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  1. German coalition government, 1928

    German coalition government, 1928. Members of the Mueller Cabinet posing with one row seated and another standing behind them. They are talking amongst themselves. MCU, Hermann Mueller (left), Germany's new Chancellor, and Wilhelm Groener, Minister of Defense; pan left to Erich Koch-Weser. MLS showing most of them. Sitting, from left to right: Erich Koch-Weser, Hermann Mueller, Wilhelm Groener, Rudolf Wissell? Standing: Rudolf Hilferding, Julius Curtius, Carl Severing, Theodor von GuTrard. This was a grand coalition, reaching across the political spectrum, of the parties Sozialdemokratische...

  2. FDR speaking at NY World's Fair & in Washington, DC

    "Freedom - President Urges Tolerance in US" President Roosevelt speaking in Washington urges tolerance. On the site of the New York World's Fair, speaking before National Education Association, Roosevelt speaks out against censorship. 01:46:53 "Washington" In Washington, FDR argues that his policies are legitimate under the Constitution.

  3. Demonstration in London

    "Moslem Demonstration" Moslem demonstration in London. Two men carry banner, "Down With H.G. Wells Short History of the World."

  4. Royalty, politicians, statesmen, authors highlighted

    REEL 1: In the 1930s. Opening scene is of an orchestra playing with big poster of Hitler on wall behind them, they are playing to a full hall of all men who appear to be prisoners. Close shots of the Duke of Windsor seated in the front row with non-prisoner VIPs. Various European royalty. 01:33:35 Politicians and statesmen. League of Nations. 01:38:11 Closeup of book by H.G. Wells, "The Shape of Things to Come". H.G. Wells is asked about "the terrible state of the world today." Lady Astor prophetically says that we can lead the Russians out of communism by trading with them. Great George Be...

  5. Nazi leaders, other fascist leaders

    REEL 2: The rise of fascist dictatorships. Some of the Nazi leaders: Hess, Goering, Goebbels, etc. collecting money for charity outside a theater, and cheerfully chatting with the theater-goers. Giant Nazi rally. Hitler speaking to huge crowd who sit listening while being snowed upon. Italian politician Balbo visits Goering's Karinhall, shooting party includes Ernst Udet. Series of CUs of different fascist types making speeches. Various scenes of Germany showing popularity of Nazis and the whole Nazi ideal. One group includes Gen. Rommel. 01:46:38 Mussolini as farmer, helping with the thres...

  6. 1933 events in England, USA

    Cricket. MSs batsman hitting, bowler throwing. LSs of cricket match being played in front of large crowd. Headline re "bodyline bowling" controversy. 01:20:54 CU sign "Fleet St." Shot looking up the busy street. Interior offices of paper? journalists working (narrator speaks as a journalist) LS, MS G.K. Chesterton speaking to big crowd. Auto racing at Brooklands. CUs people in booths keeping records. 01:21:28 Election in Ireland. Big crowd, riot breaking out, men fighting with police. Yachts at Cowes. 01:21:54 Loch Ness monster, headline "Beast with 7 ft Neck. Nightmare Shape." Pan on Loch ...

  7. HG Wells in Moscow

    "H.G. Wells Welcomed," Moscow. Air liner lands at Moscow airport. Mr HG Wells alights and is greeted. Close shot of him with others speaking into microphone.

  8. Foyles' Luncheon with Benes

    "Dr. Benes Feted in London" Ex-president of Czechoslovakia, Benes, is chief guest at Foyles' Luncheon. Benes speaks. Also present are Jan Masaryk, Count Raczynski and Mr. HG Wells.

  9. Auschwitz Concentration Camp

    Auschwitz concentration camp at liberation. Pan of camp: row after row of barracks. Quick shot "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate. Trench with bodies, MLS then MCU of woman in the trench. MS, line of camp inmates with Soviet soldiers standing above the trenches, taking down notes. VS, inmates, an old woman and a young boy stand side by side posing for the camera. They are both very emaciated, the woman is dressed in rags with a kerchief on her head, the boy is wearing shorts. VS, CUs of piles of hair, bundles with numbers on them, MS, inmates in uniforms in sleeping barracks. Translation of Ukrainian...

  10. Ukrainian Waffen SS Galicia Division

    Men in civilian clothing carry swastika and SS banners. These are Ukrainian volunteers for the Galician Division of the SS. Swastikas, religious blessing of units. The SS group - stills, published photos, and art work. Parade, men carrying large signs and banners with the symbol of the SS Galiciana unit. Railroad car with SS chalked on the side, close scene, men in the rail car. Translation of Ukrainian narration: SS... Entire classes of students from the theological seminary* and academy were sent here. The Soviet army totally smashed these warriors near Brody. They moved no further than 1...

  11. March of Time: Nazi Germany

    Info from the MOT story card: Hitler has given every man a job and new-found security, but at the expense of freedom. Demands of the Nazi state, glorified by Goebbels, are extremely exacting. Nothing must be wasted, "collections" are actually compulsory, youth is regimented, Jews and Communists are blamed for everything. In the US, Fritz Kuhn and his Bund flourish openly. But one American town, surfeited, refuses to allow a Bund camp to open. However, the shadow of the future lies not only over Germany but the whole of Europe. What will it bring forth?

