NSKK, part I. Caravan arrives in Purkersdorf, Austria. Driving through main street, passing retail shops and government. Well-dressed female onlookers and local men in uniforms. Official Nazi motorcade through streets: cars, trucks, tanks. Streets lined with people. Handmade “Adolf Hitler Platz“ sign. Rally in city center. NSKK, part II. Rural landscape, sheep grazing in field in Austria. Nazis in ...

Magyar Híradó 1054. Rows of people line a path for soldiers marching with flags. On the right are younger women in traditional dress. Large portrait of Hitler’s face in the BG next to multiple Nazi flags. Everyone is gathered to celebrate Hitler’s birthday. Another view of the portrait of Hitler at the front and the soldiers and bands before it. The audience watches, and young boys stand with trumpets ...

How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? If you're the US Army in 1944, one of your approaches is dangling the lure of beautiful French women, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. Roberts tells the troubling story of how the US military command exploited the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. The resulting ...

More than 140,000 Caucasian PoWs fell to the Japanese Imperial Army and Navy in the Second World War. Many of these men were shipped to the Japanese main islands for slave labour, in seaborne transports crammed with PoWs in their airless holds, and stricken with disease. Countless hundreds of Allied troops and civilians died at sea. Sick, starved, suffocated, tortured and massacred when they became ...

Movietone Newsreel. Title: "Memorial Pageant to the Persecuted Jews of Europe-arranged by A. A. Brown, described by Lowell Thomas (Movietone News)". Shots of the pageant stage at Madison Square Garden in New York and the audience in the BG. The event was organized by the "Committee for a Jewish Army of Stateless and Palestinian Jews". Thomas narrates: "The pageant 'We Will Never Die' is New York's ...

Reel 1: Partisan sport event in Belgrade stadium. Soccer game at Belgrade Stadium. Crowds in stands. Army guards in FG. Girls' 100 meter race. Injured girl assisted off track. Man congratulates winners. Crowd cheering.Young Yugoslavian soldiers with machine guns in crowd. Young boys selling soft drinks. Girls finishing race. Winner and runner up. Crowds in stands watch boys' 100 meter race. Attendant ...

"Revolt in Prague" film (Czech government material). Several shots of Czech citizens in Prague tearing down German inscription and signs, May 3-4, 1945. Czechs hanging Allied flags from buildings. German military police setting up sub-machine guns in street, and German policeman walking in streets. Mob of Czech patriots dispersed by German police. MS Czech patriot on the air in seized radio station. ...

Titles: "All for the Front, All for Victory"/ "Film-Reporting on the Country back to front" Opening shots of women and children in the Tajikistani fields, harvesting cotton. CUs of the plants. Several shots of sacks of cotton being emptied into large piles, emphasizing mass quantity. ELSs of large processions of horse drawn carts carrying goods. ELS of sea and fishing vessels. CUs of nets bringing ...

Ttitles: “STATNI PUJCOVNA, UVADI KRATKY FILM.” “Frank mezi nami” Credits. The city of Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) after the war. The Mill Colonnade. Teplá River running through the city. Portrait of Karl Hermann Frank's father, Heinrich, a teacher; his wife and children (Ernst, Walter, Karl). A German school certificate for KHF, “K.k. Franz Josef Staats Gymnasium in Karlsbad. Reifezeugnis” showing his ...

George Stevens (December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. During World War II, Stevens joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps and headed a film unit from 1943 to 1946 under General Eisenhower. His unit shot footage documenting D-Day — including the only Allied European Front color film of the war — the liberation of Paris and the meeting ...

Black Watch Regiment troops reviewed by the High Commissioner for Palestine, Sir Harold MacMichael. Regiment lines up, arrival of the colors, inspection by MacMichael and Gen. Wavell. Black Watch troops march. High Commissioner and General salute. 02:44:11 On the road from Jerusalem to Jericho to the Dead Sea, Black Watch Troops put on a demonstration to let a military convoy through. Soldiers look ...

Titles: "Soviet Newsreel"/ "49"/ "Moscow"/ "July 1943"/ "Directed by I. Setkinoy"/ "The third anniversary of the Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian Soviet Republics" Coverage shots of commemorative event. Title: "The Lieutenant Colonel of the Latvian Red Army, Ballodis, has declared..." MS of Ballodis at podium listing Soviet Republics. Shots of crowd clapping. Titles: "People of collective-farm community"/ ...

Titles: "Soviet Newsreel"/ "12"/ "Moscow"/ "February 1944"/ "Directed by M. Fidelevoy"/ "The Red Army will follow comrade Stalin's orders with honor"/ ELS military procession. Soldiers march and salute while others look on. A message from Stalin is read to soldiers from an elevated platform. Title: "Infantry school" ELS long line of infantry at attention. LS officer reading Stalin's orders. Various ...

