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  1. Rosenberg speaks on Nazi ideology, anti-Bolsehvik, anti-Jewish

    Alfred Rosenberg speaks to camera (interview-style) about the responsibility Hitler gave him in the occupied Eastern territory to eliminate Bolshevism and Marxism and complete the NSDAP revolution against [them and] Judaism and democracy. Also talks about German Volk and the different types of people. Partial translation from Raye Farr's notes (1972): "A battle of racial souls....In his writings...tried to establish a 'typos' of the German people, in contrast to other peoples. World history has been a battle of racial souls....the relation between Earth and Volk....Weltanschauung.... don't ...

  2. Polish and English POWs

    Views of extremely long line of Polish POWs trudging along road, including CU of bare and booted feet. LS of POW camp, POWs getting sandwiches. CUs of prisoners lying on ground, looking tired, CU faces. General views of camp, English POWs and Polish POWs. English military officer POW makes statement (in English, synch sound) on the good treatment he has received as a POW. Ethnic Germans in Poland identifying Polish prisoners, with some kind of confusion and angry finger-pointing. 02:07:15: Narrator says that one man recognizes another as the murderer of his brother.

  3. Boys view posters; propaganda

    CU, hand at vending machine for postcards and stamps, putting in coin and getting postcards. Sign indicates price of postcards is 6 RPF (Reichspfennig). EXT, VS, four young boys looking at posters on iron fence. Left to right: Wehrmacht Manoevers 1937; front page of "Der Stuermer" with antisemitic caricature of a Jewish face and headline: "4000 Year War"; and "Berliner Illustrierte," the special issue on Mussolini's visit to Germany. The boys backs are to the camera, they turn briefly and face the camera before moving on; one boy has a school satchel, one is holding a metal jug, one is hold...

  4. Soviet POWs; Soviet village

    Hundreds of Soviet POWs march down the road; women seen working in orchards in BG. Shot of POW line extending into the distance. Shots of damaged/wrecked Soviet equipment (vehicles, cannons, ammunition) abandoned at both sides of road. VAR shots of poor Soviet village. Very poor hovels, elderly kerchiefed women, and pans of children (narration: "here is the paradise of farmers and workers... these children have no mothers, no fathers") who pose for the camera. Brief view of grim "hospital" room with emaciated boys in beds. Corpses are dragged and laid out for peasants to identify (some CUs....

  5. Pressman family papers

    The Pressman family papers include three diaries written by Hermann Pressman, in German shorthand, from 1932-1935. In his diaries Hermann writes about daily life, economic and political changes, the violence and harassment his family endures, his escape to Belgium to live with his cousin David Mendelsohn, the process of gathering paperwork in order for his family to leave Germany, his family’s immigration to the United States, and his challenges and experiences when they first arrive in America. The collection also includes photographs and picture postcards of the Pressman family in Germany...

  6. German Army advances; village burning

    Lots of snow. Thatched roofs under snow, snowing hard. CU entire house in flames. Pan right, more houses on fire. Soldiers watch.

  7. Goebbels speaks at 10th Radio Exhibition

    Large crowd of soldiers and civilians listen to Goebbels' outdoor speech about the power of radio at radio/electronics convention. Goebbels: "Radio is the superpower." LS pan up radio tower draped with huge swastika banner. Mostly medium CU of Goebbels, but some views of the military audience. He finishes speech. Inside exhibition hall, shots of equipment on display, with company names visible: "Telefunken," "Siemens & Halske," "Blaupunkt," et al. Mostly HA, people milling around exhibits. Demo of tube manufacture, good displays with "der Volksempfaenger" (one has neon tubing attached)....

  8. Hindenburg speaks at rally

    Goebbels in profile in trenchcoat. At Lustgarten, Berlin. In BG soldier and journalist in bowtie and hat. Big camera visible too. Great MLS of camera on tripod. Pan out across swarming crowd. Hindenburg walking through crowd, up to podium. Looks very professorial. "Heils"; holding top hat. Hindenburg speaks, greets crowd. Reads from paper with big print in gloved hand (age). Then, hurrahs, big cheers with raised fist, National Anthem. Remainder of reel contains: Hysterical crowds at another event. Nazi banners. Fireworks. Spotlights. Train station?

