1944 Russians Liberate Lublin, Poland
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Time: 1944, Summer
Setting: Lublin Castle, Lubin, Poland,
People: Russian Soldiers, Russian Troops, concentration camps, Nazis, murdered prisoners, dead people,
Objects: liberation, celebration, tanks, demolished building, burnt building, funeral, mass grave,
Subjects: world war II, wwII, world war II Poland, Nazi Fascism
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Post-WWII - 1944 Poland: Liberation - Concentration Camp, Majdanek. (Overview)]
01:01:37 Intertitle: Das Blut Der Opfer Svchreit Zum Himmel! POV past prisoners behind electrified barbed wire fence. CU prisoner. Hut. LS pan over concentration camp remains w/ town (?) in background. Chimney; building foundation & interior w/ bones (?) smoking,
01:02:37 Captured SS guards (?) sitting on ground. Office w/ several men at table, others around room.
01:02:55 Aerial from plane over huge camp (01Oct41 - 22Jul44) within city boundaries of Lublin.
01:03:09 MS along barbed wire electric fence w/ guard towers; CU of enclosure details & warning sign.
01:03:43 Lower aerial over camp passing over camp intercut w/ CUs of fence.
01:04:23 MS & CU SS official questioned by USSR military (MOS).
01:04:36 Exhuming bodies, women crying, CU bodies exhumed. CU Mass of skulls on grass. Digging.
01:05:24 MS man testifying to commission; USSR looking at map or photos; people taking notes of testimony (?). Man in uniform speaking.
01:06:03 LS Soldiers touring camp. CU gas chamber, barred window. Commission looking at Zyklon B container, CU. Sign: Bad und Besinfektion II (?). Inspecting interior of Death Camp killing building.
01:06:58 SS under guard questioned by USSR military; others questioned by female USSR translator.
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Imprisoned victims, charged barbed wire fencing, German guards, and ashes of atrocity victims at concentration camp in Maidanek, Poland during World War II.
The Nazi concentration camp in Majdanek, Poland (also known as Maidanek) during World War II. Surviving prisoners inside the barb wired fences of the concentration camp, near time of liberation by Soviet Russian Allied forces. A prisoner shows the number tatoo on his chest. Evidence of atrocities: Main chimney of crematorium. Ashes of human corpses that were burned at the camp. A group of seated German SS soldier prison guards, now POW, after capture by Soviet forces. Soviet Russian officials examine the clues from the concentration camp. Close up views of electrical sources and parts powering the barbed wire enclosures. Warning signboard on the fences. Guard towers and electrically charged barbed wire fencing. German guard pro-Nazi grafitti carved on a wooden fence post. Aerial view of large number of barracks in the camp at Lublin Poland, also known as KL Lublin. Clip is part of Nuremberg Trials prosecution exhibits 228, 229. Location: Lublin Poland. Date: July 1944.
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Fighting breaks out before Germany-Poland match
1. Football fans mingling
2. Tracking shot past football fans and police car
3. Man being arrested
4. Pan to various shots of Polish and German fans scuffling
5. Long shot of Polish and German fans in a group, glass breaking on road nearby
6. Wide shot of scene with cameramen
7. Various shots of scene with people throwing bottles and gesticulating
8. Tracking shot behind photographer, pan to wide shot of street with crowd in distance
9. Various of riot police deploying at scene
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At least 120 German hooligans were arrested on Wednesday after clashing with police before a World Cup game between Germany and Poland, authorities said.
Police spotted a crowd of people known to be hardcore hooligans in a central square and surrounded them, according to a spokesman.
When the officers moved in, he said, the fans began throwing bottles and fireworks as they fought police in riot gear.
At least one fan was seen receiving treatment for facial cuts.
For much of the day, German police had been working with their Polish counterparts to identify and arrest Polish hooligans from the throngs massing for the match between the neighbouring countries.
Under German law, people can be held up to 48 hours if police think they may commit a crime.
Keyword-world cup 2006
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Poland confirms Minnesota man as Nazi commander
(13 Mar 2017) Poland will seek the arrest and extradition of a Minnesota man exposed by The Associated Press as a former commander in an SS-led unit that burned Polish villages and killed civilians in World War II, prosecutors said on Monday.
