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  1. Berchtesgaden; GIs relaxing at campsite

    EXT, shot from INT, Stevens and another man silhouetted with Alps in BG. Long panning shot of valley. VS on balcony of a building in Berchtesgaden appear to be Stevens and Moffat, then pan to valley below. Stevens walking up hill from Berchtesgaden. Stevens and Moffat looking over river, appears to be different climate and a different place than the previous shots of the valley. Horse carriage on side of road. German soldiers walking along road. Campsite near river. men bathing by campsite near blue lake, motorboat in lake. American soldiers hamming it up for the camera- one bather turns an...

  2. Liberation of Czechoslovakia; refugees

    Red Cross workers on roadside with civilians. Shot of city from high angle. Sign, in English and Russian reads: "Welcome the American Heroic Army." Another part of the sign reads: "Welcome the Soviet Army." Pan to jeep Toluca. Sign in Czech reads: "Vplzni...Skodovy Zavody." LS from balcony to train station. Sign reads: "You are entering Pilsen by courtesy of CCB 16th Armd. Div." Another sign reads: "What you see on the street don't blame on the pigeons." VS of truckload of women and children holding red flags with hammer and sickle on them. They drive off and what appears to be a Russian of...

  3. Refugees crossing bridge

    Refugees carrying their children and belongings across a bridge. Stevens, in shorts holding machine gun, firing gun into river. Caravan of soldiers and refugees, seven abreast, walking across bridge carrying belongings followed by women and other refugees. Sign in Russian, with date reads: "May 30, 1945." Underneath Russian sign there is a sign that reads: "Friendship Bridge constructed by 250 Engineer Combat BN 1146 Engineer Combat Gp, US Army."

  4. Dutch harbor and GIs with cameras

    VS of port, Stevens standing on dock. Large ship with name "Wilhelmhaven." VS of harbor activity. Two GIs with still cameras. Large ship on its side in harbor. Another shot with American army sedan in FG, wrecked ship in BG.

  5. Dutch civilians and GIs

    VS, in town of well-dressed civilians walking and riding bikes. CU of a blond woman on street corner, VS of street activity. Civilians riding bicycles down tree-lined streets, coming towards camera. One or two trucks driving down streets of town. Most civilians are wearing heavy coats, there is evidence that it is a windy day (hair, coats, etc. blowing in the wind). VS of five GIs and five local girls standing in front of a building. Hamilton is on left. Girls waving good-bye to GI friends as jeep drives off with GIs.

  6. War destruction in the Netherlands

    EXT, Grand Hotel. Red flag with white cross on it, jeep Toluca and khaki sedan stopped on roadside by ESSO gas station. Toluca with weapons carrier behind drives through a bombed out part of town. Shot of harbor from street, trolley wires overhead. VS of harbor, street corner with building that had been destroyed by bombs. VS of the city, street full of rubble, more bombed out buildings, spire of church in BG. Civilians and two German soldiers walking down street. Pan of part of town that is nearly leveled. Shot of jeep driving past store with sign that reads: "F. Woolworth Company." Army s...

  7. Dutch civilians; ferry boats

    Sign reads: "Monnikendam 7.2, Amsterdam 21." Dutchman in wooden shoes and black bloused pants walks toward camera. Two young Dutch girls in aprons pose for camera. Other Dutch civilians in native costumes are photographed sitting at side of street. Men in black cloaks and black caps. Jeep Toluca pulling weapons carrier on green country road. Jeep on what appears to be a ferry boat, sign reads: "Rikswaterstat." DC3 flies over. VS of Red Cross vehicles on a ferry boat, bombed out bridge in BG. VS of bridge from ferry boat.

  8. War Crimes Trials: Ministries Case (Case #11)

    (Munich 663) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 11 (Ministries Case), Nuremberg, Germany, December 20, 1947. CU, judge announcing that the court will hear the arraignment of the defendants. CU, an officer states that the defendants will rise when their names are called and answer the questions put to them by the Tribunal. MSs, CU, Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor at lectern. MCU, CU, Dr. Elisabeth Gombel, Bohle's assistant defense counsel, explains that the defense counsel, Dr. Ernst Achenbach, cannot attend due to the death of his secretary and chauffeur. She speaks in both En...

  9. Anniversary; War Crimes Trials: Einsatzgruppen Case; Allied Council Meeting

    02:30:00 (Munich 680) Sig Corps 85th Anniversary, Hanau Sig Depot, Germany, March 3, 1948. MCU, Maj. Gen. Jerry V. Matejka saluting soldiers to be decorated and advancing to award the Italian War Cross. (The men decorated are Maj. Aldo R. Rossi, Capt. Wayne A. Meyers, and M/Sgt. Paul M. Daugherty). VS, black Army band playing as it marches in review, followed by 22nd HQ detachment, 218th, 192nd, and 69th Sig. Companies. (The men marching carry slung rifles.) MS, Sgt. and soldiers in the ranks listening to he general's talk. 02:34:47 (Munich 674) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedi...

