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  1. Hans Frank

    Hans Frank, Governor-General of Poland, visits Stry (a small town in western Ukraine), and is presented with flowers. Marches in city streets lined with Ukrainians. HAS in Belgrade,Serbia military gathering, Serbs, flag. Russians crowd in city square marching with signs, parade of collaborators. Translation of Ukrainian narration: With great enthusiasm the Ukrainian population greeted the General-governor. [Belgrade/Serbia]: And in Belgrade there were also many Serbian volunteers who agreed to fight against communism. On St. Yuriy's (St, George) Day Serbian volunteer units received a flag. ...

  2. Captured Soviet POWs

    Captured Soviet soldiers, long columns of captured soldiers guarded by Germans, and several destroyed military vehicles. Translation of Ukrainian narration: The number of prisoners constantly increases. Their long columns are being sent to the rear.

  3. Romanian military in Odessa; Romanian occupation

    Military actions in Odessa, which was captured by German and Romanian forces in 1941, then occupied by Romania. A plane flies over sections of a city which have been bombed out and lie in ruins. Fire and smoke billow out from buildings, including the Theater Kotovsky (still in Odessa?). Romanian troops in occupied Sevastopol. First days of Romanian occupation.

  4. Syrets concentration camp, Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine

    Camp near Babi Yar. VS, EXT, pan of mountainside. The location is Syrets Concentration Camp, located outside Kiev. Pan to prison fences and barbed wire. A sign on wooden fence post reads: "Warning! Prisoners who attempt to cross to freedom will be shot." VS, bodies, INT and EXT of camp, faces of prisoners behind barbed wire, trains. Tranlsation: [Natalya Vasylivna - a survivor of Syrets - speaks in Russian] "This is Syrets concentration camp. It's very close to our house. All men were put at the very edge of a ravine. A car came very close to the ravine. And they shot all of them before my ...

  5. Survivors at Majdanek

    [The title is misleading - there is actually no trial footage in this story.] VS, CU, malnourished baby in diaper, CU, needle and syringe and hand, person is wearing a white lab coat. CUs of survivors, lying emaciated on the ground and in wooden beds. INT, still of room where bodies were decapitated. MCU, bushel of heads in a wooden fruit basket, resting next to a line of decapitated corpses in a wooden rack. Various CUs of the heads. Montage of familiar camp images: ovens, piles of metal, hair, and shoes. Translation of Ukrainian narration: A giant death industry was being created. More th...

  6. Babi Yar

    Compilation of still photos of atrocities. MCU, hanging corpses. VS, a group of journalists in the Babi Yar area. They are writing in notebooks, taking down the words of one man who stands in the center of the circle of journalists, as a witness, there are a few women in the crowd. Journalist speaks to camera, by a ravine, explaining the story of what happened during the massacre. Camera pans down and across the ravine. Several other journalists are standing along the downward slope of the ravine. Translation of Ukrainian narration and Russian witness testimony: Novograd-Volynskyi, Zhytomyr...

  7. Babi Yar

    VS, rubble and bodies intermingled on ground. VS, wood and corpses stacked together. MCU of charred skeletal remains, smoke rising from the ashes. Pan, piles of bones and fragments of bones. Quick cut to a MLS of the countryside, trees silhouetted against the sky along a dirt road; smoke is rising along the road. Translation of Ukrainian narration: Excerpts from the protocols of the State Commission. Testimonies of Isaac Brodsky, [name not entirely clear], Yakov Koper and other members of the death team #1005. The Nazis brought here [to Babi Yar] granite monuments and iron fences taken from...

  8. Exhumation of corpses of Soviet civilians by German POWs

    Exhumation of corpses of the Soviet civilians by German POWs. Woman, stands to the side of the pit, hands clasped, watching as they take out a body, and crying (possibly her husband or son). VS of soldiers digging up graves. The woman who was crying before appears again, in a different shot, MCU, she is being interviewed by someone behind the camera, and, with her hands clasped she explains her story to the camera and continues to sob. Soldiers look on, standing behind this woman. Pan, scores of bodies laid out, quick cut to another elderly woman speaking, she remains on screen for a fracti...

  9. Legacy of Babi Yar

    Babi Yar (?). Visitors to mass graves. The ground is covered with a light dusting of snow. Exhumation of bodies. Pan down ravine. Wide angle shot of bodies in a ditch, CU of a skull, propped on top of clothing, the skull still has hair, menacing placement of the skull staring at the camera. Translation of Ukrainian narration: [Abrupt] ...in Babi Yars all over Ukraine: in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Kerch, Lviv. Criminals were forced to look at what they had done. [A woman's voice behind the camera. Abrupt.] "The only thing I want to say: all this horror that happened..."

  10. Ethnic groups of Trancarpathia - Travelogue of Czechoslovak Travel Agency

    Silent with Czech intertitles. Opens with MCU of water wheel and river. VS water wheel and its mechanisms. MLS peasant family standing in front of a thatched roof house. VS, LS, countryside, hills and valleys, trees and the river running through the valley. MLS, log cabins, some may form part of a dam that harnesses the water power from the river. Title: "Vychodni' hranice Czeskoslovenska tvori' pohranicni pas cernohorsky." LS, pan, snow capped mountains. 00:12:24 MLS, a group of Jews and Roma-men women and children. Several women in traditional peasant costumes at Czech border. MS, Roma wo...

  11. Transcarpathia

    Silent with Hungarian intertitles. "Teleki Pal Grof". miniszterelnok latogatast tett a Rutenfoldon es felkereste a szlovak legitamadas erte teriileteket." VS, high angle, group of dignitaries meet, handshakes, police and military in uniform. Crowd, flags waving. Pan of snow-capped mountains in the BG to group of officers and political figures standing on a rooftop or a balcony, looking out over the crowd below. Quick shot of Hungarian flag waving. Wreath draped on statue of an eagle in a public square, onlookers. MLS, through archway, several men assembled in a courtyard. MS, MCU, CU, pan c...

