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Roma encampment, mostly women and children prior to being moved into enclosed (fenced) camp. Smoky campsite, VS of tents with women cooking, children look at camera. One women lights cigarette, pan to group of children, another tent. Woman in colorful blouse with water container. Tents in BG. Kids smile as she goes by, CU of container. MLS pan of campsite area, soldiers in BG. Women and children lined ...

LS, US soldier, in combat helmet, in FG of picture looking out to sea from boat. VS, boats, US army men on barges, soldiers posing for camera. LS, land, two flags planted in soil on hill- US flag and another flag that is white with a red cross. VS, EXT, army ships, unloading at beach head seen in a LS from a high angle, the Aleutian Islands (Kiska). American soldiers with packs climb hill, relax on ...

Summary: The German viewpoint of events prior to and during the Polish campaign. Reel 6: Camp of Polish POWs, long line of POWs marching on road, CUs feet. German troops move east, through rural terrain. Graphic of southern front (Lemberg). Troops cross River Sam, Hitler reviews. Hitler looks at map. German troops, tanks through burning town. Tired German troops and artillery along road. Troops rest ...

Expulsion of Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia (3 million). US Zone. Shots of German citizens wearing armbands as identification on the streets of Usti, Sudetenland. Committee of Allied representatives meeting to decide the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia. LS members over map on table: Dr. Kuchera, plenipotentiary of the Czechoslovak government; American Col. J.H. Fye, liasion offier; Lt. ...

Looks at the life of the British aristocrat whose political beliefs and friendship with Adolf Hitler scandalized her family, friends, and society. 1st U.S. ed. xii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

George Stevens (December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. During World War II, Stevens joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps and headed a film unit from 1943 to 1946 under General Eisenhower. His unit shot footage documenting D-Day — including the only Allied European Front color film of the war — the liberation of Paris and the meeting ...

"A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. Now, in Embattled Dreams, the sixth volume in this monumental work, Starr looks at 1940s California, the war years and their aftermath. California in the years surrounding World War II was a time ...

Consists of photocopies of correspondence,1967-1968, between Fulgencio Batista, former President of Cuba, and Lawrence Berenson, a lawyer who had represented several Jewish organizations in Cuba including the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, regarding an article published in "Look" magazine about the MS St. Louis. Also includes clippings, two copies of photographs, an essay, "The Problem ...

A look at the masterminds behind some of World War II's greatest escapes discusses the master counterfeiters and engineers who supplied people in Europe and Asia with false documents, coded messages, hidden radios, compasses, and tools for escape. 1st ed. xiv, 267 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Displaced persons, UNRRA. Signs in Hebrew. At right, sign reading "UNRRA DP camp Admont." Several scenes of Jews marching with picks and shovels. LS, camp, tending crops, hoeing, women washing (various shots). MCU, four men walking on dirt road, UNRRA official? UNRRA officers caring for children. School children, teenagers sitting at desks outside, teacher writes on blackboard: "We hope to go to Palestine" ...