Prosecutors said evidence gathered over years of investigation into US citizen Michael K. confirmed that he was a commander of a unit in the SS-led Ukrainian Self Defence Legion.
Andrzej Pozorski, the Director of the Chief Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes Against the Polish Nation at The Institute of National Remembrance, which investigates Nazi and Communist-era crimes against Poles, said Michael K. was suspected of committing crimes against humanity and war crimes.
He did not release the last name in line with privacy laws but the AP has identified the man as 98-year-old Michael Karkoc, from Minneapolis.
The decision in Poland comes four years after the AP published a story establishing that Karkoc commanded the unit, based on wartime documents, testimony from other members of the unit and Karkoc's own Ukrainian-language memoir.
Karkoc's family has repeatedly denied he was involved in any war crimes and his son questioned the validity of the evidence against him after Poland's announcement, calling the accusations scandalous and baseless slanders.
Prosecutors with the state National Remembrance Institute have asked a regional court in Lublin to issue an arrest warrant for Karkoc.
If granted, Poland would seek his extradition, as Poland does not allow trial in absentia, prosecutors said.
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Here is Germany (Part 6)
Here is Germany was a 1945 propaganda documentary film directed by Frank Capra. Like its companion film, Know Your Enemy: Japan, the film is a full-length propaganda film intended to influence US Servicemen about to occupy the country after WWII. Part 1 shows panoramic views of the Germany countryside, crowds, schools, offices, and factories; dead and living victims of Nazi concentration camps at Rome, Lublin (Poland), and Brussels; articles made of human skin; Kaiser Wilhelm; and a German soldier. Describes the lack of democracy in medieval Germanic states. German troops march during World Wars I and II. The U.S. Declaration of Independence is signed. Part 2 contrasts the British and French tradition of representative government with the totalitarianism of Germany. Describes Frederick the Great's wars with Austria. Shows portraits of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, founders of the General Staff. Describes the dictums of Clausewitz, crushing of the 1848 revolt, German emigration to the U.S., and Bismarck's policies. Dramatizes combat during the Franco-Prussian War and the crowning of Wilhelm I. Part 3 dramatizes the development of German industry, the merchant marine, and the General staff, and dueling in German Universities. German troops cheer Kaiser Wilhelm, parade, and invade Belgium during World War I. Transports carry U.S. troops overseas. Shows U.S. tanks and artillery in action. Ludendorff requests an armistice. Crowds cheer news of peace. Part 4 shows the Kaiser in exile in Holland and Ludendorff in Sweden. Describes the Treaty of Versailles and the Weimar Republic. Allied occupation forces depart. Describes the establishment of German veterans and athletic clubs. Germany munitions factories are retooled. Gen. Hindenburg becomes President of the Weimar Republic. Part 5 shows the Weimar parliament in session; German troops parading; Hitler; Nazi riots; and closeups of Goebbels, Rohm, Goring, and Hess. Describes Hitler's rise to power. SS troops parade, books are burned, and Hitler speaks. Part 6 describes the unconditional surrender of Germany. Shows prisoners and industrial ruins. Contrasts lackadaisical occupation in 1918 with the more complete occupation, the trial of war criminals, and denazification processes in 1945.
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Russian and Polish troops advance and dead bodies of Polish soldiers on a street in Lublin, Poland.
Russian and Polish troops attack Lublin, Poland during World War II. A view of the town. Troops stand around an artillery and fire. A dead polish soldier. The troops cross a street. Rubble on the street. Dead bodies of soldiers. Wrecked vehicles and damaged buildings. Soldiers on tanks advance. A damaged railroad station. Location: Lublin Poland. Date: January 4, 1945.