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Sweden

    1021 E (04:00:40): View of Swedish Foreign Office in Stockholm. Christian Gunther, Swedish Foreign Minister, in his office at the Swedish Foreign Office, smoking, looking at papers. Various shots, CUs. VS Por Ablin Anson, Prime Minister, in his private office in the Kanslihuset (slightly underexposed). Looking at papers on desk, CU, Anson. Cabinet meeting in Kanslihuset, Stockholm. Members of the Swedish cabinet with the Prime Minister as president. CU, Swedish Foreign Minister (Gunther) on the immediate right of the Prime Minister (Anson). LS and CU of the cabinet, ministers in council. 10...

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Sweden

    Stockholm free harbor from neighboring hill. Merchant ship at anchor, crane derricks in FG. Loading coastal and Baltic steamers at Stadsgarden Stockholm. LS, coal wharves in Stockholm with Swedish ship from Germany unloading coal. LS, cranes at work. Shot from bridge of collier, showing coal being hoisted from ship's hold. CU, coal grab leaving ship's hold. Coal truck outside wharf being filled with coal. LS, coal trucks laden with coal. CU, workmen loading coal. Coaster steamer. Passenger boat from Finland arriving in Stockholm. Finnish flag. Stern of passenger ship "Nordstjernan." Passeng...

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Vichy government ministers, ministry buildings; Darlan, Laval, Tixier-Vignancour

    811 A (04:19:30) (negative, shot with Leblay) Adrien Marquet, Minister of Interior, before the Vichy Casino where the Ministry of Interior is installed. EXT shots, Ministry of Interior at Vichy. EXT shots of the Ministry of Agriculture et Ravitaillement installed in the Hotel Albert 1er. CU, sign: "Ministère de L'Agriculture et du Ravitaillement." EXT shots - Hotel du Parc et Majestic where the Présidence du Conseil is installed. General view of the Hotel du Parc; flags and CU of the letters RF (République Francaise). EXT, the Supreme Court of Riom, which will judge the men responsible for ...

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Vichy deputies meet; Petain; S. American diplomats; main streets in Vichy; Minister of War at airport

    811 C (04:28:36): (with Leblay camera) Meeting of the Comité d'Organisation du Parti Unique at Vichy. From left to right: Antoine Cayrel; Emmanuel Temple; Charles Spinasse; Gaston Bergery; Marcel Déat; Michel Brille; René Chateau; Remy Gousseau; Louis Deschizeaux; René Dommange; and standing Paul Saurin; Paul Rives. The men are all former deputies and the main chiefs are Marcel Déat and Gaston Bergery. Meetings are held in a small house, 83 Rue du Maréchal Pétain in Vichy. CUs and group shots of various members. 04:28:45 (with Leblay camera) Adrien Marquet, Minister of the Interior, in his ...

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- French youth organization training; crowds support Petain

    811 K (04:40:13): July-August 1940 The Ministry of Family and Youth. LS, Minister Jean Ybarnegaray with his chief collaborators. From left to right: ex-Davis Cup player and Wimbledon champion Jean-Robert Borotra, Commissioner for Physical Education and Sports; Gen. d'Harcourt, General Secretary of the Ministry; Minister Jean Ybarnegaray; Serge Huard; Cortot. CU, Borotra and Ybarnegaray. CU, looking at the plans of a stadium. 04:41:05 The "Compagnons de France," the new French Youth organization, train the future leaders of their organization in a camp at Randan, near Vichy (Puy-le-Dome). LS...

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Marshal Petain; Vichy deputies; Laval, Herriot

    Marshal Pétain watching wreath-laying at memorial statue, parade, and Pétain reviewing. EXT, Chamber of Deputies. Pierre Laval, Edouard Herriot and others arriving. Chamber in session.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Daily life in Gothenburg, Sweden

    City of Gothenburg from the harbor. Model flats in Gothenburg, shot from rubber-neck boat. Old houses in Gothenburg, from canal. View of the old city from the canal. MS, canal, street scene. Norra Hamnagatan with German church in BG. Shot down Ostra Hamnagatan. Similar shot in opposite direction. Views of park. View looking down Kungsportsavenyn from Art Museum steps. Front of Art Museum. CU Poseidon statue. Shopping center, crowd outside picture theatre reading posters. Ice cream stall on bridge. Newspaper shop window with people reading news sheets. CU, citizen reading. Newspaper posters....

  19. Verdoner children playing in the garden

    CU, Otto Verdoner standing in his crib, smiling happily for the camera. ECU, Otto's face. VS, Otto playing with wooden toys in his crib. MCU, Francisca seated in a chair next to Otto's crib, she talks to her brother, and amuses herself. EXT, several children, including Yoka and Francisca Verdoner in the Verdoners' garden. ECU, Otto in the arms of his mother Hilde, passing the camera to go outside with the other children. VS, children running around playing ball, the father of the other young children (3) is present. There are two boys and one girl. Yoka and the boys chase each other around ...

  20. Verdoner children

    MCU, Yoka Verdoner hamming it up for the camera. Hilde Verdoner feeding her son Otto who is seated in his high chair at the table. Otto begins to feed himself as well. CU, Francisca Verdoner seated at the table, drinking milk that was poured for her, and eating. She smiles and plays for the camera. VS, CUs, Otto eating and drinking milk, playing "peek-a-boo" for the camera. More shots of Otto eating.