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  1. Nazi Party Rally, Nuremberg, 1937; Army Day

    VS, Army Day maneuvers on field and in the air (grainy and dark). Clear shots of mixed civilian and military onlookers, watching and saluting; CUs of faces including foreign military representatives. One is wearing a beret that has a metal star and other ribbons on it. Band and soldiers passing field of white tents. Mess kitchen is set up outside in a field. CUs of meat being cut in chunks, served to young soldiers passing in line with metal mess kits, wearing sweat clothes.

  2. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy, final speech for defense

    (Munich 299) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, July 11, 1946. Lt. Col. Willis Everett making his final speech for the defense. (scene ends at 22:34:38) 22:34:38 - 22:35:40 shows slate and cameramen packing their equipment.

  3. Invasion of Poland

    Title: War Department Film Bulletin: Issue No. 48 Restricted. Title: Invasion of Poland in 1939 by the German Army. German footage of the invasion of Poland. Wide shot of German tanks massed in a field. Tanks roll across the field and down a dusty road. German soldiers riding the tanks smile at the camera. Shots of the port of Danzig. The narrator notes that this is where the fighting began, where "Nazi secret agents had long plotted the revolt against law and order." Germans fire at Polish loyalists holed up in the post office. They spray gasoline on the building and set it on fire. Well-k...

  4. American soldiers in Landsberg; liberated Polish Army soldiers and surrender of German forces

    (LIB 6181) A soldier holds up a slate that reads: "30 April 45, Hitler's Room Landsberg Prison." The cameraman's name is Olin. Far view of the prison. A street sign reads "Hindenburg-Ring." Various exterior shots of the prison. Men hang flags (surrender?) out of two prison windows. Two guard watchtowers and downed fencing, presumably part of the prison complex. 01:39:09 Two uniformed American soldiers and a civilian wearing a white armband enter Hitler's former prison cell. The civilian points out details in the cell, including a guest book and a portrait of Hitler hanging on the wall. He p...

  5. Aleksander Rebbe photograph collection

    Photographs of Aleksander Rebbe and oral history testimonies of mother and grandmother (Israel Farber)

  6. Leopoldine and Hermann Rintel collection

    Two (2) Deutsches Reich Reisepass [passports] which had been issued in Vienna to Leopoldine Rintel on January 23, 1939 and her son Hermann “Israel” Rintel on August 9, 1940; Hermann’s passport is marked with a red “J”; both include visas and stamps from Spain and Portugal and immigration visa for the United States dated April 22, 1941.

  7. Αρχείο Α.Ε. Αντιπροσωπειών Ισαάκ Μ. Ασσέο

    • Archive of the Representation Company S.A Isaac Asseo
    • Archeio A.E. Antiprosopeion Isaak M. Asseo

    Commercial correspondence of Isaac M. Asseo Representation Company.

  8. Communist and other demonstrations

    Communist and other demonstrations in Bulowplatz, Berlin, and Grsezinski. Bulowplatz, very large crowd of orderly demonstrators, people marching. Goebbels (in leather coat) stands amid wind-flapping swastikas, speaking to crowd. May 1, 1929, chaotic demonstration in the streets; police rush, civilians scatter. Bicycles, police getting out of trucks, people being beaten. Shot of President Zuergiebel with police; police checking IDs.

  9. Sketch

  10. Prayer book

  11. Eichmann Trial -- Session 97 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    The camera fades in onto a medium shot of Servatius seated at the defense table and examining documents. Adolf Eichmann is shown entering the booth (00:01:16) carrying documents and escorted by three Israeli guards. There are various shots of Eichmann, Servatius, and the courtroom. Hausner and Bar-Or enter the courtroom and are seated at the prosecution table (00:05:40). The camera occasionally shows shots of people in the audience. Eichmann is shown rising as judges Halevi, Landau, and Raveh enter the courtroom (00:07:20). Presiding Judge Landau opens the ninety-seventh session of the tria...

