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  1. Anschluss in Vienna and Scharding, Austria

    Military parade for the Nazi annexation of Austria in March 1938. Cars drive through, people line the streets on either side. Large crowds stand outside the Austrian Parliament Building in Vienna. A Nazi flag hangs behind the crowd. A man holds a sign that reads “Mot. Truppen: 16 km.” German half-track cars drive through the street, towing artillery parts at the back. More crowd shots and cars driving through, each packed with soldiers. People sit on top of buildings and stand in trees to get a better view. The infantry marches in formation. Some ride through on horseback and others ride in...

  2. Anschluss: Annexation of Austria

    Newsreel footage of events surrounding the German invasion of Austria. Intertitles read as follows: Austrian Chancellor Kurt Von Schuschnigg who failed to satisy Hitler's demands. Hitler's answer to Austria: INVASION! The modern Caesar triumphantly re-enters the land of his birth. Nazi troops give "Heil salute" casually, individually, to crowds as they pass in jeeps, armored vehicles. Some shop signs seen in background: Kastner, Wagons-Lits/ Cook, Mercedes. Hitler exits car to walk in street. From the balcony of the Imperial Palace he screamed, "75,000,000 people in one nation- - No force o...

  3. Antal Pal collection

    The collection consists of a bracelet that was worn by Antal Pal from Tîrgu-Mureș, Romania, while he was imprisoned in Melk concentration camp and a piece of cloth from the pocket of a uniform that belonged to a friend of Antal Pal.

  4. Ante Pavelic on parade

    Ante Pavelic decorates Croatian troops and rides at head of parade. LS Street scenes in Zagreb, MS of banner and portrait of Pavelic in room, Croatian banner hanging from building facade. Group of men lined up to receive award and having it pinned on. Uniformed horsemen, then Pavelic on horseback MS coming toward camera, enthusiastic crowd, unit of German? troops marching, quick CU of Pavelic, then MS of artillery piece pulled. Additional footage follows this clip: Soccer game in Munich. 03:42:32 to 03:43:59 Hitler and Mussolini meet in Berlin. Mussolini, General Keitel, and Graziani inspec...

  5. Anthoni, Arno Kalervo

    The file contains records (correspondence and reports) concerning Arno Anthoni's war crimes investigation.

  6. Anthony A. Carullo collection

    The collection consists of a Nazi banner, pennants, and propaganda leaflet relating to the experiences of Anthony A. Carullo during World War II, when he served as a sergeant in the 2nd Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division, United States Army.

  7. Anthony Acevedo collection

    The collection consists of an armband, a palm leaf cross, a prayer missal, a diary, a document, and photographs relating to the experiences of Anthony Acevedo while serving as a medic in the United States Army, Company B, 275th regiment, 70th Infantry Division, and as a prisoner of war (POW) in Berga an der Elster slave labor camp in Germany during World War II.

  8. Anthony and Valeria Steiner collection

    Documents, photographs, artifacts illustrating the experiences of Valeria Gemeiner Lowi Steiner who was in hiding in Slovakia with her husband Alexander and children Vierka and Pavel who were killed in the forest in Zwollen, Slovakia. Documents also illustrate Josef who fled and returned to Slovakia and married Valeria in 1947 in Slovakia.

  9. Anthony Bissonette collection

    The collection consists of 7 scrip notes of various Kronen denominations from Theresienstadt (Terezin), Czechoslovakia.

  10. Anthony Dotta photograph collection

    The Anthony Dotta photograh collection consists of photographs of the liberation of the Ohrdruf and Buchenwald concentration camps. The photographs depict United States soldiers standing among corpses in the camps, the burial of victims by German civilians, the gallows of Ohrdruf, and the crematoria at Buchenwald concentration camp. It is believed that the photographer was either John Pagotto or Louis Pagotta, friends of Anthony Dotta.

  11. Anthony Frank collection

    The collection consists of four bullet shells picked up by American military personnel in Germany during the Second World War.

  12. Anthony George Bello photographs

    Contains six post-liberation concentration camp photographs obtained by Anthony George Bello (donor's father), a member of Patton’s Third Army, Eighth Armored Division. Anthony obtained the photographs from an unknown source but also witnessed the atrocities first-hand. Images are large format, news press images of German women burying the dead in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany; images of the dead piled up in Buchenwald concentration camp; the crematoria at an unidentified camp; and Eisenhower viewing the dead in Ohrdruf concentration camp.

