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  1. Nuremberg Trial proceedings: summation and verdict

    Reel 8: Chief US prosecutor Robert Jackson delivers his summation. Courtroom scenes, showing defendants testifying and prisoners' dock, "...to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say that there has been no war, there are no slain, there has been no crime." 08:10:04 Sir Hartley Shawcross delivers summation, "This trial must form a milestone in the history of our civilization..." 08:10:41 Gen. Rudenko delivers summation, "...their crimes have been proven...the truth cannot be challenged." 08:11:26 French prosecutor de Ribes delivers his summation, "...the fate of...

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine; Hitler; Goebbels; Cantor, synagogue; Boycott of Jewish shops; Nazi flag

    Trims. 179 C: Singing in Hebrew, in dining hall (sound). 09:12:44 Factory (without sound). CU, women working in factory. 09:13:20 Man on desert with camera, tripod, camel in BG. 09:13:23 Hitler at podium giving speech (sound). 09:13:31 Pan, aerial landscape, Palestine (without sound). Valley of Israel, map. Tel Aviv, Jerusalem. Desert. Palestine, city streets with people, camels. Letters. Women in factory. 09:15:13 Different shots, newsreel footage of Hitler speaking (sound). 09:15:51 Palestine. Hitler. Palestine. Hitler speech. Camels. Factories, pantyhose. Palestine. 09:17:52 179 D: Herma...

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Danzig Nazi flags/banners; Hitler and Goering; Nuremberg rally

    Trims. German city of Danzig with swastikas, Nazi flags/banners. Closeup of Danzig election poster 1935. Julien Bryan outtakes from Nuremberg party rally 1937. Quick shots, church, military on guard. Nazi officials exiting building. Goebbels. Long military coats. Hitler Youth at attention. Poster. Hitler speaking. Goering speaking, with hand out (sound). At night (with sound), torches, Hitler, crowds. (without sound) Goering and military review. Hitler in automobile (Julien Bryan outtakes, Nuremberg 1937). Crowds. Hitler speaking.

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hitler on KdF ship, Robert Ley; Hitler in Prague and Berlin

    Trims. Hitler on boat with Robert Ley and relaxed German civilians (probably the maiden voyage of the "Kraft durch Freude" (KdF) ship Robert Ley, spring 1938. Harbor building with large letters: Hitler and group walking, friendly greetings with citizens of Heligoland. German submarine seen alongside from ship. Hitler reviews sailors on board boat; Hitler and babies; German planes in air over Prague, Czechoslovakia; Hitler on reviewing stand with Henlein and Syrovy in Prague; INT of the Reichstag where Hitler answered Roosevelt's cable, various shots. Hitler in car through Prague streets. Tr...

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hitler's 50th birthday parade review in Berlin

    Birthday review in Berlin passing reviewing stand, troops goose-stepping passing Hitler in stand, tanks, trucks, big searchlights, big guns, sailors, band. CU, Hitler in stand giving Nazi salute. CU, German officers giving Nazi salute.

  6. Prussian militarists and German combat

    US propaganda film about "The German personality" and its national psyche and history. Reel 2 contrasts the British and French tradition of representative government with the totalitarianism of Germany. Describes Prussia and Frederick the Great's wars with Austria. Shows portraits of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, founders of the General Staff. Describes the dictums of Clausewitz, crushing of the 1848 revolt, German emigration to the US, and Bismarck's policies. Dramatizes combat during the Franco-Prussian War, forming the German empire, and the crowning of Wilhelm I.

  7. German tradition of war; Allied troops in WWI

    US propaganda film about "The German personality" and its national psyche and history. Reel 3 dramatizes the development of German industry, railroad system, merchant marine, army, dueling at German universities, and the German Staff. German troops cheer Kaiser Wilhelm, march to conquest, invade Belgium during World War I, develop poisonous gases, and attack U-Boats. Transports carry US troops overseas. Shows US tanks and artillery in action. Ludendorff requests an armistice. Crowds cheer news of peace.

  8. Treaty of Versailles; rebuilding German forces

    US propaganda film about "The German personality" and its national psyche and history. Reel 4 shows the Kaiser in exile in Holland and Ludendorff in Sweden and focuses on 'a German tradition of militarism.' Describes the Treaty of Versailles and the hard times of the Weimar Republic with inflation and depression. Allied occupation forces withdraw and depart. Describes the establishment of German veterans' and athletic clubs. German munitions factories are retooled and armed forces built. Gen. Hindenburg becomes President of the Weimar Republic.

  9. Rise of Nazi party

    US propaganda film about "The German personality" and its national psyche and history. Reel 5 shows the Weimar parliament in session; German troops parading; Hitler; Nazi riots and mobs; and CUs of Goebbels, von Schirach Goering, and Hess. The NARA shot sheet mistakenly identifies von Schirach as Roehm, and the narration describes him as a "pervert" so perhaps the mistake was made by the filmmakers. Describes Hitler's rise to power, installation as chancellor, and one-party rule. SS troops parade, Nazi propaganda, books are burned, and Hitler speaks while Germans cheer.

  10. German surrender; denazification

    US propaganda film about "The German personality" and its national psyche and history. Reel 6 describes the unconditional surrender of Germany. Shows prisoners and industrial ruins. Contrasts "lackadaisical" occupation in 1918 with the more complete occupation, the trial of war criminals, and denazification processes in 1945.

  11. Kiev; Babi Yar; POWs

    Kiev in flames. The silhouette of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's statue stands in front of a bombed out building. Cut to a statue of Taras Schevchenko, the Ukrainian poet and writer. Tanks roll through the city streets. A peasant woman is on her knees, wailing in the street. Civilians, all women, speak with soldiers. Cut to outside of city. People look upon bodies in a ravine at Babi Yar. VS, action, fighting, planes, anti-aircraft artillery, guns, military advance, tanks, wounded, nurses, bodies on road, wounded men, pan of vast area, destroyed wagons, wreckage, debris. VS, faces of captured POWs. G...

