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Traces Améry's life and discusses his writings on his Holocaust experience (in France, Belgium, and Auschwitz) comparing him with other authors of Holocaust memoirs, particularly Primo Levi. Describes his discovery of his Jewishness at the age of 17; he perceived it as imposed by society and quite early realized that it was a death sentence. He understood the Nuremberg Laws as initiating a process ...

***The clip that is viewable online is a selected excerpt from the complete story - timecode 09:04:04 to 09:10:07.*** Diving on bridge over river. P-47 dives on town. Strafing railroad, road, town. Large formation of P-47s in the air. MS, CU C-47 taking off. 09:04:04 MS German officers waiting evacuation. CU Hugo Sperrle, former chief of staff. MCU as officers climb into C-47 for evacuation. German ...

Soldiers digging a ditch (unclear), plane flies over field. 01:05:26 Betty Hausner with baby Tony in Liverpool 1946. Baby in stroller. 01:06:12 Family sitting in grass, posing for the camera. Franz, the man in suit with glasses smoking, switches places with the other man, and the family poses again. Brief shots of an opera/theatrical play, three actors in costume.

A harbor in Copenhagen, Denmark, with German ships, troops, and military vehicles. Troops raise a German flag atop a citadel. Germany invaded Denmark on April 9, 1940, meeting almost no resistance from the ill-prepared Danes. German planes fly overhead and drop leaflets stating that the Danish population should view the Germans "not as enemies, but as friends" and that the Germans are only occupying ...

TASK FORCE 45 IV Corps Sector, Fifth Army Italy 12 Feb 1945 (M-1273) VS, Maj Gen Willis D Crittenberger, CG, IV Corps, awards decorations and then formally disbands Task Force 45. Pan, troops in formation. FRONT LINE ROAD JAM Fifth Army, Italy 13 Feb 45 (0-1091) Seq: road grader stuck in ditch beside mountain road, causes traffic tie-up. Soldiers of A Co, 126th Engrs, 10th Mountain Div, pull grader ...

The Verdoner Family - Gerrit and Hilde Verdoner, their children Yoka (b.1934), Francisca (b.1937) and Otto (b.1939) - were Jewish. In May 1940, when the Germans overran the Netherlands, Nazi decrees aimed specifically at Jews forced Gerrit out of his business and Yoka out of her second grade class. When the Nazis commandeered their home, the Verdoners went to live with Gerrit's parents in Amsterdam. ...

July 1939. Children on a swing in the garden at the Eckstein family home in Brno in summer. Pan of the garden, the home, and the ornate balcony. Blossoming bushes, outdoor furniture. Michaela and Antonin run around and play with garden tools in the sandbox and take dips in the baby pool. The nanny lays a sheet in the grass for the kids to rest; she makes a sun-hat for Michaela; she splashes them with ...

Views of Munich, probably postwar [film stock dates to 1943]. Street scenes show destroyed buildings and piles of rubble. Short clip of the Bürgerbräukeller, the site of the Beer Hall Putsch where Adolf Hitler and the Kampfbund attempted a coup d'état in 1923. 01:01:02 John Bechtler gets into an army truck (labeled 206008425.) A brief clip of a black dog in the grass. Views of a lake and the surrounding ...

1150 N (14:09:45) Man at desk. Another man meets him in office. Signing documents, talking. Crucifix on the wall. Cameraman in shot. EXT, man with top hat and black coat walking (shots repeat). Looking at trees and grass. 1150 O (14:12:47) Prague, Czechoslovakia. LS, entrance of Kolovratsky Palace where the offices of the Ministry of Information are. CU, plaque, "Ministry of Information" on the building. ...