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  1. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 485) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. VAR, Walter Neff testifies on the use of prisoners in experiments.

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

    Reel 3 opens to find Mayor Nettelbeck sitting at a large table with his advisers. He reads an ultimatum he has received from the French. While some of the councillors recommend capitulation, Nettelbeck again argues that they must stand and fight, and he delivers a patriotic refusal to surrender to the French envoy. Napoleon is furious when he hears of the tiny city's insolence and promises that Kolberg will be taken without pity for its inhabitants. Back in Kolberg, the members of the Werner family celebrate a somber New Year's Eve with Nettelbeck and Schill. Nettelbeck laments the fact tha...

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jews in New York City

    Jewish section, NYC. LS Jewish street, Jewish Daily Forward building. LS Jewish street, The Day Newspaper office. CU books on stand. CU newspaper stand. LS Jewish street, CU man at cart.

  4. Global Structures Convocation panel discussion on security council reform

    Panel Discussion: "Security Council Composition Reform Proposals" Global Structures Convocation, Crystal City, VA. February 3-6,1994. (tape 35 in conference series) Panelists include: Sohn (provides an opening background), Scwartzberg (delivers his proposal), Childers (comments on proposal and subject), Ferencz (comments and delivers his proposal). The moderator is Ved Nanda. Ferencz boldly evaluates the present-day Security Council, calling it "tremendously ridiculous." He is outraged at the arrogance involved and the veto power provided. His modification and proposal allows the Security C...

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Atrocities at Ohrdruf; Trial

    07:12:43-07:16:04 Atrocities at Ohrdruf, Germany. MS of civilians, and captured Nazi officials get off truck. CU German officer with a Red Cross armband on his sleeve near jeep. Pan shot of same officer joining other German civilians and officials outside slave labor camp. LS Germans tour camp, looking at bodies of dead inmates lying on ground. Germans listen as American officer reads atrocity story to them. CU officer reading. Closer shots of dead bodies. German official shakes head. American officer urges them enter shed containing other bodies. German officer with cross armband tries to ...

  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. Global Structures Convocation panel discussion on global peace

    Panel Discussion: "Global Peace Conference" Global Structures Convocation, Crystal City, VA. February 3-6,1994. (tape 33 in conference series) Panelists include: Patricia Chuse (president of the Center for International Cooperation), Benjamin Ferencz, Taneka Moore (international youth coordinator for the Association for Global Peace Conference), Avon Madison (president of Pathways to Peace), and Denton Musselwhite. The moderator is Walter Hardaway. Panelists discuss developing a Global Peace Conference where nations can sit down and discuss conflict and peace resolution. They propose change...

  8. Imhoff Camp for Women

    (LIB 1262) Imhoff Camp for Women, Germany. MCUs, three women prisoners of concentration camp relate their experiences as slave laborers for the Nazis. MS, American Red Cross representative speaks to the three women, telling them of the help they will receive and of the new camp which will house them.

  9. Scheldt Islands; Eisenhower; liberation of Bucharest; Yugoslavia and Tito

    02:01:43 "Allies Clear Scheldt Islands" Allied troops invade the Scheldt Islands. 02:03:22 "Eisenhower honors Allied Air Chiefs"General Eisenhower honors General Spaatz and British Generals Arthur Harris and Leigh-Mallory. 02:04:05 "Bucharest Liberated" Citizens of Bucharest cheer liberating Russian troops. 02:05:32 "Balkan Patriots Aided by Allies" Yugoslav patriots receive supplies by air. They drill and are reviewed by Marshall Tito. Wounded patriots are evacuated.

  10. German campaign in France and Britain; Churchill; Egypt

    Reel 6 shows scenes of the French campaign, including the evacuation of children from Paris and the formal surrender. Britain is attacked: ships are sunk. London, Plymouth and Coventry suffer bombings. Churchill rallies his people. Malta is bombed. Troops fight in Egypt. Haile Selassi is restored.

