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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index. xii, 277 pages, 5 pages of plates : maps ; 25 cm.

Seized German film described by NARA as showing a training course for German future leaders of occupied countries. The original title is missing and the beginning of the film seems to be missing as well. German titles throughout. The first title states that during the lunch hour the students enjoy the beautiful Alpine landscape. Uniformed men wander around the grounds of a castle, which is the NS-Ordensburg ...

A memoir of the author's experiences as a young soldier in World War II, based on the letters he wrote from 1944 through the end of his duty. xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

(black and white) LS of a POW (?) camp surrounded by wire fencing, inmates moving about, a watch tower is visible in FG. Camp is located in a large open field with mountains in BG. Planes fly overhead. On nearby road, two women in civilian dress walk along carrying luggage. Notice the camp's proximity to the main road. Two US soldiers along road get out of a "HQ1" vehicle and look at destroyed railway ...

vi, 450 pages, [41] pages of plates

A large, traditional German festival in Olmuetz with many couples dancing. Hanna dances on her own on a path with woods behind her. Hanna and her mother Ella board a PKP train with sign: "Stanislawow-Woronienka." They look out from the train window and say their goodbyes to family in the station.

"Prelude to War" reviews events leading to the war and contrasts American democracy with fascism. This is the first film of Frank Capra’s "Why We Fight" propaganda film series, commissioned by the Office of War Information (OWI) and George C. Marshall. "Prelude to War" was made to convince American troops of the necessity of combating the Axis Powers during World War II. The film was based on the idea ...

"Ausklang des heldenmütigen Ringens um Polen" [Concluding the Heroic struggle for Poland] "Staatsbegräbnis für den bei Warschau gefallenen Generaloberst Freiherrn von Fritsch" State funeral for von Fritsch in Berlin, Germany on September 26, 1939. Statue, funeral procession. CU of coffin covered in flowers, Nazi banners. Procession of military officials, civilians at a public square. Large group of ...

The Welt im Film [World in Film] newsreel series was produced by the American and British military governments to support the denazification campaign in Germany and Austria. Screening was compulsory in cinemas in the American and British zones of Germany until the late 1940s.

From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered thousands of civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, Texas, a small desert town at the southern tip of Texas. The trains carried Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants and their American-born children. The only family internment camp during World War II, Crystal City was the center of a government prisoner exchange program called "Quiet ...