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"Only once in American history have five Congressional Medals of Honor been awarded to participants of a single military operation. That single instance was the low-level AAF bombing of the oil refineries at Ploesti, Rumania, on August 1, 1943. How did it happen that one air assault could create these and a thousand lesser decorations? The reasons are told by Leon Wolff in this book based largely on ...

Ce fonds comprend de la correspondance, des documents d’identité, des documents relatifs à la construction de la synagogue Maale, des diplômes, des décorations, un texte retraçant les souvenirs de Seligman Beer Bamberger comme enseignant à Bruxelles pendant et après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, des documents relatifs à sa fonction de directeur de l’École israélite de Bruxelles, Athénée Maïmonide et ...

<p><strong style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration-color: initial;">Readers need to book&nbsp; a reading room terminal to access this digital content</strong><br /></p><p>This collection consists primarily of testimonies of Holocaust survivors who describe life before during and after the Nazi era. Most of the material focuses on the period of persecution. Some of the items in the collection are not ...

Met lit. opg., reg. 240 p. : illustrations ; 25 cm

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At the time of the Anschluss, Walter Nitsche was 20 years old and a student at the Höhere Staats-Gewerbeschule at Schellinggasse 13 in Vienna's 1st district. He graduated from school in June 1938 and shortly thereafter took up a job as a local construction supervisor at the "Road Administration of the Province of Lower Austria." At the end of November 1938, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. Walter ...

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The&nbsp;<em>Kartell-Convent der Verbindungen deutscher Studenten Jüdischen Glaubens</em>&nbsp;(K.C.) was an umbrella organisation of Jewish-German student fraternities. Founded in 1896 it had to cease to function in 1933. After the Second World War refugees reconstituted K.C. chapters in some of their respective countries of settlement, including the United States. See Weltsch, R. (ed.),&nbsp;<a href="http://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/19779" ...

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Copyright Holder: Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali a del turismo

Hitler congratulates SS Generals Lieb and Gille and decorated Belgian fascist Leon Degrelle for escaping Russian encirclement at Cherkassy. Himmler is present. MS, SS General Lieb salutes, bows, and shakes Hitler's hand. SS General Gille salutes, Himmler walking beside him. Hitler shakes Gille's hand, and looks toward Leon Degrelle (the Belgian fascist) who is in SS uniform and saluting. Hitler shakes ...

Reel 9: VS, Hitler, Himmler and Lutze walk down long aisle between columns of troops gathered in Nuremberg stadium. Ceremonies at Nuremberg showing Hitler and thousands of soldiers; a great number of flags are carried and flown. SS troops goose-stepping. CU, Himmler. CU, Victor Lutze introduces Hitler to audience at Nuremberg stadium. CU, MS, Hitler delivers forceful speech to huge crowd of stormtroopers, ...

Contains postcards sent by Erno Deutsch from the forced labor battalion in 1944, presumably forged Swiss schutzpass issued to Mr. and Mrs. Kellner, relatives of Erno Deutsch. A July 21, 1942, letter from the military authorities calling Erno Deutsch to return his military decorations. A July 27, 1942, registered mail receipt proving that Erno Deutsch obeyed that letter. An October 24,1944, letter written ...

The Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland was established on 4 July 1939 under the 10th decree of the Nazi’s Reich citizenship law. The organization came under the authority of the Reich Security Main Office, in particular the Gestapo. Its purpose was to identify and to prepare for emigration all of Germany’s Jewish population. It differed from the organization which it replaced, the Reichsvertretung ...

People put out flags, garlands, pictures of Hitler, etc. decorating city for celebration of Hitler's 50th birthday. Presents brought to the Chancellery. Flags. Diplomats of various countries arrive, plane, car. Tracking shots of various Nazi decorations around city. Night shots: lit monuments, columns, flags, flames at Adolf Hitler Platz, Hitler in car through streets, crowds cheer. Music Corps play ...

Copyright Holder: Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine

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A Bulgarian town commemorates the uprising of April 20, 1876, in which Bulgarian nationalist rebels mounted an insurrection against the ruling Ottoman Empire. Men in uniform march a flag into the town square, while rows of uniformed soldiers, a group of men wearing military decorations, and hundreds of civilians look on. Several flag bearers march from different directions toward the center of the ...