  12. FDR receives report on Nazis

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 724, Part 2C. Release date, 11/30/1938. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "FDR gets report on Nazis" Warm Springs, GA. In a conference which is expected to have far-reaching effects on the US foreign policy, President Roosevelt meets with Ambassadors Hugh Wilson, recalled from Germany, and William Phillips, home from Italy. EXT of White House and driveway. INT stone wall of lodge. FDR and two other men at small table. CU, FDR talking, smiling. MS, CU of men. Ambassador Hugh Wilson, who expressed some sympathy for Nazism, was recalled from Germ...

  13. Allies declare war

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 11, No. 803, Parts 1 through 3. Release date, 09/04/1939. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: 12:13:39 Part 1A: Dramatic scenes of a new conflict that may envelop the world in flames. Hitler's war machine rolls into Poland-encouraged to strike by the new pact with Stalin's Red Russia. With Danzig seized, Polish infantry and cavalry rally to the defense of their homeland. Italy remains in the background, while Nazis pour into the Siegfried Lines to stem a possible Allied thrust. 12:15:31 Part 1B: England. Tense eleventh-hour scenes in London, as Prime Mi...

  14. US proclaims neutrality; ships with Americans; children evacuated in London

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 11, No. 804, Part 1. Release date, 09/06/1939. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: 12:23:13 Part 1A: Washington, DC. Closely following President Roosevelt's speech to the nation urging a neutral America, Secretary of State Hull countersigns the neutrality measure and arms embargo destined to keep the US out of war. 12:25:54 Part 1B: New York, NY. Liners arrive with more Americans fleeing from the war. The Polish vessel, "Batory" brings Polish Red Cross leaders to confer with officials here. A "Vest Pocket" torpedo boat arrives from England for navy demo...

  15. On the War Front

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 12, No. 863, Part 1. Release date, 04/01/1940. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: 12:29:25 Part 1A: "Welles Reports Back to FDR" Washington, DC. Climax to Undersecretary Samner Welles' 14,000 mile peace visit to belligerent capitals in Europe. After landing in New York, he hurries to the White House to give his report to the President. Peace is not imminent, FDR says later. 12:30:07 Part 1B: "On the War Front." Paris, France. Paul Reynard, French financial wizard, forms a new cabinet after the downfall of Premier Daladier. 12:30:35 Part 1B: "On the War...

  16. Congress hears FDR; Hopkins; DeGaulle inspects warships

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 13, No. 943, Part 1. Release date, 01/17/1941. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: 12:42:00 Part 1A: "New Congress Hears FDR ask All-Out Aid" Washington, DC. Epochal scenes in our history, as the 77th Congress convenes to map plans for enlarging our defense machine to meet US and British needs. President Roosevelt, addressing the legislators and the entire world, says that America must spend billions on weapons to aid the embattled democracies. 12:45:16 Part 1B: "Hopkins Flies to England" New York, NY. President Roosevelt's special envoy in Britain, Har...

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Josef Tiso in prison; airline; UNRRA supplies eggs

    1150 AA: LS, EXT of the jail called Kraiska Sud of Bratislava. LS warden opens Dr. Josef Tiso's cell (Tiso was a Monseignor of the Catholic Church and ex-prime minister of Slovakia; he was imprisoned for collaboration with the Nazis). CU the name "Josef Tiso" written on the door of Tiso's cell. MS Tiso at a little desk in the bottom of his cell reading or writing his memoirs. CU Tiso reading or writing and taking a book. LS Tiso leaving his cell at the side of a warden. LS Tiso walking in the courtyard of the jail. Several shots of Tiso walking around courtyard of jail. Warden in the courty...

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Men in office; Ministry of Information in Prague

    1150 N (14:09:45) Man at desk. Another man meets him in office. Signing documents, talking. Crucifix on the wall. Cameraman in shot. EXT, man with top hat and black coat walking (shots repeat). Looking at trees and grass. 1150 O (14:12:47) Prague, Czechoslovakia. LS, entrance of Kolovratsky Palace where the offices of the Ministry of Information are. CU, plaque, "Ministry of Information" on the building. Vaclav Kopecky, Minster of Information, holds a press conference after the elections, in the Kolovratsky Palace. Kopecky explains to the chief editors what would be the policy of the new Go...

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- UNRRA warehouse; Czech-Polish border

    1150 GG (14:15:55) Prague, Czechoslovakia. UNRRA Warehouse. Mr. Peter Alexeef, director of UNRRA's branch in Czechoslovakia, welcoming Mr. Vaclav Majer, Minister of Food, at UNRRA's warehouse. The Chief of the Press for UNRRA, Mr. Denlinger, is also present. Several shots of the three men arriving at a table where they test sausage from cans sent by UNRRA to feed the Czech people. CU, Alexeef and Majer eating the sausage. MS, CU same. Village of Bela-Pod, the center of UNRRA's supply for agriculture. LS, pile of UNRRA's supplies. The village is in the BG. Heaps of supplies waiting for distr...

  20. Factory/prison

    White wooden crucifix (grave marker) in a wide open field. A horse and plow move through BG. VS, wide angle and CU of Dubno prison. Four old women, sitting on a cement floor sorting through bits of rags. Dissolves into scene in a factory, several looms at work. Men operating the machines. VS pulleys, CU men at the machines. VS workers and peasants at work, in tattered clothing, MS and CU men, women and children standing around a sign, they are very poor. Children look directly at the camera. LS, across the lake of a chateau. Translation of Russian narration with Ukrainian citation at beginn...