  13. Anthropometer used to measure length of body parts in Nazi Germany

    Anthropometer, for measuring the human body, owned by Dr. Eugen Fischer, a German Anthropologist and leader in the Nazi-controlled German eugenics movement from 1933 to 1945. In the early 1900s, Swiss Anthropologist Dr. Rudolf Martin, designed the tool so that it could be stored in several pieces in a portable case and used in the field. Anthropometry is a branch of Anthropology that focuses on how to systematically identify and classify a range of physical characteristics found within different populations of people. Many supporters linked eugenics to race, and believed that “race mixing,”...

  14. Anti-Axis pin calling for the extermination of Axis rats

    Anti-Axis pin-back button distributed in the United States during World War II. The button compares the leaders of Germany, Italy, and Japan to rats and calls for their extermination. The name under the Japanese face, referred to as Togo, may refer to Shigenori Tōgō, who was Minister of Foreign Affairs at the beginning of the war. The name may also be a misspelling of Tojo, a reference to Hideki Tojo who was Prime Minister of Japan during the war and a more popular target of American propaganda. After the Japanese surprise attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and Germany’s declaratio...

  15. Anti-Bolshevik exhibition; Nazi Party Rally (Nuremberg): Armed Forces Day

    Overhead shot of crowds waiting, SS men. Wide view of exhibition building with crowds in front, swastika banners, and the building-wide exhibit title: "Grosse Antibolschewistische" [Great Anti-Bolshevik Exhibition] (pan, words shown one at a time). Men exiting exhibition building. 00:06:29 EXT stadium with Nazi banners. 00:06:58 Nuremberg parade grounds, crowds at seats, swastika flags. Marching (mostly trims of reasonable length). 00:07:40 Group of Italian officers, talking, laughing. 00:08:59 Trims of young men with SS badges eating. Flags with swastikas and SS. CUs, faces, men in SS swea...

  16. Anti-Bolshevik propaganda poster

    Antisemitic poster; "Minden a miénk!" [Everything is ours!]; dated circa 1919-1920

  17. Anti-Bolshevik rally; stereotypical Jews in the world; damaged cathedral; Speer speaks to munitions factory

    05:34:05 20,000 Czech farmers at anti-Bolshevik rally in Czechoslovakia. Demonstration on market place, listening to speaker. Hugo Toscani. (no original sound or narration) 05:34:07 "Jews throughout the World" Classic antisemitic Nazi propaganda of stereotype of Jews around the world: in Moscow, during a distribution of prizes; in USA as street traders, black man tap dancing, Lower East Side, shots of stock market, Mayor LaGuardia, etc. (no commentary, jazz music in BG) 05:36:16 In Rouen, France, the gothic cathedral damaged by fire. Smoke, firefighters, destroyed houses, ruined roads. 05:3...

  18. Anti-Bolshevism; Germans advance in Yugoslavia

    [Rangee de SS aplaudit a une reunion, Paris] Title: "L'Europe unie contre le Bolchevisme" Joseph Darnand speaking (no sync). Crowd, applause. Marcel Dead speaking (no sync). Serbian volunteers marching and joining the anti-Bolshevik battle. Fighting, advancing, weapons. Military officers meet in office. German cavalry. Guard boats along coast. German units, stocking weapons, tank, over marshy land, in knee-deep mud. Difficult advance.

  19. Anti-Bolshevist rally in Riga

    Column of civilians march down the street carrying a swastika flag and a Latvian flag. Crowds in the street. Two signs indicate distances to St. Petersburg and Reval. CU anti-Bolshevist leaflets are handed out. HAS of a huge crowd gathered to protest against Bolshevism. The camera cuts between a speaker on a podium to the crowd.

  20. Anti-fascist and anti-racist educational film made by US Army Signal Corps

    An American film dramatizing the destructive effects of racial and religious prejudice. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the US Armed Forces. Reel 1: shows a fake wrestling match and crooked gambling games with narration: "There's a good old-fashioned word for people like this. We call them suckers." An agitator addresses a street crowd; he almost convinces an American man in the audience until he begins to talk to a Hungarian refugee from Germany. A Nazi speaker harangues a crowd in Germany denouncing Jews, Catholics, and Freemasons. Reel 2: A German unemployed w...