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German film on the construction of the Siegfried Line. Reel 1, views of various German cities and maps the site of the fortifications. Dr. Todt studies plans, officers survey the land, and draftsmen draw plans. An animated chart depicts the Todt engineering organization. The ground is cleared, steel is made in mills, and railroads move supplies to the site. Workers arrive, march to the site, live in ...

Mr. Dixon chronicles the progress of the 99th Chemical Mortar Battalion, primarily in Germany, includes captured German POWs, victims of concentration camp, and liberated former camp inmates most still in uniforms walking in line along the road. Trip to Paris Arc de Triomphe, Tomb of Unknown soldier. Group shot of battalion commanders, army vehicles in snow of courtyard going back to front. Trucks ...

Archief van Dirk Couwenhoven (Koog aan de Zaan, 15 oktober 1880 - Westzaan, 12 januari 1964). Verzetsdeelnemer. Met zijn zoon W.C. Couwenhoven transporteerde Dirk Couwenhoven op hun Zaanse vrachtschip 'Westzaan I' wapens en munitie, die gedropt waren in de Wieringermeer. Dit schip was ter camouflage ingeschakeld in de voedselvoorziening. Het archief omvat naast documenten rond het schip een verslag ...

The Łódź ghetto chronicle was compiled by the staff of the Archives Department of the Judenrat. At first it was written only in Polish; from January 1943 it was written only in German. Pp. 63-218 present the chronicle of the last two months of the ghetto, June-July 1944. By that time, the situation in the ghetto had seriously deteroriated. The chroniclers noted worsening moods, starvation, and cases ...

For those of us who didn't live through World War II, it appears in our mind's eye in black and white. Images of the Blitz, of the D-Day landings at Normandy, the liberation of Paris, the fall of Berlin--all come to us in shadowy grays and blacks, the lack of color simultaneously heightening their drama and distancing them from us. Seen in black and white, World War II seems wholly of the past, a story ...

Pan of the Ukrainian landscape with a Christian cemetery and camp below it. Two German soldiers tour the area. Railroad tracks. 00:09:55 Quick shot of a band playing in an open market. 00:09:57 Destroyed Allied fighter plane. German trucks move out of camp through muddy roads. 00:10:23 CUs of German officers talking. One smiles at camera from a truck. Destroyed and muddy motorcycle towed by a van. ...