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Argelès - An "escaped prisoners" camp, people who have escaped from "Red Spain." General shots of men sitting around tents, performing manual labor. Men carrying twigs on their backs. Seated by a fire. Smoke from cigars drifts up through the air. LS of camp, little tents, lots of men (dirty and disheveled). Barbed wire.

Neubiberg Air Force Base (9 km south of Munich). Pan (L to R) of truck trailer with "Camel Caravan to Berlin" painted on side, Fire Department, airport tower, sign "Field Elevation - 1800 ft", hangar. Small airplanes line grassy field. Airplane moves along runway, seen from inside plane with controls, view through windshield. Aerial views of war-damaged Germany. Return to AFB, planes on airfield.

Reel 2: Jackson continues with the reading of Count 1 at Nuremberg trial. HS, in court, prisoners' dock. CU, "Mein Kampf," text superimposed. In Munich, burgeoning Nazi party, following the lead of Adolf Hitler, instigate street riots with the aim of gaining the highest degree of control over the Germans by any means. HAS, mobs/crowds running through wide street, chaos. Nazis marching with flag, elite ...

Narrator speaks in English over the German newsreel narrator. German fighter pilot Helmut Lent's death. Lent shown; then his coffin and funeral. Goering at funeral (October 11). Narrator: "The real importance of this story lies in Goering's reappearance. He had disappeared from publicity shortly after the July 20th putsch.... within that one week in October he made three prominent appearances." CUs ...

Welt im Film Nr. 33, 12/28/1945 "Berliner Bilder" At the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin, a large military ceremony takes place, possibly the dedication in November 1945. CUs of individuals and the memorial. Destruction from the street. People shovel large piles of rubble. 01:01:26 Brief cut of three male runners stand on a track and shake hands with a man in a suit. 01:01:32 Welt im Film Nr. 66, 8/28/1946 ...

Russian troops, tanks, and motorcycles cross the Dvina River on rafts and reach Vitebsk. Artillery fires on the city. Troops march through its ruins. Germans surrender and are marched to the rear. Citizens berate them, and embrace Russian soldiers. Rockets and artillery are fired. Russian planes pass over. Shows German dead, abandoned equipment, and German prisoners. Five German generals are interrogated ...

Contains two photographs of the massacre at Gardelegen, Germany, taken shortly after the event on April 13, 1945. Both images depict victims who were murdered in a barn set on fire by Nazi guards. The photographs belonged to the donor’s father, Francis E. Kratz who was part of the US Army’s 3258th Signal Service Company and was stationed in Europe after December 17, 1944.

Russian troops, tanks, and motorcycles cross the Dvina River on rafts and reach Vitebsk. Artillery fires on the city. Troops march through its ruins. Germans surrender and are marched to the rear. Citizens berate them, and embrace Russian soldiers. Rockets and artillery are fired. Russian planes pass over. Shows German dead, abandoned equipment, and German prisoners. Five German generals are interrogated ...

Military actions in Odessa, which was captured by German and Romanian forces in 1941, then occupied by Romania. A plane flies over sections of a city which have been bombed out and lie in ruins. Fire and smoke billow out from buildings, including the Theater Kotovsky (still in Odessa?). Romanian troops in occupied Sevastopol. First days of Romanian occupation.

Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 5: Capt. Ludwig Stubbendorf of Germany wins the combination cross country equestrian event, Van Oven of Germany wins rapid fire pistol shooting event and Ullmann of Sweden wins precision pistol shooting event; garlands of victory are placed on brow of winners of ...

UFA Newsreel. Title: Frontberichte der Propaganda-Kompanien. REEL 1: Part 1: on the fighting at Narvik. Shows German warships in the harbor. German demolition teams blow up a railroad. White clad alpine troops fire on attacking British troops; German dive bombers attack British lines. German paratroopers land, assemble, and go into action. Part 2: German planes take off from an airfield. Show wrecked ...

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War Pictorial News was the official newsreel sponsored by the British Ministry of Information and the US Office of War Information. Brief shots of soldiers placing branches on top of and inside a torpedo/plane, soldier getting inside. LSs, pan planes (silent). SEQ, with sound in English: Men in German uniform, including Doenitz, Jodl, and Hans Georg von Friedeberg (now POWs) exiting an airplane. Mass ...

October 17/18, 1947: Mr. Victor Grosz, director of the press and information department, presiding over a meeting of foreign press correspondents in Warsaw, including Larry Allan (AP), Sydney Gruson (New York Times), Nicolas Carroll (Kensly Papers), Mr. Kantiouchin (Agency Tass), two women, and Mr. Marechal (France). People entering room, sit around table talking, many smoking. 03:10:27 Taking notes. ...

Reel 3: German troops invade Holland, cross the Maas, cycle thru a village, capture Fort Eben Emael using flamethrowers. German troops guard Belgian and Dutch POWs, cross the Albert Canal, advance with tanks, dig fox holes, eat, man tanks and fire artillery. German planes bomb allied positions. Maps the German advances in Belgium and Holland. Shows the formal Dutch surrender and masses of German v ...

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation. More shots of camp: smoke, tents, cooking fires, people wandering. MS through barbed wire fence where bin full of potato peelings is tipped over, two women look through waste for scraps. One Hungarian and one British sentry observe as female internees reach through fence for scraps; guards kick remnants towards them.