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  1. War Criminals Hunt

    (LIB 7228-7229) War Criminals Hunt, Norway, June-July 1945. SEQ: US, British, and Nilorg (Norwegian Underground) troops entering German POW camp in the early morning and routing the prisoners from their sleep. The Germans are lined up outside of barracks and informers pass along the lines in an attempt to identify former Gestapo men. MLSs, MSs, German prisoners rush from their barracks in all manner of dress. In many instances the Norwegian troops boot the prisoners to hurry them along. MSs, informers pass along a line of women who had worked for the German government and are presently inte...

  2. Prosecution at Nuremberg Trial; courtroom

    (Munich 386) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 30, 1946. Thomas Dodd and Brig Gen Telford Taylor of the American prosecution seated in the courtroom. Taylor speaking to the court. Dodd seated at prosecution table. Pan to Russian prosecution table showing General Rudenko. Taylor speaks of the ruthlessness of the German army, saying "this was not soldiery, this was savagery." MS, French prosecutor AC de Ribes summing up. MS, Russian prosecutor Gen. Rudenko summing up. HAS, lawyers, prosecutors, and others filing out of the courtroom after session.

  3. Race and heredity

    A Nazi educational film (propaganda) regarding questions of race and heredity of national/political value. [Aufklaerungsfilm ueber Rasse- und Vererbungsfragen / Praedikat: staatspolitsch wertvoll] Title on film: Kulturfilm-Abteilung Atelier 2. Woman calls on professor to show him what the beetles are doing. Additional colleagues join; a cameraman films them. Professor explains beetles' behavior - woman should not be sentimental. The weak are naturally destroyed. He finds it odd if cats and mice (and other pairs) live together. The professor takes a phone call. They watch a film about sunflo...

  4. "Incurably insane"

    A Nazi educational film (propaganda) [Aufklaerungsfilm] produced by the Rassenpolitische Amt [Office of Racial Policy] regarding "unheilbare Geistkranke" [the "incurably insane"]. Part 1: Nurses and people coming out of door, various, to camera (similar to opening scene of "Dasein ohne Leben"; uses same scenes). Food serving, eating. Title: "Kuenstlich ernaehrt." "Many must be fed artificially...only a few can do useful work." Men outside sweeping with straw. "Erbliche Fallsucht!" "Schizophrene!" "Idioten" - kept alive. "Besondere Schutzkleidung" [protective clothing]. "Erblich Taubstumm" [...

  5. "Incurably insane"

    A Nazi educational film (propaganda) [Aufklaerungsfilm] produced by the Rassenpolitische Amt [Office of Racial Policy] regarding "unheilbare Geistkranke" [the "incurably insane"]. Part 2: Racially mixed boy, blond, part negroid. Intertitles: indicating cost to state, mother and son - 26 years; epileptic siblings, cost ____ RM (Reichsmark); two brothers. Titles and close views of various related people. Two girls, twins seen before; one holds up the other's head. Kids outside, grass and blankets. "Bloedes, taubstummes" [imbecile deaf mute] girls. "Taubstumme, schwachsinning" [deaf mute, feeb...

  6. Sterilization; marriage health law

    Propaganda for sterilization (15m10s); "Kampf ums Dasein" [struggle for life] (2m12s); enactment of the marriage health law (4m30s); positive Nazi goals (1m50s). Nazi racial propaganda film about mentally and physically disabled people and the danger and drain they are on the Aryan nation. This film (like "Erbkrank") shows footage of men, women and children who have been placed in hospitals, asylums, etc. There are CUs of sad, destroyed people. Footage of their behavior (i.e., a man standing in a field of daisies "whipping" the air with an imaginary whip, another man angrily beats his hand ...

  7. Fascist racial theory and health

    Roll 1: Title: "Filmarchiv der Persoenlichkeiten" Title: "Reichsgesundheitsfuehrer Dr. Conti" Profile of Conti at desk with two phones and lamp. 23 (date) on lamp (23 Nov 1941). Maps in background. Conti speaks, dressed in uniform with braid. ...seine erbliche Angabe...Die Erbgesundheitspflege und Rassenpflege muessen die Grundlage der Volksgesundheit sein...Nothing like this existed before 1933. Kriegsausbruch. Polnisch.

