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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Soldiers; Munich Pact

    667 KK (09:01:12): Hilly countryside. Underground bunker with barbed wire. Group of soldiers going underground with rifles. Beds. Removing gear. Shaving, barechested. Pouring water from large bucket (preparing food?). Ladder. Switchboard. Nazi Party Rally. German horses, tanks, boats, submarines, planes. 667 MM (09:03:44) Heston Airport with Chamberlain leaving for Munich. Cabinet members at airport. 03:36:44 Plane taking off. 03:37:02 London street scenes, sandbagging. Marines jumping off truck. 03:38:08 Mussolini arriving with Adolf Hitler, entering hall where Munich Pact was signed. 03:3...

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees; Jewish shelter; London, England

    Jewish shelter on Mansell Street, Whitechapel, London, England. Permanent institution for helping poor Jews, housing approximately 120 refugees (mostly Austrian). Dining hall, crowded, free meals. Adolph and Sarah Michaelson, the Superintendant and Matron of the shelter from about 1912 until 1940, appear in this sequence (Adolph is the gentleman with the mustache standing at 06:01:13 and at right at 06:01:35. Sarah wears a lace collar in the doorway at 06:02:40. Their daughter, Esther (known as Elsie, b. 1915), is the third serving person in a white coat who comes into the dining room at 06...

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Ruins/memorials in Warsaw

    LS, MS Polish sculptor Xawery Dunikowski carving clay for a monument to the Silesian insurgents. CU, the number 744 tattooed on his left arm (from Auschwitz). Dunikowski chiseling marble with a cigarette. LS, MS Monument to the Unknown Warrior with guard parading, some ruins in BG. MS, grave covered with flowers. MS, a marble slab fixed on a pillar with the names of the great battles in which Polish soldiers took part in the West. MS, another slab with the names of the German-Russian campaign. MS, soldier parading. LS, Warsaw with people, trams. LS, Russo-Polish monument with flowers at the...

  4. Peace leadership speech by Lange

    Audio recording of David Lange's speech after accepting the Distinguished Peace Leadership award. Annually, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation gives the prestigious distinguished peace leadership award to an individual who has demonstrated dedicated and courageous leadership in the causes of peace. In 1988, Hon. David Lange, the prime minister of New Zealand, received the award for his country's anti-nuclear status.

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Reconstruction of war-damaged properties; refugees

    Reconstruction of Czech Tunnel and Bridge (Czech Newsreel material - Lavender) Optical shots of Czech workmen standing around looking at the camera. Pan to silent factories and smokestacks. LS line of Czechs in food queue, dissolving to shots of refugees returning to their homes, on foot and in wagons. Several shots of same, dissolving to man pasting poster on wall intended to get men to work repairing war damaged properties. Other posters. Men, women, and children, carrying shovels on their shoulders go to work. LS mob of men and women over hillside, dissolve to workmen clearing up debris ...

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

    Calling card for Edith Fraenkel/Hamburg 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.

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

    Reel 6 starts with Maria and Nettelbeck looking down at Friedrich's body. Outside, the battle continues to rage. As large numbers of French soldiers march toward Kolberg, Gneisenau discusses the overwhelming odds with Nettelbeck. He suggests that they surrender. Nettelbeck tells Gneisenau how much Kolberg means to the people who live there. He falls on his knees and begs Gneisenau not to surrender. Gneisenau hugs Nettelbeck and tells him that now they can die together. As the battle continues, the French debate whether they should halt their attack on the city, in light of the peace negotia...

  8. An Unknown World, Stories of Jewish Family Life of Judae Eine Unbekannte Welt...

    Contains a book entitlted "Eine Unbekannte Welt," published in 1907 by Laenger & Friedberg, Frankfurt am Main, about stories of Jewish family life.

  9. Interview of prisoners, Dachau

    (LIB 6557) Interview of Prisoners, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MCUs, American officer (off screen) interviews prisoners of different nationalities including Dr. Mieczyslaw (Mietek) Dortheimer, Mr. Baum, Edmond Michelet and Prof. Popovitch (Yugoslavian). Each relates in English his experiences at the camp and the conditions which led to their being taken prisoners.