  10. Decision Board Trial: Fritz Kuhn

    Decision Board Trial - Fritz Kuhn, Munich, Germany, February 14, 1949. MSs, CUs, Fritz Kuhn sitting in courtroom, looking at papers, talking to counsel. CU, book "Under Cover" by John Roy Carlson. MS, Kuhn seated at table talking to court. CU, prosecutor. Cut-ins, people in courtroom. CU, German papers with headlines. CU, article showing Bundsfuehrer Fritz Kuhn in San Francisco. Reporters in courtroom taking notes. Periodicals showing pictures of Kuhn at Bund meetings in America. MS, witness for prosecution, Mr. Wiedemann, former Consul General in San Francisco. MS, witness Mr. Krott, Ribbe...

  11. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 464) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. LSs of courtroom. As their names are called, defendants stand up in prisoners' dock: Karl Brandt, Zugfried Handloser, Paul Rostock, Oskar Schroeder, Karl Genzken, Karl Gebhardt, Kurt Blome, Rudolf Braunt, Walkheim Mrugowsky, Helmut Poppendick, Wolfgang Sievers, Gerhardt Rose, Ziegfried Ruff, Victor Brack, Hans Wolfgang Romberg, Hermann Becker-Freysing, George A. Weltz, Konrad Schaeffer, Fritz Fischer, Adolf Prokorny, and Herta Oberhauser. The defendants are seated and Brig. Gen. Telford...

  12. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 464) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. SEQ: Defendants pleading not guilty. Schaefer's attorney enters protest to the indictment charges as laid down in Ordnance 7, after court allows him to make a brief statement.

  13. War Crimes Trials: Pohl Case

    (Munich 531) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 4 (Pohl Case), Nuremberg, Germany, March 10-12, 1947. Conclusion of preceding sequence (111 ADC 6439): Pohl to Klein pleading "not guilty" to the indictment. HAS, Tribunal, as one of the judges asks the defendants whether they plead "guilty" or "not guilty." Judge states: "The Secretary General will enter, on behalf of each defendant, a plea of "not guilty"." Pan of attorneys' tables. HAS, pan of courtroom as audience rises.

  14. War Crimes Trials: Milch Case

    (Munich 544) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 2 (Milch Case), Sentencing of Gen. Erhard Milch, Nuremberg, Germany, April 17, 1947. LS, judges entering the courtroom. HAS, Chief Justice reading the verdict, recessing court, and exiting from courtroom. Pan from judges to Milch being removed from the courtroom. MS, judge handing recorder sentence of the Tribunal. Silent cut-ins of the Tribunal. Pan of portion of courtroom. Tribunal entering courtroom and court rising. Judge reading the verdict.

  15. War Crimes Trials: Pohl Case

    (Munich 648) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 4 (Pohl Case), Verdict and Sentencing, Nuremberg, Germany, November 5, 1947. MSs, CUs, various defendants enter court to hear sentencing by the Tribunal. Included are: Oswald Pohl, August Frank, George Loerner, Erwin Tschentscher, Max Kiefer, Franz Eirenschmalz, Karl Sommer, and Hans Hohberg. Judges file into courtroom; spectators and defendants conversing during recess.

  16. Burning of Buehl Synagogue

    Amateur 8mm footage shot in 1938 by someone living in Buehl. Brief CU of members of a marching band, in uniform, preparing to play. Another brief shot depicting people rowing across a lake. The synagogue in Buehl burning on Kristallnacht. MCUs windows with flames and smoke coming out. VS of civilians and onlookers, local firemen and police in uniform, one woman runs across the street. Activity in the street, a pushcart moves in and out of the frame. MS, fireman on ladder with hose, positioned at the building next to the synagogue, spraying the roof of the adjacent building. Low angle CU of ...

  17. Intl Conference; Hitler's photographer Hoffmann sentenced

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 89 01:01:02 International Conference in Minden, Ruhr District, Germany. Gen Robertson, Dep British Commander in Chief, Lt Gen Lucius D. Clay and Maj Gen Frank A. Keating at International Economic Council. Dr. Agartz, Director of German Bi-zonal Economic Office, addresses the assembly. Cut-ins, various delegates at the conference. 01:02:13 Today's Activities and Plans for Tomorrow, Emden, Germany. Pan, bomb wrecked buildings. LS, pan from giant cranes at dock to windmill. Locks, canals, dockyards of city. LS, loading coal in gondola. HS, ships at piers and moving out ...

  18. Von Papen on trial

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 92 Von Papen at the Decision Board. MCUs, Franz von Papen in courtroom is tried for his crime against the German people. Cut-ins, courtroom attendance.

  19. Hoover in Germany

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 91 Ex-President Herbert Hoover in Germany. Former President of the US Herbert Hoover arrives by plane at Rhein-Main airfield and is greeted by Gen. McNarney, Gen. Lucius D. Clay, and others seated at conference table.

  20. Ravensbruck Trial: The Sentencing [Das Urteil]

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 90 Ravensbruck Trial. INTs, Curio House in Hamburg, Allied Military Tribunal presided over by British Gen. Westropp, sentences those responsible for the Ravensbruck women's camp. MCUs, Johann Schwarzhuber; Dorothea Binz, former SS woman guard; Carmen Maria Mory; and others sentenced to death by hanging. 01:12:40 The three women guards shown are: Dorothrea 'Thea' Binz (Stellvertrende Oberaufseherin/Replacement Chief Officer); Wachterin Margarete Mewes (who served as guard in the Ravensbrueck 'bunker'-jail); and Arbeitseinsatzfuehrerin Greta Boesel (born Mueller) who d...