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Here is Germany
Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 9/18/1947-2/28/1964 (Most Recent)
Series: Orientation Films, 1942 - 1949
Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985
Date: 1945
Scope & Content (Historic): Reel 1 shows panoramic views of the Germany countryside, crowds, schools, offices, and factories; dead and living victims of Nazi concentration camps at Rome, Lublin (Poland), and Brussels; articles made of human skin; Kaiser Wilhelm; and a German soldier. Describes the lack of democracy in medieval Germanic states. German troops march during World Wars I and II. The U.S. Declaration of Independence is signed. Reel 2 contrasts the British and French tradition of representative government with the totalitarianism of Germany. Describes Frederick the Great's wars with Austria. Shows portraits of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, founders of the General Staff. Describes the dictums of Clausewitz, crushing of the 1848 revolt, German emigration to the U.S., and Bismarck's policies. Dramatizes combat during the Franco-Prussian War and the crowning of Wilhelm I. Reel 3 dramatizes the development of German industry, the merchant marine, and the General staff, and dueling in German Universities. German troops cheer Kaiser Wilhelm, parade, and invade Belgium during World War I. Transports carry U.S. troops overseas. Shows U.S. tanks and artillery in action. Ludendorff requests an armistice. Crowds cheer news of peace. Reel 4 shows the Kaiser in exile in Holland and Ludendorff in Sweden. Describes the Treaty of Versailles and the Weimar Republic. Allied occupation forces depart. Describes the establishment of German veterans and athletic clubs. Germany munitions factories are retooled. Gen. Hindenburg becomes President of the Weimar Republic. Reel 5 shows the Weimar parliament in session; German troops parading; Hitler; Nazi riots; and closeups of Goebbels, Rohm, Goring, and Hess. Describes Hitler's rise to power. SS troops parade, books are burned, and Hitler speaks. Reel 6 describes the unconditional surrender of Germany. Shows prisoners and industrial ruins. Contrasts lackadaisical occupation in 1918 with the morecomplete occupation, the trial of war criminals, and denazification processes in 1945.
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US Maj. Gen. McLain looks at unburied bodies of victims in an open pit at the Langenstein Concentration Camp in Germany.
The Langenstein Concentration Camp for political prisoners in Germany towards the end of World War II. Unburied bodies of dead victims lie in an open pit. US XIX Corps Commander Major General Raymond S. McLain looks into the pit. A group of US officers and Major General McLain inspect the camp. Deceased prisoners lying in the open pit. Location: Germany. Date: April 18, 1945.
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Russian officers interrogate camp guards, dig mass graves and inspect gas chamber...HD Stock Footage
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Russian officers interrogate camp guards and officials, dig mass graves and inspect gas chambers of concentration camp in Maidanek, Poland.
The Nazi concentration camp in Majdanek, Poland (also known as Maidanek) soon after its liberation in World War II. Russian officer interrogates German guards and officials of the camp. Men dig up mass graves for evidence of atrocities and pull out dead bodies. Women weep as bodies uncovered. Decomposed and deformed bodies and pile of skull uncovered. Soviet Russian officers stand and view a mass grave. Electrically charged barbed wire fencing seen, along with wooden sticks used for beating inmates. Zyklon chemical can that was used for gas in the gas chamber. Soviet officials tour the gas chambers. Guards and officials of camp interrogated with the help of a Russian woman interpreter. Various prisoners tell the story of atrocities at the Lublin Concentration Camp, KL Lublin. Clip is part of Nuremberg Trials prosecution exhibits 228, 229. Location: Lublin Poland. Date: July 1944.
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Belzec - the house of Christian Wirth
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This video shows the place where Christian Wirth lived when he was commandant of the Bełżec death camp. He was the first commandant of the Belzec death camp and in the summer of 1942 became the overseer of the Aktion Reinhard operations which led to the deaths of at least 1.4m people in the death camps of Belzec, Treblinka and Sobibor.
Despite being one of the greatest mass murderers in history, very littls is known about him. He had previously served in the CID in Stuttgart and was noted for results - probably through the use of beatings to get confessions.
Unlike most of the other criminals of the holocaust, Wirth was not a young man. He was born in 1885. Despite being in his mid fifties he possessed a great deal of physical strength which turned to violence probably due to mental problems caused by his asthma.
This film shows the house where he lived in Belzec during his time as commandant there before moving to a flat in Lublin airport when he was replaced by his deputy Gottlieb Hering as commandant.
The house became vacant following the death of the occupier in December 2006.
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There are a number of films here on the packaging industry. This is because I am the publisher of Central and Eastern European Packaging -- - the international platform for the packaging industry in this region focussing on the latest innovations, trends, design, branding, legislation and environmental issues with in-depth profiles of major industry achievers. Most people may think packaging pretty boring but it possibly effects your life more than you really imagine!
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In 1997 I founded Polish Business News .There are a number of business related films here and I intend to do many more on CRM (customer relations management).
