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Shot by unidentified German soldier. HA panning shots of Warsaw showing people in a wide open space, probably after rubble from destroyed buildings was cleared. Camera pans in the opposite direction and shows the Central Railway Station. Ground-level shot of the Hotel Polonia and buildings next to it on Jerozolimskie Avenue. People pass by on foot and in horse-drawn carriages. 00:41 Man (foreground, ...

Warsaw ghetto, probably in May 1942, filmed privately by German camerman, Willy Wist. General views of the gates opening for a vehicle. Bare-shirted men load bodies in a pit. CU, Jewish man. Market scenes, food and materials for sale, Jews with armbands. Street scenes, crowded sidewalks, trams, rickshaws. Massive funeral procession, various shots, some closeup. Unintentional dark shots. German officer ...

Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Robert Kan and his family escaped the Nazis on May 13, 1940 and emigrated to Queens, New York via the Dutch East Indies. He received a BA in Economics from Hofstra Univeristy and worked for thirty years for the US government at the Department of Commerce, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Science Foundation, and the American Embassy in Tokyo. After retiring ...

A Bulgarian town commemorates the uprising of April 20, 1876, in which Bulgarian nationalist rebels mounted an insurrection against the ruling Ottoman Empire. Men in uniform march a flag into the town square, while rows of uniformed soldiers, a group of men wearing military decorations, and hundreds of civilians look on. Several flag bearers march from different directions toward the center of the ...

04:31:58 (LIB 5416) General Dwight D. Eisenhower Visits Atrocities Concentration Camp at Ohrdruf, Germany, April 12, 1945. MSs, CUs, Eisenhower looks at dead bodies, GIs standing in BG. Former prisoner (survivor) with scarf talking to officers. CUs, dead bodies of prisoners. MSs, Gens Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. leave camp. MSs, CUs, US soldiers look at dead bodies ...

During the Second World War the Japanese were stereotyped in the European and American imagination as fanatical, cruel and almost inhuman. This view is unhistorical and simplistic. It fails to recognise that the Japanese were acting at a time of supreme national crisis and it fails to take account of their own historical tradition. The essays in Japanese Prisoners of War, by both Western and Japanese ...

Various shots of destroyed homes, roads, fences. Sunny day. Villagers looking uneasily into the camera. Large military truck rolls through town. Mound of Russian bodies lying in a heap.

Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Rector of the University, Professor L.A. Mayer of art and archaeoogy in the Middle East in his office. Joined by Dr. D.W. Senator, Administrator of the University, and Mr. Ibn Sahaw, registrar (re-shot 3 times). 06:26:41 Crowded lecture room. Physics lecturer writing on board. Course on English lecture. 06:28:51 People looking at manuscript page on which Einstein established ...

A makeshift slate reads: "Haglund, P 21, May 7." German troops, including Hitler Youth, receive food from an outdoor stove set up in a field. Close-up of a young boy who smiles at the camera. Panning shot of the line of men waiting to receive food. More shots of the men receiving hot soup or cereal of some kind. Men in Luftwaffe uniforms lie on the grass and eat soup. One leafs through a binder or ...

This British postwar antifascist leaflet entitled “Look what's crawling out again” draws attention to the danger of Owald Mosley's Union Movement.