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  1. Serbian Collaborators

    General Jonic and Ministers Kostic and Ilya (officials of Serbian puppet government) attend swearing-in of Serbian anti-guerilla police divisions in Belgrade. LS from above, men in uniform in ranks in plaza. CU small shoulder patch. MS General Kostic (?) saluted to by junior officers; minister shakes hands with general and walks past men in review. General and ministers walk along path in courtyard and then up onto platform in plaza. MLS Uniformed men in rows with hats off raise right hands for swearing-in. LA shot of General swearing, then crossing himself. MS of two ministers on podium. (...

  2. Star of David badge with Jude in the center and a framed letter

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn7142
    • English
    • 1940
    • a: Height: 5.375 inches (13.653 cm) | Width: 6.625 inches (16.827 cm) b: Height: 11.875 inches (30.163 cm) | Width: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm)

    Originally owned by Mendel Kaliminsky, March 1943. Taken from him by his father, Solomon Kaliminsky, March 1943. Given to the Israelite Reprisal Brigade by Solomon Kaliminsky.

  3. German campaign in Poland: Polish POWs; Warsaw; German military

    Summary: The German viewpoint of events prior to and during the Polish campaign. Reel 7: shows masses of abandoned equipment and Polish POWs. German and Russian units meet. Hitler poses in front of besieged Warsaw. German armor and infantry enter the city after its capitulation.

  4. Execution of war criminals, Landsberg, Germany

    (Paris 369) Execution of War Criminals, Landsberg, Germany, November 19, 1945. LS, prison buildings. MS, two civilian executioners stand beneath scaffold looking at man who was just hung. LS, civilian executioners set up rope on scaffold. Roped-off area "official witnesses." Man lead up by priest, soldiers, military, police. LS, criminal drops thru trap door of scaffold. MS, rope is adjusted around condemned man's neck and trap is sprung. HS, looking thru trap door at corpse swinging from rope. Note: Three German nationals were hanged by the US military authorities for murdering US aviators...

  5. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: industry

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Festival; industry.

  6. Genetic disease, eugenics

    Film produced by Nazi Party. German mental hospitals and its patients including Jews. Text discusses "causes" and possible "solutions." Uses intertitles and graphics to discuss genetics of idiocy, unfair burden German people must bear to pay costs, and danger of ever increasing numbers of mentally ill. Patients supposedly live in luxury while many "normal" hardworking Germans live in substandard conditions.

  7. Red and silver enamel sign featuring the Polish Imperial eagle emblem

    Oval sign depicting the Republic of Poland’s national emblem, the White Eagle, used between 1927 and 1939. A crowned eagle had been used as a Polish symbol for centuries, and first appeared on the official state coat of arms in 1295. Poland lost its independence in 1795, only regaining it in 1918, following World War I. In 1919, Poland’s government adopted the crowned white eagle as the official state symbol. This took a variety of forms until Zygmunt Kamiński, a university professor of architecture and art, was commissioned to create an official design signed into law in 1927. The design w...

  8. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: refugees camp

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Refugees camp.

  9. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: anti-Nazi rally

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Hospital; anti-Nazi rally.

  10. VE Day in US

    United News. Crowds in Times Square celebrate news of VE Day and people pray in churches.

  11. Corpses on sidewalks, passers-by, loading coffins

    Jewish-mortality chart. Shots of people walking by corpse on the sidewalk; some are running. Coffin wagon in street stops, men carry out plain coffin and drag body into it. Group of men carries and then loads coffin into wagon and walk it away. Two emaciated corpses laid out on sidewalk, people pass by. Men bring cart to bodies and begin to load them.

  12. Soviets defeat Germans at Vitebsk in summer 1944

    Title on screen: Battle of Vitebsk. Map showing Vitebsk (50 miles due west of Moscow), narrator explains the strategic importance of the city and the military situation as it was by June 1944. Soviet army begins assault. German soldiers advance toward city, come across camp of Soviet civilians. LS Russian T34 tanks move to front silhouetted by sunrise, MLS of column of men marching, SU100s, tanks, jeeps, trucks, Katusha rocket launchers, camouflaged armored vehicles move to front through woods and fields. Map of closing Russian circle, insert CU Generals Czernickhowski and Bagramian in midd...

  13. Cairo Conference

    "UN Leaders Meet in Middle East" President Roosevelt meets with Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek in Cairo. Shows Madame Chiang. According to UN contents sheet: "The leaders of China, Great Britain and the United States...meet face to face for the first time...The High Commands of the United Nations powers mapping the blows that will strip Japan of the vast empire gained through fifty years of terror and aggression. Three great Allies pledged to a common cause: The unconditional surrender of Japan."

  14. Warsaw Uprising 1944

    LS of destroyed rubble and smoke rising in BG. German troops combing through rubble in Praga, suburb of Warsaw. MS Soldier carries basket of long handled explosives, troops ducking and dodging firing weapons amidst debris. MS Firing through hole in wall, German in cap fires rifle, howitzer fires. LS of street, buildings and smoke, aircraft fly overhead. Single file line along trench, fierce fighting, mortar attacks after looking through slit in wall. Howitzer fires across street. Use of flamethrowers outside bulidngs and in interiors.

  15. Concentration camp inmate uniform jacket

    Jacket issued as a uniform to an inmate in a concentration camp.

  16. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 100 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.

  17. Roma/Sinti in Berlin

    Romani group in Berlin filmed by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in 1932. 00:00:40 Horse grazing near camp. Overhead shots of wagons, horses near by. Child in courtyard. 00:01:11 Woman washes child in wagon doorway. Children comb hair. CUs children. 00:01:42 Children play with banners. 00:02:04 Shots of wagons and horses, men with horse, slap hands. Men into wagons. 00:02:36 CU of woman. Wagon along road. Men drive off in cart. POV cart, leaving camp. 00:03:02 Berlin street, wagon. 00:03:18 Horse market. 00:04:01 Girl in wagon at market, CU. More horse market. 00:04:36 CU man, profile, boy with horse. 0...

  18. 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.

  19. Train in England

    "Arrival of train and departure of the Victoria and Albert." Different views of a train moving on elevated tracks above water into a city, people watch and wave hats.

  20. Nazi flag acquired at Dachau by a US soldier

    Nazi flag taken from Dachau concentration camp by Lt. Col. Irving Dilliard of the United States Military government in 1945.