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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], World War II Era Motion Picture Films regarding the European Theater, A&M 4014, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Scope and Contents
56 reels of 16mm motion picture film. Much of the film seems to be newsreels from German organizations. Most films have no sound. Subjects include battles and other events of World War II, as well as a few reels of film that predate the war.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Newsreels--Germany
- World War, 1939-19145--Campaigns
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda
Container List
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Item: 1
Combat Area
Fall 1947
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Item: 2
Rommel-Wehrmacht in Africa//Matsooka in Berlin//Jugoslavia [Yugoslavia?]
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Item: 3
Roman Battle (title slide includes "DEGETO SCHMALFILM-SCHRANK" and "Elefanten zum Angriff")
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Item: 4
Mexico Playground (reel starts with "Reichsstelle fur den unterrichtsfilm" logo)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Item: 5
Unlabeled (initial images are of a small dog or other animal)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Item: 6
Dresden Before War
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Item: 7
Farmers in Schleswig-Holstein
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Item: 8
Tour in Switzerland//Shots in Berlin
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Item: 9
Omaha Beach
June 6, 1948
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Item: 10
Summertime in Bavaria (initial frames have text: "Auf dem wege zu edlen Perlen der bayrischen Alpenwelt")
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Item: 11
Empty Unlabeled Reel Container (the majority of this collection was originally housed in this type of container)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Item: 12
Berlin//Potsdam
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Item: 13
Party Scenes//219 Dahlemer Weg
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Item: 14
4 Berlin//3 VE Day Parade//2 Bob Sledding//1 South Sea Gals (first frames have text: "Frauenschonheit der Sudsee")
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Item: 15
VE Day Parade//Bikini A-Bomb (frames start with text: "Berliner Bilder")
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Item: 16
Westwall//Phony War (frames start with text: "Gelegentlich seiner Deutschlandreise besichtigte der japanische General Terauchi
die Befestigungszone im Westen, die er fur uneinnehmbar erklarte")
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Item: 17
German Work Troops (frames start with text: "RAD Filmbericht No. 11", then "Herausgegeben und gestaltet vom Presse und Propagandaamt
beim Reichsarbeitsfuhrer")
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Item: 18
Allied Forces Olympic//Meet-Sept. 1947//Berlin
September 1947
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Item: 19
Conf. of//Foreign Minister//U Boat
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Item: 20
Hitler Youth//Von Fritsch Funeral//Jews in Poland
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Item: 21
Africa Cartoon (first frames start with text: "Meine Damen und Herren! Mein Vortrag beschreibt unsere gefahrliche Filmexpedition
durch das dunkelste Afrika..."; on the reel itself is inscribed "Eigentum: Reichsstelle fur den Unterrichtsfilm")
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Item: 22
Munchen Oktoberfest (on the reel itself is inscribed "Eigentum: Reichsstelle fur den Unterrichtsfilm")
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Item: 23
Monats-Schauen
January-April 1934
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Item: 24
Wochenschau (frames start with logo "Ozaphan: Monatsschau 12/39" followed by text "Die Wacht am Westwall")
ca. 1939
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Item: 25
Wochenschau (frames start with logo "Ozaphan: Monatsschau 3/39" followed by text "Chamberlain in Rom")
ca. 1939
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Item: 26
Wochenschau
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Item: 27
Wochenschau (frames start with logo "Ozaphan: Monatsschau 6/39" followed by text "Italien besetzt Albanien")
ca. 1939
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Item: 28
Sieg im Westen Part 1
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Item: 29
Sieg im Westen Part 2
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Item: 30
Sieg im Westen Part 3
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Item: 31
Sieg im Westen Part 4
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Item: 32
Sieg im Westen Part 5
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Item: 33
Sieg im Westen Part 6
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Item: 34
Sieg im Westen Part 7
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Item: 35
Sieg im Westen Part 8
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Item: 36
Sieg im Westen Part 9
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Item: 37
Sieg im Westen Part 10
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Item: 38
Sieg im Westen Part 11
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Item: 39
Sieg im Westen Part 12 (note inside of case: "Army has hard time getting over Rhine. In the last month they[?] fight to the
Maginot Line. 2,000,000 French Prisoners 29,000 officers all material from 130 dinsen's[?]. French Gov't offers armistice-to
meet at Compiegne")
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Item: 40
French Surrender//at Compiegne
ca. 1940
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Item: 41
Hitler Returns to//Berlin after French//Surrender
ca. 1940
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Item: 42
Nettuno//Anzio//Cassino (frames start with logo, then the text "No. 85" and "Von den Kampfen bei Nettuno")
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Item: 43
War in Russia//Air Bombings
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Item: 44
War in Russia//Novgorod//Stukas (frames begin with "Kampf un Narwa und Nowgorod")
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Item: 45
War in Russia//Smolensk & Gomel
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Item: 46
War in Russia//Smolensk & Gomel
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Item: 47
War in Crimea-Kiev, Part I//Germans Take Island of Osel (frames begin with "UFA schmalfilm magazin" and "Die Inseln Osel und
Moon in deutscher hand")
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Item: 48
War in Russia//Kiev-Part 2
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Item: 49
War in Russia//Narwa//Crimea
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Item: 50
War in Russia//Kharkov
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Item: 51
War in Russia//Near Moscow
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Item: 52
War in Russia//Riga, Minsk, Leningrad
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Item: 53
Flak in Berlin//London Bombing
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Item: 54
War on Sea//Prien' - U Boot [Boat?]//& Reception in//Berlin
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Item: 55
Hitler at//Sportpalast//Planes at Malta//U Boot [Boat?] in//S. Atlantic (frames begin with "Gemeinnutziger Kulturfilm Vertrieb")
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Item: 56
Navy and//Luftwaffe//in Norway
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Item: 57
Denmark Occupation//War in Norway
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 8
Wood box that once contained items 28-57
undated