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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Germans arrive in Sudetenland; Sudeten refugees

    Big crowd mourning, (German) women in tears, talking; Nazi speaker heard. People in courtyard silently heiling. Pan, women cries as she heils. Sad faces of children and women boarding streetcar. Men on bicycles rush down street, men with QF ruined room. Border, gate going up, grinning Nazis on horseback go through. Lots of marching Nazis, heiling (hesitant). Nazis on carts, peasant women, flowers, heiling on cue, others being taught to heil. CU, elderly woman watches and does nothing. Goering with children. SS feeding people in square. Families standing together for camera, looking happy. F...

  2. Ferencz interviewed by Morris B. Abram

    Radio interview with Benjamin Ferencz. Host: Morris B. Abram, former president of the American Jewish Committee and US Representative to the UN Commission of Human Rights. Program presented by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Ferencz speaks about his book on Jewish forced labor during World War II, "Less Than Slaves" (1979). He describes the Nazi program of Vernichtung durch Arbeit [destruction through work], German industry, victims' guilt of employment, the 1951 McCloy clemency act, and the search for reparations for victims. Ferencz argues that most German industrialists denie...

  3. Army film continues with Willkie, Hull, and the attack on Pearl Harbor

    Orientation Film no. 7, Reel 7. International events cause the US to enter into World War II. They fire at a US submarine and it explodes. Newspaper headlines read, "U.S. Ship Torpedoed," "S.S. Lehigh Sunk," "U-Boat Attacked!" and others. An American flag floats in the water. Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War, gives a speech saying, "If today, our Navy should make secure the seas for the delivery of our munitions to Great Britain, it will render as great a service to our country and to the preservation of American freedom as it has ever rendered in all its glorious history." Wendell Wilkie...

  4. Morris Lore photographs

    Consists of 29 photographs of various scenes, including Heinrich Himmler talking to German officers, Hitler talking to officers, a group of civilians being deported (photographs are stamped "Friedrich Franz Bauer," photographs of German military troops and movements, and liberation photographs from an unknown concentration camp. Many of the photographs of the civilians are large portraits of the faces of individuals.

  5. Eva Braun & family on holiday cruise

    Reel 3B of the private motion pictures of Eva Braun (Seized Enemy Records). B/W. Scenes in a mansion. Water, mountains, people. Eva Braun and companions on board a large steamer at sea, probably the ship Milwaukee, during a trip to Norway and Denmark. COLOR. Woman walking down street, stops in front of window of Hamburg-Amerika Line. Reflection of Eva in window holding camera. Woman walking into salon, getting out of car. B/W. Group of men and women walking out to airplane in the rain. Markings on plane: D-ACVH. Getting onto plane. Scenes taken out window of plane while still on ground. COL...

  6. Struthof Concentration Camp after liberation

    "Struthof Concentration Camp" Pan of Struthof, barracks, barbed wire fence, base of watch tower. MS, soldier shakes iron grating over window. Soldier walks through (dark) gas chamber, enters through door. Dissection table, white marble (gully). Coffin/tray opened up by soldier. Gas oven (dark), pulls out tongs. Soldier examines urns (for ashes) that are stacked up on shelves. Additional unrelated footage contained in "Activities in European Theatre of Operations" produced by the US Army Signal Corps: Reel 1: 03:01:40 "9th Army Front" Aerial views of Juelich, Germany on September 3. Various ...

  7. US propaganda film on racial prejudice; Chinese peasants at work for US

    Film Communique - 12th issue. "Weapon of War" A US propaganda film "exclusive for the men and women of American industry." Animated cartoons showing Nazi efforts to spread dissension (racial and religious hatred) in the US. 09:18:08 "Great Floor of China" An airstrip is drained, surfaced, and tamped by Chinese peasants using primitive implements.

  8. Dried pressed flower brought to the US by an Austrian Jewish refugee

    Dried pressed flower 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.

  9. Army film detailing the history of the US

    Orientation Film no. 7, Reel 2. International events cause the US to enter into World War II. Dramatizes later European migrations to the US stressing the strength brought to the US by her immigrants. Shows luxury items (cars, radios, etc.) which contribute to US life. Depicts educational facilities, recreational activities (including many sport scenes), and prohibition era scenes.

  10. Reconstruction after WWI

    A documentary motion picture about Poland and its post WWI reconstruction. Shows war-ravaged country, caused by Russian-German conflict, to which Polish refugees return and try to make dugouts livable until they can rebuild homes. Friends Relief Mission provides harnesses and horses to haul wood for reconstruction, amd health care. Mission distributes Christmas gifts provided by Junior American Red Cross, and employs refugees thereby providing self-help.

  11. Ferencz lecture: Kean College

    First in a series of lectures by Benjamin Ferencz at Kean College, New Jersey. (Second lecture: RG-12.020*12). Ferencz speaks about the problems of our small planet, the difficulties for the environment, what progress has been made, and how people can curb hazardous habits and help the planet. He discusses the exploding population, dangerous consumption habits, and problems with disposal of waste. Besides education and awareness, Ferencz identifies the need to establish international law to control what happens to the planet. For example, he defines the Law of the Sea that determines who ca...

