06:00:40 Goebbels speaks theatrically and confidently at an orchestra concert celebrating the fifth anniversary of the "Reichskulturkammer" and the "NS-Gemeinschaft KdF." Civilian crowd, well-dressed, and Nazis. Ley and Funk in the loge seats. Goebbels speech (original sound, close-up): "Der Ausdruck, Wir danken unserem Fuehrer sei ein Zeichen der tiefsten Verpflichtung, das die Nation der Fuehrung ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Grenzkommission wurde aufgrund des Zusatzprotokolls I zu Art. 3 des Grundvertrages der Bundesrepublik mit der DDR gebildet und setzte sich aus Beauftragten der beiderseitigen Regierungen zusammen. Zu den Delegationen der Bundesrepublik in der Grenzkommission und in den von ihr gebildeten Arbeitsgruppen gehörten wechselweise auch Angehörige aller Grenzschutzkommandos ...

03:08:09 (Paris 440) First Meeting of Allied Control Council, Berlin, Germany, December 17, 1945. INT, meeting of the Council in the Allied Council Authority building. Members are seated around a square table. For France: Col. Marcel Rotivel, Col. C. Vialet, Louis Koeltz, Pierre Koenig, Ambassador J. de St- Hardouin, Consul Jean Baudier, Mr. Calvy, and Capt. Henry Joos. For Britain: Lt. Col. Eric Greenwood ...

The World Jewish Congress (WJC), an international Jewish representative organization, was formed in 1936. The Organization Department of WJC was originally established in Paris, ca. 1937, under Baruch Zuckerman to increase membership, strengthen relations with and between affiliates, maintain contacts with branch offices, and improve the image of the WJC with its affiliates. When rescue activities ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. 12. Febr. 1928 in Berlin, gest. 3. Jan. 2006 in Michaelsdorf, Rechtswissenschaftler (Völkerrecht) nach dem Abitur 1945 Flakhelfer, 1946 SED, 1947 Volksrichterlehrgang, Jurastudium an der Humbldt-Universität (HU) zu Berlin, nebenbei Redakteur beim "Vorwärts", 1949-1951 Aspirantur, 1951 Dissertation "Zum Charakter der Reparationen", 1951-1955 als Hauptreferent und ...

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Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Brigadegeneral Gustav Adolf Curt Pollex Lebensdaten 16.11.1898 geb. in Mühlhausen/Thüringen 15.09.1987 gest. in Bonn Dienstlaufbahn 09.05.1915 Kriegsfreiwilliger Dragoner-Regiment 5 27.01.1916 Gefreiter 12.09.1916-15.01.1917 Offizieranwärter-Lehrgang 04.11.1916 Unteroffizier 05.02.1917 Res. Drag. Schützen-Regiment 7 28.04.1917 Vizewachtmeister 03.07.1917 Leutnant der ...

"Between January and July 1919, after "the war to end all wars," men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage, for the first time in history, was an American president, Woodrow Wilson, who with his Fourteen Points seemed to promise to so many people the fulfillment of their dreams. Stern, intransigent, impatient when it came to security concerns and wildly ...

Isbert Adam was born in Zempelberg (West Prussia, now Sepolno Krajenskie in Poland) in 1880. He was a Cuban national and he became honorary consul for Cuba in Danzig at the end of the 1930s. Isbert Adam also owned the shipping company "Havana importer S.A.". He presumably travelled to Antwerp in 1937 to create a Belgian branch of his business. His associates were Martin Bendheim (born in Frankfurt ...

Includes correspondence, essays and writings, and other material pertaining to Pat's work with the Jewish Labor Committee. Correspondence (1937-1971) includes one file of obituary and memorial articles, and thirty-two files of correspondence, arranged chronologically. The correspondence includes both incoming and outgoing letters, reflecting Pat's involvement with a wide range of Jewish political and ...

1150 AA: LS, EXT of the jail called Kraiska Sud of Bratislava. LS warden opens Dr. Josef Tiso's cell (Tiso was a Monseignor of the Catholic Church and ex-prime minister of Slovakia; he was imprisoned for collaboration with the Nazis). CU the name "Josef Tiso" written on the door of Tiso's cell. MS Tiso at a little desk in the bottom of his cell reading or writing his memoirs. CU Tiso reading or writing ...

