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  1. Damaged German planes

    Cameraman sets tripod on airfield. Hamilton inspects damaged plane. Shots at damaged bridge on river side. Stevens and Moffat in front of sign that reads: "Captured intact March 7, 1945 by the 9th Armored Division, III Corp." LS, men get into jeep Toluca. Panning shots of planes at abandoned airfield, and various CUs.

  2. 7 video progams about the Holocaust: Terezin, bookburning, the camp system, safety, Einsatzgruppen, invasion of the Soviet Union, and resistance

    Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). 1. Third floor (3.06) - Theresienstadt 2. Fourth floor (4.12) - Bookburning 3. Third floor (3.28) - The Camp System 4. Fourth floor (4.29a) - To Safety 5. Third floor (3.15) - Einsatzgruppen (see revised program on Film ID HMM142) 6. Third floor (3.14) - Invasion of the Soviet Union 7. Second floor (2.05) - Resistance

  3. Captured German troops and GIs; airfield

    Stevens standing in front of sign that reads: "Frankenburg." Pan to several hundreds, possibly a thousand, captured Germans. German troops (excellent pan of German soldiers) captured filing into trucks. Pan to remainder of troops. Troops loading onto open trucks. CUs of German soldiers. Stevens, Moffat and others standing with the Germans. American GI climbs on truck with stick, reaching into soldiers with stick. GI sending soldiers up the hill. They run to the truck. German officer in front of truck. Cameraman shooting CU of young German soldier. Sign reads: "Frankenau/Kreis Frankenberg/Re...

  4. Oral history interview with Clara Robzyk

  5. US military inspecting weapons

    Sequence: VS of men in uniform around jeep in clearing inspecting some kind of artillery shells. Men working on their artillery weapons on trailers. A lake or a river in the BG. Men in uniform cleaning up and clearing off of field, packing up gear to move camp.

  6. Oral history interview with Anonymous

  7. Einsatzgruppen shooting of Jews, Latvia

    An Einsatzgruppe execution between late July and mid-August 1941. Jewish men being shot by Germans, in dugout pit. Two brief shots of German Kriegsmarine standing along the bank near the bushes (screen left) washing himself. Footage includes executions of three groups of men. Soldiers and others, including Kriegsmarine personnel and civilians, stand around. Also visible are many people watching from an embankment above. Jews jump out of open truck and are herded, running, towards open pit. They wear "yellow badges" on their chests and backs. SS men, local Latvian militia, and German police ...

  8. Horthy and Hitler at German occupation in March 1944

    Miklós Horthy, statesman of Hungary, and Hitler walk up a grand staircase towards the camera. Other men follow behind them. German soldiers move through the road on a tank. A crowd watches. More trucks and tanks drive along the road. Soldiers look out at the Danube, a statue on the left side of the frame. The chain bridge spans the river in the background.

  9. Oral history interview with William Serog and Kitty Hart

  10. Operation of V-1 rocket, animation

    SUMMARY: This is a three reel composite technical information film on the operation and launching of the FZG-76 (V- 1). Reel 1. Narrator describes the complete operation and function of all parts as they are portrayed on the screen. Men wheeling V-1 on field. Animated drawing of the rocket showing the breakdown of the parts, such as wings, combustion duct and the fuselage. Animated cut away of the rocket showing the internal parts and their location in unit. Motion pictures of the rocket pointing out the various parts. Men attaching the wing assembly. Animated drawing of the fuel system of ...

  11. Oral history interview with Zolomu Boilciou

  12. Gusen; Mauthausen; Nordhausen

    "Mauthausen Concentration Camp" [Footage shows mixed sequences from Mauthausen and Gusen.] High pan of concentration camp Gusen for slave laborers. 01:14:15 Pan of buildings at Mauthausen. Execution site with gallows and shooting wall in Gusen, with 2-3 men standing alongside it, courtyard wall behind. 01:14:23 Soldiers provide "tour" of crematorium and camp Gusen. 01:14:45 American POW Lt. Jack Taylor (U.S. Air Force) talks about his experience at Mathausen, "fortunately my turn hadn't come." He had been captured in Mauthausen for a few weeks from April 1945 to liberation. He talks of two ...

