail. CU Ambassador at desk, talking on phone with Minister of Finance Marchandeau, reading Embassy document addressed to French Foreign Office, signing document, standing at bay window overlooking Place de la Concorde, talking with First Secretary and Acting Consul General Robert D. Mur...

  11. Nazi swastika armband acquired by an American soldier

    The armband was removed from a dead German soldier by the fiancé of Leslie Finch's mother. He sent the armband to his fiancé from Europe while serving in the US Army during WWII. He died in Europe.

  12. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee

    Calling card for Stefany Hammerschidt found in the autograph album, 1994.53.6.1, owned by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  13. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy; Jaeger testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    02:01:20 (Munich 194) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, March 23, 1946. HSs, Camp Dachau. LS, entrance of War Crimes court building. LS, bunker in which defendants are quartered. 02:02:03 (Munich 206) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, June 3, 1946. Justices Parker, De Vabre and Falco. Dr. Robert Servatius, counsel for Sauckel, questions Dr. Max Wilhelm Jaeger. MSs, von Ribbentrop and Keitel; MP standing at left; Sauckel in BG. Pan, from prisoners' dock to Dr. Jaeger testifying. MS, two attorneys of the Russian staff at table. MS, Jacques Herzog, member of the French prosecuti...

  14. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 167) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 24, 1945. MS, military defense counselor questions Lt. Perl about the interrogation cells used by War Crimes Branch. Lt. Perl answering the questions. Mr. Elowitz, civilian employee of War Crimes Branch, wearing uniform, is questioned about prisoner Hermann Priess. MCU, Gen. Josiah T. Dalbey on bench approves numbering of documents for evidence. MLS, prisoner is sworn in and questioned about his background. MLS, another prisoner is questioned by Lt. Col. Barton J Ellis. Prisoner is asked to identify defendants. As Col Ellis calls ...

  15. Displaced Russians; Release of Prisoners of War

    (LIB 6780) Displaced Russians, Ohrdruf, Germany, May 22, 1945. MSs, CUs, Russian soldiers, using US 2 1/2 ton trucks, transport Russian DPs from camp. CUs, individuals with bundles board trucks. LS, huge crowd waiting for transportation. (LIB 6781) Release of Prisoners of War, Plauen, Germany, May 21, 1945. MSs, German prisoners in front of administration building. Seq: Camera follows the complete processing of an individual soldier as he has his papers stamped, undergoes physical examination, receives money allowance and discharge papers. Cut to uniformed soldier meeting his wife and child...

  16. German campaign in Poland; trooops; Danzig

    Summary: The German viewpoint of events prior to and during the Polish campaign. Reel 4: German cavalry and motorized infantry advance. Civilians greet German columns. Armor advances through flaming ruins. An informer points out a Pole accused of war crimes. The Schleswig-Holstein shells Danzig.

  17. William Malsh papers

    The William Malsh papers consist of letters his parents sent him from Düsseldorf describing their hopelessness and their efforts to escape Nazi Germany. Coded language in letters from November and December 1938 refers to Paul Malsch’s imprisonment in Dachau, letters from summer 1939 document work William expected to receive from Carl Laemmle, letters from the spring of 1940 reflect his parents' reaction to news of his engagement, and an October 1941 letter reveals their expectation that they would shortly be moving to an unknown location. Additional correspondence with his uncles Ernst and ...

  18. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 250) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, June 20, 1946. Former German Col. Joachim Peiper (#42) reading notes on witness stand about his treatment while being held as a prisoner by the Poles. CU, Peiper reading notes. MS, two German attorneys for the defense whispering to each other during trial. (Part of film showing Peiper testifying is out of focus.) MS, Lt. Col. Dwinell, counselor for the defense, as he conducts a cross-examination of Peiper (latter not in scene). MS, Peiper, back to camera, pointing to area on map which he covered during his encounter with US troops in ...

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Exhumation of bodies from Terezin and Karlovy Vary camps

    (Czech Newsreel Material) MLS, exhumation of victims' bodies (Czech patriots) from Terezin and Karlovy Vary prison camps. HASs, POWs working in graves exhuming bodies. One POW prominently featured wears a jacket that has a large swastika painted on the back. VSs, bodies being lifted out of graves for identification. CU, pant leg of a POW exhuming bodies, the letters "SS" are crudely painted on the pant leg. VSs, bodies being placed on wooden platforms for doctors' identification. Doctors wearing rubber gloves identifying the dead. Field of coffins, lined in neat rows, in one shot the white ...

  20. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 167) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 24, 1946. First witness for the prosecution, US Army Lt Wiiliam R Pearl, interrogator for the War Crimes Branch, identifies Gen Joseph Sepp Dietrich. Pearl tells about his interview with Dietrich who told him how he was kicked in the back by a Polish guard. Pan, map of the Malmedy campaign as Lt. Col. Barton J. Ellis, Chief Prosecutor, tells of the killing of American and Allied prisoners by men of the SS Panzer Regiment. Pan, approx 75 prisoners in dock as Ellis reads the charges. CU, Col. Ellis reading charges.