Crimes of German fascism (1938-1946)

Hitler's motorcade drives through occupied Paris in 1940. Hitler talks to soldiers from his residences.

Anti-aircraft guns fire at night, searchlights illuminate the sky.

Frozen corpses of people shot by the Nazis.

A file containing documents on the crimes of the Nazi occupiers.

The corpses of executed people are dug out from under the snow.

The remains of those shot in the frozen ground.

An American guard approaches the door of a cell where a Nazi war criminal is being held.

The face of a prisoner through the viewing window of the cell door.

The corpse of Goering, who poisoned himself the day before his execution. J. Ribbentrop at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946. Hitler and Ribbentrop during a reception in Berlin in the 1930s.

Ribbentrop giving a speech.

Ribbentrop during meetings with the Italian military attaché and other foreign diplomats.

Portrait of Ribbentrop.

Ribbentrop signing a document.

Ribbentrop's face during the Nuremberg Trials.

Frank G. in the dock at Nuremberg.

Portrait of Frank.

Views of the courtroom where the Nuremberg Trials took place.

One of the prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trials speaking.

Goering G., Hess R., Ribbentrop in the dock, faces of the defendants.

Photograph of the courtroom before the showing of the indictment films.

View of the cemetery of one of the concentration camps.

Execution instruments used by the Nazis.

Demonstration of a method of hanging a person.

Parts of the mechanism of a group gallows.

Demonstration of a method of killing a person by shooting him in the back of the head through a slit in a height chart.

Interior view of the chamber with an improved guillotine installed in it.

Tools and rubber gloves of the executioner.

A chute for draining blood from the guillotine.

Gas chamber equipment, a crematorium oven in one of the concentration camps, a man opens the valves and takes out a handful of ashes.

Views of the Auschwitz concentration camp grounds (top).

Photographs of Himmler during his visit to the construction site of one of the concentration camps.

Plan of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Blueprints of the crematorium.

Former Auschwitz commandant R. Hess during his trial.

General view of part of the concentration camp grounds and fence.

Photograph of Hess.

Ribbentrop giving a speech on German radio in the late 1930s.

Italian fascists marching. B. Mussolini giving a speech.

Banners with slogans in German.

Map of the capture of Austria by Germany (cartoon).

Goering's arrival in Vienna in 1938. Goering drives through the streets of Vienna in a car.

A military orchestra plays.

Goering inspects the guard of honour, people salute Goering.

Goering comes out onto the balcony of the Vienna City Hall.

Goering and Ribbentrop in the dock, faces of the defendants.

Photograph of German soldiers in Prague.

Map of the capture of Czechoslovakia by Germany.

Chamberlain N. at the airport before flying to Munich in 1938. Hitler and Chamberlain climb the steps of the palace in Munich.

Map of the capture of Czechoslovakia.

Chamberlain makes a speech.

The building in Munich where the Munich Agreements were signed.

Chamberlain's car drives up to the entrance to the building, he is met by Hitler and Ribbentrop.

Text of orders signed by General Jodl A. Jodl in the dock.

Hitler and Mussolini drive in a car through the streets of Berlin, respond to greetings.

Hitler, Chamberlain and their entourage walk along the airport in Munich.

Daladier E. inspects the guard of honor after arriving in Munich.

Hitler discusses the signing of the Munich Agreements over a map, Mussolini, Himmler, Goering stand nearby, Hitler enters the room, greets Chamberlain, sits down in a chair.

Ribbentrop, Chamberlain, Mussolini sign documents.

Opening of the barrier on the German-Czechoslovak border in front of a German cavalry unit.

Goering G., Hess R., Ribbentrop J., Keitel W. in the dock during the Nuremberg Trials, Hess puts on headphones.

German troops enter the Rhineland in 1936. German soldiers march through the city streets, people greet them.

Hitler speaks from the rostrum, Goering G. and Streicher J. listen to Hitler, sitting in the front row.

Hitler finishes his speech and goes down to the hall to the applauding participants of the rally.

German troops enter the Sudetenland in 1938. Defendants during the Nuremberg Trials.

Ribbentrop, Keitel and Kaltenbrunner in the dock.

The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, decorated with the national flags of Nazi Germany and Japan.

Gold bars, jewelry, silverware and works of art taken from European countries by the Nazi occupiers, an American soldier next to a painting.

American soldiers examine rescued works of art and items made of precious metals.

Goering G., Hess R., Ribbentrop J., Keitel W. in the dock during the Nuremberg Trials.

A cameraman films one of the sessions of the Nuremberg Tribunal.

General view of part of the courtroom.

Hitler arriving at one of the Nazi events, soldiers holding their weapons "on guard".

Hitler walks through the hall during one of the rallies, the participants of the rally greet Hitler.

Hitler goes up to the podium, Hess R. is standing on the left.

General view of the presidium and the hall where the rally is taking place.

Goebbels J. is sitting in the presidium.

The members of the presidium applaud Hitler, among them is Goering.

Raising the German naval ensign on the mast of a warship.

Ships of the German fleet on a campaign.

Launching a torpedo.

Airplanes taking off from an airfield.

A squadron of bombers in flight, bombs exploding on the ground.

Burning village houses.

French refugees fleeing the advancing German troops.

The shadow of a flying plane on the ground.

Bombs falling.

The face of a screaming woman.

View of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in 1940. Parade of German troops on the Champs Elysees.

Military parade at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to mark the end of the French campaign, Goebbels and Keitel salute the troops.

Child members of the Hitler Youth salute the soldiers, climbing on lampposts.

Women hugging soldiers.

General view of Unter den Linden (top).

A sign saying "Belgrade" in German.

