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Title: Universal Newsreel. Germany Gives Up! Truman, sitting behind a desk, announces German surrender. Shots of a victory parade in NYC (?). Devastated landscape, destroyed train cars, dead German soldiers, German POWs. Compilation of German footage showing Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders, Nazi rallies, German troops marching, German POWs. British soldiers in the water and climbing aboard a ship ...

Pilsen liberation photographs consist of black-and-white photographs of the liberation of Pilsen (Plzeň), Czechoslovakia and the arrival of the United States Army to the city. Pilsen was liberated on May 6, 1945 by the 16th Armored Division of General Patton's 3rd Army as well as by elements of the 97th and 2nd Infantry Divisions supported by the Polish Holy Cross Mountains Brigade. Elements of the ...

Gen. Jordana reviewing Guard of Honor before leaving Portugal. Military parade, officials standing in moving car, saluting, soldiers on horses. LS, entrance of exhibition hall of the Ministry of Propaganda of President Carmona of Portugal. Men looking at exhibition paintings by Portuguese painter Henri Malta. Antonio Ferro, director of the Propaganda Ministry, admiring a collection of dolls wearing ...

The Deutschnationale Volkspartei (DNVP) joins the NSDAP in the Harzburg Front alliance. The event was called the "Day of Opposition." Large crowd of uniformed men standing in a wooded area. Many of the men are members of the Stahlhelm, a paramilitary organization affiliated with the DNVP. 10:05:20 Title identifies the "leader of the National Front" followed by a shot of Alfred Hugenberg, head of the ...

War in North Africa, combat scenes, parade for Eisenhower, German and Italian prisoners of war

Amateur footage shot in Schruns, Austria (identified by the location of the Hotel Taube, which appears in the film). AUSTRIAN VILLAGE title. Low aerial shots of picturesque village, focusing on a church spire. Children and adults, many dressed very formally and/or in local costume (long dresses, hats, dirndls) walk outdoors near the church. A priest or monk speaks with a group of young boys. Townspeople, ...

Walter Hausner (April 24, 1914-February 5, 2003) was a member of the Austrian amateur film society in Vienna. His father, Ferdinand (1883-1957) owned a firm for fabrics and fashion articles with factories in Vienna and Jihlava, Czechoslovakia with business partner Siegfried Furst. Walter’s mother, Wilhelmina Bloch, died from cancer in 1937. Walter and Ferdinand managed to leave Vienna together just ...

MCU, horse-drawn artillery advancing through Chateau Thierry; French prisoners in FG. MCU, motor-drawn artillery advancing, infantry in BG. Drivers of horse-drawn artillery sleeping on wagons. MCU, tank panzer division crossing river on pontoon bridge. Armored vehicles on road. Infantry advancing in heavy rain. French POWs. Field kitchen. MS, Volkswagon passing by tanks. Buildings burning around oil ...

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 ...