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  1. Nazi propaganda: home front

    Intertitle: "Ein Film vom Arbeitseinsatz und der Gefolgschaftsfuersorge in Heeresbetrieben" [A film about work's employment and staff's welfare in army firms] This documentary begins with graphics showing the German civilian workforce in Army firms in 1939 and 1943 and highlights the rise of women's involvement. It stresses the importance of a female workforce for 'wrestling for Germany's future'. A 'typical day' is shown: a worker's camp situated in a beautiful landscape, housing in modern buildings, working in healthy conditions, living conditions 'like at home', 'real comradeship' betwee...

  2. Garment bag retrieved from Dachau postliberation by a US soldier

    Garment bag retrieved from Dachau Concentration Camp by by Joe Davis.

  3. German surrender at Stalingrad; German prisoners & generals

    02:43:10 Title: "Soviet Newsreel"/ "8"/ "Moscow" / "February 1943" / "Directed by I. Setkinoy" / "Film-reporting from the Frontlines"/ "Our armies have finished destroying the German-fascists surrounded near Stalingrad" / "Documentary of the last days of the enemy surrounded near Stalingrad" Panning ELSs of fire fight on snowy terrain. Aerial MSs of Soviet airplanes. Close views of corpses. MS soldiers in trenches, smoking. Close, over shoulder view of soldiers crawling to evade fire. LS of surrendering Germans filing out of brick building. LS soldier marching with white flag. 02:47:46 ELSs...

  4. Nazi propaganda: anti-Polish

    This feature film opens in the German village of Emilienthal in the Polish district of Luzk in March 1939 as Polish authorities close a German school to turn it into a military police post. The teacher Maria Thomas constantly complains to the Polish mayor. Other Germans are angry about higher taxes for ethnic Germans and growing expropriations of land and houses. Maria's husband refuses to sing the Polish anthem and he is beaten up by Polish thugs who are said to thrive for the 'annihilation of...German pigs'. He dies because the police and the hospitals refuse to help Germans at all. Maria...

  5. Charlotte Koopmann collection

    duplicate copy from donor part of One Generation After/Boston, duplicate destroyed.

  6. Kalinin awards military; pilots; Jewish anti-fascist committee

    Kalinin decorates military men, INT, close views. 01:19:46 Pilots and crews on airfield; to planes; bombs dropping, air-to-ground shots. 01:21:49 Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Speech "To the Jews of the World". Ilya Ehrenburg, Serge Eisenstein, Solomon Mikhoels. 01:22:22 CU Solomon Mikhoels speaking in Russian, seated at microphone: to 01:24:02 CU Peretz Markish speaking in Yiddish, "Brother Jews" 01:25:24 CU Sergei Eisenstein speaking in English, "racial hatred is foreign and loathsome to me... The time has come to fight... sacred struggle... saving a people... Triumph of humanism over br...

  7. Quisling's trial in Norway; Execution of German spies

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. Report on War Crimes, including shots of the London meeting of the investigating commission, the opening of Quisling's trial in Norway, and the execution of two German spies by the US 9th Army.

  8. German officers; Allied POWs

    German officers and others talking, smoking. Forest and barracks in BG. LS Allied POWs with KG stamped on their backs.

  9. Nazi propaganda: Military

    The pseudo-documentary depicts the military actions of a parachute battalion participating in the occupation of the Netherlands beginning on May 10, 1940 - the action that opened the western front of WWII. It starts with an address to the parachutists by their officer, who evokes the historical importance of this 'hour of decision' which determines the fate of the German people 'for the next thousand years.' The soldiers are also told that after the defeat of Poland the new enemy of Great Britain would threaten the western borders of Germany from its 'bridgehead' of the Netherlands. Later o...

  10. Jewish life in prewar Kovno, Riga, and Lvov

    Prewar footage (home movies) of the Katz family in 1929. Kovno street scenes. VAR CUs of Katz family strolling along Laisves al., showing Dita's mother Liola, grandfather, brother, uncle, and grandmother. 01:00:34 MS EXT of the grandfather's wholesale trade store - C. KACAS - on Presidento gatve. Here, the family sold typewriters, sewing machines, and bicycles. VAR shots of store and family at door of store. Dita's cousin Raya (Honon's sister) in a baby carriage. CUs, Dita's grandmother Basia Katz; cameraman Honon Katz and his friend; Dita's aunt Rachel Katz and Dita's mother Liola Katz. Pe...

  11. "Go For Broke"

    Compilation of documents, photographs, and news clippings, all photocopied, from Hideo Nakamine, about the 522nd F.A. Battalion, U.S. Army, part of the 100th/442nd battalion of Japanese-American soldiers.

  12. Stamped envelope

    Addressed in ink to "Herrn Heinrich Potischel (sp?) Wien XII Hauptstrasse 2" with one 4-cent Deutsches Reich stamp and nine 12-cent anti-Nazi stamps attached. Also has five ink stamps dated 8.IV.43.

  13. Germans push thru France; Hitler meets w/ Mussolini

    LS, tanks spread out over fields, waiting for artillery barrage to lift. Shells burst in distance. LS tank advances. VCU, tanks. Shell bursts close by; burning French tanks. CU, showing shell holes, dead. Tank crews eating after battle. Hitler visits front, looking over map with staff officers, including Raeder and Goering. Receiving news of French capitulation. Boarding train for Munich to meet Mussolini. Pan, Berchtesgaden. Hitler meets officials in train station, German children and Mussolini giving Nazi salute. CUs, Hitler and Mussolini in car, crowd in BG.

  14. Book Journal for the History of the Jewish People During the Nazi Regime

    One volume of From the Last Extermination : Journal for the History of the Jewish People During the Nazi Regime.

  15. Esther Ancoli-Barbasch collection

    Contains a scrapbook containing photographs and newspaper articles in Russian, English, and Hebrew dealing with Nazi atrocities in Eastern Europe. Includes photographs of the Klooga forced labor camp in Estonia.

  16. Testimonies

    Contains copies of notorized confirmations (witness statements) about Nyssya Milman's presence in the Luchinets Ghetto in the Ukraine.

  17. Rehabilitation at Belsen Camp

    Pan over buildings. Pan across barrack square. MS of stable door, door opens, young woman begins to sweep entrance to stable. Interior shot of stable, being decorated by group of women with green branches. Curtains, tables, linens. MCU group of women sitting and standing around a bed inside barrack arranging branches and talking. Shot of barrack interior where multiple tables are set up in foreground and background, women having meal. Camera pans around room with flower arrangement in the middle, woman making bed, others, by window, repairing boots and shoes, sewing. CU of women playing car...

  18. Terese Stark memoir

    A memoir relating to experiences in the Buchenwald concentration camp during the Holocaust.

  19. Oral history interview with Alice Winant

  20. Hitler arrives in Paris for signing of French treaty

    CUs, MCUs civilians in streets. Pan, people at tables in outdoor café. Large crowds of civilians. MCU, vegetable market, bread being sold on street. Large building in Paris. Train arriving in station, German troops FG salute, swastika in front of train. MCU, AA gun mounted on front of train. MCU, German army officials meet at rail station; a large group of soldiers in BG. INT, station showing German troops on guard. Pan, LS Eiffel tower. CU, men at work on linotype machine. CU, setting type case for printing. CU, INT, pulling proof from type. CU, newspaper coming from end of machine; worker...