1150 AA: LS, EXT of the jail called Kraiska Sud of Bratislava. LS warden opens Dr. Josef Tiso's cell (Tiso was a Monseignor of the Catholic Church and ex-prime minister of Slovakia; he was imprisoned for collaboration with the Nazis). CU the name "Josef Tiso" written on the door of Tiso's cell. MS Tiso at a little desk in the bottom of his cell reading or writing his memoirs. CU Tiso reading or writing ...

The Society for the Support of Jewish Performing Arts was established in Wilno in 1927 to provide support to Jewish performing arts and Jewish theater. The society provided financial support to Jewish theaters in Wilno, assistance in staging theatrical performances, organized concerts, lectures, exhibitions, published theatrical works, sponsored professional development of Jewish actors, and many other ...

The George Silviu family papers document George Silviu, a Romanian poet, playwright, translator and lawyer. Records include administrative and professional documents, official letters, Silviu articles and poems published in journals, personal letters, and press clippings. The collection also includes copies of extensive files now held in the Securitate Archives in Bucharest that document how Silviu ...

Reports and correspondence from American attorney Alfred Jaretzki, Jr., reporting on visits to Vienna and efforts to work with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to assist Austrian Jews with emigration, 1938. Includes one report, undated, 11 pages, describing his trip to Vienna in June 1938, including meetings with American diplomats, journalists, members of the Viennese Jewish community, ...

Universal Newsreel Vol. 5, No. 125, Part 1. Release date, 03/04/1933. Presidential inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd president of the US) [first sound pictures ever shown of a presidential inauguration]. Shots include Roosevelt and Hoover riding, with congressional escort, down Pennsylvania Avenue; Mr. Roosevelt reciting the Oath of Office at the Capitol; the stirring inaugural address; the ...

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International Red Cross (IRC), Central Agency for War Prisoners. Mail arriving (the Agency received 3,000 letters a day from prisoners, refugees, missing persons, or governments and are sorted by object or country). Meeting of the IRC Committee. Etienne Clouzot, head of the IRC secretariat, has his back to the camera. To his left is Rodolphe de Haller, treasurer of the IRC, Lucie Odier, principal of ...

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The Series E (Culture Department) consists of correspondence of the department directors, Simon Federbush and Wolf Blattberg, together with reports, publications, and other material pertaining to the activities of the New York branch of the Culture Department. Material in the series includes correspondence of the first director, Simon Federbush (1945–circa 1950) and the second director, Wolf Blattberg ...

The Nuremberg trials were the series of military trials held for the prosecution of prominent Nazi leaders in Germany after the WWII. The first and most known trial of 24 “major war criminals” such as Martin Bormann, Hermann Göring or Rudolf Hess etc. was held before the International Military Tribunal from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946. This major trial was followed by 12 trials (known as subsequent ...

Dramatic coverage of newsboys rushing to deliver bundles of the newspaper Diario de Lisboa on the day the Americans invaded North Africa. Extensive scenes of movement, newstands, publications, and close-ups of the front pages of papers in Portugal. Some of the newspapers are English-language. LIFE magazine and SIGNAL. INT of a barbershop, where a news vendor distributes copies of the paper to men getting ...

Wilbur John Carr, Former Assistant Secretary of State, was the Minister to Czechoslovakia (US Department of State) when German forces occupied Prague on March 15, 1939. Carr closed the Legation in Prague on March 21, 1939 and left his post on April 6, 1939. He died in 1942. Robert Bittrick served with the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. He enlisted on February 3, 1941 in Baltimor ...

Dorothea (Dora) Dressel (1897-1993) married Fritz Dressel in 1916, and was active politically in Munich during the years following World War I. When her husband, a leading member of the Communist Party in Bavaria, protested the violence of the SA in Munich, she was arrested and held as hostage in the weeks prior to her husband’s arrest, being detained in the Stadelheim prison in Munich. She was ultimately ...