  11. Efforts to combat antisemitism

    Documentary on efforts by a teacher and the YMCA to combat antisemitism among children. Sixth-grade boys in New Haven, CT refuse to play with a Jewish boy; teacher asks help from male secretary of the New Haven YMCA; YMCA forms a boy's club, open to everyone; boys finally become good friends.

  12. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 277) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, July 9, 1946. Harry Tome of the prosecution being cross-examined concerning the beating of German prisoners during their interrogation at Schwabisch Hall. Capt. Raphael Schumacher, of the prosecution being cross-examined. MCU, Lt. Col. Burton J Ellis cross-examining Schumacher.

  13. Ebensee concentration camp (survivors and soldiers); Generals meeting

    (B-1205) Concentration Camp, Ebensee, Austria, May 8, 1945. MCU, body placed in furnace of crematorium. CU, naked corpse (pan of body from feet to head). MSs, CUs, men unloading cart of corpses, carrying bodies into crematorium on stretchers. Mountain range in BG. Two boys in uniforms sleeping on bench with luggage between them. MS, three men unloading bread from truck into building. LS, EXT, storage, former prisoners and Allied guards milling about, guarding door with guns. Priest talking to soldiers. LS, Vista/landscape. MS, CUs, several naked, starved inmates too weak to walk or move bei...

  14. Landsberg; German surrender delegation; V-E day in London

    (LIB 6264) Jewish Atrocity Camp, Landsberg, Germany, April 30, 1945. MSs, CUs, emaciated bodies of murdered Jews lying on the ground. Long pan, camp area showing guard towers, barracks building and barbed wire fence. MSs, CUs, other bodies of victims in woods. (LIB 6285) German Surrender Delegation, Haar, Germany, May 5, 1945. INTs, surrender conference. Gen Jacob L. Devers, CG, Sixth US Army Group says, "This is an unconditional surrender," while seated at table with German and US officers. US Generals included in delegation are: Lt Gen Alexander M. Patch; Lt Gen Wade H. Haislip; Maj Gen J...

  15. Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center

  16. Decree regarding the use of public transportation by Jews... Broadside announcing travel restrictions for Jews

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

  17. German invasion, occupation of Low Countries

    Reel 3: German troops invade Holland, cross the Maas, cycle thru a village, capture Fort Eben Emael using flamethrowers. German troops guard Belgian and Dutch POWs, cross the Albert Canal, advance with tanks, dig fox holes, eat, man tanks and fire artillery. German planes bomb allied positions. Maps the German advances in Belgium and Holland. Shows the formal Dutch surrender and masses of German vehicles.

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  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Synagogue in Czechoslovakia; peasants

    1150 Y: Prague, Czechoslovakia, October 3, 1946 (?). INTs, Jews worshipping in the Synagogue of Prague. MS, the rabbi opens the ark and takes out the Torah which is shown to the worshippers. LS, same as MS above. MS, Jews worshipping the Torah. The rabbi enters the center of the synagogue where the Torah is placed on a table. He opens it. MS, the rabbi opening the Torah for the ceremony. CU, the rabbi opening the Torah and demonstrating it, wide open, to the worshippers. LS, Jews leaving the synagogue after the ceremony. NOTE: The American Jews gave a Torah to the Czech Jews in Prague. This...

  20. Nazi atrocities; surrender

    06:12:46 Reel 2: "Activities in European Theater of Operations" In Germany, Schweinfurt citizens gather in courtyard. Confiscated art, belongings, etc. German male civilians march in columns in streets to be screened by US counter-intelligence. Cached gold and art treasures emoved from Merkers salt mine. Nordhausen citizens loot shops, walk through streets, stopped by armed US soldiers, forced to surrender stolen goods. French POW camp in Seurst, Germany. The liberated wave out of three story building windows, give hugs, pats, and kisses to liberating soldiers, large crowd, US and French ra...