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Mistreatment and brutality against Jews as part of Nazi German antisemitism campaigns before and during World War 2

Nazi brownshirts riding on a truck yelling anti-Jewish propaganda in streets of Germany during anti-Semitic campaign of 1933. Signs on Jewish-owned businesses encouraging boycott of those businesses. Brownshirt drawing sign on storefront glass of a shop. Sign with skull and slogan "Achtung Juden" posted on front door of Cafe Unter den Linden. Crowd of German citizens interacting with brownshirts, mostly in support, but one brief scene shows a citizen arguing with a brownshirt posted in front of a Jewish-owned shop. Nazis with swastika armbands leading anti-Jewish chants, while some citizens raise their hands in Nazi salutes. Next scene deals with the Nuremberg Laws including the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor. It shows Herman Goering addressing government officials at the seventh Nazi party congress in September 1935, and reading parts of the so-called blood purity laws and standards. Rudolf Hess and Adolf Hitler are seated in the foreground. Goering reads the proclamation that German citizens are only those of German or related blood, willing to serve the Reich and German people. Goering then reads that marriages between Jews and citizens of German or related blood are prohibited. Scene from courtroom during 1946 Nuremberg trials. Next scene shows Jewish citizens being forcefully and brutally dragged, beaten, and evicted from their homes by Nazis. Some have been stripped of their clothing. A woman is dragged by her hair. A man is beaten. Scenes of German citizens and possibly Gestapo beating and harassing Jewish people in the streets. Clearing of the Warsaw Ghetto in April 1943. Close-up of hand turning device to generate explosive charge. Large explosion in Warsaw Ghetto. Views of buildings burning in the Warsaw Ghetto. People carrying bodies on stretchers. A person being dragged by Nazi soldiers out of a sewer holes where they had been hiding. Nazi German tanks and armor rolling through the ghetto, and artillery being fired at a building. Waffen SS, gestapo police, and Wehrmacht participating in brutality. Jewish man being hit and dragged across street.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058667
British books preserved in World War 2 by copying them to microfilm and storing them in United States Library of Congress.

British books being preserved from destruction during World War 2. Images from May 13, 1933 when twenty five thousand books were burned by Nazis in Germany on orders from Hitler. The book-burning included many classics of literature. Aerial view of London buildings burning at night from Nazi blitz raid during Battle of Britain. Books and important records being preserved by British as they transfer them to film, with one page of each book recorded to one frame of film, so that an entire book can be captured on a small roll of film. View of books copied onto motion picture film one page at a time by a British man. View of U.S. military personnel reviewing motion picture film used to image letters sent to troops via V-mail during the war. Narrator states that the filming process followed by the British is similar to the American mail filming process.The films being looked at by a man. Men pack the films in boxes for shipment to the United States. Wooden boxes being lifted by ship crane for transport. Exterior street view of United States Library of Congress building where the films are being kept. Librarian checking and stamping each film on arrival. Film being viewed on a large microfilm viewer. The description of each film on cards placed in the library card catalog. View of the original preservation films being filed and stored in shelves in the basement of the Library of Congress.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042334
Fidel Castro addresses the people, and his military trials in Cuba.

Prime Minister of Cuba Fidel Castro speaks passionately on the microphone. Adolf Hitler delivers an impassionate speech during World War II. Scene of burning of books by the Nazi party in Germany in 1933. Man tossing forbidden books in pyre. Crucifix and Roman Catholic religious items are burned in Cuba. Statues of Catholic saints are being burned. Large group of women outside the Cuban military prison. People in prison. Cuban officers sit and speak during military trials. Prisoners sit on floor and a boy denouncing a prisoner. Soldiers during military trials. Castro soldiers with a Black prisoner in forest. Castro firing squad executes the prisoner.

Date: 1960
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033322
Montage of Adolf Hitler-related scenes from 1930s.

Film opens showing politician Adolf Hitler in civilian clothes, giving empassioned radio broadcast speech. Hitler in uniform speaking in different venues. In one he speaks to a huge crowd assembled outdoors. Adolf Hitler at ceremony for his appointment as Chancellor, is seen standing with German President Paul von Hindenburg and Vice-Chancellor, Franz von Papen, on January 30, 1933. Hitler speaking forcefully and animated, haranguing a crowd. Hitler, in uniform, speaking of the revolution and first year of the new German freedom to an audience of German officials including Joseph Goebbels in front row. He concludes by rendering the Nazi salute. (Note: an unrelated scene of Palestine, in the middle of the film sequence, shows momentary glimpse of a Muslim man far in the distance, praying on a parapet.)

Date: 1933
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031310
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses people during a rally in Germany.

Activities at a huge nighttime rally in Germany. Swastikas of the Nazi party are everywhere. Adolf Hitler and Rudolf Hess walk down a long aisle with cheering Nazis on both sides. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler along with his party members as he arrives. At the stage, Hess goes to the microphone and says simply: the Fuhrer speaks, and sits down. Hitler comes to the microphone and stands silent. Then he announces the end of something to which the audience responds with cheers. He then harangues the audience and speaks emphatically, forcefully, and with in an animated fashion. Seen during his speech are: Joseph Goebbels; Ernst Rohm; and Hermann Goering. People cheer. Hess comes to the microphone again and declares something to the effect that Hitler is Germany and Germany is Hitler.

Date: 1933
Duration: 6 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: German
Clip: 65675047309
Gerhard Zucker and others attempting to develop postal rockets in the 1930s.

Slate refers to efforts to overcome problems with compressed powder rockets. A large crowd is gathered to watch a demonstration of a Zucker mail rocket. Gerhard Zucker walks ahead and left of Several uniformed Brown Shirts, AKA Nazi Stormtrooper (Sturmabteilung) as they carry a large rocket down some stairs at a beach. Uniformed Hitler youth (Hitlerjugend) are also seen in the crowd of spectators. A cinematographer sets up his camera on structure near the water. Next, the rocket is seen set upon its inclined launching stand as Zucker makes ready the four rockets on each side of the large mail carrier. Closeup of Zucker doing this as another person deposits mail through a door atop the rocket body. Scene shifts to the Wadden Sea off Cuxhaven,on April 9, 1933, where Zucker follows Nazi Stormtroopers carrying the mail rocket across wet sands. Spectators stand shoulder-to-shoulder atop a hill in the background.Zucker standing alone next to the rocket. He and an assistant ignite the 8 side rockets and the mail rocket takes off. But, instead of heading straight, it noses up and loops over backwards, falling to the sand. Stormtroopers lift up the damaged device. Later, Zucker is seen designing a launch with concentric guide rings. He made several attempts in 1934 and 1935, to convince British Royal Mail officials of the viability of rocket mail. He is seen in the last attempt on the Isle of Wight, in January, 1935, standing by his rocket, surrounded by English spectators. His launch stand with concentric rings is clearly seen. He places mail in the rocket body and drops it down through the rings on the launch stand, ignites it and it appears to take off smoothly.(It actually failed.) Views of Belgian Karl Roberti and his postal rocket. An American rocket carrying a line out to a boat needing rescue offshore.

Date: 1935
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675024395