An American serviceman holds a slate that identifies the cameraman as Daniel and the date as November 30, 1943. US Army and Naval officers enter and exit a brick building guarded by MP's. The building appears to be part of a US military compound in the desert. 01:53:28 Soviet soldiers drill on the grounds of the Soviet embassy, where the Teheran conference was held. American miltiary cameramen film ...

(Munich 137) Palace of Justice Guards, Nuremberg, Germany, April 15, 1946. CU, sign: "Command Post - Enclave Nurnberg-Furth." Russian, English, and American military personnel and civilians being checked as they enter and leave through the gate. Sign: "No Cameras Allowed" to left of command post. CU, sign above sentry box, "3rd Battalion, 26th Inf." SEQ: US guards drilling in courtyard. Cut-ins, soldiers ...

Narrated by Ed Herlihy. Title: Universal Newsreel First Pictures of Rome's Capture. German newsreel footage showing Allied prisoners being marched through the streets of Rome during the German occupation. The narrator notes that the ". . . Italians watch quietly. Note the absence of any demonstration." Shots of Kesselring and fighting around Rome. American tanks enter and liberate Rome to cheering ...

Riots in Brussels. Leftist rioting on streets of Brussels, trying to prevent meeting of "Royalists." People, trying to enter Flemish Theater for the meeting, being pushed away and chased by the crowd. Gendarmes stationed along street. 01:03:10 Charles de Gaulle visiting Brussels, with Prince Reginal. Taking to crowd from Royal Palace balcony.

(Munich 541) Buchenwald Trial, Dachau, Germany, April 12, 1947. Spectators enter courtroom. LS, attorneys are administered oath by the Military Tribunal. At 16:20:42 U.S. Army Major Carl Everett Whitney, Jr hands papers to the tribunal and begins speaking. Major Whitney was assigned as attorney for the defense. Pan, prisoners in the dock, including Ilse Koch at 16:22:01. Scenes of the trial. LS, prisoners ...

Intertitle: "America enters the fight for democracy!" General Pershing and officers meet. Map of France with animation. 01:03:30 Excerpts from two Hollywood feature films: "Sergeant York" (1941) and "Wings" (1925). Dramatized footage of troops fighting in WWI (some in slow motion). Newspaper headlines of NY Telegram: "War Ends"

Romanian General Antonescu with Hitler. 05:00:03 MS high contrast Antonescu arrives in car to visit Hitler. INT shot as Hitler rushes across room to greet him. MS, group of 4 men talking including Hitler and Antonescu. Camera follows as they walk over and sit at sofa around table. 05:00:34 Antonescu enters conference room; Hitler at door, they salute, walk to large map on table with other officers ...

(Munich 164) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 16, 1946. LS, courtroom, a prosecutor reads indictment. LS, prisoners filing into courtroom and taking their seats. Members of the Tribunal take their places. MLS, four unidentified judges at bench. Brig Gen Josiah T. Dalbey reading part of the indictment. Capt Benjamin N Narvid, defense counselor, speaking to the court, prisoners in BG. ...

Consulate in St. Remo, southern villa. "Bremen" on a trip to the US, passengers, swimming pools on board, etc. Life on board, bull fight Steamer "Albert Ballin" charges, Hamburg, (14. 8. 1931), beach life, Parade Reichswehr, relocation, Frankfurt, open-air swimming pool, Olympics, Hitler enters the stadium with officials,

"United States," an AKS production, January 23, 1946. (This is a portion of G I Weekly 108) VS, poor people and children in Europe. LS, ship of Mayflower class. VS, settlers clearing land for farming. LS, British troops marching into village with colonists watching. CU, handbills of new taxes, decrees, etc. VS, colonists assembling and marching through woods and along roads. VS, battles between British ...

The collection consists of artifacts, books, booklets, clippings, documents, and propaganda materials relating to the experiences of Edward and Joseph Tenenbaum, before, during, and after World War II (1939-1945), during which Edward, a 1st Lieutenant in the OSS and the US Army, was the first American officer to enter Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation, a participant in the liberation of Ohrdruf, ...