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I have also a second blog on the site . This site has been recently started by a friend and I think it will soon be one of the leading travel sites in Poland, if not Central Europe. It contains additional information about some of the places and events shown in these films but most of that is in Polish.
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A number of slave prisoners killed by retreating Germans as Russian Army enters Lublin, Poland during World War II.
Bodies of civilians killed by Nazis, recovered after Soviet Red Army enters the city of Lublin, Poland during World War II. Ruined buildings and houses and debris on roads after the Russian Red Army liberates Lublin. A number of dead bodies of slave labors killed by retreating Nazis in sewing room of a castle. Surviving citizens weep at the sight of the dead. More than 700 prisoners murdered at a prison nearby. Priests and civilians perform funeral ceremonies for prisoners. Location: Lublin Poland. Date: February 15, 1945.
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Ruthenians
The English-language exonyms Ruthenian, have been applied to various East Slavic peoples.
The names Ruthenian and Ruthene were historically applied to peoples speaking the eastern Slavic languages in Rus', especially in the medieval kingdom of Kievan Rus', in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in Poland after Union of Lublin in 1569.
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Liberation of Majdanek 2/4 - 300264X | Footage Farm Ltd
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Post-WWII - 1944 Poland: Liberation - Concentration Camp, Majdanek. (Remains & Memorial)]
Civilian men & women shown area of bodies. Incinerator chimneys; rows of open oven doors, pan remains of partially burned bones on floor / ground. Furnace details & bones.
01:00:56 CU half dozen photos of families & children. CU tray into oven; bones & oven interiors.
01:01:12 Montage: Women viewing, crying. Bones, crematorium chimney. CU entrance sign. People walk on pathes past mounds of bones in piles.
01:02:19 Men enter room; CU shoes / boots in good condition. Piles / mounds of worn shoes. CU stacks of gloves, toys & dolls, eye glasses, scissors.
01:03:30 Commission questioning man. CU identity papers & many national passports & photos inside.
01:04:26 MCUs captured camp officers (?); Commission members meeting.
01:04:50 Captured walking inside camp fence.
01:05:04 Intertitle: Jm befreiten Lublin: Trauerfeier fur die Ermordeten von Maidanek.
01:05:11 Ext. makeshift memorial site w/ cross & boughs. MS Woman praying; men building w/ bricks; pan Polish soldiers at attention and choir singing as civilians look on. Orthodox Christian religious service.
01:06:18 Title: Ende des Sonderberichts.
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EASTERN FRONT FIGHTING IN WARSAW SUBURBS / POLES & REDS FREE LUBLIN / FIGHTER KILLS - WWII 81380
This film shows the Red Army pushing forward against the German Army, and battling in the suburbs of Warsaw, Poland.At 3:23, there's a segment about Russian and Free Polish forces liberating Lublin. Finally, at 4:30, a wonderful segment showing German aircraft being destroyed by Allied fighters, including the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet being shot down in a dogfight at 5:49.
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Starved victims of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. HD Stock Footage
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Starved victims of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.
A concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany. Victims of the concentration camp. Men sleep, eat and sit near buildings at the camp area. Men appear feeble and starved. Men stand across the barbed wire fence at the camp. Location: Buchenwald Germany. Date: April 17, 1945.
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The Dachshunds. Jewish police in the Warsaw ghetto during the Gross-Aktion in 1942.
Dachshunds - that's how Warsaw Jews talked about the Jewish police in the Warsaw Ghetto, which in the summer of 1942 helped the Germans in the great deportation of the Jews to the Treblinka extermination camp.
From that time, Jewish policemen were called dachshunds in the Warsaw ghetto. Because they were able to enter the smallest of holes, to take out hiding Jews from wardrobes, hidden rooms, hiding places, shelters and basements.
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USA: 78 YEAR OLD MAN CONFESSES TO NAZI WAR CRIMES PROSECUTORS
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Prosecutors hunting Nazi war criminals rarely get this kind of break: a confession from a former Third Reich security officer.
A 78-year-old man, arrested on Tuesday, allegedly admitted to having personally shot 500 adults and children in eastern Poland in a single month of 1943, and prosecutors are investigating wider ranging allegations against him.
Jewish leaders in the United States have welcomed the arrest, saying justice may be done at last.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles is one of the world's main centres for Holocaust studies.