  12. March of Time: refugees

    Info from the MOT story card: Even more horrible than the fate of fugitives from war is the lot of the ever increasing army of fugitives from Nazi terror. Not just Jews, but all who do not agree with Nazi doctrines are victims. Those who escape the concentration camp are hounded from land to land by Hitler's machinations. But his very tactics were to unite the democracies in protest, and in affirmation of the doctrines of liberty. Destroying books and music at 12:09:54:09.

  13. Liberation of Kharkiv (Kharkov), Ukraine

    Newsreel produced on the first anniversary of the liberation of Kharkiv [Kharkov]. Clouds of billowing smoke. CU cross (grave marker). CU barbed wire fence, behind the fence are more grave markers. MS, wall through barbed wire, on wall the word "Lager" is written. EXT of building, CU, shot from low angle, angle up to sign above entrance to building that reads: "Ortskommandantur-West". MLS of the same building, from across the street. VS, destruction of city, crumbled buildings, rubble and dead body in the streets. Still of several men hanging from a balcony (location and victims unidentifie...

  14. Ukrainian crimes against humanity

    Ukrainian Newsreel and Documentary Film Footage about the crimes committed by Ukrainian fascists--bourgeois nationalists-who murdered Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, and Jews in September 1942 near Lake Pisotska in the Vollin area. Shots of criminals and the commandant of Ukrainian police. It is forty years since their crimes, but since there is no statute of limitations for crimes against humanity, the Soviets bring the Ukrainian fascists to trial. Trial footage, including testimonies, witnesses, and shots of civilian audience. Narration argues that Zionists and the Jewish Defense League trai...

  15. Ukrainian crimes against humanity

    Ukrainian Newsreel and Documentary Film Footage about the crimes committed by Ukrainian fascists--bourgeois nationalists-who murdered Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, and Jews in September 1942 near Lake Pisotska in the Vollin area. Shots of criminals and the commandant of Ukrainian police. It is forty years since their crimes, but since there is no statute of limitations for crimes against humanity, the Soviets bring the Ukrainian fascists to trial. Trial footage, including testimonies, witnesses, and shots of civilian audience. Narration argues that Zionists and the Jewish Defense League trai...

  16. Agro-Joint activity in Russia, Morris Troper's 1936 trip

    Morris Troper arrives in Simpferopol and enters a building with a sign reading "American Jewish Joint, Agricultural Corporation." Mr. Zaichek, the chief agronom, shows Troper the route he will travel on a map. He leaves for Jonkoi in a car. MS, Mr. Zaichek's son. MS, cow. 01:02:19 Pervomaysk colony. Pan, LS village with little white houses, farming. MCU, man with white beard and glasses. Man exits house, chickens, walking towards camera. CU, man. LS Modern school in Kalininsk. 01:04:27 Maxim Gorky colony. Pan, bare-chested boys, smiling for camera. LS, women bake bread in an outdoor oven. H...

  17. Forced labor

    Bodies being thrown into a pit, very poor image quality. CU of a man's legs, he leans down with his arm to put a gun in his boots. LS through a window of women and children in an open patch of grass on a farm type compound. A child chases its mother, only to be chased back by a German soldier. The mother is also held back from her child by the soldier. Translation of Russian narration: [Abrupt]...they could not, even at gunpoint. Daily, according to the Fuehrer's order, the youth and the mothers were taken for hard labor. They were taken into slavery in Germany.

  18. German soldiers; Crimes in Ukraine

    German soldiers, people leaving (unidentified locations). Civilians are lined up and gunned down by German soldiers [This scene seems highly edited - for instance, one cut appears to be German soldiers in a field with a machine gun killing civilians in the middle of a city. It is unclear whether this is real film or anti-German propaganda. It also could have been shot in a Jewish ghetto.] Execution by hanging: nooses are placed around the victims' necks, then the camera cuts to another shot (see Story 4913, Film ID 2910 for longer, better quality version of this hanging). Men of the SS-Gali...

  19. Post war trials of collaborators in Ukraine

    Village (unidentified, in Ukraine). Women are beating a prisoner [the prisoner may be Zvarych: a well-known Ukrainian collaborator, this needs further research and documentation]. Someone behind the camera interviews a man. CUs of an interviewee. Another man is testifying at the Soviet court. CUs of witnesses testifying, CUs court documents, CUs judges. Translation of Russian narration and Ukrainian testimony (Russian is dubbed over Ukrainian, both are heard): As children our parents would frighten us with "Zvarych." "You'll see, the 'red boots' will come." Zvarych was the "red boots." [At ...

  20. Events related to Babi Yar massacre; Einsatzgruppen in Ukraine; Nuremberg Trial; Auschwitz

    The following clips are not directly related to each other. Includes dramatized scenes of Babi Yar in the ravine area where German troops and a large group of people are herded forward at gunpoint. The shots most likely come from the 1945 fiction film by Mark Donskoi called "The Taras Family" in English or "Nepokoryonnye" ["The Unvanquished"] in Russian. 00:45:13 (silent) Burning houses. CUs of people killed at the burning houses. CUs of SS-Galicia unit soldiers. German soldiers executing men by hanging. CU of a high-ranking Nazi officer accepting bread. Soldier receives an award. CUs of Uk...