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Summary: A television documentary about the Jewish community in Indonesia during World War II. In the 1930s and during World War II, many Jews from Eastern Europe arrived in Indonesia and settled there. Evidence of the prosperity of Jewish life in Indonesia during the interwar period is the Zionist newspaper "Erets Israel" which appeared from 1926 to the beginning of the Japanese occupation continuously. At the same time, even before the Japanese occupation, the Jews suffered from anti-Semitism, mainly by Dutch elements who later became part of the Dutch Nazi Party. In January 1942, Indonesia was occupied...

Director : איתי ורד

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 18

Language : English, Hebrew

A Program About the Nazi Camps and their Liberation by Japanese Soldiers of The US Army

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 52

Language : English, Japanese

The Lost Evidence: Iwo Jima

This documentary offers a viewpoint of the Iwo Jima battle that took place between the US and Japan in Feb-March 45 during the Pacific Campaign of WWII, known as of the fiercest of the campaign. The US invasion was charged with the mission of capturing the airfields on Iwo Jima. The Imperial Japanese Army positions on the island were heavily fortified and armed. The imperial soldiers defended their positions tenaciously, but the Marines eventually secured the island. The battle assumed legendary status in the collective consciousness of the American people. This film takes aerial photographs taken during the war...

Director : Steve Baker

Production Year : 2005

Language : English

Gladiators of WWII - The Kamikazes

This episode in the BBC documentary series "Gladiators of WW2" focuses on the Kamikaze, Japanese suicide units carrying out attacks against Allied shipping during 1944-45 at the Pacific front. These attacks, related to the Bushido tradition, followed critical defeats for Japan and its reluctance to surrender. Kamikaze pilots would intentionally crash their aircraft (usually laden with explosives and fuel) into Allied ships with a goal of causing greater damage than a conventional attack. The first Kamikaze assault took place during The Battle of Leyte in Oct' 44. The peak came during April-June 45, at the Battle...

Director : Charles Messenger

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 48

Language : English

Samurai And The Swastika

Using documents, archival footage, recollections of soldiers and commentary from historians, Samurai and the Swastika looks at how the Axis powers supported each other throughout World War II.

Director : George Kerevan

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 93

Language : English

German Newsreels no. 631 (7/10/42), 632 (14/10/42), 633 (21/10/42).

Newsreel no. 631 (7 October, 1942): Foreign minister von Ribbentrop receives the Italian and Japanese ambassadors on the second anniversary of the signing of the three-power pact, and predicts a new order in Europe. Rommel reports to Hitler and speaks to domestic and foreign reporters about events in North Africa. At the Berlin sports palace, the 1942-1943 winter relief drive opens - Goebbles reports on amounts given and disbursed in previous years and Hitler affirms homeland support for the front-line soldier. In the northern sector of the eastern front, a water conveyor is devised by soldiers and food is...

Production Year : 1942

Duration : 63 64

Language : English, German

German Newsreels no. 629 (23/9/42), 630 (30/9/42).

Newsreel no. 629 (23 September, 1942): Wounded soldiers take an NSDAP-sponsored excursion in Carinthia. British landing attempt at Tobruk is repulsed by coastal batteries. Stalingrad: tanks and infantry thrust into city; street fighting rages; bombers attack; deep ravines; Stalingrad in flames. (14 min) Newsreel no. 630 (30 September, 1942): African front: freighters taking equipment from Italy to Africa are attacked by British bombers, and one is shot down; railway to the El Alamein Front; supply depot; Rommel, Kesselring, and fighter-pilot Marseille; Alexandria is bombed. On the...

Production Year : 1942

Duration : 33

Language : English, German

Foot Soldier - The Axis

"Foot Soldier - The Axis" is a look at the infantry men of the Axis armies - the men who fought for Hitler, Mussolini and Emperor of Japan Hirohito. Through documents, testimonies and experts commentary the film presents an up-close view at Rommel's devoted soldiers in Africa, Eastern Front troops enduring the bitter cold and dedicated Japanese soldiers in the South Pacific. Archival films, some in color, show the Axis soldiers at training exercises and at the combat fronts. Color reconstructions illustrate their routine activities. Participants: Dr. Wolfgang Seibt - German Mountain...

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 45

Language : English

World War Two: The Lost Color Archives - Total War

Collection of archival films in color from the period between 1941 to December 1944; Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack, American soldiers on the way to Europe, president Roosevelt, ships in the American fleet, American women at work in an ammunition factory, convoy of merchant ships in the Atlantic ocean, a British ship firing, German forces in an occupied city in the Soviet Union, local civilian hanging in Pancevo, Warsaw ghetto, Stalingrad after the defeat of the German forces, British soldiers, aerial bombardment, fires in Hamburg after aerial bombardment, Gypsy children in Swabia, Pacific Ocean front in...

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 45

Language : English

German Newsreels no. 531 (6/11/40), 533 (20/11/40).

Newsreel no. 531 (6 November, 1940): Bountiful vegetable harvest in Germany. Autobahn construction in Austria. SA officers tour liberated eastern districts. Cross section of activities in France under German occupation - communication helpers relieve occupying forces; French helpers sort articles and handle distribution under German supervision in the uniform supply center of the French Army; heavy armor is being amassed in occupied zones; signal corps drills in occupied territory. In Rome, Herman Niel is conducting a concert for wounded Italians soldiers. Italian troops pave roads through the desert after...

Production Year : 1940

Duration : 46 48

Language : English, German

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