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Views of border crossings by road and rail in Europe, and of Rotterdam Port, 1950.

Motorists being processed at a German border crossing. The Border guard examines items being carried across the border. the operator of a travel trailer presents documents. Views of trains stopping at borders, including famous trans-European trains such as the Edelweiss and the Nord Express between Paris and Copenhagen. Trans-European train crossing border where Swedish flag is displayed. Sign on a train listing stops including Stockholm, Copenhagen, Basel and Rome. Electric train passing through border. Railroad construction underway through the center of Brussels, Belgium. A large new train station being completed in the heart of Rome, Italy. A locomotive under construction in Switzerland. Rubber train wheels being used by the Swiss. A ship displaying Swedish flag loads cargo at Rotterdam. Panning views of the Rotterdam port, in the Netherlands. A 4-masted sailing ship docked at a pier in the port. The port's modern warehouses. Men step out on rotating platform high in warehouse building. cranes loading cargo for ships.

Date: 1950
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060863
Jewish exit railroad cars at concentration camps; Hans Albin Rauter trial for Nazi war crimes.

Dutch war court in the Hague, Netherlands in 1948. Hanns Albin Rauter, Nazi police leader on trial for his crimes in German occupied Netherlands during World War II. Dignitaries and people in courtroom stand up as the judges arrive and take their seats. Session of trial begins. Views of prosecution desk and tribunal seen in turns. Hans Albin Rauter is being questioned by judges. 1942, 1943, or 1944 flashback scenes of Jewish, Dutch civilians being rounded up and deported on railroad trains to forced labor camps and concentration camps, while in background audio the prosecutor reads the charges. The round up footage first shows Jewish families with women and children being directed onto trains at a train station. A subsequent shot shows Jews exiting cramped railroad train cars and being lined up under Nazi guard at concentration camp. Documents about crimes committed by the accused are shown. Another man enters the courtroom, takes the oath and is questioned by the tribunal. The man is a supervisor of slave labor prisoners working for the Germans, and at the time of the trial was detained at a Rotterdam Penitentiary.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Dutch
Clip: 65675030785
Germans advance during the Invasion of Holland, and the formal Dutch surrender during World War II.

The German assault on the Netherlands and Belgium during World War II. An animated map depicts the German campaign to capture Liege (Luttich) in Belgium, and Holland. German invasion of Holland and the Dutch surrender. Soldiers in prone position fire guns as they advance in a field. They run across a road, cross the Meuse (Maas) and the Albert Canal in boats. Soldiers come ashore and take cover. Smoke due to explosions. Tanks in a field. Bomb damaged buildings and bridges. Troops advance on tanks. A map of Holland depicts Rotterdam. A bridge in the city. Shops on the streets. Soldiers fire guns. German officers. Troops advance in vehicles over a bridge. Tanks on the streets. German soldiers march Belgian and Dutch prisoners of war. The Church of Saint-Pierre de Jandrain in Orp-Jauche, Wallonia, Belgium. Deserted streets in the city. German officers in cars. An officer greets the soldiers. German officers discuss a map and strategize during a meeting. Soldiers march with their belongings.

Date: 1940
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021739
Review of the wars, destruction and atrocities brought by Germany to the countries of the world

Propaganda aimed at American soldiers who will occupy Germany after World War II. . Opening scene shows stadium in Nuremberg, Germany, filled with youth rendering the Nazi salute in unison as a leader (unseen) chants "Sieg Heil." Several German Messerschmitt 110 fighter bombers flying in formation. View from inside bomb bay of German bomber aircraft as bombs are released. Bombs striking the city of Rotterdam, Netherlands, on 14 May 1940. Buildings burning and collapsing. Buildings destroyed the same month by German bombing in 1940. Buildings being bombed in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, by German aircraft in April 1941. Views of areas in the Soviet Union, destroyed by German bombing. Lone figure of a woman standing in the midst of the desolation. Civilians pressed into labor by German occupying forces, seen at work building defenses for them. A mother and two children in an occupied region. Variouu scene of dead civilians, in German occupied countries, including some hanging from gallows. Dead American soldiers. More views of Germans assembled in Nazi rallies and other gatherings. People marching with massed flags at a Nazi rally. German soldiers in formation. Unusual view of large group of German soldiers in formation from camera position shoulder-to-shoulder in ranks with the soldiers. Closeups of faces of three Nazi German soldiers in steel helmets. Illustration of an American soldier superimposed on background of German troops in formation. A Nazi leader (who looks like Ernst Röhm, Head of the Nazi Sturmabteilung- Storm Troopers) speaking in the 1930s. German workers shoveling materials into an open hearth steel furnace. Panzer III Ausf.F tanks in a German factory. More persons hung from gallows. Film reenactment of German cavalry attacking in 1870. German villagers dancing. A ship hit by a German torpedo, in 1914. More German villagers dancing. German bombing of Warsaw, Poland, in 1939. More German villagers dancing. Nazi Waffen SS soldiers, in black , goosestepping on parade.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035991
German attacks on European nations and the Soviet Union, in World War II

German attacks on other nations during World War 2. A sign reads 'Belgique' near a building. Germans in Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland and France. German soldiers on tanks and other military vehicles as they advance in blitzkrieg (lightning war). They advance through the Dutch farmlands. German Ju-52 aircraft fly in formation and drop paratroopers. The destruction of Rotterdam by heavy German bombardment. People in Netherlands bury their dead at cemetery. French refugees leave their cities. Adolf Hitler looks at the Eiffel tower in Paris, with other German officials, during occupation of France. Aerial view of the city. German bombers attack London, England during the blitz. Shattered equipment on the ground and destroyed buildings in London, England. Hitler observes the German Atlantic Wall defenses. The battle and Allied evacuation of Dunkirk. White cliffs of Dover Sea shore in view. Map depicts German positions. The Battle of Britain. British spitfire planes attack German bombers. Children being evacuated from London and Paris. Fires and aerial bombardment at night by German aircraft during blitzkrieg. Rubble being cleared by British following bombing by German aircraft. British men and women war production workers in munitions and aircraft factories. Hitler and Goering with others in the railroad carriage where French authorities surrender at Compiegne in June, 1940. German forces attacking the Soviet Union, with tanks, infantry and aircraft during Operation Barbarossa, on June 22, 1941.The mobilization of Soviet defense forces depicted with scenes of Soviet citizens listening to radio updates and reading newspapers about invasion. Soviet men mobilizing for military training. New recruits in Russia prepare for military action.

Date: 1941
Duration: 6 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051620
Dutch women model the new spring creations of Jacques Fath at a castle near The Hague in Holland.

A photoshoot featuring the Spring 1954 collection French designer Jacques Fath takes place at a castle near The Hague in the Netherlands. Models in dresses with rounded hiplines and wasp waist sit on chairs and walk around. Cameramen admire the models. Film maker records the event and is seen filming from behind his motion picture film camera. Woman takes off her bolero. A woman wears an Ottoman coat and an organdy dress. Women model in walking dress, cocktail dress, and organza cocktail dress. A model in an evening gown by the designer on the castle's balcony.

Date: 1954, April 19
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026997