21:00:41 (LIB 6866) Combat Cameramen, Germany, March-April 1945. LS, jeep pulls up to street corner, camera team gets out and still man pockets film in paratroop trousers. MLSs, CUs, two soldiers lead cameramen through rubble-strewn street. Cameraman stops to take pictures with a Speed Graphic. LS, still cameraman takes pictures of two infantrymen walking past burning building in Schweigen. LS, officer ...

Carl Henry Levy was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on May 7, 1913 to a wealthy German Reform Jewish family. He attended a secular private college-preparatory school. During those years, he printed a magazine in his attic, was chief editor of his school newspaper, and was involved in a Jewish youth group. He was finishing undergraduate philosophy studies at Harvard just as Hitler rose to power in Germany. ...

Reel 2: 00:00:00 Klappe 1-Lo 12: July 6, 1941: German military crossing a pontoon bridge. Shot of 8 German soldiers buried next to a blockhouse; switches to a different angle and shows soldiers walking past the graves. CUs of military vehicles moving across a pontoon bridge, with groups of soldiers relaxing on the bridge. Soldiers working on building a bridge, as a group of young boys looks on. Klappe ...

Title: 75,000 Tons of Clothing for Liberated Peoples. Clothing donations shipped to Europe under the auspices of UNRRA (? UNRRA label on a bundle of clothing). Warehouse full of donated clothing. Shot of Henry Kaiser, director of the program. Title: San Francisco Plans for United Nations Parley. Shots of the War Memorial buildings, where the World Security Conference will take place. American delegates ...

Reel 10: German soldiers advance, cross a river, throw grenades, fire artillery, talk over a field telephone, ride armored vehicles, care for wounded mates, advance thru a city on the Marne, decorate graves, enter Paris, raise a flag on the Eiffel Tower and pass the Arc de Triomphe and other landmarks. Armored vehicles advance towards Paris. Abandoned Allied war material blocks the advance. German ...

Reel 5: German tanks advance. Stukas bomb Allied positions. Wounded tank crewmen receive aid. German trucks haul artillery. German troops cross the Rhine in rubber boats over pontoon bridges. German soldiers stuff grenades into their belts. German troops lay wire, and horses are pushed into water. Shows wrecked French tanks, French POWs, French troops in the Maginot Line. Panoramic views of the Maginot ...

Reel 12: German troops advance, reduce French strong points, fire artillery, guard French POWs, cross a pontoon bridge and enter French forts. German officers ride in staff cars. French soldiers load guns in their forts. French officers surrender. French POWs plod along, Senegalese POWs dance. German flag covers a WWI monument in Compiegne, German troops stand at attention. Hitler, Goering and others ...

Russian air raids on Finland during Russo-Finnish War 1939-1940 and subsequent advance into Finland from Norway. German troops advance to Kaunas, Lithuania from Prussia with tanks and artillery. Russian prisoners are questioned. German troops cross river in steamboat and receive flowers from civilians. German troops move to Dunaburg, Latvia; Russian prisoners, including a woman soldier, are taken in ...

MCU, horse-drawn artillery advancing through Chateau Thierry; French prisoners in FG. MCU, motor-drawn artillery advancing, infantry in BG. Drivers of horse-drawn artillery sleeping on wagons. MCU, tank panzer division crossing river on pontoon bridge. Armored vehicles on road. Infantry advancing in heavy rain. French POWs. Field kitchen. MS, Volkswagon passing by tanks. Buildings burning around oil ...

Reel 13: (1945) Germany; Air trip to England; Remagen Street scenes, soldiers marching, gathering in the road amongst crowds of civilians. Church. Planes landing in a field, soldiers conversing next to trucks in the airfield (possibly, the Frankfurt airstrip). Soldiers at leisure outside a home (temporary HQ?), play with a small dog, open a metal trunk, and wave to the camera from trucks. Nice CUs ...

The amateur films shot by German infantryman Corporal Eugen Biedenbach of 419 Infantry Regiment record his training and active service in the German campaigns against Yugoslavia and on the southern sector of the Eastern Front. The films also containg pre- and post-war scenes of Biedenbach family life in Stuttgart (where the family of Eugen's wife owned a clothes store) as well as recreational activities. ...

