Major Sydney L. Burr of New York City, NY was stationed northeast of London in Suffolk, England at Knettishall Air Force Base from 1943 to 1945. He served with the 388th Bombardment Group of the 8th Air Force. His formal function was to debrief bombing missions over Germany. It is unclear how he made his way to Germany to film the liberation of Dachau, but since he was very close to those soldiers ...

Rabbi Ralph Weisberger (1912-1996) was born in Poughkeepsie, NY on 28 March 1912, the ninth of eleven children of Bentzion and Pearl (nee Singer) Weisberger, both of whom had immigrated from Hungary (Bentzion with his family as a child in 1882, and Pearl as a 15-year-old in 1890). The family moved to Harlem in the 1920s, and eventually settled in Washington Heights. Ralph studied at the City College ...

Jan Zlotkiewicz was born Jakub Salomon Zlotkiewicz on December 23, 1923 in Ozorkow, Poland. His father, Boris Zlotkiewicz was a bookkeeper and his mother, Bela Storch Zlotkiewicz took care of the children: Abram (1914-1941); Dawid (b. 1916); Roman (b. 1918); Lea (b. 1919); Moniek (b. 1921); Jakub (Szlojmale, b. 1923); and Jehoshua (b. 1924). Boris Zlotkiewicz died in 1938 and the family moved to Zgierz. ...

As the forward base and staging area for all U.S. military operations in the Pacific during World War II, Hawaii was the "first strange place" for close to a million soldiers, sailors, and marines on their way to the horrors of war. But Hawaii was also the first strange place on another kind of journey, toward the new American society that would begin to emerge in the postwar era. Unlike the rigid ...

"The first ever attack on Australia by a foreign power occurred at Darwin on February 19, 1942. The town was attacked in broad daylight by 188 bombers, dive bombers and fighters from the same Japanese Carrier Task Force that, two months earlier, had brought the United States into the war at Pearl Harbour. As at Pearl Harbour, early warnings were ignored or misinterpreted. Eight ships were sunk, 243 ...

"La décennie 1996-2007 au Congo-Kinshasa/R-D Congo est caractérisée par des violences récurrentes qui tendent à structurer son devenir--notamment dans sa partie orientale. Entre conflits locaux et guerre régionale, les populations y ont été fort malmenées, les femmes principalement mais aussi les jeunes voire les enfants embrigadés dans les milices des petits ou grands seigneurs de guerre. ...

Beatrice and some military personnel stand in Trafalgar Square in London. The 51st Field Hospital arrived in England in March 1944. Nelson's Column, the bronze lions, and crowds feeding pigeons are visible. A sign says, "Let our savings speak for us. Carry on London. Salute the soldier." on the base of the column. 01:03:47 Buckingham Palace. The group poses outside Westminster Abbey. They continue ...

Pan and CU of posters supportive of the fascist government of the Independent State of Croatia (NHD). One gives the dates 1941 and 1945. MS, Bust and portraits of NHD leader and Ustasa founder leader Ante Pavelic. Men in uniform (Ustasa and German) sit at the base of a statue. Pan down from a clock tower to a busy street scene in Zagreb, including German soldiers and many civilians. Poster showing ...

Reel 2: Part 7 continued from Story 3712, crews take off. 01:11:04 Part 1, plane of Captain Leopold Fellerer (Knight's Cross) lands; he is greeted by other pilots. 01:11:37 Part 2, Italy: supply trucks of the NSKK underway with supplies, loading of heavy artillery shells on trucks; artillery position on the Italian coast; preparations of defensive positions; camouflage of a tank; enemy planes attack; ...

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With German intertitles. Scenes filmed by Lieutenant Edgar Forsberg of the 257 German Infantry following the collapse of the Polish army on October 6, 1939. "Mit dem Stab der 257. Inf. Div. im Krieg (schwarzweiss film)” “Tankabwehr an der Strasse Einod-Gersheim nordl. Von Webenheim” Trucks driving. A tank is buried into the side of a hill. “Offene Feuerstellung einer 10 cm Kanonenbatterie Nordausgang ...

