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Views of Kharkiv, Ukraine city center. The buildings appear largely intact and the leaves are on the trees, indicating that it is summer, probably 1942. German soldiers travel the streets in vehicle and on foot and bicycle. View of a statue of Taras Shevchenko, which has been left standing. Nice street scenes. A German soldier walks past with a young local woman. 01:45:51 Bridge over a river, with ...

"Ufa" logo; "Nr. 57" appear on screen. The narrator says, "Die Inseln Oesel und Moon in deutscher Hand." [The islands of Oesel and Moon in German hands]. Map showing Oesel (Saaremaa) and Moon islands, located between Latvia and Estonia. Luftwaffe planes in the air over the islands. German ships in the ocean; mines detonating in the water. Soldiers on board ship receiving orders. Cannons firing from ...

Matus Kugel was born in Minsk, Belarus, on 4 September 1873. In 1902 he married Chaja Rubin in Bialystok, Poland. During the Second World War the couple lived in Nice, France. On 18 June 1942 Matus obtained a diplomatic service passport in Vichy, France, issued to him by the Republic of Liberia, represented by Baron O. de Bogaerde, Minister Plenipotentiary. Thanks to this document Matus and Chaja were ...

On returning from Germany on 30 September 1938 after his agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain spoke to the crowds at 10 Downing Street: My good friends ... I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep. Winston Churchill commented dryly: We have chosen shame and will get war. Pierre Caquet's ...

Refugees in northern France and Flanders. Refugees, mostly women and children sit in the backs of trucks, looking at the camera. A group of men and women stand with bicycles and wagons in front of the awning of a bar. Horse-drawn wagons drive off. French soldiers march through a town. A few spectators watch their progress and wave at the men. People with bundles strapped to bicycles stand on the street. ...

From the early 1930s, Spanish fascists were fascinated by the 'nice shine' of National Socialism. During the Civil War, the influence of Nazi Germany among Spanish fascists, traditionalists and supporters of the emerging Franci regime increased. As consequence of the pro-Nazi alignment of the Franco regime a Spanish division of volunteers was set up in early summer, 1941 to take part in the Russian ...

Jacques Bodnar was the youngest of three sons of a Jewish family in Vienna. One of his brothers was able to get to Turkey and wait out the war there, the other went to Palestine before the Anschluss. Jacques and his parents were in Vienna, and were trying to get papers to get out. After the Anschluss, arrangements were made to get Jacques to Switzerland, and he was held in a labor camp in Schaffhausen. ...

Uniformed and armed partisans marching through the streets of a town and across a field. Shots of male partisans receiving instructions from a commander (close-ups of commander), then saluting. The commander chats with the troops; good close-ups of male and female partisans. The scene switches to the interior of a partisan barracks. British, American and Soviet flags are visible on the walls. The soldiers ...

Reel 13: (1945) Germany; Air trip to England; Remagen Street scenes, soldiers marching, gathering in the road amongst crowds of civilians. Church. Planes landing in a field, soldiers conversing next to trucks in the airfield (possibly, the Frankfurt airstrip). Soldiers at leisure outside a home (temporary HQ?), play with a small dog, open a metal trunk, and wave to the camera from trucks. Nice CUs ...

(LIB 4671) American military activities in Engers, Germany. A soldier directs half-track tanks down the center of town. A German civilian wearing a white armband reads a proclamation while standing astride a bicycle. Soldiers and civilians are visible in the background. German soldiers or Hitler Youth surrendering. 01:54:22 Quality improves. Slate indicates that the date is March 25, 1945 and the cameraman ...