  12. Ferencz lecture: Fourth Freedom Forum

    Host: Jeff Richmond. Includes segments of interview with Benjamin Ferencz, among others. The Fourth Freedom Forum, an organization devoted to securing the fourth freedom (freedom from fear) through a worldwide reduction of armaments, developed this film to describe a new approach to defense: The Civilized Defense Plan. It creates a way of living that respects the lives of others and uses economic power to maintain world peace. Participants include: a) Lloyd J. Dumas, Professor of Political Economics, University of Texas; b) Carla Johnston, Executive Director of New Century Politics; d) Paul...

  13. Anschluss and Austrian enthusiasm

    Starting with a map showing the borders between Germany and Austria fading, this footage illustrates the occupation of Austria by German military forces on March 12, 1938 and the enthusiastic welcome by the Austrian population shouting 'Heil' and 'Hitler,' waving flags, and giving the Nazi salute. Special occasions include the crossing of the border at Kufstein, the destruction of the turnpike at Passau, the occupation of Salzburg and Graz, the fraternization between German and Austrian troops in Villach, and Hitler waving from a balcony in Linz. Most of the film is shot in Vienna, showing:...

  14. Hitler, high officials and entourage at the Berghof

    Reel 7 of the private motion pictures of Eva Braun (Seized Enemy Records). According to IWM shotlist, the following individuals appear in this footage: Gustl Schulze-Cossens, Karl Jesko von Puttkammer, Walter Hewel, Albert Bormann, Baldur von Schirach, Heinrich Hoffmann, Khalid al Hud, Martin Bormann, Wilhelm Brueckner, Dr. Theodor Morell, Fritz Wiedemann, Nicolaus von Below, Sepp Dietrich, Dr. Otto Dietrich, Hans Karl von Hasselbach, Arno Breker, Demetra Breker. COLOR. Title: "Wir gehen Gassi." Eva and her family with dogs on snow-covered road. Playing with dogs at a pond. Group seated aro...

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Joseph Kennedy; speech; scenes in US Embassy in London

    665 D Several men in office talking. Joseph P. Kennedy (US Ambassador to England) at his desk; four men gathered for discussion. Sync sound. Speech: "Gentlemen, we have to have, by Tuesday night -- I'm leaving on Wednesday for America -- a report on the British naval program...for me to take back to Washington....an outline of the various departments you represent. Try to arrange to have that by Tuesday night...a report on the British naval building program...and what they propose to do over the next year...." CUs, men. Various responses to Mr. Kennedy. Voice off screen: "Cut!" Kennedy: ".....

  16. German invasion of W. Europe; Paris, France

    Reel 5: German tanks advance. Stukas bomb Allied positions. Wounded tank crewmen receive aid. German trucks haul artillery. German troops cross the Rhine in rubber boats over pontoon bridges. German soldiers stuff grenades into their belts. German troops lay wire, and horses are pushed into water. Shows wrecked French tanks, French POWs, French troops in the Maginot Line. Panoramic views of the Maginot Line. French troops in the Line run, ride a subway, dance, eat and man communications equipment. Maps the German attacks on the Line in Paris. Also maps France and Britain's colonial empires ...

  17. Atrocities at Dachau

    (LIB 6573) Atrocities at Dachau, Dachau, Germany, May 3, 1945. MSs, CUs, starved prisoners scrambling for food in queue. MSs to CU, emaciated prisoner is helped toward camera by two other inmates. MSs, CU, Jewish boy, a prisoner in various camps for four years, playing an accordion. Pan, men in line, some with hands raised in air. CUs, valves and fixtures in gas execution chamber. CU, nude bodies of victims. CU, can of cyanide powder. MSs, inmates cooking around small fires. MCU, an inmate scrapes food from pan. CU, young inmate spoons soup from bowl. CUs, faces of former inmates. Full scre...

  18. War Crimes Trials: I.G. Farben Case

    Otto Ohlendorf testifying, most likely in Munich. Ohlendorf talks about his work in the SD-Inland and his role as leader of Einsatzgruppe D. Brief shot of Telford Taylor. This is likely footage of Case 6, the I.G. Farben Case.

  19. Truman with Chaim Weizmann

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 21, No. 147, Part 2A. Release date, 05/27/1948. President Truman greets Chaim Weizmann, leader of the new Jewish state in Palestine, and receives from him a Torah. The Israel President, hoping for lifting of arms embargo, later sails from New York on first leg of journey to the Holy Land. Unrelated newsreel footage follows this clip at: 01:53:51 "Sporting Highlights: Solons in Baseball Slugfest; British Soccer Champs Win"

  20. Nazi mythology

    As expressed by this film's subtitle, "Allegory of our History and Life," the German forest is a symbol for the German people. The film describes the intimate relationship between peaceful Germans and wood from the Germanic times of Arminius to the present. It draws an analogy between the vertical German tree and the upright German peasant-soldier. In contrast, the aggressive alien is shown as destroying beloved trees, thus destroying the German people. This mystical relationship between man and nature is grounded in the organic idea of a pure-blooded Volksgemeinschaft [ethnic-racial commun...