  12. Manek and Ilona Werdiger papers

    The Manek and Ilona Werdiger papers contain primarily identification and photographs of the Springut family prior to and during their incarceration in the Jewish ghettos in Krakow, Poland. The identification papers are from the Jewish Community of Krakow, and identify his mother Malka and brother Henryk, and his cousins as Jewish. The photographs are family portraits and group photos of the Springut family and Manek’s wife, Ilona Mandel.

  13. Border control; Dachau and crematory

    (Munich 283) Border Control Security, Vicinity of Hof, Germany, June 20, 1946. LS, troopers of the 28th Constabulary Squad leaving command post "on the double" at Bad Steben, near Russian border, and getting into jeeps and M-8 armored cars. Jeeps and M-8 squadron travelling through town of Bad Steben on way to border. Scenes of the squadron moving through countryside past RR and station at Lichtenberg. Two jeeps and an M-8 taking their postions at border. Shot from top of jeep showing sign at roadway, "American Territory." Russian guard seen on other side. MS of sign giving warning that una...

  14. NSV training; French antisemitic youth rally

    05:31:01 NSV pupils training for employment as Red Cross nurses: caring for babies in nursery, cooking in kitchen, uniforms, classroom instruction on anatomy, giving massages, hospital care, doctor and nurses seen at patients' bedsides. calisthenics, playing chess, medical care, with families. 05:33:32 Women entering Palais du Sports for French youth demonstration against Bolshevism. Military officers in uniform (Nazis?) entering stadium. HAS, crowd. Banner reading "Le Combat Seul." Youth welcoming speaker, heiling, Nazis seated in audience. French safety minister Darnand speaking from podi...

  15. Roundup of Jews and Poles after the invasion of Poland

    Shot of a group of civilian men arrested by the invading German troops. The narrator claims that they were involved in an atrocity against ethnic Germans in Bromberg [Bydgoszcz]. The soldiers search one of the men. Much-used shot of the man in a hat with his hands raised being marched across the street by German soldiers. A column of Polish prisoners under guard, including some Jews, walk along a road. The next shot shows Jews, some of them old men, being lined up against a wall. A group of religious Jews crowded into the open bed of a truck. The camera pans slowly along a line of religious...

  16. Oral testimonies of the Voces del Holocausto en México collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors who settled in México

  17. Representations of the Jew in Nazi German Propaganda

    Eight archival film segments compiled for a summer staff seminar in 2008. The production was also created as a possible program related to the Musuem's propaganda initiative. Segments include: Goebbels, February 10, 1933 [01:17] "Kaufmann, nicht Haendler" (1933/1936) [02:40] Goebbels, UFA newsreel 1935 [01.04] "Der Ewige Jude" (1940) [07:25] "Juden, Lause, Wanzen" (1942) [01:25] "Kampf dem Fleckfieber" (1942) [01:30] Warsaw ghetto, unfinished film (1942) [12:20] Propaganda film team in Theresienstadt (1942) [01:00]

  18. Nellie Wiesenthal Fink family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ernestine Wiesenthal, her son, Fritz, his wife, Gertrude, and their daughters, Illa and Nellie, in Germany, England, and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  19. War Bonds poster collection

    The collection consists of a war bond poster and a war propaganda poster produced in the United States during World War II.

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Diplomatic mail section; Div of Near Eastern Affairs; Div of Far Eastern Affairs; Div of European Affairs

    665 PP (02:20:15) Sign, "Diplomatic Pouch and Mail Section." Man carrying bundle to mail section. Sorting packages and mail. CU, Buenos Aires, Rome, Berlin, and Shanghai bins. CUs mail. Woman at gate. Sign, "Positively No Admittance." Men gather at desk, looking at map. Interamerican Highway highlighted on map. "Division of Near Eastern Affairs" sign. Man pointing at map. CUs, map, Ethiopia. 665 QQ (02:27:02) "Division of Far Eastern Affairs." Men at desk, in office, talking. CU, draft telegram for Shanghai. Men in office. Department of State Division of European Affairs notebook. Telegraph...