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  1. Invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece

    Invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece. Animap of region as names of Yugoslavian areas appear. VAR Anti-tank spikes, destroyed railroad tracks in Croatia; soldiers confer, march past houses along road, cross stream and drag artillery over wooden bridge. Animap shows entry into Greece at Salonika and Xanthi. VAR LS, smoke rises in valley from German artillery hits, German guns fire and recoil, view of valley, German sketching. Germans in foxhole gesture. LS Stuka planes in sky. Extreme HA (probably shot from plane) flying Stuka, bombs drop and explode. German tank rolls down street in Salonika, w...

  2. Prison camp, slave labor, atrocities

    Slave labor, workshops, atrocities and leaders of camp are highlighted during war and at liberation. 01:07:10 Sign. MLS of large group of male prisoners with heads shaved. Siren and clock, men trudge up hill against big sky, men with horse-pulled carts as others work under observation. CU, men struggle with wheelbarrow full of stone and dirt, mixing cement, go up plank barefoot, watchtower guard, men at bread and water break. 01:09:27 Ustasa propaganda headlines regarding resettlement of Roma when they were being killed, CU of corpses of victims. Roma/Sinti men and women in field pulling ap...

  3. Oil fields; Romani people

    With intertitles in English. Part 2. Oil fields in Europe with short segment on Roma. Trains in the town of Ploesti, a large town near the oil fields. Oil wells in Moreni. Roma (?) carrying goods with bullock-drawn wagons. Intertitle re: vendors of drinks, fruit, etc. MS of Roma men and women seated on slabs with posts all about them. Next to them are baskets of fruit and a pail. Wagon with log on it passes in front of them. MCU of same group as woman walks by with basket. MS two men with pole that has basket at each end are selling to a third man. One man has pole on shoulder, other has po...

  4. Jewish Memorial Pageant - "We Shall Never Die"

    Lots of LS of stage production, chorus, Torahs being carried out and held by rabbis. Some MS of actors (both in the production and reading prepared speeches). American flag. Crowd shots, banner with Star of David. Edward G. Robinson reading a statement: These are the two million Jewish dead of Europe today. They will have no one to ...day of judgment. No one ... "Remember us." Of the 7 million Jews in German held lands, the Germans have said none will remain... When the time comes to make the peace, they will have been done to death. Fragment of Hebrew prayer. Orthodox Jewish men (or actors...

  5. Nazi flag with swastika

    Nazi flag with swastika Found by Otto Aders while billeted at a house in Bad Godesberg, Germany. Shipped to parents in Decorah, Iowa.

  6. Sudeten crisis; Munich accord; Nazis threaten

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 731, Part 1. Release date, 12/26/1938. German military power. Mobilization in Austria. Schuschnigg gives weak Nazi salute. Mobilization in Sudetenland, President Benes. digging trenches; country folk; woman with gas mask and baby. Chamberlain goes to Munich while the English drill and prepare for war. Chamberlain returns with "settlement of Czech problem". Smashed windows in Czechoslovakia prior to Kristallnacht. Jewish refugees (German citizens) in makeshift camp near Brunn, Czechoslovakia after being banned from areas ceded to German Reich. FDR and advisor...

  7. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 20 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  8. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 100 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  9. Truman speaks on end of war

    President Truman announces the German surrender.

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jews seek help in Paris

    Comite Central d'Assistance aux Refugies Juifs, 5, Rue de la Durance, Paris. Branch of HICEM and American organization HIAS. Shot down along desks as committee's employees assist refugees with legal advice and other issues. Family group seated in chairs waiting their turn. Baby in woman's lap and two young girls. MLS of mostly men standing in line waiting to be seen, then MS and CU. MLS of committee offices ("consistoire Israel...") as people come out and walk past camera. Outside in FG is open gate in BG two men walk toward building, ring bell. Men walking down sidewalk, urban scene.

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Fritz Kuhn on Bund Principles

    Several takes of Fritz Kuhn spelling out principles of German American Bund. Seated is national secretary and standing is national publicity director. First takes in MS, can see swastika and American flag on wall and photo of Hitler. "Patriotic law abiding organization...of loyal Americans of German extraction fighting to exterminate Jewish international atheistic Bolshevism, to uphold the Constitution and flag of a clean United States..." 01:28:52 CUs and more of same kind of statements.

  12. Germans in Occupied Ukraine

    Footage shot by a German cameraman during Germany's occupation of Ukraine in World War II. Footage with German photographers traveling through the Ukraine photographing cities, villages, and collective farms. The most extensive footage is taken with a female photographer from her trip to Ukraine in the summer of 1943. She traveled by plane and car from southern Ukraine (the Melitopol region) just north of Crimea, then along the Dnepr River northward over Dnepropetrovsk to Kiev and then due west to Rovno and then the border of General Government. Reel 12: 06:34:15 MS Local women on planks pa...

  13. Street scenes; starvation/begging; shops

    VAR crowded pedestrian scene with impoverished people on streets and sidewalks. Begging for food; ragged men, women, and children; kiosks, street vendors. Storekeeper gives food to poor man. Courtyard. Selling goods from bench.

  14. German Army in Budapest

    Map of Hungary/Rumania region. VAR views: Germans, armed and on horseback, townspeople in street clothes carry bricks, working together to build roadblocks. VAR views: Germans fire artillery into the city below, incl CU soldiers, LS city, Howitzer is loaded, shot and recoils. MS pan over snowy field dotted with tanks and trucks; ELS view of fields with advancing German infantry. Pan of knocked out Russian tanks and of snowy, rather bleak Budapest (incl one nice MS skyline view). German tanks roll down road toward camera, past smiling and waving civilian workers. German Panzer vehicles masse...

  15. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: job sites

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Job sites.

  16. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 10 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  17. SA Marschiert

    Torchlight parade through and past Brandenburg Gate. Stahlhelm and SA units march with banners.

  18. Amsterdam Jewish Quarter

    Brief footage of Amsterdam Jewish quarter. Sign, elderly couple with stars, two girls with stars.

  19. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: Munich Pact

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Munich and after.

  20. Big Three at Potsdam

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 418, Part 5. Release date, 07/23/1945. According to UN advance information: "Big Three Parley Begins." President Truman and his party are greeted by cheering crowds in Antwerp, after the USS Augusta docks them at this Belgian port. The US 2nd Armored Division stands at attention on the famed autobahn as the presidential party rolls into Berlin. After President Truman confers with Gen. Stalin at the "Little White House" in Berlin, all of the conferees adjourn to the Kaiser Wilhelm palace in Potsdam for the official opening of the Big Three Conference. Winston...