  9. Red Front demonstration

    Men marching down a street, some playing insturments and carrying flags, as part of a Red Front demonstration in Berlin. They raise their fists in a salute at one point. Crowds watching Ernst Thaelmann, the KPD candidate who ran against Hitler in 1932 and was later executed in Buchenwald. Profile shots of him speaking (silent). The crowd salutes. A building with a large "Vote List 5" sign on it. KPD election campaign demonstration. People hand out literature. A poster shows a drawing of a worker slaying a several-headed snake. Signs entreating people to vote for the KPD. Shotes of people ma...

  10. Italian partisans surrender

    Hands up in surrender, partisans in civilian clothing retreat from mountainside. Seated on a hill (under guard), looking unhappy.

  11. Banks closed

    "Deutschland in Not" Newspaper headlines Banks closed, sidewalk scenes.

  12. Illegal Ship

    Night-time shots of refugees with large packs boarding rubber boats. Crowded onto deck, rushing into hold and covering selves with tarpaulin when British airplane flies overhead. Airplane is an RAF : Lancaster. British warship (destroyer) sited, Brits jump from their decks to refugee ship. English and Hebrew sign "Haganah Ship Unafraid" and "Jewish" flag raised.

  13. Rivesaltes concentration camp, France

    Children and mothers getting off buses on arrival in the camp. Tracking shot of "camp garden," people working with hoes. Men in hospital beds; sick people arriving from Gurs camp. People eating in dining hall. Mail passed out. Elderly men and women walking outdoors.

  14. Signing of Versailles Treaty

    Views of the Palace of Versailles and the gardens. The camera pans left to right across the exterior of the palace, showing the crowds lined up outside. More exterior shots - the fountain, crowds cheering, waving flags, soldiers marching in formation. One car after another drives through a large archway - the delegates arriving. Delegates and their wives embark from cars and are greeted and escorted inside: French Foreign Minister Stephen Pichon, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, American Secretary of State Robert Lansing, General Tasker Howard Bliss, Herbert Hoover, General Michel Maunour...

  15. German POWs

    Captured German POWs are marched in a column by American soldiers, who smile into the camera. Motorcycles drive past the column of prisoners. The camera pans across POWS, some of whom are wounded. POWs sit in a field. They stand in rows and are counted. POWs shown removing dead/wounded Allied soldiers from a field. A crowded shot of POWs shown lying or sitting switches to much smaller groups of three or four, who look at the camera. Wounded, including a man with a large bandage over his eye. POWs receiving medical treatment. Supplies being unloaded from a truck. Prisoners behind barbed wire...

  16. Waffen SS green fez given to a US officer by his soldiers after the liberation of Dachau concentration camp

    Green/field gray fez with a swastika and Death's head given to Byron Lee Schatzley, an officer in the United States Army, in May 1945 by ground troops following the April 29 liberation of Dachau concentration camp in Germany. The green fez was part of the combat uniform of a Waffen-SS military detachment composed of Muslims from Bosnia, Croatia, and Herzegovina in occupied Yugoslavia, with one division from Albania. There was a red fez for the dress uniform. The creation of this unit was authorized by Hitler in 1943. The original purpose was to combat Tito’s partisans. Through recruitment a...

  17. Propaganda film on eugenics/Nazi racial science

    Opening title sequence with production company, credits. Propaganda on genetic analysis. Family visits the doctor, who records their hair color, eye color, skull size with the appropriate equipment. (Some of these devices are artifacts displayed at the USHMM.) Family in waiting room. Doctor measuring skull size of man, woman, and their son, using calipers. Doctor checks hair coloring of mother against his hair color-spectrum samples; same process with eye color of mother, child.

  18. Whip

    Found inside barracks (by Louis Scutiere?), Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

  19. Ley Speaks

    Ley speaks at the Kongresshalle in Berlin, about "Truth and Hope".

  20. 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.