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Germany institutes measures to increase war efforts on the home front during World War II

Captured German propaganda film designed to encourage the population in the final days of World War 2. The closed Theater des Volkes (Theater of the people) in Berlin is seen at it's start. Steel gates are being pulled across the entrance of the Deutsches Opernhaus (German Opera House). Steel gates are drawn across the entrance to the Schiller Theater on Bismarckstrasse in Berlin. A sign announcing the open hours at a play house, is covered by a cardboard. Likewise a sign at an opera theater is covered. (Narrator states that Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Reich Minister of Propaganda, has been given the title: "Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War.") City trams are diverted to carry war supplies. View of men loading boxes into one. A tram pulling rail cars loaded with freight. An automobile being towed by a tram. Morale boosting slogans posted in various places. (one reads "Relentlessly determined to win victory." Another reads "With the Leader (Fuhrer) to Victory." Joseph Goebbels, addressing a rally of armaments workers in the Rhineland District, tells them (according to the Narrator) "Before we admit the enemy to German soil, and submit ourselves to his will, we will first work our hands bloody and work to our last breath." The assembled workers applaud enthusiastically.Men and women over 65 years of age are seen engaged in light manufacturing. German miners coming off shift volunteer to dig trenches and prepare earthworks. The receive tools and march to a work site. Views of men digging defenses in East Prussia where it became urgent as the Soviet army drew near in October, 1944. In another similar scene, many women are seen working alongside men building defenses. A group of Nazi officers pose for pictures ostensibly working to also dig fortifications. A huge civilian work force is seen digging deep and wide ditches to stop or delay invaders.

Location: Germany
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044520
Leaders of El Salvador are interviewed and people cast votes in El Salvador.

The battle for democracy in El Salvador. Roberto Escobar Garcia, Authentic Institutional Salvadorian party, speaks about democracy when he is interviewed. He says that election parties were not fighting for control and getting power but were fighting for democracy in America. The voting campaign of Popular Salvadorian Party. Francisco Quinonez Avila during the voting campaign. A sign: Partido Popular Salvadorian. Celia Campos de Tovar, Popular Salvadorian Party speaks when she is interviewed. Views of the voting campaign of National Conciliation Party and Christian Democratic Party. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fidel Chavez Mena speaks. Activities of civilians: people in a market. A man reads a newspaper. Civilians are asked their opinions on democracy. People cast vote. 25th March 1984: A date with democracy.

Location: El Salvador
Date: 1983
Duration: 5 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044839
Film of the Nazi German bombing on Britain and the British soldiers fighting the Germans (WW2)

Personnel classification and orientation as morale features. Shows and recommends films of Nazi German bombings, burning towns and dead civilians, in World War II. Stresses the need for esprit de corps. Officer addresses soldiers in a hall and discusses about the need to understand that why they fight. Depicts that the Commanding Officers should show war films of Nazi German attacks on people, to motivate the soldiers to fight for their Nation. The film shows the German planes in flight. The planes bombard on the land where the civilians reside. High altitude view of the city. People run to save themselves from the air attack. Dead bodies lay on the field. Fire and smoke due to bombarding. German flag on the flag pole. Soldiers march. The British soldiers prepare to fight the Germans. The British soldiers in airplanes. High altitude view of the wrecked city.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 6 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045494
American workers and OSS in World War 2 work to estimate the loss of German military manpower in battle.

Film outlines process of U.S. military and War Department to estimate the German military manpower losses from 1939-1943 during World War II. Scenes of German military forces in battle. German tank on the battlefront smashes down a tree and German soldiers follow, running behind it. Dead bodies of soldiers lay on the battlefield. Airplane falling from sky to ground after being hit. German Soldiers fire rifles during battle. German soldiers carry wounded on litters and German medical staff treat the wounded soldiers. A wounded soldier on a hospital bed. Nurse leans over hospital bed and talks to a wounded soldier. A study made to find out the number of soldiers returning to their jobs after being injured. A man reads a magazine which reads: 'Estimate of non battle causalities'. German soldiers march through Arc de Triomphe in Paris during occupation of Paris by Nazi Germany. Headline of a newspaper reads: 'Germans silent on Russian gain'. Brief scene of Soviet leader Stalin speaking at a microphone. Cavalry soldiers, likely Soviet, crossing a battlefield. Scenes of World War I German troops being reviewed by officers. Civilian or OSS men lean over a German map and discuss among themselves. They study the map. Scene of men and women at a German news stand buying German newspapers in order to obtain obituary information. OSS personnel translate casualty reports from German newspapers to help estimate deaths of German soldiers and determine force strength. An operations room with American staff analyzing German newspapers. View of a Boeing 314 Clipper Flying Boat aicraft taking off from water. The reports from World War I and II, allied forces, chart, graphs and NARS computers used to estimate German Army's manpower loss. African American women workers operate keypunch machines recording battle casualty statistics which yield punch cards for further data analysis. Punch cards being created and being loaded in sorting and reading machines bearing brand "International" (for International Business Machines or IBM). A document entitled "analysis of obituaries." Man in an office studying a map and a document. A woman helps him as she enters numbers into a Remington Rand adding machine. They estimate the officers killed in war and the number of the killed enlisted men, in order to estimate the total battle loss. They compare the data of soldiers missing, killed, wounded, and unfit for duty from 1939 to 1943.

Location: Germany
Date: 1943, May
Duration: 12 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045524
USS Foss explodes and breaks into two after being torpedoed in a live fire test.

Aerial views from a hovering helicopter, of the U.S. Destroyer Escort, USS Foss (DE-59) as is floats unmanned as a target in live fire test of a new proximity fuse for the Mk 16 torpedo. A huge explosion is seen as the torpedo, launched by the U.S. Submarine, USS Sabalo (SS-302) strikes the Foss amidship. The Foss breaks into two pieces, which float separately, until they begin to sink slowly. The bow, displaying the number 59 points almost straight up as it begins to sink. A helicopter flies low over the scene.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1966, September 6
Duration: 3 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076557
House Military Affairs Committee visits headquarters building of the U.S. 12th Army Group Tactical Air Command in Luxembourg, during World War II .

U.S. Army Lieutenant General Omar Bradley prepares to meet members of the Congressional House Military Affairs Committee upon their visit to Headquarters of the 12th Army Group Tactical Air Command, in Luxembourg, during World War 2. A staff car stops,on Place de la Gare. The Hotel Clesse is seen in the background. General Bradley defers to Ambassador Charles W. Sawyer, who is smoking a cigarette. Sawyer enters the car, followed by Bradley. (another man is already in the back seat.) The car drives along a boulevard lined with tram tracks. Three stars are prominently displayed on the car's bumper. The car stops and two attending soldiers salute as General Bradley steps to the sidewalk. He is followed by Ambassador Sawyer and the other person. The three climb steps to enter a building. Some sort of official proclamation is posted near the entrance. A sign at the door reads "Show your identification." The staff car drives away and a Military Police jeep arrives, leading several cars carrying the House Committee members, who are then escorted into the building. Later, Committee members are seen exiting the building, including Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce of Connecticut,walking with Congressman Paul W. Shafer of Michigan. Cars for the Committee parked on cobblestone street, near a. Sign by some barbed wire prohibiting entry. Committee members begin boarding their cars and driving away.

Location: Luxembourg
Date: 1944, December 5
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076984
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