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  1. Buchenwald Aussenkommando scrip for SS Ko. Rottleberode, -.50 Reichsmark

    .50 Reichsmark Buchenwald Aussenkommando [Outside Command] coupon for SS Ko. Rottleberode concentration camp in Germany. Buchenwald opened on July 19, 1937, and issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. The simply designed notes were printed on coarse paper. There were two types of coupons: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades [Aussenkommandos.] In early April 1945, as US forces approached Buchenwald concentration camp, the German guards began to evacuate the camp. On April 11, the prisoners revolted and seized control of the camp. ...

  2. Exodus Jews in Germany

    Refugees washing clothes, sewing, near quonset huts and tents. Couple poses with young child. CU boy eating bread. Good view of tents. VAR CUs of refugees. Barbed wire enclosed camp. More general views of camp, people walking, talking. Nice CU of boy wearing a hat with "Exodus 47." Train station, British medical personel load ambulance. Refugees leave train, go onto trucks. British soldiers guard road, trucks pass. Soldier guards camp. More CUs of refugees.

  3. Forced labor construction of giant submarine pen

    French POWs, concentration camp inmates, Polish and Soviet POWs from Neuengamme subcamp Bremen-Farge - forced labor at U-Boat construction site "Valentin" in Bremen. 00:02:09 Good establishing shots of construction complex and adjacent Weser River. Train pulling into site, LS men working at base of high wall under construction. Guiding crane. 00:05:50 VS French uniformed POWs digging, lifting girders. 00:06:17 LS concentration camp inmates in striped clothing unloading bags of cement and carrying them on their shoulders, MS then MCU. 00:07:03 LS of train, and pan of buildings, cranes and co...

  4. Hans Frank in Poland

    UFA #688: Hans Frank, Governor General of Poland, visits Pilsudski Tomb and dines at castle. MS of elaborate scrollwork on entryway to tomb, group of Nazi officials enters, shots of tomb and overhead of people in room. Outdoors in courtyard of castle, Frank and aide are introduced to various people, CU as he shakes hands while in BG Nazi officers stand around. LS of people seated outdoors at table. Good MCU of Frank without his cap, shot of castle exterior.

  5. Westerbork Arrival

    Arrivals at Westerbork transit camp. Workers and guards at train station. Train pulls in. People get off trains with bundles; chaotic feeling. Freight train pulls in, Jewish prisoners from Vught concentration camp wearing clogs and work clothes, get off, line up. They have been sent to Westerbork for punishment. Brief INT of registration (out of focus).

  6. Norwegian Fascist Police; German homefront propaganda

    Narrator explains (in English) that this item was released in Portugal. Portugese narration heard under English commentary. Interior, family sitting around table eating. Close-ups of family meant to show that Germans are not suffering from lack of food, despite war. Women working in railroad and postal occupation. Narrator states that "Germany's postal system... increased its employment of women after the July 25th total mobilization announcement." Upbeat music as smiling women drive postal truck. Men working in factories; woman welding. Miners working underground. "Several sequences here h...

  7. Hitler Youth in Baltics

    Hitler Youth digging trenches with Baltic civilians along German border. CU Hitler Youth blows whistle, LS Hitler Youth in uniforms rush to get in formation, 3 CU, then MS of them in ranks with shovels. MS, boys marching with shovels over shoulder through gate with swastika, MLS of them marching down road. CU as they march toward and past camera. Assist in digging a wall of fortifications along the entire eastern border. Another group of Hitler Youth with shovels approach, then a group on bicycles approach the camera. They leap in along the full length of trench. VS of boys digging under su...

  8. German army helmet found by a US soldier

    World War II German helmet given to Alan Levitt's father by a friend who fought in WWII.

  9. Warsaw after bombing 1939, aerial views

    Low aerial shots of Warsaw after bombing.Warschau 1939 (in German print) Nor fur den Dienstgebruch! Diest ist ein geheimer Gegenstand im Sinnedes 88 Reichs, Strufges etzbuchs (04/24/34) Low aerial town, buildings some with smoke Augsgebrannte haufer and Gebaude blocks; thick black scratch; facade of big municipal buildings, interior bombed out, pan up wreckage of brick building, wrought iron balconies, twisted artfully in to sky; down an alley, bombed out buildings; MS and MLS QF, people and sidewalk, deserted rubbly courtyard; in front of palace only facades, pedestrians, down a humble str...

  10. Herman Taube papers

    The Herman Taube papers consist of articles, manuscripts, poetry, presentations, and translations by Herman Taube, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, as well as correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Taube's career as a writer, journalist, and educator, which was often influenced by his own Holocaust experiences in Łódź, Siberia, and the Second Polish Army. The collection also includes biographical materials documenting Taube's wife's Czech stepmother, Marie Koreffová, who survived Auschwitz, Theresienstadt, and Flossenbürg, as well as translations of evidence presented ...

