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  1. Events leading to WWII

    War film about the background of World War II (Orientation Film No. 1). Reel 1 shows the bombing of Pearl Harbor, London air raids, cavalry and tank battles in Russia, and Panzer and Luftwaffe operations in western Europe. Fascists in Italy and Nazis in Germany riot and parade. Titles appear at beginning of reel.

  2. Pesticide, extermination of insects, Zyklon B

    Title: "Volksgut in Gefahr!" Airplane, insects/pests, farming, ships, rats, scientists, insects, statues. Woman sweeping house. Insects. Delousing, gas, factory. CU, Zyklon B gas, pellets in cans. Workers entering factory, production, extermination. Alert as pellets are exposed to air; "Gas! Gas!" Sign on door, "Poisonous gas: Entering the room is dangerous to life!" Ships, pellets in cans, in homes, greenhouse, moving furniture in home, farm/countryside.

  3. Nazi propaganda on ideal Aryan woman

    A film report by the Nazi Welfare Organization (NSV). Healthy Aryan living, children on the land and outdoors. Ship, rough waters. Bucolic countryside: cottages, stream, animals, farm, trees. Daily morning ritual for young boys: getting out of bed, showering, shining shoes, laundry. Drums, trumpet, heiling to Nazi flag. Woman serving breakfast, children eating. Sailing, playing accordion, fishing, kitten, woman making a fire. Child walking to school. CUs, Aryan children. Boy in adult boots. Children playing at beach, in water. Boats, one with hay. Peasant couple eating. Boys marching on bea...

  4. Women: Nazi propaganda on the Aryan ideal

    Statues. CUs, women, some with swimming caps. Women playing with girls, gymnastics, all blond/Aryan. Gymnastics class. Playing with ball. Exercising, running, stretching in swim suits. Race with hurdles. Tennis. Rings. Playing at beach. Kayaking, canoeing. Walking in line, in unison. Practicing dancing and exercises. Jumping (some scenes in slow motion). Balancing ball, throwing ball. Discus (some scenes in slow motion). Shot-put. Archery. Javelin on the beach. Women running into water.

  5. Sexually Transmitted Diseases & their consequences

    Propaganda film, re: gonorrhea, syphilis, sores. Two parts with long German intertitles.

  6. Nazi propaganda: people with physical disabilities

    Propaganda film with German intertitles (some transcribed below). "Krüppel sind infolge eines angeborenen oder erworbenen Knochen=, Nerven= oder Gelenk= leidens in dem Gebrauch ihres Rumpfes oder ihrer Gliedmassen dauernd behinderte Kranke. Krüppel geraten ohne recht= zeitige und umsichtige Füersorge in Not und soziales Elend. 1) wegen unzweckmässiger Lebensweise, mangelnder ärztlicher Behandlung und Beobachtung. 2) wegen der Unfähigkeit, eine Schule zu besuchen. 3) wegen der Unfähigkeit, sich fuer eine Erwerbstätigkeit auszubilden." 03:09:16 Title: "I. Die nicht heimbeduerftigen Krüppel ko...

  7. Children: the Aryan ideal

    Title, "Gesunde Jugend/Starkes Volk" [Healthy Youth/Strong People]. More credits. Title, "Das himmelreich erringen keine halben, die Freiheit erlangen keine Feigen und die Zukunft gehört nur den Mutigen allein! Adolf Hitler, Parteitag der Ehre." Unclothed toddlers play on a beach and splash in the water. Children play in a yard, jumping and crawling on mats that lie on the ground. They do flips over a horizontal bar. CUs of children’s faces. The kids walk across a balance beam and go down a slide head first. 04:02:46 Children play hide-and-seek. They sit in a grassy field, run through a for...

  8. Nazi Welfare Org'n: 10 year report, community assistance

    Title: "Ein Leistungsbericht zum 10 jährigen bestehen der NSV." [A progress report on 10 years of achievement by the Nazi Welfare Organization]. 1932: Man stamping ID papers, pan, factories with smokestacks. "Eröffnung des Winterhilfswerkes 1933/34". Headlines of Voelkischer Beobachter. Nazi community self-help - Winterhelp work (WHW). Collecting, donating money. Crowds, street entertainment, circus, airplane, marching band in streets, gymnastics, exchanging money, officials meet. CU, "Mutter und Kind" card. Donating supplies of food. Women sewing, children's shoes. "Winterhilf Werk 1933/34...

  9. Nazi "People's Community" & welfare work

    Title: "Unbesiegsbar ist die Front der nationalsozialistischen Volksgemeinschaft" Bucolic countryside, farm. Soldiers on horses, debris. CUs, children and men receiving bread and food from truck, eating at tables. Workers shoveling coal, in factory, smoke. Rebuilding, men working in factory. Sign, "Techn. Nothilfe...Einsatz Graudenz" Carts of coal, construction. Ext. building, children playing in yard. Nursery, pan, children in line, smiling. Sweeping, cleaning, pile of trash, families climbing stairs, walking towards camera. Boat, people waving. American Red Cross. People with baggage. Pan...

  10. Hygiene promotion

    Jolly hygiene guidelines. Includes animation with photography. German intertitles.

