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  1. Crowd in Alborg protests German occupation; Germans occupy Copenhagen

    Alborg (town in Northern Jutland, Denmark), crowds in the streets in connection with Niels Erik Vangsted's funeral on August 23, 1943. Bicycles. Man distributing/selling goods to a crowd of civilians. 00:09:31 HAS crowd, some people running, woman pursued in the street, German car forced backwards by angry citizens of Alborg. Sense of panic. People are fighting, beaten by German soldiers. HAS choppy movement. Bicycles and pedestrians. Soldiers marching through the city. People running. 00:10:06 Cut to airplane. Nazis exiting, saluting. Military vehicle (truck) entering Copenhagen, Denmark o...

  2. Prayerbook kept by a Jewish woman in concentration camps

    The prayer book was originally owned by Betty Rothschild, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was received by Resa Klau at an orphanage in Westerbork. It was obtained by Ursula Klau after her mother's death in May 1945 at Bergen-Belsen and was kept by her through various DP camps and through arrival to United States at New York in 1953.

  3. Slums in Sicily and Naples, Italy

    In Sicily, "Grand-domed building contrasts with close-set houses crowding the streets of the poorer section of town." In Naples, Italy, pan down large elaborate building. Monuments and statues. Cut to slums of Rome, narrow streets, laundry hangs above, visibly poorer conditions, children in tattered clothing play. CU boy on sidewalk. "Many fountains and troughs in the cities serve a useful purpose, while others are merely ornamental or erected as memorials." Horse carrying load stands next to fountain. View of elaborate fountain that attracts spectators. "Naples, after Genoa, is Italy's mos...

  4. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 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.

  5. Deutscher Kleinempfänger [German small radio] produced in Nazi Germany

    Deutscher Kleinempfänger [German small radio] manufactured by G. Schaub in 1938. The radio was produced to help spread Nazi propaganda. It was made to sell at a low cost, so the majority of people could afford it. It lacked shortwave reception to make it difficult to receive foreign broadcasts. The radio was nicknamed Goebbels’ Schnauze [Snout], referring to the Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, who often addressed the public through radio.

  6. UNRRA at Displaced Persons Camp

    (LIB 7013) UNRRA at Displaced Persons Camp, Wetzlar, Germany, June 14-15, 1945. LSs, MSs, male displaced persons doing calisthenics and drilling under direction of UNRRA worker. MS, children enter bus for tour of local area. Girls wave as bus pulls away. MLS, men and women in uniform standing in front of doors labelled "Headquarters DET DP 46". CU, group of men and women. CU, another group of men and women. (Good image quality/camera work). MS, two men in uniform get inside UNRRA convertible. Seq: Children in playground with adult displaced persons directing their games under supervision of...

  7. Drawing

    Drawing of prison cell created by unknown artist, 1947. Found by Deborah Drapkin in pages of "Der Kampf Im Westen" (book donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library by Deborah Drapkin in 1992).

  8. German invasion of Poland; start of WWII

    Reel 5: German troops attack fortifications, running, explosions. Shelling Gydnia harbor. "Soldiers in civilian clothing" rounded up. Triumphal entry of troops into city. Banner over road "Gelenhafe", POV from car - tanks and motor cycles across bridge. Crowds of troops surround Hitler. Hitler at field camp. Interiors of headquarters, Goering looking over plans, Hitler seated in headquarters. Radio operators. Hitler looking at battle plans. Graphic showing troop movements towards Vistula. Polish troops along road, German soldiers disarming them. CUs of captured Polish equipment.

  9. Germans in Occupied Ukraine

    Footage shot by a German cameraman during Germany's occupation of Ukraine in World War II. Footage with German photographers traveling through the Ukraine photographing cities, villages, and collective farms. The most extensive footage is taken with a female photographer from her trip to Ukraine in the summer of 1943. She traveled by plane and car from southern Ukraine (the Melitopol region) just north of Crimea, then along the Dnepr River northward over Dnepropetrovsk to Kiev and then due west to Rovno and then the border of General Government. Reel 7: 06:00:02 MS Wheat harvest, men and wo...

  10. Casablanca Conference

    FDR, Churchill, De Gaulle and Giraud confer, sitting informally outdoors and chatting briefly. FDR with Gen Patton rides in jeep, reviews troops near Casablanca as military band plays. Signal Corps photographers. Nonessential segments: 01:34:56 to 01:41:15, CU two GIs describe their experience landing in North Africa.

  11. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 20 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.

  12. Street scenes in Bialystok

    Intertitles appear in Yiddish and English. Town, streets, man on bicycle. "The Old Synagogue" Pan up and down old synagogue. Street activity with pedestrians and many shops. Group of people pose in front of synagogue. Children. Pan up to synagogue.

  13. Łódź becomes Litzmannstadt, reels 1 and 3

    Germans build new planned city for German Volk. Łódź before and after being "rebuilt." Stroll through town, labor camps, city street. Reel 1: LS panorama of city. Animap highlights darkened area "Wandalen" (early history of Vandals and Germanic occupation of area). CU stone surrounding circular metal object, pull out to reveal museum (archeological?) cases of vases. "Das Gefaess Aus Biala..." label on one of the vases. Swastika carved into urn. CU of ornamental crosses and other objects, spearheads, helmets. Map of Sudetenland and Warthegau, extreme Eastern edge, points to Litzmannstadt (Łó...

  14. Ship

    Ship at sea.

  15. Nuremberg stadium, swastika blown up by US troops

    US and Russian troops meet at the Elbe. Shows General Emil Reinhardt. Shows scenes of Nazi headquarters in Nuremberg. Huge US flag is raised over the giant swastika atop the Nuremberg stadium. Swastika is later blown up - the actual explosion and flying debris.

  16. Albert Speer Gives Award news

    Part 3, Albert Speer heads delegation walking into munitions factory, good CU, large crowd of workers listens to him. He is completely surrounded by workers on bombed factory floor. Puts ribbon around neck of award recepient and shakes his hand, walks out thru crowd, lots of kids among workers.

  17. Book

  18. Denmark during WWII: Copenhagen; refugees escape by boat; underground printing press; Yalta

    MS, EXT Christiansborg Castle. INT, room with ornate table and chairs, empty now because the Danish government resigned. Shops/businesses, including a clothing store and a shoe store, sign reading "...pige Kofektion." Pan up building, where the National Freedom Council held illegal meetings. Memorial wreaths, flowers, ribbons with Danish commemorating fallen soldiers who died on August 29, 1943. View up street [seen in Story 828, Film ID 511] where Danish civilians bring flowers to the King on his 73rd birthday on September 26, 1943. CU, boy with raincoat. 00:06:37 At night, Danish Jews fle...

  19. Hopkins back from England

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 13, No. 955, Part 1. Release date, 02/16/1941. Harry Hopkins returns from England after a month's tour as President Roosevelt's special representative, convinced that Hitler can be beaten by Britain, with material help from the US. Harry Hopkins arrives via Yankee Clipper at LaGuardia Sea Base. Hopkins leaving plane, greeted by Mayor LaGuardia. Reporters interview Hopkins (MS and LS).

  20. Quisling and Norwegian fascists

    UFA #688: LS of parade in Oslo, banner being carried. MS Uniformed men (units of Nasjonal Samling salute Vidkun Quisling). Women's unit. Onlookers don't appear too happy. LS of crowd looking on. CU of two different speakers in uniform.