But rarely does anything of this magnitude to come to light -- and in this case the man in question is said to have admitted to his crimes.
If it turns out to be true, Jewish people will feel they have taken another small step towards justice.
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If what he is charged with turns out to be the truth and if the case is made, a person like that should never see freedom again until the day that he is put in the grave and he dies. That would be a measure of justice, not just revenge, but basically to protect society from characters like this in the future.
SUPER CAPTION: Rabbi Marvin Hier, Dean and Founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre of Los Angeles
Rabbi Hier also hopes that the suspect, whom German security sources have identified as Alfons Goetzfried, may be able to lead investigators to other war criminals.
That could be invaluable information for those carrying out the difficult task of trying to establish the truth more than 50 years on.
SOUNDBITE:(English)
Everyone who served in an Einsatzgruppe knew other murderers. Remember most of these people were anonymous because they walked away from the scene of the crime and no-one ever heard of them after. There were not too many witnesses. So when you get one of them talking, he can tell us an awful lot, he can tell us his comrades and friends that were part of that same unit and make it very uncomfortable for those who survived that we don't know anything about their wartime activities.
SUPER CAPTION: Marvin Hier, Dean and Founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre of Los Angeles
Prosecutors said the suspect was a low-ranking officer in the Nazi security police based in Lublin during the period of the murders.
He also was at one time a member of the Nazi secret police the Gestapo.
Like many of those who carried out mass killings during the Holocaust, the suspect has clearly been easy for the suspect to go disappear into the crowd and be forgotten by time and history.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
And the reason that nobody has ever heard of this individual, he was not behind a desk or was a colonel or a major or a general, his job was just to be a thug a murderer who was on assignment everyday to murder people. And the reason that it takes 55 years is that there were very few witnesses in cases like this. You know you have a transport and you have an anonymous person doing the shooting, how are you going to find out that he was the shooter and that he was there? In this case we wouldn't have known if he hadn't been called in as a witness in another case and began boasting about how he himself had murdered 500 people in a given day. November 3rd, 1943 at Majdanek.
SUPER CAPTION: Marvin Hier, Dean and Founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center of Los Angeles
Prosecutors said he had been tried previously for war crimes by English and Soviet authorities during the 1950s.
They said the arrest warrant was prepared in February after archive material corroborated his incriminating statements. He was arrested Tuesday at his
home in Stuttgart and placed in investigative custody.
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Flossenburg Concentration Camp
The following movie was written and directed by John J. Kurash, using footage shot by US Army Signal Corps photographer, Sgt Aron Lubitsch. The film was edited by Sam Deprospo and Nathan Morgan. The original footage is part of the Audio Visual Collection at the Army Heritage and Education Center
Meeting in Yalta; Lublin Massacre 1945/2/15
1) Meeting in Yalta - With the Foreign Secretaries Stettinius, Edon and Molotov on hand, Prime Minister Churchill is greeted, to be quickly followed by Joseph Stalin and President Roosevelt. Within the beautiful czaristic palace at Yalta in the Crimea, the heavy deliberations between the three heads of government begin, with their full staffs in attendance. Personalities on hande include Anne Boettinger, Sarah Oliver Churchill, Harry Hopkins, Steve Early, Ambassador Harriman and others. scenes of W. Averill Harriman and George Marshall and Field Marshall Wilson arrive in London, for meetings at Montgomery House, then FDR and Churchill and Stalin arrive at Yalta;
2) Poland Will Never Forget - Lublin Massacre - When the Russians enter Lublin, Poland, a stark sight meets their eyes. Prostrate corpses of men, women and children are lying on the floor of a sewing room where they were slain. And 700 more dead are found in a nearby prison. Lublin suffered worst, in the liquidation of 1,500,000 Poles. scenes of the massacre of Polish civilians by retreating Germans;
3) Scores Die In Tornado, sweeping through Mississippi and Alabama;
4) Dogdom's Annual Show, at Westminster in New York;
5) National Scout Week;
6) China's Tiger Joe' Joins Up - When the U.S. 14th Air Force adopts a little 4 yr. old Chinese boy, the fun begins. His name is Tiger Joe, his equipment is strictly G.I., and everything is fine, except on those long marches, his feet are small and legs are too short. scenes of a 4-year old boy orphan found by GIs. (complete newsreel)