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  1. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: children

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

  2. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: refugees & fascists

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Unrest; refugees; fascists.

  3. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: Berchtesgaden

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

  4. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: Munich Pact

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Munich and after.

  5. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: refugees camp

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

  6. Deportation of Jews from Thrace

    The deportation of the Jewish communities of Kavala, Seres, and Drama from Thrace, an area under Bulgarian military administration (now Northern Greece), carried out by the Bulgarians in spring 1943. Nearly seven minutes of film footage recorded by cameramen from Bulgarska delo document this deportation consisting of approximately 3,000 Jews. It was not possible to shoot without some official permission, for example at the request of the Bulgarian commissar of Jewish Affairs, but no records about it have been found. The film material was not used in a newsreel, nor in any film at the time. ...

  7. Stills of Romanian fascist atrocities; pogrom

    A film showing photographs of Romanian fascist atrocities. Intertitle reads, POGROMUL DE LA BUCURESTI. Document, 2? January 1941 (text in French). Photographic stills illustrate atrocities, mangled faces, corpses, portraits. VAR images of devastation. Talmud/Torah. INT, destruction of synagogue, chairs, debris, rubble. CUs, documents with Jewish names. 01:10:56 Document, 29-30 June 1941 (text in French). More stills of atrocities. Corpses dead in the streets. Some images include soldiers and civilians. Corpses lined in fields. CU, document (text in French). More corpses. Trial stills. Prepa...

  8. Cemetery; synagogue

    Contemporary footage of a memorial or Jewish cemetery. CU, EXT ornate sign in Hebrew (gravestone?). Different views of synagogue. Pan to Jewish star on roof of building.

  9. Kalevi-Liiva concentration camp, Estonia

    Footage and photographic stills of Kalevi-Liiva concentration/extermination camp in Estonia, including shots of a crematorium, barbed wire, Arbeit Macht Frei sign, victims (survivors?). Documents with names Ralf Gerriets and Jan Viik. City scenes. Trial footage, witnesses testify, photographic stills of atrocities presented as evidence, including Einsatzgruppen? acts, pits with corpses, decapitated heads. Memorial service at camp.

  10. Klooga concentration camp

    Burning town. Civilians, soldiers, survivors. Smoke. Camp, barbed wire. Sign reading O.T. BETRIEBE KLOOGA. Photographic still of Hitler. Corpses piled next to bunks, corpses in pits. Pan of survivors, simulating murders/torture. Footage of brutally murdered bodies.

  11. Soviet Army liberates Klooga concentration camp

    Soviet Army liberates Klooga concentration camp. Map. Military scenes including shots of soldiers/Army in field, INT at a desk, on tanks, fighting in forests. Military advances. Shots of horses and more tanks. Map depicting attacks.

  12. Postwar destruction; liberation of Dachau; DPs going home

    8mm color and b/w motion pictures taken by Dr. Myron E. Greene (a dentist) during his five years in the Army. His unit took over Dachau from the 45th Div. at noon on April 29, 1945. Scenes showing destruction in Germany. Camera moving quickly. Clouds of smoke, flames, airplane in sky (dark). American GIs smoking, looking at sky. 06:03:15 (black and white) At military camp, jeeps, soldiers dressing. Destruction, ruins, rubble. Ambulance with Red Cross and military trucks moving in town; in same scene, people walking through the streets in the opposite direction, some have belongings. Scenes ...

  13. French resistance

    Newsreel describing resistance activities in France. Title reads: France Actualites. La France et L'empire L'Europe et le monde. Destruction in city. Books in a pile. Civilians look at destruction. Weapons. CUs members of the Manouchian Network (mostly young). These individuals are identified at the end of Film ID 411 with inserted titling: Manouchian; Boczor; Rayman; Celestino; Fingercwajg; Wajsbrot. Soldiers guarding entrance. Diplomats enter sanctuary, viewing body, exiting. Coffin loaded onto a wagon and paraded through the city. Civilians and soldiers watch.

  14. Funeral ceremony

    Funeral ceremony, including speeches, display of flags, parade, church scenes. Civilians and soldiers watch. Mr. Gassowski assassinated in Marseilles?

  15. Danish rescue mission; refugees arrive in Sweden

    Danish Jews fleeing to Sweden in 1943 and arrive at the refugee center. Boat at shoreline. Group of men chopping wood. Pan, refugees gather in reception hall in Sweden. CU, baby, children. Quick shot of boat. Interviews. Chopping wood. Line of refugees. Medical examinations. Photographs taken. Pan, line. CUs, food, two women serving food. Diplomats, office. Boat in water.

  16. Germans occupy Copenhagen; panic in town square

    Germans takeover all Danish military installations and personnel and declared Martial Law. Two German soldiers marching up street lined with trees, in front of castle. CU, Martial Law document introduced on August 29, 1943 posted in window, reading "Militaire Undtagelsestilstand ihele Danmark." HAS street scene with German soldiers and Danish civilians, some with bicycles, around Town Hall Square in Copenhagen. HAS German military vehicle entering square. Automobiles, more bicycles. HAS men and women gathered around central building in square. German soldiers trying to keep a well-dressed m...

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. Nazi invasion of Denmark

    Factory. Soldiers on bicycles. Nazi flag on boat mast, view of airplane flying overhead. Soldiers on boat, smiling and smoking. Boat moving on water, plane soaring above. Snow-capped mountains in BG. Plane landing in the water. More shots of soldiers. Tanks loaded onto a ship as horses are unloaded. More soldiers. HASs soldiers marching and singing, playing drums. Civilians watch, some interact with soldiers. More views from different angles of the soldiers marching and band performing. Tram, pedestrians. Soldiers socializing with women.

  20. Jehovah's Witnesses

    A documentary about the fate of the Kusserow family in Germany during WWII. They are Jehovah's Witnesses.