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  1. 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.

  2. 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...

  3. 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.

  4. 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...

  5. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: job sites

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

  6. 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.

  7. SA Marschiert

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

  8. Amsterdam Jewish Quarter

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

  9. 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.

  10. 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...

  11. Mauser HSc pistol, magazine, firing pin, and mainspring used by a Yugoslavian partisan

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn6764
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.375 inches (11.113 cm) | Width: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Depth: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) b: Height: 4.125 inches (10.478 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) c: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) d: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Depth: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm)

    Mauser HSc pistol used by Leo Gerskovic while he was a member of the Yugoslav partisans during World War II. Based on the marking on the trigger guard, this pistol was a German military-issued pistol before Gerskovic acquired it. Leo Gerskovic, his wife Inge, and their child lived in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, when Germany and its allies invaded and occupied the country on April 6, 1941. Central Yugoslavia, including Zagreb, was formed into the independent state of Croatia, ruled by the Ustasa. Soon after occupation, Leo, with his wife and child fled and joined the partisans. After he joined, Leo ...

  12. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: refugees

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

  13. Justice Hughes gets award

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 12, No. 941. Release date, 12/29/1940. Justice Hughes receives an award and delivers a speech on democracy.

  14. Arrests and prison scenes

    Arrests and prison scenes. Jewish police arresting child, adults. Prisoners brought to ghetto jail. HA pan, market to prison yard. CU sign: "Arrestanstalt." Germans and police. Jewish police make prisoners run out of door. Young and very poor prisoners are lined up, forced to walk in circle. Similar shots of women prisoners. CUs of prisoners in prison.

  15. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: refugees & fascists

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Unrest; refugees; fascists.

  16. Sam Verstaendig collection

    Sam Verstaendig collection consists of photographs of the Verstaendig family of Tarnów, Poland. Also included are photographs of a Jewish cemetery and memorial in Tarnów, as well as a sample of Theresienstadt ghetto scrip.

  17. Luftwaffe in Romania

    MLS Plane with German markings taxis in on runway. MS German General Galland climbs out from belly of plane, MS walks over to greeting committee which includes German and Romanian officers and shakes hands. CU as Galland speaks to German Luftwaffe officer. MS Officers standing together under prop of plane, they walk away. 6:51:17 German General, Prof. Sauerbruch "Medical General" visits wounded in Romanian hospital, talks to hospital staff, examines an X-ray, observes patients in whirlpool. Visits prosthesis workshop.

  18. UFA Anschluss footage

    Case XI, Ministries-Keppler, "German Entry into Austria" (UFA Newsreel), Vienna, Austria, 1938. German Narration: "UFA Heldengedenktag" Ceremonies to honor war dead. Large wreaths laid. CU Goering lays wreath for Hitler at soldier's memorial. CU, iron cross on banner. Goering delivers address. View of St. Stephen's cathedral; Vienna; cheering and saluting crowds; waving kerchiefs, kids clinging to statue; crowds. Animated map shows Austria joined to Germany: "ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer." Various shots of Nazis taking over towns; German soldiers cross the border to enthusiastic welcome...

  19. Suffering of Romani people after 1943

    Roma encampment, mostly women and children prior to being moved into enclosed (fenced) camp. Smoky campsite, VS of tents with women cooking, children look at camera. One women lights cigarette, pan to group of children, another tent. Woman in colorful blouse with water container. Tents in BG. Kids smile as she goes by, CU of container. MLS pan of campsite area, soldiers in BG. Women and children lined up for group portrait. MS of large badly damaged building.

  20. Danzig and Warsaw street scenes

    There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. There is no way to order a clean copy. Girls march with swastika flag. Street scenes in Danzig, probably Jewish district. People looking in shop windows, mostly textile goods, pedestrians and traffic reflected in windows. Hat shop, sign reads STERNFELD. Street seller. Slow pan in narrow street, shop signs have Jewish names. Women looking in windows (people appear to be mostly middle class). Signs are in German. General street scenes in Danzig, squares, churches, trams. Store sign reads MAX WALTER, mannequins...