US propaganda film about "The German personality" and its national psyche and history. Reel 6 describes the unconditional surrender of Germany. Shows prisoners and industrial ruins. Contrasts "lackadaisical" occupation in 1918 with the more complete occupation, the trial of war criminals, and denazification processes in 1945.

Deployment of soldiers to Africa, soldiers on train, Ruins, Italy? Accommodation in Naples, soldiers on ships, entrance to the port of Tripoli, Libya, camel rides, swimming in the Mediterranean, swastika flag, camp life, military cemetery, baking pancakes, desert, Officer Corps, commander's bus, Award of the Knight's Cross to Winrich Behr

A newsreel illustrating the damage and suffering caused by allied bombing raids in France. Title onscreen, superimposed over a statue of a woman: "France Meurtrie" [France ravaged]. The camera pans down from the top of a church to show pallbearers removing coffins from the church while crowds of mourners watch. Women weep as the coffins are loaded onto the back of a truck. The cortege passes a square ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

(LIB 6264) Jewish Atrocity Camp, Landsberg, Germany, April 30, 1945. MSs, CUs, emaciated bodies of murdered Jews lying on the ground. Long pan, camp area showing guard towers, barracks building and barbed wire fence. MSs, CUs, other bodies of victims in woods. (LIB 6285) German Surrender Delegation, Haar, Germany, May 5, 1945. INTs, surrender conference. Gen Jacob L. Devers, CG, Sixth US Army Group ...

Summary: The German viewpoint of events prior to and during the Polish campaign. Reel 4: German cavalry and motorized infantry advance. Civilians greet German columns. Armor advances through flaming ruins. An informer points out a Pole accused of war crimes. The Schleswig-Holstein shells Danzig.

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Am 1. April 1935 trat die Neuorganisation der Wehrwirtschaft in Kraft, die mit Befehl Nr. 400/34 g. K. W Wi (Ib) des Reichswehrministers vom 19. Dezember 1934 angeordnet worden war. Sie schuf als koordinierende Mittelinstanzen auf Wehrkreisebene die Wehrwirtschaftsinspektionen (Wi In) sowie die diesen unterstellten Wehrwirtschaftsstellen (W WiSt). Der Wehrwirtschaftsinspekteur ...

Short segment in newsreel about Warsaw (after a bombing). People stand in ruined buildings. Jews? on the side of a road shoveling rubble (VO documentation indicates Jews, but they may not be; the same shot appears in Story 624, Film ID 302 where VO documentation indicates they are Polish soldiers). Clearing rubble. German soldiers, Polish civilians repair buildings.

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 ...

VS, EXT, buildings, amphitheater, civilians, local market. VS, rubble, buildings in ruin. Sign in French at Cafe reads: "Bar Americain" American soldiers are at the bar with local civilians, mainly women. Civilians, male and female, walking through the streets of the unidentified town. People ride by on bicycles. More shots of destroyed, bombed out buildings.

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 ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Am 1. April 1935 trat die Neuorganisation der Wehrwirtschaft in Kraft, die mit Befehl Nr. 400/34 g. K. W Wi (Ib) des Reichswehrministers vom 19. Dezember 1934 angeordnet worden war. Sie schuf als koordinierende Mittelinstanzen auf Wehrkreisebene die Wehrwirtschaftsinspektionen (Wi In) sowie die diesen unterstellten Wehrwirtschaftsstellen (W WiSt). Der Wehrwirtschaftsinspekteur ...

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.

Consists of 38 photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp soon after liberation, ruins of Hitler's Berchtesgaden home, the Hotel Florida in Bad Wiessee, and other postwar images. The photos were taken with a Kodak Instamatic camera by Virginia Longest (donor), a nurse in General Patton's army, and developed in an Xray laboratory. The collection also includes a bayonet and sheath from the Hitlerjugend ...

Consists of seven photographs showing various scenes of the U.S. Army in Germany at end of World War II, including tanks and troops moving through a village, liberated concentration camps prisoners, a performance perhaps by Marlene Dietrich, Gen. Patton meeting with a Soviet counterpart, and ruins of German city. Likely copies of Signal Corps photographs.

Title: "P.I.C. Films, Inc. Presents: Children in Refuge" "A film dedicated to children who suffer because of war" American children in classroom. Ruins in Warsaw (Julien Bryan footage from "Siege" of Warsaw in 1939). Relief packages for Polish children. National War Fund. Polish War Relief. American children reading thank you letters from Polish children. Scenes from refugee camps in Iran, Palestine, ...

Immediate postwar documentary about the Jews in Poland during World War II. In Yiddish with English subtitles. Also called "We the Survivors". 06:12:59 to 06:13:58 Footage of the first unearthing of the Ringelblum Archives on September 19, 1946 in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto. During the war, Emanuel Ringelblum and a team of historians within the Warsaw Ghetto assembled an astonishing set of testimonies, ...

Reel 11: German cavalry and infantry cross a river. Artillery bombards the Verdun forts. French troops surrender. Shows wrecked forts, a WWI monument, German infantry parading past the forts, civilians and French POWs. German forces passing abandoned war material and thru French towns. German tankmen studying maps, and a battle. French troops load guns in the Verdun forts. German infantry cross a river ...

Slave labor, workshops, atrocities and leaders of camp are highlighted during war and at liberation. 01:01:09 Scrolling text, camp/place names superimposed over shots of atrocities, titles and credits. 01:03:49 AV Town and camp of Jasenovac, ruins of town. More scrolling text, HAS of photographer Steiner, (survivor/witness?) 01:06:33 MS of rounded up men being brought into labor camp by both German ...

A long line of people walk through the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto on the fifth anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Some of the people hold wreaths and banners with Yiddish writing. There are students, men in military uniforms, and a Zionist youth group, among others. 00:03:10 Close-up of a young man in a helmet and uniform holding a rifle. Groups lay wreaths in a church (?). More shots of the ...

The sanatorium was founded by Dr. George Karamanis in 1907 and operated until 1966. It is considered both the first Greek mountain sanatorium and one of the best organized in Europe. In the 1990s, the sanatorium was transferred to a new owner who did not reopen. Today the building complex is in ruins.

Reel 6: German tanks cross the Rhine on rafts. General Rommel confers with officers. Soldiers eat and sleep. German troops load and fire artillery and tanks advance. Germans fight thru a city and German forces close in on Dunkirk, and a French General leaving a German plane. German cavalry, tanks, cyclists, armor, motorized infantry advance past Allied equipment and ruins in Belgium. Maps the German ...

Documents and publications surrounding the post-liberation experiences of Calel Kurzer [born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1902] and his son Michael Kurzer [born in Utena, Lithuania in 1928] who were deported from the Kovno ghetto and to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany where they were interned and from where they were both liberated. Documents include post-war identification cards for both men and ...