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  1. 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...

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

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

  10. 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).

  11. 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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  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. Oral history interview with Sender Lipfield

  16. US publishers visit Weimar and Rheims

    US Publishers and Editors Visit Weimar, Germany and Rheims, France, April 24, 1945. Seq: Newspapermen greeted by Brig. Gen. Frank A. Allen at airport and are taken on tour of Buchenwald concentration camp. CU, Gen. Omar N. Bradley at his headquarters. Seq: Newspapermen visit prisoner of war enclosure and Cathedral at Rheims, France. MSs, visitors greeted by Gen. Bradley and other officers.

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- President Benes at his desk

    President Edouard Benes at his Desk. Several angles and takes of Edouard Benes, President of Czecho-Slovak Republic, at desk. Benes reads statement (prepared for The March of Time) in three languages (English, French, Czech). Benes speaks about the Czechs reorganizing their country so that it may take its traditional place in Central Europe as a factor for peace in the United Nations Organization.

  18. Pacific activities on Okinawa, Iwo Jima, and Manila harbor

    Secret Staff Film Reports, US War Department. "Pacific -- Activities on Okinawa" Marines advance on Okinawa, flushing Japanese civilians (women and children) from caves. Japanese planes are downed by planes and ships in heated battle. 06:07:20 "Pacific -- Iwo Japs in Dawn Sortie" Japanese attack American tent camp on Iwo Jima. US Marines fought back, killing 300 Japanese in two hours. 06:08:26 "Pacific -- Mop-Up in Manila Harbor" In the Philippines, engineers lay pipe from an LCM onto Caballo Island; oil is pumped through and ignited to rout underground Japanese troops. A similar action tak...

  19. French liberation: Resisting Germans; de Gaulle

    Reel 3: Armed tanks and infantry rout resisting Germans from the Arc de Triomphe. General de Gaulle addresses the populace and places a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

  20. Panel discussion with Taylor, Ferencz, Drinan, and Dershowitz

    Panel discussion: The Significance of Nuremberg, Principles and Precedents. Speakers include Telford Taylor, Benjamin B. Ferencz, Father Drinan, and Alan Dershowitz. Boston College Law School. Taylor discusses the judicial process as a step in the direction of an ordered world and peace (in his view, this was "the most significant accomplishment of Nuremberg"). Ferencz claims the fundamental principles established as a result of the Nuremberg judgments are a) aggressive war is a crime; b) crimes against humanity; c) head of state is responsible under law. Ferencz argues that the elaborate r...