Copyright Holder: Eli Schaap

A report about the March 23, 1943 general election in Denmark. Men on bicycles exit a building (holding bags of ballots?). Montage of Danish pamphlets and newspapers about the election. A sign announces that it is election day. Flags in the streets of Copenhagen. A crowd of people outside a polling place (?). A woman affixes a badge with a Danish flag, presumably an indication that he has voted, to ...

(Munich 531) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 4 (Pohl Case), Nuremberg, Germany, March 10-12, 1947. Conclusion of preceding sequence (111 ADC 6439): Pohl to Klein pleading "not guilty" to the indictment. HAS, Tribunal, as one of the judges asks the defendants whether they plead "guilty" or "not guilty." Judge states: "The Secretary General will enter, on behalf of each defendant, ...

(Paris 511) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 19, 1946. LS, Tribunal enters court and is seated. MLS, new Chief of French delegation Champetier de Ribes presenting the case against the Nazis for the French. MSs, Justices Birkett, Lawrence, and Biddle looking through documents as Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence makes a comment to de Ribes. MCU, French prosecutor Mr. Herzog addressing the ...

Consists of an autobiographical sketch of the early life of Anne Kelemen (Anne Kelemen Robitscher), originally of Vienna, Austria. She describes the lives of her extended family, including her parents, who perished at Belzec in 1942. Ms. Kelemen was sent to England on a Kindertransport in May 1939, and reunited with her sister, who was in England working as a domestic. She became a Zionist and tried ...

Opening titles in Polish. The defendants in the Stutthof trial enter the dock. The judges enter and are seated. The camera focuses on each defendant as he or she is named, including Commandant Johann Pauls, Kapo Josef Reiter, Kapo Waclaw Kozlowski, Jan Breit, and Kapo Tadeusz Kopczynski. There are several female defendants, including Gerda Steinhoff, Jenny Barkmann, Elisabeth Becker, Ewa Paradies, ...

Summary: The German viewpoint of events prior to and during the Polish campaign. Reel 7: shows masses of abandoned equipment and Polish POWs. German and Russian units meet. Hitler poses in front of besieged Warsaw. German armor and infantry enter the city after its capitulation.

The collection consists of five photographs of the proceedings of the Nazi war crimes trials at Nuremburg and Dachau, Germany; one photograph of refugees on the ship "Medina Yehudit" attempting to enter Haifa, Palestine, on December 3, 1947; and a photograph of a little girl waving Israeli and American flags in front of a kosher butcher store in Pittsburgh, Pa., on July 2, 1948.

John Coulston was a captain with the 602nd U.S. Tank Destroyer Battalion during World War II. The unit participated in the Battle of the Bulge and was the first unit to enter Ohrdruf. In later years Coulston served as the historian for the 602nd US Tank Destroyer Battalion.

Flemish nationalist meeting in Brussels. Uniformed members of the Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond (Flemish National Union; VNV) march into an indoor stadium. Some of the men play drums. Hendrik Elias, head of the VNV, enters the stadium accompanied by German officers and VNV members. Shots of the crowded stadium and a banner reading "Winterhulp." Elias stands at the podium. Good CUs of some of the audience ...

Intertitle: "Buchenwald" Human remains in crematoria at Buchenwald. Pile of bones. Survivors and GIs gathered around corpses in courtyard at Buchenwald camp. More shots of the dead, and CUs of the barely living. Doctors inspecting wounds. Intertitle: "Arrogant German citizens are forced to make a tour." German civilians, mostly women, filing into the camp. Intertitle: "Lampshades and pictures made ...

Contains photocopies of a personal narrative by Hugh Jenkins describing his experiences in Bergen-Belsen as well as British Red Cross and British military documents relating to the camp after liberation. Also contains photocopies of two photographs depicting the burning of structures at Bergen-Belsen.