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  1. 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.

  2. 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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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...

  8. 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.

  9. 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...

  10. 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 ...

  11. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

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

  12. 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...

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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...

  19. 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...

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