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  1. Forced labor

    Bodies being thrown into a pit, very poor image quality. CU of a man's legs, he leans down with his arm to put a gun in his boots. LS through a window of women and children in an open patch of grass on a farm type compound. A child chases its mother, only to be chased back by a German soldier. The mother is also held back from her child by the soldier. Translation of Russian narration: [Abrupt]...they could not, even at gunpoint. Daily, according to the Fuehrer's order, the youth and the mothers were taken for hard labor. They were taken into slavery in Germany.

  2. German soldiers; Crimes in Ukraine

    German soldiers, people leaving (unidentified locations). Civilians are lined up and gunned down by German soldiers [This scene seems highly edited - for instance, one cut appears to be German soldiers in a field with a machine gun killing civilians in the middle of a city. It is unclear whether this is real film or anti-German propaganda. It also could have been shot in a Jewish ghetto.] Execution by hanging: nooses are placed around the victims' necks, then the camera cuts to another shot (see Story 4913, Film ID 2910 for longer, better quality version of this hanging). Men of the SS-Gali...

  3. Post war trials of collaborators in Ukraine

    Village (unidentified, in Ukraine). Women are beating a prisoner [the prisoner may be Zvarych: a well-known Ukrainian collaborator, this needs further research and documentation]. Someone behind the camera interviews a man. CUs of an interviewee. Another man is testifying at the Soviet court. CUs of witnesses testifying, CUs court documents, CUs judges. Translation of Russian narration and Ukrainian testimony (Russian is dubbed over Ukrainian, both are heard): As children our parents would frighten us with "Zvarych." "You'll see, the 'red boots' will come." Zvarych was the "red boots." [At ...

  4. Events related to Babi Yar massacre; Einsatzgruppen in Ukraine; Nuremberg Trial; Auschwitz

    The following clips are not directly related to each other. Includes dramatized scenes of Babi Yar in the ravine area where German troops and a large group of people are herded forward at gunpoint. The shots most likely come from the 1945 fiction film by Mark Donskoi called "The Taras Family" in English or "Nepokoryonnye" ["The Unvanquished"] in Russian. 00:45:13 (silent) Burning houses. CUs of people killed at the burning houses. CUs of SS-Galicia unit soldiers. German soldiers executing men by hanging. CU of a high-ranking Nazi officer accepting bread. Soldier receives an award. CUs of Uk...

  5. Soviet Army partisan units, Ukraine

    Soviet Army partisan unit gathering in a village. VS of wooden homes, soldiers. The unit is preparing to leave the village. Soviet cavalry group also leaves the village, with soldiers marching behind them. CU marching Soviet soldiers. CU higher ranks of Soviet soldiers standing by a riverbank, preparing to cross. VS horse-drawn wagon and Soviet soldiers crossing a river by raft. Supporting paper documents from Ukrainian Central State Archives note that this footage shows: "the Kartenichi village in Lel'chevsk district (Belorussia), partisans are getting ready for an action. Crossing the Ubo...

  6. Field surgery; wounded soldiers

    CU wounded Soviet soldier lying on a cart and a woman's hand with a handkerchief waving flies away. CU doctor examining the wounded man, cutting the pant leg away with scissors, then inspecting his mouth, nose. CU of a woman sitting by a fire, boiling water to sterilize surgical instruments. CU of the doctor performing an operation, perhaps removing a bullet. VS of the operation, which takes place in an open area with trees. A nurse assisting the doctor. CU of a nurse putting a bandage on a soldier's leg as a makeshift cast, perhaps with a board acting as a large splint. VS wounded soldier ...

  7. Soviet partisan units, Ukraine

    VS of a Soviet partisan unit marching in the woods (both men and women). VS of Alexander Saburov addressing the partisan unit. Saburov was a member of the NKVD as well as a leader of the Soviet partisan resistance in western Russia and Ukraine. VS of people receiving honors from Saburov. CU of a man pinning a medal on a female partisan. CU of honored partisans.

  8. Kiev during the first days of war, 1941

    Based on the paper documentation from the Central State Archives, translated from Russian: This is Kyiv [Kiev] during the first days of war (more precisely it's June 28, 1941). CU of a crowd gathered on a street to listen to the radio report. VS of people in the crowd: soldiers, civilians. [The footage was shot on Mitskevich Street]. Military vehicles with Soviet soldiers are rolling through the streets. CU of a street calendar that reads "June 28th, Saturday" and shows 11 a.m. CU of two Jewish men sitting and talking. CU of a young man talking to a young woman. AV of a square in Kyiv. VS o...

  9. Civilians aid in defense of Ukraine

    VS of a line of horse drawn carts driven by civilians are on the move. Civilians with spades are walking by a river/lake. CUs of civilians digging in the ground to build defense lines (trenches).

  10. Kiev during first days of war

    First weeks of war in Kiev. Wartime in countryside, building defense lines. Stalin, Krushchev, and other Soviet officials and politicians are seen clapping, supposedly celebrating the unification of Ukraine. Cut to the countryside (probably just outside of Kiev), where people dressed in traditional Ukrainian folk costumes celebrate, marching on the streets. They appear to enter Kiev, though this may be a different group entirely. The marchers carry banners, including a picture of Stalin. Khruschev waves at the crowd. Girls appear to wave back. Others hold up flowers and five-point stars. Fa...