Boys stand in rows on top of a hill, white shirts, Nazi armbands, shorts, and high socks. Soldiers and members of the SS and SA in formation at base of the hill, waiting on Goering. Filmed from within a car moving in the parade, Goering in lead car. People greet from the side of the road, many in white shirts, swastika flags. CU German policeman on the motorcycle riding behind the escort car. They ...

It has been widely believed that the discipline of psychology in Germany was attacked, or even ceased to exist, under National Socialism. Indeed, faced with political persecution and anti-Semitism, many of the leading minds of the field were forced to emigrate. Yet in The Professionalization of Psychology in Nazi Germany, Ulfried Geuter shows that, rather than disappearing, German psychology rapidly ...

"This book tracks the tortuous negotiations between Washington and London, with FDR juggling strong domestic isolationist sentiment and the mandates of third-term politics before making a deal in which the British allowed the U.S. use of certain sea bases in exchange for 50 destroyers. Shogan argues that a pernicious precedent was set, enabling chief executives to override constitutional guidelines ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 12, No. 941. Release date, 12/29/1940. "Roosevelt Warns of Danger to US if Nazis Win War" FDR speaking to camera, CU & VCU, seated at microphone. "If Great Britain goes down, the Axis powers will control the continents of Europe and Asia and Africa and Australasia, and the high seas. And they will be in a position to bring enormous military and naval resources against this ...

Documents, photographs, and printed materials, related primarily to the activities of the Weisberger family, of Poughkeepsie, NY, and New York City, during World War II. Most material relates to Rabbi Ralph M. Weisberger, in his role as a chaplain in the U.S. Army, including his service in Iraq and Iran, where he worked with refugee Polish doctors. Also includes photographs of his parents, and documents ...

With German intertitles. Scenes filmed by Lieutenant Edgar Forsberg of the 257 German Infantry following the collapse of the Polish army on October 6, 1939. “Am Divisions-Gefechtsstrand in Morsbach.” Soldier on a motorcycle, camera pans to the trees and hill beyond. A car moves along a dirt road, tree-covered hills in the distance. WS of a building at the base of a hill. “Morsbach und Umgebung” Morsbach ...

"The book tells the story, largely unknown to Western readers, of the Soviet home front during World War II. After Hitler's invasion in 1941, German troops conquered the heartland of Soviet industry and agriculture and turned the occupied territories into mass killing fields. In one of the greatest wartime feats in history, Soviet workers rapidly evacuated factories, food, and people thousands of miles ...

Dr. Fred Roberts Crawford was born in 1924 in San Antonio, TX. He was a fighter pilot with the Fourth Squadron, and was stationed in North Africa in 1943, and, in 1944, flew bombing raids over Italy, France, and Romania. In June 1944, Crawford was shot down by friendly fire over Hungary; captured and beaten by Hungarian civilians who believed him to be Jewish, he was saved by a policeman, Ferenc Felsovari, ...

Colonel Alexander Zabin, MD was an American soldier from Malverne, Long Island, New York. As part of General Patton's 3rd Army, he served with the 4th Auxiliary Surgical Group. He landed on Normandy Beach on D-Day plus 1 and worked in the first US Army field hospital set up in France. He was with the 3rd Army through the campaigns in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Czechoslovakia. Dr. Zabin ...

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Isaak Jacob Topas (Icek Jakob Topas) was born to Szyme and Bejla Topas. His wife, Sura Etta Ferszt (1886-?) was born on March 18, 1886 in Warsaw, Poland, to Majer Ferszt and Jospe Zacharasiewicz. Isaak Topas and Sura Etta Ferszt married on January 16, 1903 in Warsaw, Poland. They had at least two children Avrahom Chaim Topas (November 14, 1904-1942) and Mietek Topas (Mordechai, 1908-1943). Avrahom ...

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