German tanks on the streets of Belgrade in 1941. German troops on the roads of Greece.

View of the Parthenon in Athens (top).

German troops fording a mountain river.

German soldiers examining a turtle with a cross painted on its shell.

German tanks on the roads of North Africa.

A German officer drinks coffee at a rest stop.

Map of the territories of Europe, Africa and the USSR occupied by Germany by the end of 1942 (animation).

Ribbentrop speaking at the Nuremberg Trials, Hess and Kaltenbrunner sitting nearby.

Ribbentrop during a ceremonial reception and press conference at the German Foreign Ministry in the 1930s.

German soldiers demolish border barriers and fortifications.

German tanks advance, planes fly, bombs explode on the ground.

German artillery fires.

Combat operations by German troops after the attack on the USSR in June 1941, burning houses, exploding shells, soldiers rushing into the attack.

German soldiers running the captured village.

Corpses of murdered children.

German flamethrowers burning houses.

German soldiers on the streets of a captured Soviet city, burning buildings.

Panorama of a column of Soviet prisoners of war, people being driven at a run.

Faces of marching German soldiers.

Symbolic sign of the border between Europe and Asia in German.

Speech by one of the defendants at the Nuremberg Trials.

Residents of liberated Paris greet Allied troops in 1944. American tanks on the Champs Elysees.

General de Gaulle walks along the Champs Elysees and greets Parisians.

General view of the Place de la Concorde in Paris (from above), an airplane flies over the square.

Views of the village of Oradour, destroyed by the Nazis, ruins of houses, deserted streets.

Exhumation of corpses of Oradour residents, the face of a captured German officer.

Corpses of people lying in a row near the wall of a building.

A captured German officer under escort of American soldiers near a truck.

Explosion of a sea mine.

FAU-1 flying missile in flight, animation.

Explosion of a missile.

Destruction of a FAU-1 in the air.

Launch of a FAU-2 rocket.

Unsuccessful launch and fall of a FAU-2. Italian military buglers sound a signal.

View of the train station in Brennero, Italy.

Corpses of executed prisoners of one of the concentration camps in an excavated ditch.

A released prisoner.

Corpses of executed prisoners.

General view of one of the camps.

Exhausted prisoners lie on their bunks.

A train with prisoners passes, German sentries stand on the platforms of the cars.

View of one of the Nazi concentration camps.

Corpses of people shot by German Nazis.

A ditch with the bodies of murdered prisoners of the concentration camp.

An American officer shows General Eisenhower D. the corpses of exterminated prisoners of the concentration camp.

American soldiers examine the corpses of prisoners exterminated by the Nazis during their retreat.

Surviving prisoners, a rescued prisoner on a stretcher.

Demonstration by former prisoners of the methods of torture used by the Nazis.

An American military doctor provides assistance to a rescued prisoner.

Corpses of exterminated prisoners.

American soldiers approach the gates of the concentration camp.

Exhausted prisoners behind barbed wire.

American soldiers and a representative of the Red Cross enter the territory of the concentration camp.

Former prisoners lie along the wall under blankets, faces of prisoners.

Freed prisoners demonstrate Nazi torture methods to American soldiers and members of the Nazi Crimes Investigation Commission.

Inspection of the camp crematorium.

Members of the commission examine the piled bones of prisoners.

The commission inspects the camp grounds, corpses piled against the wall of the barracks.

Numbers on the bodies of the dead.

Samples of human skin products laid out on a table for inspection by the commission.

Interrogation of the accused at one of the trials of Nazi war criminals in the Allied occupation zone.

The accused gives testimony.

Views of the former concentration camp grounds (from above).

Freed prisoners walk around the camp grounds past corpses.

The body of one of the prisoners.

A ditch and area with the bodies of murdered prisoners.

Former prisoners on the camp grounds.

Captured camp guards and doctors.

Arrested guards are led out of the barracks.

Captured guards and guards are led under escort.

The face of a former guard.

Former camp guards and wardens in the dock with numbers on their chests, faces of the defendants.

Map of concentration camps in Germany.

Himmler's visit to one of the concentration camps, photograph of Himmler.

Soviet doctors examining children liberated from Auschwitz.

An American guard peers into the peepholes of the doors of Nazi criminals' cells in a prison corridor.

A Nazi prisoner sleeps on a bunk.

Corpses of people shot by the Germans during their retreat.

Corpses on logs that they did not have time to set on fire.

Exhumation of the corpses of people shot by the Nazis.

Corpses removed from ditches, people examine them.

Examination of exhumed corpses in the liberated areas of the USSR. Road sign with the inscription "Oradour".

Panorama of the destroyed and burnt houses of Oradour.

Views of deserted streets and ruins of Oradour.

People examine a destroyed church, bullet holes on the walls inside the church.

Soviet military doctors examine exhumed skulls with bullet holes.

View of smoking ashes and charred corpses.

Human bones piled up.

Exhumation and examination of corpses of victims of Nazi terror.

People identify dead relatives shot by the Nazis.

Portrait of Governor-General of Poland Frank G. Corpses of executed Polish Jews.

Frank in the dock at the Nuremberg Trials.

Frozen corpses in the snow, people near the bodies of executed relatives.

A man over the bodies of his wife and children.

The corpse of a child.

People stand on the edge of an excavated ditch with corpses.

Bodies of victims of the German occupiers, bodies of children, women and children crying over the dead.

German soldiers during the battle for a Polish settlement in September 1939. A convoy of refugees moving.

German soldiers lead people along the city street.

Refugees at railway stations, roads, city streets.

Polish Jews are driven into the ghetto.

The wall of the Warsaw ghetto.