  13. Antisemitic floats at Fasching parade

    Color footage showing a Fasching [Shrove Tuesday] parade in Nuremberg, Germany in 1938. CUs, paraders in costume, dancing, floats. While the large crowd celebrates, a float carrying three-dimensional caricatures of Jews hanging from gallows passes by (briefly at 01:05:59).

  14. German planes

    Cameraman on wing of German plane setting up shot. Stevens sitting on edge of plane. Traffic in BG. Camouflage hanging on planes. These shots are at an abandoned German airfield. Single engine German plane, also small reconnaissance plane, twin-engine plane as well. Still photographer on ground taking pictures. Stevens pointing to symbols on tail of German plane indicating that pilot had shot down eight British planes and one Russian. VS of planes, including detail. Bill Hamilton, Stevens and Moffat standing in front of plane talking, lighting cigarettes, inspecting damage of riddled German...

  15. Oral history interview with Dina Oppenheimer

  16. Deadly Medicine special exhibition monitors 2, 5, 6, 7, 12

    AV monitors 2, 5, 6, 7, 12 exhibited as part of "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race"" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from April 2004 to May 29, 2006. The exhibition focused on the physicians, psychiatrists, anthropologists, public health officials, and others who supported and, ultimately, implemented the Nazi racial eugenics program that culminated in the Holocaust. 01:00:00 Monitor 2: Weimar Clinic 01:01:30 Monitor 5: Nazi Racial Science 01:06:35 Monitor 6: Anthropology in the Field 01:09:59 Monitor 7: Building Public Support 01:13:28 Monitor 12: Testimony

  17. Reich Party day in Nuremberg; Hitler Parade in Berlin

    Amateur footage shot by the Nazi party official, Regierungsbezirkdirektor of Arnsberg (director of the administrative district Arnsberg). Two Nazi events are intermixed throughout. KODAK. 00:13 Reich Party Day (1937 or 1938) in Nuremberg. POV of a spectator of huge crowd, marching men with swastika flags, Hitler (?) walking to the podium in the very far distance, pans of crowds giving Nazi salute, including men in the immediate FG. 01:02 From within the crowd at a Hitler parade in Berlin, Hitler barely visible stands in an open car to review marching columns of uniformed Nazis. According to...

  18. Dutch harbor and GIs with cameras

    VS of port, Stevens standing on dock. Large ship with name "Wilhelmhaven." VS of harbor activity. Two GIs with still cameras. Large ship on its side in harbor. Another shot with American army sedan in FG, wrecked ship in BG.

  19. Russo-Finnish War; Germans advance to Russia

    Russian air raids on Finland during Russo-Finnish War 1939-1940 and subsequent advance into Finland from Norway. German troops advance to Kaunas, Lithuania from Prussia with tanks and artillery. Russian prisoners are questioned. German troops cross river in steamboat and receive flowers from civilians. German troops move to Dunaburg, Latvia; Russian prisoners, including a woman soldier, are taken in street fighting. Cavalry and artillery advance and blast Russian strong point: prisoners are taken. Dead Russian crewmen lay beside wrecked tanks and vehicles near Bialystok, Poland. German moto...

  20. Refugees; captured Germans; bombed towns; GIs; marching into Paris

    Civilians with rucksacks walking down street with belongings. Some wheeling bicycles. Refugees. These are twilight shots, autumn leaves in the pictures. Red Cross truck followed by jeep coming down street. More shots of refugees. Some of the men are dressed in suits and ties, roads are wet and muddy. Woman wheeling a pushcart with belongings. Two people embrace. Stevens walks toward camera. Empty wet street. Tank coming through town past Hotel Caspiel Hindenburg. Men running, including cameraman, some men firing mortars, others small light weapons. Members of camera crew visible in frame. P...