  8. Fascist racial theory and health

    Roll 2: Change of camera angle, clear picture, dull. Krieg...Ostraum...Fleckfieber, Malaria, Typhus. Grossstaedte. Many Russians. Umsiedlung. Besonders Problem - Cholera? Nicht in deutsche Gebiet. 1925-1937: high point, epidemic. Kinderkrankheiten (childhood diseases). Another danger, with war. Auslaendischearbeitskraeften [foreign work forces]. Die Flieger, der Wehrmacht so viele Aerzten brauchen [air force, army, need so many doctors]. Versorgung der Heimat deshalb bleibt eine schwarzen. Die Zahl der Kinder ist viel groesser geworden [number of children has risen greatly]. Das Rheingebiet...

  9. Fascist racial theory and health

    Roll 3: Change of camera angle. "Unser Ziel sei" [Our goal will be] in 1950 re. diseases. We know so much more now about ways to good health, vitamins, etc. 01:18:49 Closer shot of Conti. If we should achieve victory (and be in the East), we must...[see Protokoll for content]. Krieg ist der...als dies Mal: "Dazu kommen die Fragen der Rassenpflege, die ebenfalls umfangreicher geworden sind denn die Judenfrage abgesehen...im Osten...Volkserziehung beduerfen...so fest zu begrunden...nicht Mischung mit dem Ost..."

  10. Fascist racial theory and health

    Roll 4: Closeup, head on, to camera. SS on sleeveband [see Protokoll for content]. Ein Symptom...Volk...Gefahr. Wir muessen immer zum Teil in der Grossstadt leben. Ein Lebenstil. Ich habe die groesste Angabe...der Partei...Partei und Stadt wird. Einheit. 01:25:10 VCU to camera [see Protokoll for quote in German, roughly translated]: 'A people (Volk) must be either hammer or anvil. The value of the blood determines the value of the race. The German Volk has demonstrated its worth. It must become the nucleus (kernel) of the Greater German Reich. Then we will succeed in providing the proof tha...

  11. Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities: closeups

    Reel 1 of 8: Line of people with disabilities, with nuns (nurses?) walking up to and past camera. Archway, grass. Dressed in ordinary clothes and aprons; dignified. Some in wheelchairs. One with large head. CU of man with large frontal lobe. 00:01:57 Man runs up to camera, limbs askew. Make him smile, toothless. Blows on little tin horn. CU, turns this way and that. 00:02:46 Happy woman, clapping and laughing. 00:03:08 Young woman in leather armchair outside. Maybe paranoid schizophrenic. Gesturing, dramatic faces. Clearly dealing with fantasy fears. 00:03:49 Doctor with woman, puts her int...

  12. Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities: various shots of individuals

    Reel 2 of 8: Two women together, toothless smiles and laughter; one is older. Man descends stairs on all fours, to camera, CU. 00:06:15 CU man, gray-haired. Another, in jacket and sweater, all outside. 00:06:44 CU, Man, twitching; good looking. 00:07:03 CU, feet dragging. 00:07:14 WS of women in grassy area, one spitting out food. Various movements. 00:07:50 Woman, pretty eyes, sweet. 00:08:09 woman on bench in hopsacking, knees up. 00:08:22 Four men, on bench, pan right to more. Two men walking on sloped path. Various men, CU, not extreme. 00:09:20 Pan, group of men, including young men. C...

  13. Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities: hospital care

    Reel 3 of 8: INT clinic. Sound of moaning and irrational impulses. Nurse gives injection in bare buttocks. Caring for men in beds like tubs, padded, high sides. Feeding through nose tube. Tube inserted. Funnel, hands of nurses, etc. Various of hands, needles, striped aprons. (Sounds in BG) Woman has injection in arm; attendants. No faces of medical personnel are seen; only faces of patients. 00:14:17 Electric shock therapy given to man with moustache. Seen before and during; cloth in mouth. Arms moving. Aftermath; eyes rolling. 00:15:20 Midday meal. Nurses seen in MS, feeding. Metal bowls. ...