  11. Refugees in Transylvania

    200,000 refugees from Ukraine entering Transylvania, fleeing "Red Hordes." Everybody brings livestock. Large open field, with many people of different regions with wagons and livestock.

  12. Gate; Judenrat building; Czerniakow in his office

    German soldier checking papers at wooden gate. Judenrat/Jewish Council sequence: rabbis approach and enter building, up stairs. CU signs. Interiors. Men enter office of Czerniakow, head of the Jewish Council. Czerniakow greets men, sits at desk, talking to them and to a man standing beside him. Pictures are on the walls, including a portrait of Pilsudski. Staged scene of meeting. See: "The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow": May 3, 1942 -- "At ten the film crew from the Propaganda Office arrived and proceeded to take pictures in my office. A scene was enacted of petitioners and rabbis enterin...

  13. Hitler Youth Reviewed by SS

    CU Iron Cross, pan down to poster that reads "Welcome to War ... of the Greater Germany Division", and in small print mentions Hitlerjugend. MCU jumble of smiling girls give smiling boys leafy lapel boutonnieres. German military band marches down cobblestone city street. Many civilians and soldiers watching. CU marching legs. Young uniformed troops marching with rifles. CU of reviewing SS officer. LS procession of new recruits in coats, marching. HS lines of soldiers in caps watching. Many townspeople on sidewalk. Marchers turn left in the square, camera follows them away. MS Young Hitler Y...

  14. Children Parade; Hitler Youth

    LS Children parade down street of Jihlava, Czechoslovakia in this very regimented series of events. Various views of spectators lining sidewalk; man in SA uniform; boys marching through field in costume, carrying what seem to be toy rifles with bayonets. LS pan over field with Nazi banners, onlookers on hillside. Parade grounds and children marching in formation. CU children. Narrator tells of Germany's gradual replacement of population in region (German for Czech.). CU medieval banner. CU Nazi officer speaking. VS of children in costume. Night bonfire: LS then MS Hitler Youth in a row, hol...

  15. Signal Corps photographs

    Contains thirty photographs taken by the U.S. Army Signal Corps; primarily consists of images of liberated concentration camps.

  16. Roma with dancing bear

    "Dancing" bear with muzzle performs for a crowd in the street under the guidance of a male Roma (who wears a fez and balloon pants).

  17. Hitler Youth flag

    A Hitler-Jugend Organisationsfahne (Hitler Youth Organization flag).The Hitler-Jugend (HJ, Hitler Youth) was founded in 1926, as one of several youth organizations in Germany. It was a branch of the Nazi party’s paramilitary group, the Sturmabteilung (SA, also called Stormtroopers), until May 13, 1932, when it became an independent organization. Following Adolf Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, the many other German youth organizations began to disband or merged with the HJ. The HJ divided its male members into two main groups: those between ages 10 to 14, a...

  18. SS Totenkopf (Death’s head) ring taken from an SS officer by a liberator and later given to a Holocaust survivor

    SS Ehrenring [honor ring] given to Benjamin Meed on October 24, 1992, by a liberator, who removed it from the finger of an SS officer in Germany in 1945. The rings, also called Totenkopfrings [Death’s head rings], were engraved with Himmler's name and were a highly prized award for SS officers. The SS (Schutztaffel; Protection Squadron) controlled the police forces and the concentration camp system for the Nazi Reich. In 1939, they created the Final Solution to eliminate the Jewish problem. Benjamin and his wife Vladka were Jewish resistance members in Warsaw, where they lived in the Ghetto...

  19. Bombing of Warsaw

    Aerial views of damage to Warsaw in 1939. 3:10:56 Interior of plane, pilot's compartment, bombardiers seat, map. 3:11:25 AV Squadron and bomber in flight. 3:12:08 Intertitle: Fliegerbomben auf Warschau; AV City of Warsaw attacked, bombs being dropped, smoke. 3:12:50 MS Damaged factory building. 3:13:10 LS Civilians on city streets going by damaged buildings. Pass huge bomb crater. LS of top floor of building bombed in. 3:13:45 Intertitle: Brandbomben auf Warchau; AV Suburbs of Warsaw. Firebombed buildings, much flame and rubble. 3:14:09 AV (see plane's wing) Good view of city smoking. 3:15:...

  20. German invasion of Poland, POWs, Hitler in Gdynia

    Fighting at Gdynia. German troops enter Gdynia, prisoners taken. Hitler enters city (only POV from car). German soldiers greet Hitler, surround him. Hitler and officers eating at field kitchen. Headquarter scenes, interior of railroad car. Hitler consults with officers, including Goering, Rommel, Himmler, generals. Graphic - German movement to Vistula up to Radom. German troops on the move, many Polish soldiers surrender arms, equipment. Aerial of captured artillery.