48 pages illustrations, portraits, maps 25 cm

Germany, just inside the border from Belgium, probably in fall 1944 or spring 1945 [1944 Kodak stock]. Sign, "Lammersdorf". German village with civilians and soldiers walking along the road, RR tracks. Sign with arrows for "Kesternich" and "Simmerath". Church in town. Pan of countryside and pyramid tank traps demarcating the Siegfried Line. Abandoned tank on side of road. Cyclists. "Schmidt" sign. ...

Concentration Camp, Struthof, Germany, December 2, 1944. LS, Pan, wire enclosed building of concentration camp. CUs, details of charged barbed wire fence. CUs, urns used for ashes of victims. Seq: US soldier examines crematorium, blood stained coffin, and gas chamber. CU, autopsy room. (Note: This camp was used by the Germans for political prisoners from Belgium and France.) Replacement Training, Alsdorf, ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 11, No. 803, Parts 1 through 3. Release date, 09/04/1939. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: 12:13:39 Part 1A: Dramatic scenes of a new conflict that may envelop the world in flames. Hitler's war machine rolls into Poland-encouraged to strike by the new pact with Stalin's Red Russia. With Danzig seized, Polish infantry and cavalry rally to the defense of their ...

Reel 2: Vehicles move on an autobahn. British troops parade and drill. British recruits join up. Hitler reviews German troops. War material rolls from a German factory. Hitler rides through Vienna and across the Czech border. German troops and tanks parade. German refugees flee Polish oppression. Hitler speaks in the Reichstag. Panzer units invade Poland. Hitler looks through an artillery periscope. ...

Reel 2: Vehicles move on an autobahn. British troops parade and drill. British recruits join up. Hitler reviews German troops. War materiel rolls from a German factory. Hitler rides through Vienna and across the Czech border. German troops and tanks parade. German refugees flee Polish oppression. Hitler speaks in the Reichstag. Panzer units invade Poland. Hitler looks through an artillery periscope. ...

The author (b. 1947), son of Wolfgang Wagner, traces his life story, especially the conflict between himself and his father. This conflict was exacerbated by the author's discovery and public rejection of his family's Nazi heritage. He devoted himself to the study of Jewish composers, especially Kurt Weill and Viktor Ullmann, and has lectured throughout the world, including in Germany and Israel, on ...

Kuttner family: Dagobert (1877-1953), Waldemar (born 1881) and Emil (born 1885) Kuttner were the sons of a Polish Jewish merchant family. Dagobert married Margot Scholz (born 1879), Waldemar married Gertrud Loewy (1885-1944) and Emil married her sister Cäcilie Loewy (born in 1888). During the First World War the brothers fought at the front line.<br> <br>The Kuttners worked as successful iron ware ...

Curtis Whiteway was born in Newburypost, Mass., on November 3, 1925. In December 1943, he was drafted into the United States Army. He trained in the armed forces in Fort Knox, Ky. He was then sent to S.C. where he received intensive training with the Rangers. Then he went to Camp Maxie, Tex., and joined the 99th Division and he was immediately sent to England. From England, his division crossed into ...

The collection consists of eight photographs and one copy print of the Mauthausen concentration camp near Vienna, Austria, at the time of liberation. The photographs were compiled by Ray Buch, a sergeant in the United States Army who assisted in overseeing the reburial of victims at Mauthausen after the war.

Reel contains quick, unrelated trims and cuts filmed by Walter Hausner. WH logo (reversed). Side view of man in dark sweater vest, observing the tennis game from above. VAR quick cuts of athletes in the tennis match. Side/close view of woman, with athletes and court in BG. More shots of the spectators, some smoking. Two athletes walk up the stands towards the camera. Soccer team, playing and posing ...

Walter Hausner (April 24, 1914-February 5, 2003) was a member of the Austrian amateur film society in Vienna. His father, Ferdinand (1883-1957) owned a firm for fabrics and fashion articles with factories in Vienna and Jihlava, Czechoslovakia with business partner Siegfried Furst. Walter’s mother, Wilhelmina Bloch, died from cancer in 1937. Walter and Ferdinand managed to leave Vienna together just ...