Map of Poland and Silesia region. VS on snowy streets, Polish civilian refugees on horsecart and truck are led from city. MCU Polish soldiers and Russian prisoners marching through town street. Volkssturm build barricades. VS refugees board train. VS People are given ID papers and fed meals prepared by German Red Cross. CU Men with fur caps and "Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht" armbands being issued ...

Very large red Nazi swastika banner taken by 19 year old Paul Mercer, a US soldier, at the end of the four day battle to capture Kassel, Germany, on April 4, 1945. Paul and his unit, the 318th Machine Gun Squad, 80th Infantry Division, Third Army, faced stiff opposition at Kassel, which had a still operating Tiger Tank factory. At 12:30am, April 4, General Major Erxleben surrendered with about 400 ...

November - December 1941 Poor quality shots at first. It is now winter; snow lies on the ground. Wreckage of cars and corpses. A cow wanders past. 01:38:52 A group of Russian partisans has been hung and left on display with a sign that reads (partly illegible) "On the night of November 24th, 1941 these beasts of the Russian regiment 239 813 a. 817 mutilated and murdered German wounded." Good CUs of ...

In this ten minute film, Julien Bryan, the last neutral reporter remaining in Poland on September 1, 1939, records the horror and confusion of Warsaw during the German attack on Poland. Through actual footage taken during the siege, Bryan poignantly describes the frightening chain of events that finally resulted in the capitulation of Warsaw and Poland. During the early stages of the blitzkrieg, civilians ...

Title on screen: Battle of Vitebsk. Map showing Vitebsk (50 miles due west of Moscow), narrator explains the strategic importance of the city and the military situation as it was by June 1944. Soviet army begins assault. German soldiers advance toward city, come across camp of Soviet civilians. LS Russian T34 tanks move to front silhouetted by sunrise, MLS of column of men marching, SU100s, tanks, ...

VS, group of young men and women performing traditional folk songs and dances for a large crowd, presumably gathered for a folk festival. Shots alternate between shots of the performers and shots of the crowd cheering. During the dance performance, a man announces "Jewish cradle song" (lullaby). VS, Red Army, marching along roads, reclining and socializing in the sun. City, large crowds of civilians, ...

Jean Gay - does not appear in person, deposition is read by the bailiff re: Resistance, arrest, interrogation, torture, and deportation to Neuengamme. Klaus Barbie enters the courtroom at 18:48:14, visible at upper screen right. He sits next to two interpreters: Margit Lipsker and Martine Billaud. 18:48:35 Lucien Margaine says "One cannot be mistaken. Look at that grin. You cannot forget; it is not ...

JAN SCHEFFERS Jan stond op het punt om naar zijn werk als kleermaker te lopen toen hij naar huis terug werd gestuurd door Duitse soldaten. Een kwartier later werden de oproepformulieren in de bus gegooid. Soldaten kwamen het huis binnen en namen Jan mee, na zijn Ausweis bekeken te hebben.Via het Feijenoordstadion en Amsterdam is Jan per schip naar Kampen gebracht. Per trein ging de reis verder met ...

DIRK HUIJSMAN (NL) Dirk Huijsman is als veertienjarige gaan werken bij Papierfabriek Cats. Daarna ging hij als lasser werken bij Piet Smit. De weken voor de razzia lag al het werk stil. Tijdens de razzia werd Dirk met zijn jongere broer en twee vrienden opgepakt en in het Feijenoordstadion ondergebracht, waar ze op de eretribune hebben geslapen.Per schip ging het via Amsterdam naar Kampen. Dirk vermoedde ...

Reel 2: 00:00:00 Klappe 1-Lo 12: July 6, 1941: German military crossing a pontoon bridge. Shot of 8 German soldiers buried next to a blockhouse; switches to a different angle and shows soldiers walking past the graves. CUs of military vehicles moving across a pontoon bridge, with groups of soldiers relaxing on the bridge. Soldiers working on building a bridge, as a group of young boys looks on. Klappe ...

Staff Film Report no. 46; Combat Bulletin, no. 46. (with intertitles) Reel 1: "E.T.O. - Allied Air Attacks on Germany" AVs of bomber planes, bombs dropping, bombs exploding, many scenes shot at night or at dusk. 13 February: RAF Lancasters and German Scarecrow bombs exploding in mid-air. Pathfinder flares and incendiaries mark immediate targets. AAF Flying Fortresses bombing German communication centers ...