National Archives Identifier: 43461 Local Identifier: 242.2 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/43461

From: Series: Motion Picture Films Confiscated From Foreign Countries And Sources, 1940 - 1944 Record Group 242: National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized

Scope and content: These are the private motion pictures of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, which were seized by the US Army, in Germany, in 1945. They were subsequently assembled into 8 reels by the US Army, from 28 reels of original camera rolls. The National Archives received this film in 1947, and in 2012 began the digital restoration process, using existing negative copies. The original 28 reels of footage was not originally compiled by the US Army in chronological or thematic order, and these reels reflect that original assembly from 1945. Shot list: Title: "Wir gehen Gassi." Color, Braun and her family walking with dogs on road in Munich. Color, Braun and others at pond, seated around table outdoors. Color, Braun and others skating. Color, Gretl Braun holding flowers. Braun family and group walks up path, across stream. Title: "Unser Hauschen." Exterior scenes of Braun family and others at house in country. Title: "Radlver ein." Color, Braun family others on bicycles, at outdoor beer garden. Title: "Brand in Riem." Color, barn burns, crowd gathered. Color, exterior ship. Braun and others on deck. Color, exterior, Bergof terrace. Hitler talks with child. Title: "Auf dem Berghof." Adults and children on terrace. Hitler shakes hand and walks with child. Braun with rabbit. Hitler with another child. Hitler with Albert Bormann, Baldur and Henriette von Schirach. Hitler with group on terrace, including Heinrich Hoffman, Dr. Hugo Blaschke and Dr. Karl Brandt. Color, Berlin exteriors. Crowds on street; Hitler's motorcade drives down street. Color, exterior, Hitler at Berghof, climbs steps. Hitler with Speer children on Berghof terrace. Exterior, automobile arrives at Berghof, and Khalid al-Hud, counselor and emissary to Ibn Saud, gets out, walks up steps, is greeted, and escorted inside.,Color, exterior Berghof terrace, Hitler talks with group of officials. Color, exterior, Braun and others skate on snow-covered lake. Title: Title:"Zoo." Exterior, scenes of animals in zoo, Braun and another woman feeds squirrel and bird. Title: "Die Schule von Fischlbam." Color, exterior, Hitler greeting school children in Fischlham, Austria. Hitler and others, including Martin Bormann, Wilhelm Brueckner, Dr. Theodor Morell, Fritz Wiedemann shakes hands with school teacher, goes inside several buildings. Color, exterior, Berghof terrace. Hitler with dogs, Hitler speaks with General Sepp Dietrich; talks to child. Hitler speaks with others on terrace, including including Hermann Esser, Dr. Otto Dietrich, Dr. Hans Karl von Hasselbach, and Dr. Theodor Morell. Braun with dog on terrace. Color, exterior, Braun and other women, followed by Hitler and another man, walk down in snow on path near Berghof. Color, exterior, Berghof. Scenes of Braun and Hitler on terrace.

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