  14. Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities: occupational therapy at hospital

    Reel 4 of 8: "Noch eine Karteikarte eines Schizophrenen" (woman). Natural sound during occupational therapy. Nun encouraging young woman. VAR scenes of women and occupational tasks. CU of nun with moustache. 00:17:53 Greenhouse and surroundings. New plants, men working, MS transplanting to baskets. 00:18:43 Kitchen, cabbage, vats of soup. 00:19:41 Women in laundry, wooden tubs, hands working. 00:20:27 WS ironing. Sewing machine. Women at work; look quite normal; work at looms. Nun working alongside. Men in woodshop: sawing, sanding, building furniture, making mats. Women: weaving, spinning.

  15. Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities: children and women with severe disabilities

    Reel 5 of 8: Children in beds; sounds of crying, though many are very still. CU of child who appears mildly retarded. VAR close views. 00:24:24 360-degree turning shot, close, child with very enlarged skull and bulging eyes, nurse holding. Room of severely handicapped children; extreme and more dramatic than previously. 00:26:02 Man in restraint, school desk-like, with mittens. Close views of deformed feet; individuals with erratic movements. Children with twisted limbs. Boy in bed, with legs in X shape. 00:28:17 Women at wooden benches and tables. Quite severe forms of disabilities and beh...

  16. Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities: people with extreme deformities

    Reel 6 of 8: Toddler without legs or arms, unclothed, close views in bed. Stumps. Disfigured face of child, CU. Man with elephantitis in one leg. Very crooked body in bed. VAR extreme deformities. Female dwarf; crying young person, CU. 00:36:56 Lit for effect, menacing, tough man. VAR CUs for dramatic effect. VCU: sticking out tongue, etc.

  17. Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities: interiors of a hospital

    Reel 7 of 8: "Koepfe von Kranken" More CUs and dramatic lighting. Focus on details. First men, then women. Distorted faces. Woman with wild gray hair, very touching. 00:43:21 Dark-haired woman, then a girl, maybe Jewish. Force feeding a young person.

  18. Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities: interviews inside a hospital

    Reel 8 of 8: "Gemeinschaftsraum der Männer" [Men's common room]. WS of men in room with wooden benches; some sit, some pacing, one crawls. One seems to be making speech. 00:46:08 One in restraints, arms held back, knocking shoulder against wall. 00:46:27 One in real restraints. Interviewer and microphone in view. Voice off-screen asking questions, seems mocking: "Wollst du nach heim?" (Audible, but hard to hear) "Hast du Kinder?" Answer: "6". 00:48:35 Another patient interviewee, speaks fast, no pauses. 00:49:17 He sings, motions with fingers on arm. "Bäcker... Amerika.." 00:50:07 Woman int...

  19. "Incurably insane"

    Located in an institution for the incurably insane. Shows the "insane" who must be restrained and artificially fed, unaware of their surroundings, incapable of useful work. 'The sins of the fathers are visited on their children. Innocent themselves, broken in body and spirit, a burden to themselves and others!' Individuals with bizarre, typically disturbed movements are shown. Three children tied to their beds 'for the duration of their lives.' 01:05:12 Title in large letters: "Soll es so weitergehen?" [Should it continue this way?] 01:05:40 "Nein! Nein! Niemals!" [No! No! Never!] Three fur...

  20. Paternity suit; genetic testing

    Dramatized propaganda film with actors explaining a paternity suit and genetic testing. Reel 1: Titles, credits. Nurse with baby in nursery, various scenes. Toilet training. In doctor's office. Doctor reading papers, calls nurse. Concerning Frau Weber, four years ago she thought her baby was switched with another. Now I've heard from her lawyer. Nurse: "that's crazy!" "Crazy or not..." Court case in Munich: Weber vs. Brugger. 01:09:37 Family enters room, with little boy. Blood test, from mother's ear, boy's ear, father's ear. Measuring mother's head, boy's, father's. Doctor calls out result...