George Stevens (December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. During World War II, Stevens joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps and headed a film unit from 1943 to 1946 under General Eisenhower. His unit shot footage documenting D-Day — including the only Allied European Front color film of the war — the liberation of Paris and the meeting ...

Film reel threaded through projector. Maneuvering scenes in summer. Moerser, horse cart, MG. 10:10:20 Construction of a pontoon bridge, guns, heavy bunkers, aerial combat, train ride "Dahlem", trains. 10:13:18 Paris shots. 10:16:12 "Soldatenkino" fishing port, French women with fellow countrymen, Germans with hats, posters. 10:22:50 Observation stand on the western front, newspaper "Der Sieg". 10:32:00 ...

A French general leads a V corps medal decoration ceremony in Meschernich, Germany. Village scenes, including shots of Murray and other soldiers. Ruins of buildings and a railroad depot. Soldiers play baseball. The crossing of the Rhine into Neuwied, Germany, over the Victor Pontoon Bridge.

Reel 1: 00:37:22 Russian peasants standing in the street of a city, camera follows as they walk away. A group of German soldiers talk on a field phone/repair communication lines. A building in the background has the words "Gef. Sammelstelle" hand-painted on it. CUs of soldiers tying telephone wires together. CU of a soldier using a teletype. Different shots of soldiers on horseback and military vehicles ...

(INV1485) Wide shot of street filled with ruins on the ground or some kind of small blockade constructed from ruins. 00:07 American Army cars driving down the street. Civilians approach the car to shake hands with soldiers. 00:23 MS of civilians approaching soldiers. Crowds looking and waving at the camera. 00:29 Larger crowds. 00:35 Two boys approach and kiss soldier 00:52 CU of soldier speaking next ...

With Sound. Camera pans over Upper Rhine. Hitler's motorcade crosses pontoon bridge eastwards; tracking shot shows children in swimsuits waving near a customs post and adults showing signs of love, loyalty and gratitude. Hitler, now aboard train, accepts flower from girl and shakes hands of HJ boy. Train journey continues past Marbach (Neckar), peasant on his plow, and stops at stations where Hitler ...

Camera pans over Upper Rhine. Hitler's motorcade crosses pontoon bridge eastwards; tracking shot shows children in swimsuits waving near a customs post and adults showing signs of love, loyalty and gratitude. Hitler, now aboard train, accepts flower from girl and shakes hands of HJ boy. Train journey continues past Marbach (Neckar), peasant on his plow, and stops at stations where Hitler autographs ...

General views of destruction in Magdeburg. MS man walks bicycle past rubbled facade of buildings, pan left across street to more damaged building frames. MS of smashed streetcars. MCU tilt up damaged building frame, deep blue sky. LS through rubble strewn passage, large steel cylindrical structure in BG. 01:07:03 The Brabag "Gasometer" in Magdeburg. 01:07:14 LS down cleared street, darker exposure, ...

Long line of troops, camera mounted on jeep. Civilians wheeling belongings in wheel barrel. Excellent shot of cameraman shooting on tripod on jeep covering. Tanks through crowd down road. MPs walking with French civilians. Tracking shot, civilians waving. Hamilton, Stevens toasting with French civilians. Americans drinking with French civilians sitting on jeep. Stevens gives "V" sign. Stevens and other ...

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 ...

CU, vehicle passing though wrecked town around bomb craters; destroyed buildings in BG. CU, German soldier driving pigs into barnyard. German troops marching through French village, in open country. Farmers cutting hay with scythes. German soldier feeding hay to horses. Soldier leaning against horse, sleeping. CU, German troops sleeping alongside road, in trucks and motorcycles. CU, plates being filled ...

Major William J. Fedeli served in the European Theater of Operations with the 534 Quartermaster Group from June 1943 to February 1946. Refer to the Library of Congress's Veterans History Project for more biographical information about Mr. Fedeli. He donated his nine 8mm films to the Library of Congress in July 2003.

Reel 1: 00:22:06 First scene appears to be in German territory(?), view of a large church and a city street with people walking. Several different shots of a city with severe damage, including civilians carrying on with their business. German soldiers work to clear a road of debris (vehicle wreckage). CU of a dead Russian soldier on the ground. CUs of several Russian prisoners with hands raised. A ...