  11. German newsreel featuring stories about the United States

    05:42:38 West point cadets at graduation. The ceremony takes place by the Hudson River; many spectators. Cadets on parade. They are shown marching in slow motion at one point. 05:43:21 US government agents raid an illegal moonshine operation. They release alcohol from taps, drain a large basin and confiscate cans of moonshine. They dismantle the still and blow it up. 05:44:03 A large crowd of American boys (students) rush onto a field to play a game while spectators watch. At first there appear to be only boys but later girls are also on the field. The game is very physical. The students th...

  12. Warsaw Ghetto in color

    Warsaw ghetto, probably in May 1942, filmed privately by German camerman, Willy Wist. General views of the gates opening for a vehicle. Bare-shirted men load bodies in a pit. CU, Jewish man. Market scenes, food and materials for sale, Jews with armbands. Street scenes, crowded sidewalks, trams, rickshaws. Massive funeral procession, various shots, some closeup. Unintentional dark shots. German officer checks papers. Jewish man in rags. Meat shop. 01:05:10 German uniformed man in peaked cap is visible on right of frame, emerging from shop doorway and gesturing with hand at small boy looking ...

  13. US Army medical unit conducts target practice and eats

    American soldiers (US Army) in an open field for target practice. The unit's medical truck is visible in the BG, identifiable by the large red cross on the side of the truck. VS of the members of the unit shooting guns, setting up targets, sorting ammunition, talking, etc. The soldiers take a break: CU of a soldier smiling, sitting down on the ground to eat a sandwich and soup.

  14. German educational film: marriage customs in Upper Silesia

    This short documentary depicts the town of Schonwald in Upper Silesia, and the various activities which occur in preparation for a wedding ceremony that takes place in the village. VS, villagers carrying farm implements, heading off to fields. MCU in the village (of Schonwald), two peasant women read an announcement posted on the side of a building. CUof the announcement (in German), stamped by the town official. VS, young woman pumping water at a well. VS, young townswomen in tradtional costume, kneeding dough and preparing large trays of bread. MS, two older women braid the hair of a youn...

  15. German airforce bomber attacks

    VS, German bomber airplane on an airstrip, with Nazi insignia and other markings of the German airforce. VS, mechanics and crew loading bombs onto plane. MS, a military official demonstrates plan of attack to crew using a map. Low angle shot of the belly of the plane closing once ammunition and supplies are on board. CU, night time, propellers of the airplanes, moves out to MLS, plane visible on the runway, preparing for flight. MS, crew members board plane, they shake hands with man who remains on the ground. LS, airplane takes flight. VS, from POV of crew members inside the plane, clouds,...

  16. Germany Navy; World War I

    Large steamships docked in Ösel. VS of cargo, including military supply wagons and cannons being loaded onto freighters/warships by German naval personnel (in uniform). Sailors in uniforrm operating hoist. Horses are also being loaded onto the ship. Sailors pose alongside the ships, smoking, walking, socializing, smiling for camera. Overhead shot, hundreds of men boarding the ships with their gear on their backs. Horses and more cargo go on with them. Tracking shot of ship leaving harbor, in the foreground the image is a teaming sea of sailors' hats on deck (viewer can only see the tops of ...

  17. German educational film: daily life in Lapland

    VS, EXT, lake views with mountains in BG. VS, a family of Laplanders (father, mother and child) come to shore in canoe, carrying their belongings, they head toward their tent and enter with all of their belongings. Two dogs enter the tent with them. MCU, man smoking a pipe, then cooking a meal while two children look on. VS of Laplanders in their tent, women, children, baby, etc, carrying out daily tasks. VS, Laplander children in a rural classroom, sitting on the ground in an open tent, there is a female teacher, all students have lap desks and notebooks, they are reading and writing. Ther...

  18. German educational film: Alfred Wegener and The Greenland Expedition

    This is part three of a three part film of which USHMM has all three parts. (Film IDs 2587, 2591, and 2602). Footage of Alfred Wegener and his crew during his expedition of Greenland. With German intertitles. VS of crew, dogs, and sleds, travelling across and charting this seemingly endless frozen tundra. INTs, igloos, equipment, dogs, snow, crew. Wegener died on this fourth of his Greenland expeditions, and there is footage of his grave site on this reel, marked by a large wooden cross. The film ends with an epithet to Wegener.

  19. German educational film: Scenes of nature and daily life in Spreewald, Germany

    Described in the opening titles of the film, as a "nature film", this footage depicts the town of Spreewald in the Brandenburg section of Germany. VS, EXT, stream, trees, various flora and fauna, wooden homes, locals canoeing down a stream or a river, farming, tending to the soil and to crops. VS, two canoes with two groups of children heading downstream, and then docking in front of their schoolhouse. MS of a police officer in uniform, patrolling in canoe. Bails of hay are also transported along the river. The rest of the footage is comprised of similar scenes of locals carrying out daily ...

  20. German educational film: swimming techniques

    VS of adolescent boys learning to swim in a pool. There is one male instructor and approximately 10 pupils. The instructor takes them through important techniques for the breast stroke, focusing individually on arm movements and leg movements before combining the techniques to perfect the breast stroke.