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  1. Hitler's first speech as Chancellor, Berlin Sportpalast; Goebbels' speech continues before Hitler arrives

    Nazi party rally in the crowded Berlin Sportpalast on February 10, 1933. Goebbels' speech continues, to 06:09:45 Intertitle: Funkreportage von Dr. Goebbels [Radio Commentary by Dr. Goebbels] Goebbels voice is heard over scenes in the Sportpalast, of crowds, loudspeakers, SA men. He relates some of the same information given in his speech in previous reel, numbers of loudspeakers, statistics of the millions listening. 06:13:00 Hi angle and MS as Hitler and entourage enter the hall and come to the front Cheers and salutes from the crowd. 06:13:39 Drumroll (soft focus). 06:13:50 Goebbels annou...

  2. Holocaust experiences

    Heller's diary and biographical sketch describe his experiences in German-occupied Czechoslovakia and his experiences while an inmate of Dachau, Buchenwald, and Jaworzno concentration camps and on a death march.

  3. The conspiracy of the righteous the silence of the village of Prélenfrey-du-Gua saved the Jewish children and adults in 1944

    Contains information about the hiding of Jews during the Holocaust by the citizens of Prélenfrey-du-Gua, France, more specifically by the Guidi family, proprietors of the Les Tilleuls preventorium for tuberculosis patients. Also contains several articles relating to the Jews saved at Prélenfrey-du-Gua and recent photographs of the Les Tilleuls preventorium. Serge Klarsfeld provided a preface to the manuscript.

  4. Ferencz lecture: First Unitarian Congregation

    Lecture: "Peace, Planethood, and World Law: A Roadmap to the Future" First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Text scroll: "Benjamin Ferencz has dedicated a good portion of his life seeking a just and tranquil world society where all may live in peace and dignity, regardless of race or creed. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and saw active military service in World War II where he participated in the liberation of several Nazi concentration camps. At the age of 27, he became the chief prosecutor for the US in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial. During this trial he cr...

  5. Eisenhower, Patton at Feldafing; Purple Heart Awards

    (Paris 314) Generals Visit DP Camps, Wolfratshausen, Germany, September 17, 1945. Tracking (follow) shots, Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gen George S. Patton, Jr. and Maj Gen Louis Craig, CG, XX Corps, visit Feldafing Camp. CU, five star plate on car. Yiddish sign over door. Banner over entrance: Feldafing Camp. Generals' cars enter. To 04:21:13. Award of the Purple Heart to Men of the 21st Inf Regt, Philippine Army, Luna, Northern Luzon, Philippines, November 11, 1945. Pan, group of medals on table. LSs, men of the 21st Inf Regt, Philippine Army, parade across grounds. Various CUs, MCUs, offic...

  6. Army film showing US involvement in war from 1917 to 1938

    Orientation Film no. 7, Reel 3. International events cause the US to enter into World War II. A crane moves a large object. Aerial views of highways and tall buildings. People pour out of subway stations and masses walk along the street. Men, women and children walk into a church and various shots of them attending service. The narrator talks of war and how Americans "bend over backwards to avoid it." Cars pass on the street and a beach is crowded with people. A presumably dead body lies in a field and a few others float up to a desolate shore. 05:02:48 A tile card reads "1917." Several can...

  7. Struthof concentration camp; replacement training

    Concentration Camp, Struthof, Germany, December 2, 1944. LS, Pan, wire enclosed building of concentration camp. CUs, details of charged barbed wire fence. CUs, urns used for ashes of victims. Seq: US soldier examines crematorium, blood stained coffin, and gas chamber. CU, autopsy room. (Note: This camp was used by the Germans for political prisoners from Belgium and France.) Replacement Training, Alsdorf, Germany, December 3, 1944. MSs, soldiers of the 29th Division Replacement Training Center on obstacle course. Men advance across open field in attack formation. MSs, officers study maps of...

  8. Yalta Conference

    Reel 1: Generals Wood, Smith, Marshall, and Somervell deplane in Malta; British Gen. Alexander, Admirals King and Cunningham, Ambassador Harriman, and Anthony Eden debark from a ship. Churchill salutes as President Roosevelt debarks. The Allied leaders enplane for Yalta after a conference. Molotov greets FDR, Churchill, Stettinius, Eden, and Hopkins as they deplane in Yalta. A Soviet honor guard is inspected. Stalin arrives at the conference site.

  9. William E. Bracey collection relating to Nordhausen

    The collection relates to William E. Bracey's experiences during the liberation of Nordhausen (a.k.a. Dora-Mittelbau) and his subsequent interest in the camp and its inmates. It contains: two original and photocopies of black and white photographs of the Boelke Kaserne and other locations at Nordhausen, taken by unknown Allied soldiers, consisting primarily of pictures of dead inmates; photocopies of diary entries by Bracey from the time when he entered Nordhausen and of miscellaneous articles about Nordhausen, its liberation, and reunions of its liberators.

  10. The worm in the apple

    This memoir of the war period contains comments about the Nazi persecution of German Jews and the Nazi persecution and incarceration of political opponents; a description of his father's immigration to Norway; Askevold's military service in the Reichsarbeitsdienst and his activities in the German military during the incorporation of Austria and the Sudetenland into the Greater Reich and the German invasions and occupations of Poland, France, and the Soviet Union, in addition to the time he served as a prisoner of war.

