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  1. Oral history interview with Haim Halachmi

  2. German troops

    Mountain troops

  3. Goering, soldiers tour

    B/w Cars move through a rainy street. Assembled Wehrmacht units and high officers stand in formation alongside the road. Mountain chapels. Göring exits a building in a fur hat. He then stands back under the doorway. Marching band. Snowy hillside from a funicular car, mountain railway. Snowy view from the top of the hill. Small log cabins. An avalanche. Göring walks with his cane and fur hat, followed by multiple men. Mining carts. 11:07:46 Soldiers line up alongside train tracks. Sign “Leoben.” Leoben, Austria. The soldiers perform a rifle drill, led by their commander whose back is to the ...

  4. Nazi crimes: early gassing; corpses; camp atrocities; forced labor; Nuremberg Trial proceedings

    Part 3 of ENGLISH language version [corresponds to NARA reels 5 & 6] Excludes extra shot of nurses and Mogilev gassing. Courtroom scene, Russian prosecutor Gen. Rudenko at podium speaking about Canaris and Hans Frank describing Nazi policies and methods for exterminating Poles and others. Goering, Hitler, and other Nazi officials in a meeting. Pan, hut with thatched roof. CU pipes from a German police car bearing a license plate POL-28545 and a German police truck with license POL-51628 (as well as military unit markings: 7 circle-with-flag IX). Apparently metal piping is directed into ...

  5. Charles W. Alexander photograph collection

    The collection consists primarily of photographs documenting the Nuremberg trials taken by Charles W. Alexander. The photographs depict the participants in the Nuremberg trials both in the courtroom and behind the scenes, smaller war crimes trials, and scenes of Germany. The collection also includes two books of similar photographs and captions of the personal experiences of Charles and his wife Anne Alexander in Germany in 1945-1946.

  6. Oral history interview with Helen Lankin

  7. DPs boarding truck

    Displaced persons getting onto truck, boy with a guitar being lifted onto truck, female servicewoman nearby. Children on truck waving goodbye to camera. Side view of truck.

  8. Ruins; ghetto bridge and gates; Aktion?

    Brief shots of streets. CU of sign on ruins "Poceijow, " pan of ruins. Pan of street with barbed wire, street traffic, Jewish police guard. Shots of crowded ghetto. Walking bridge over tram tracks. Gates to ghetto open and shut. Shot of colonnade.

  10. War Crimes Trial: Franz Strasser

    Summary: Austrian Franz Strasser is tried for the murder of Lt E Warren Woodruff and an unknown airman. His testimony is in German. Cpl. Henry Halperin is the interpreter for all witnesses; Sgt. Sessler interprets for Franz Strasser. The six-officer Army Military Commission included Capt. Victor Miles, Lt. Harvey Szanger, and Col. Raymond E. Zickel. Reel 4: Prosecutor reading (incomplete). Commission, defense listening; courtroom views; Strasser testifying (mismatched track; picture goes black). Prosecutor questioning Strasser; pan between defense, prosecution. Pusch testifying (sound is mi...

  11. Arthur R. Myers collection

    The collection consists of a League of German Girl's uniform jacket and a Hitler Youth jacket relating to the experiences of Arthur R. Myers, an American soldier who served in combat with the US Army in Europe during World War II.

  12. Lis Schermeister swimming at the sea

    Lis (donor's mother and eldest of the three girls) in a sweater and swim cap at the beach with her father, Bernhard Schermeister.

  13. Matchbook advertising Gentiles only US business

    Matchbook issued for use on the east coast of the United States between 1930-1960. It is printed with an advertisement that declares that the establishment is for Gentiles only.

  14. Marianne Schwarz Gerstenfeld colllection

    Contains a school report card issued to Marianne Schwarz in the Westbork internment camp; dated September 1944; and two photographic portraits of Marianne Schwarz in Amsterdam.

  15. Damage to Polish railway system; Jewish forced labor

    (events in 1939) Film about the railroad system in Poland after start of war. Newspaper style titles: Reichs Railroad Film Unit. Early September 1939, map of Poland and railroad system. Bromberg (Bydgoszcz, Poland) Destroyed RR installations, RR bridges in Poland, areas close to German border. Narrator identifies different locations, damage. 01:21:45 "Refugees...Jews fleeing" (on wagons, with hats and coats). 01:26:49-01:28:14 Dwelling near the RR station damaged by bombs. The local inhabitants clear up. Jewish inhabitants, who often comprise more than 50% of the population, must do physica...

  16. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Consulate General in Frankfurt Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej we Franfurcie nad Menem (Sygn.635)

    Correspondence, passports, photographs, questionnaires, certifications related to the establishment of Polish citizenship, and issue extension of passports to Jews born in Poland but living in Germany.

  17. Edison Jubilee Radio Broadcast w/Einstein

    Edison Jubilee Radio Broadcast. INT, MLS, group of NBC men seated around radio, listening to broadcast of celebration of the 50th anniversary of the invention of electric light. Radio voice of President Herbert Hoover congratulating Thomas Edison. Voice of Albert Einstein speaking from Germany (poor soundtrack). MS, radio announcer, Owen D. Young introducing Albert Einstein. (staged story?)

  18. Selected records of the City Biała Rawska Akta miasta w Białej Rawskiej (Sygn.1023)

    Inventory book of the Jewish Religious Community in Biała Rawska, 1935. The book contains registers of the buildings, as well as property owned by the Jewish community.

  19. Four clips from propaganda film about the 1934 Reich Party Day

    01:02:22 to 01:02:47 Opening sequences from Triumph of the Will, panning down from the Nazi eagle and swastika down to the title of the film. 01:02:50 to 01:03:03 An enthusiastic crowds greets Hitler with cheers and salutes as he arrives in Nuremberg by plane on September 5, 1934 for the sixth Reich Party Day. 01:03:06 to 01:03:23 A smiling woman holding a young girl hands Hitler flowers as he rides down the street in an open car in Nuremberg. Cheering crowds line the street. CU on smiling young girls and a panning shot of young children leaning forward trying to see Hitler. 01:03:26 to 01:...

  20. Berlin ruins; US & German soldiers; rebuilding Germany

    Opening credits in German from the OMGUS censor's board: "Filmvorfuherungsschein / No.: 49-1012-85 / Es wird hiermit bescheinigt dass "Die Brucke" zur offentlichen Vorfuhrung in den amerikanisch besetzten Gebieten Deutschlands zugelassen ist. Bescheinigung ausgestellt im Auftrag der Amerikanischen Militarregierung / Zeit Im Film" Film title appears over an image of white puffy clouds in the sky: "DIE BRUCKE / Mit / ...blt. Lewis F. Droll [missing beginning title] / Joseph Muller [missing end of name] / Und Den Manneem der Luftbrucke" German language narration, but occasionally the voices of...