  10. Keith Suter interviewed by Clare McNamara

    Interview with Keith Suter. Host: Clare McNamara Suter discusses war crimes, Nicaragua, South Africa, economic sanctions, atomic diplomacy, and conflict resolution.

  11. Krupp family at rally; Krupp firm; Portraits unveiled; Goebbels visits Krupp works

    Reel 2: 07:01:22 "1 May 1934, Jubilee" Members of the Krupp family attend a Nazi rally in Berlin. 07:03:00 "Nazi officials visiting the Krupp Firm" Soldiers marching, holding flags with swastikas, delivering speech, distributing Hitler's book, "Mein Kampf." 07:03:50 "Dedication of Hitler painting at Krupp's Institute for Physical Research" Unveiling of portraits of Hitler and Bismarck. Shots of officials talking, Krupp leaving. Chamber music group playing, audience members and speakers salute both pieces. Unveiling portrait of Bismark and bust of Hitler in a meeting room. 07:07:32 "Goebbels...

  12. Jews at UNRRA camp in Austria

    Displaced persons, UNRRA. Signs in Hebrew. At right, sign reading "UNRRA DP camp Admont." Several scenes of Jews marching with picks and shovels. LS, camp, tending crops, hoeing, women washing (various shots). MCU, four men walking on dirt road, UNRRA official? UNRRA officers caring for children. School children, teenagers sitting at desks outside, teacher writes on blackboard: "We hope to go to Palestine" in English and Hebrew. Couple looking at announcement board. CU, man sitting on steps.

  13. Atrocities: Ohrdruf; Nordhausen; Buchenwald

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 393, Part 1. Release date, 04/26/1945. Scenes of atrocities: (Ed Herlihy commentator) "Helpless prisoners tortured to death by a bestial enemy...Here is the truth!" Freed US POWS at side of road cheering on tanks as they go by. Boy smiles. MCU, POWs get soup from big tureen. CU, in line, medical aid. Group MS. Bandaging a man's back, covering up a bloody calf wound, shoulder/back wound. Soldier in bed helped to sitting position by two nurses, view from behind showing emaciated back. LS, Hadamar cemetery from above; one grave among many being dug. CU and MLS,...

  14. Ferencz lecture: Rotary Club of Toronto

    Ferencz speaks about his book "Less Than Slaves" (1979) that explains how German industrialists could become accomplices to the exploitation of people for the sole purpose of working them to death. He discusses the principles established at Nuremberg, including the crime of aggressive war and crimes against humanity, and expresses his hope for an international criminal court. Three essential mechanisms that would reverse the "international anarchy" of today and provide a world for all humans to live in peace and dignity are laws, courts, and a system of effective enforcement. He stresses th...

  15. Poster

  16. US airlift; German law; Attlee; Pres. Morrison; Marshall Plan; Wilhelmstrasse Trial (Ministries Case)

    World in Film issue no. 205: 08:11:54 "10,000 Tonnen in 24 Stunden: Der Rekordtag der Luftbruecke" 10,000 tons a day, Record for Airbridge. US airlift 08:13:00 "Frankfurt: Einigung ueber das Grundgesetz" Agreement on German Basic Law. World in Film issue no. 198: 08:14:02 "Attlee in Berlin" World in Film issue no. 204: 08:16:04 "Lord Praesident Morrison in Deutschland" Lord President Morrison in Germany. Dr Reuter and Gen Robertson and others in BG. MS, Morrison signing the Golden Book of the city of Berlin. Sequence: Morrison and party watching steel processing in Ruhr plant. 08:17:19 "Ein...

  17. Oral history interview with Philip Fried

  18. Levine Collection

    Contains prewar family photos for an unknown family, some dating as early as 1917; a postcard to Karl Oberndorf in New York, from "Erna," postmarked January 26, 1938; a postcard addressed to Isaak David in Heppenheim, Germany; a menu from a wedding party for Isaak Oberndorf of Heppenheim, dated August 12, 1889; a small book of amateur photogrpahy instructions bearing the handwritten bname Karl Oberndorf of Heppenheim; and a German "Kennkarte" for Kurt (Israel) Heimann, issued in Hamburg 15 December 1938.

  19. Oral history interview with Susan Cernyak-Spatz

  20. Oral history interview with Henry Laskau