  11. Holocaust recollections the stories of ten Hamiltonians who survived

    Describes the experiences of ten Holocaust survivors who settled in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Includes accounts of survivors who: survived Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen, the Warsaw Ghetto, Płaszów, Buchenwald, Terezin (a.k.a. Theresienstadt) Hungarian labor battalions, work camps in Silesia, and Aktionen; worked in factories where V-2 rockets and/or German ordnance was assembled; passed as gentiles and/or escaped the Nazis and their collaborators via other means; hid their children; and lost family members.

  12. The Diary of a Survivor

    The memoir details the separate lives of Herbert R. Ert and that of his father, Samson Reichstein. In addition to describing Ert's life in the United States, the memoir also describes Reichstein's simultaneous experiences in Nazi-occupied Europe. The author has indicated that, contrary to the text of the memoir, his mother died in Belzec, and not Bergen-Belsen, and that the Anne Frank which he mentions in his memoir was not the diarist. He mistook her for an adolescent of the same name.

  13. Lucien Dreyfus papers

    The Lucien Dreyfus papers primarily consist of five parts of a seven-part diary written by Lucien Dreyfus from 1940 to 1943. An intelligent and discerning man, Lucien used his diary to document his intellectual and social life as a refugee in the south of France, his observations on the rise of antisemitic laws and violence, his cardiac condition, his daughter’s family and their emigration to the United States, and his efforts to retrieve his confiscated property. The diary includes information about Lucien’s students, his opinions about the limited utility of assimilation in fighting antis...

  14. The family of Aryed-Leyb Fingerhut (Leo Gerut) father of Rosalie and Zachary Gerut

    A memoir compiled by Rosalie Gerut describing the experiences of her father, Aryed-Leyb (Leybl) Fingerhut, in Švenčionėliai, Lithuania, Siauliai,Lithuania, and Kremenchug, Soviet Union (currently, Ukraine); his interest in music and the Yiddish language; his work as a researcher for YIVO (Institute for Jewish Research) in Vilnius (currently Vilna, Lithuania); his memories of the German invasion of Lithuania in 1941; his life in the Shavl ghetto; his experiences as a forced laborer; his transfer to Stutthof concentration camp in 1944; his transfer to Lager 10 of Utting, a subcamp of Dachau c...

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Czech/Slovak collaborationist government; trial

    LS Tiso, ex-Prime Minister of Slovakia, reviewing line of German troops in Czechoslovakia, during the war. CU Tiso decorating German soldier. CU soldier shaking hands with Tiso and giving Nazi salute. LS ex-president Czechoslovakia, Hacha, being welcomed in Berlin's railroad station by Meissner of the Reichskanzlei. Hacha and group walking past line of German soldiers. MS group of Czech soldiers at attention. Car carrying Karl H. Frank and Wilhelm Frick entering castle gate of Lany, Czechoslovakia. Frick and Frank enter castle room, meet Hacha. Shots of collaborationist Czech government mee...

  16. US Army advances at Iwo Jima

    Staff Film Report no. 46; Combat Bulletin, no. 46. (with intertitles) Reel 4: 08:46:30 "Pacific - Ulithi Anchorage" Shows aerial views of many ships anchored at Ulithi Harbor in the Carolines. Shows activities at an emergency landing field on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines. Guerillas help fuel and hide planes. 08:48:41 "Pacific - Iwo Jima" Troops and supplies reinforce Iwo Jima under enemy fire. Carrier planes bomb the island; ships and artillery shell caves. Shows dead Japanese and the flag raising on Mt. Suribachi.

  17. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 174) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 20, 1946. Former Lt. Virgil P. Lary, Jr. takes the stand and tells how his unit was captured and how many of the US soldiers were massacred. CU, Lt. Col. Barton J. Ellis, Chief Prosecutor, questioning Lary. MCU, Col. Ellis. MS, Lary demonstrates how the first two shots were fired by one of the defendants and walks to prisoner's dock and points out George Fleps (No. 14) as the man who killed the American prisoner.

  18. Ardeatine Caves Massacre: identifying bodies

    Ardeatine Caves Massacre, Italy. CUs, doctor in white lab coat taking notes. CU, notes. Sign: "Reparto Riconoscimento." Men carrying coffin, with body. Doctor in office, meeting with civilians dressed in black who identify personal effects. CUs, women with personal belongings. A man enters office, to identify personal belongings. CUs, clothing, documents. CUs, human remains with no. 101, 106. VAR, bodies in open coffins. Blessing of bodies by priest. Woman viewing remains, being held up by two men, crying. Coffins with flowers. CU, nameplates: "Montezemolo" "Renzo Giorgini" Pan, relatives d...

  19. Studienbuch (student book)

    Consists of a "Studienbuch" (studies book) issued to Dagobert de Levie by the vice-chancellor of the University of Köln in Germany. Contains courses studied, grades, and signatures of professors. Photograph of student attached to inside front cover. According to the donor, he was, later in life, the University's only American lifetime "Ehrensenator" (honor senator).

  20. Goering testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 53) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany. LS Hermann Goering under questioning by Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson. Jackson is annoyed that Goering does not answer questions and delays the trial. Jackson speaks of Goering's involvement in concentration camps and describes the ways and means of arresting people. Goering responds in German. Jackson speaks about Nazi organizations responsible for propaganda and carrying out orders. Goering testifies that the SS and SA never received any orders to kill. At least "not in his time," he had no influence on the SS. LS, courtroom rises fo...