  11. Review of 1938 events

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 36, No. 87, Part 2. Release date, 10/24/1963. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Twenty Five Years Ago" A quarter of a century ago history recorded fifteen days of international crisis that forever shaped the destiny of man. There were riots in Sudetenland as pro-Hitler Germans backed his demand that this Czech territory and its people be returned to the Reich. At Munich, England and France allowed Hitler to take over....appeasement did not work. Less than a year later war raged in Europe. Other parts of the newsreel include: 15:08:31 "Operation Big L...

  12. Molotov visits US; Sec. Hull; FDR at White House; women war workers

    Part 1, Soviet Commissar Molotov boards a plane at the Washington, DC airport (his secret visit to the US) Shows Secretary of State Hull. Part 2, Sec. Hull and Ambassador Litvinov sign a lend-lease agreement. Part 3, Grand Coulee dam is opened. Part 4, President and Mrs. Roosevelt greet King George II of Greece at the White House. Part 5, women war workers leave their children in nursery schools. Shows scenes at the schools and in industry. Part 6, U.S. bombers are ferried to Canada. Part 7, shows tin cans saved in scrap metal drives. Includes shots of aluminum being processed. Part 8, alli...

  13. Honoring nurses

    Part 2, "America Salutes Women Workers in War Effort" Mrs. Roosevelt attends a ceremony honoring nurses who served in the Pacific. Shows women operating a lumber mill, testing tanks, and making guns. Newsreel footage also includes the following parts: Part 1, US bombers take off and land at an Australian air base. Shows Gen. Ralph Royce. Part 3, iron ore is dug, loaded on trains and freighters, and delivered to various steel mills. Part 4, Don Budge beats Bobby Riggs at Forest Hills, Long Island for the National Professional tennis championship. Part 5, shows a test flight of the Navy flyin...

  14. FDR awards warship to Norway

    Part 1, a warship, the Haakon VII, is presented to Princess Martha of Norway by FDR. Newsreel footage also includes the following parts: Part 2, shows tests of Lee tanks. Part 3, President Camacho reviews a Liberty Day parade in Mexico City. Part 4, an automobile plant is converted to war production. Shows other war goods being made. Part 5, Nelson Rockefeller and President Vargas ratify a trade agreement in Rio de Janeiro. Part 6, shows a mock airborne attack.

  15. Huge anti-Axis rally stirs Chile

    Part 1, shows a UN anti-Axis rally and parade in Santiago, Chile. Newsreel footage also includes the following parts: Part 2, a naval battle rages off the Solomon Islands. Shows Admirals Halsey and Nimitz. Gen. MacArthur lands in New Guinea. Planes land troop reinforcements. Artillery pounds Japanese positions. Infantry advances through jungle swamps. Part 3, U.S. troops board transports bound for Africa. American and British convoys rendezvous near Gibraltar. Landing operations near Oran are unopposed. Equipment is massed on the beaches.

  16. US Army prepares for invasion of Europe; politicians discuss postwar plans

    Part 1, US troops storm a beach in a practice landing assault. Part 2, Anthony Eden and Lord Halifax converse with Sec. of State Hull. Newsreel footage also includes the following parts: Part 3, a steel life raft is tested and demonstrated by merchant seamen. Part 4, snowplows clear roads and railroads in eastern Canada. Part 5, Army men attempt to unload mules from boxcars. Part 6, destroyer escorts and tankers are constructed and launched. Part 7, mounted Coast Guardsmen patrol beaches. Part 8, lend-lease tanks are used in maneuvers in Australia. Part 9, a volcano erupts in Mexico and bur...

  17. Italy surrenders

    Italians in New York City celebrate Italy's surrender. U.S. troops land in North Africa. President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet at Casablanca. Allied planes bomb islands off Italy. Sicily is invaded by Allied troops. Messina is occupied. The 7th Army and Britain's 8th Army land on Italy's mainland behind a naval bombardment. Italian warships speed to allied ports and are surrendered. President Roosevelt announces Italy's surrender. Other personages: Gen. Eisenhower, Gen. Clark, Mussolini, Adm. Cunningham.

  18. Crossing Rur River; liberation of slave labor; atrocities

    Allies Overrun German Positions in Big Push. American infantry troops advance into Germany. Troops march past badly damaged buildings and footage shows some artillery fire. Long shot of Jeeps of the US 9th Army crossing the Rur river Rur river (small river in western Germany, not to be confused with the Ruhr). Troops pass through Linnich. Dead German soldiers in Juelich. German POWs march down the road. The narrator says that the enemy's casualty lists have surpassed one million on the Western front. Shot of German civilians and devastated buildings. Generals Eisenhower and Simpson inspect ...

  19. Allied Invasion

    Part 1: Winston Churchill and Jan Christian Smuts wish luck to Allied troops boarding landing craft. General Eisenhower broadcasts to the French people. Shows street scene in London. Airborne troops board planes. The Navy and Air Force blast Normandy shore positions. Part 2: U.S. troops enter Rome. Shows General Clark. Stalin and Marshal Zhukov review Russian troops. Part 3: The 9th Air Force bombs German positions and airborne troops land in Normandy. General Eisenhower and General Montgomery inspect the beach positions.

  20. The Year 1944

    Reviews events of the past year. Shows Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin at the Teheran Conference in 1943. U.S. troops land and fight on Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Guam, and other Pacific islands. Russian troops advance to Romania and capture German soldiers. Ships carrying equipment, supplies, and men are loaded in England and cross the English Channel. Paratroops jump at Caen. Troops land under a naval barrage. Citizens of Rome, Paris, Bucharest, Brussels, Belgrade, and Athens celebrate their liberation. Shows scenes of the Dumbarton Oaks, Quebec, and Yalta Conferences, of the election ...