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#11396: YOU ARE THERE
Order1957-09-01, CBS, 30 min.
An unusual Public Affairs series, You Are There began in 1947 as a radio show (it was originally titled CBS was There). Each week a well-known historical event was recreated, and the leading figures in each drama were interviewed by CBS news correspondents (the correspondents were always in modern-day dress, regardless of the setting of the story). The television version ran from 1953-1957 on Sunday afternoons, and was revived in 1971 as a Saturday-afternoon show, aimed principally at children. Walter Cronkite was the chief correspondent on both TV versions. Paul Newman guest-starred on one program as Nathan Hale (30 August 1953) and the 1971 premiere " The Mystery of Amelia Earhart" featured Geraldine Brooks and Richard Dreyfuss. This episode: "Hitler Invades Poland." A dramatic re-enactment of events on September 1st, 1939 when the thunder of massive German armies moved into Poland. Walter Cronkite and staff cover the story. SELECTIONS FROM ORIGINAL GRAY AUDOGRAPH DISC RECORDINGS, RECORDED OFF THE AIR, REPRESENTING SEVEN CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF KNXT LOS, ANGELES BROADCASTING, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 THRU 7, 1957. These LOST CBS broadcasts represent an unprecedented one complete week, sign on to sign off, September 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1957 (130 hours on 130 8 & 1/2" diameter discs with a capacity to record 32 minutes per side (side one and side two had the potential capacity to record 64 minutes). These discs were obtained in Los Angeles by Phil Gries, creator and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc. in 2011. They were originally found in an establishment, located in Burbank, California, selling old records dispersing its inventory as they went out of business, a few years before. The rarity of this type of media to record television is not known to have occured beyond a few incidents, as stated below, at any other time, which make this collection of TV Audio Airchecks, recorded on Gray Audograph discs, an amazing surviving artifact. The sound quality varies with different broadcasts. After a period of almost three years, processing and digitizing these 130 two sided discs, there is recognition of the rarity of some of these broadcasts providing one of a kind surviving Television Audio Airchecks and are extremely desirable regardless of some of the extraneous sound artifacts heard on some of these tracks which were painstakingly processed and transferred one by one to optimize the sound quality and proper pitch. NOTE: To listen to a seminar Phil Gries presented at an ARSC presentation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 2014, about these Gray Audograph Discs...their genesis, discovery and contents, go to the ATA website www.atvaudio.com and click on ARSC which can be found within the right column on the ATA Home Page. GRAY AUDIOGRAPH (1946 - 1976) History: The Gray Audograph was a dictation disc recording format introduced in 1946 by the Gray Manufacturing Company in the United States. It recorded sound by pressing grooves into soft vinyl discs, like the competing, but incompatible, SoundScriber and VoiceWriter formats. Audiograph discs were blue thin plastic flexible discs, recorded from the inside to the outside, the opposite of conventional phonograph discs. Another difference compared to phonograph discs (78, 45, 33 & 1/2) was that the audiograph was driven by a surface-mounted wheel, meaning that its recording and playback speed decreased toward the edge of the disc (like the Compact Disc and other digital formats), to keep a more constant linear velocity and to improve playing time. The mandatory speed variation correction requires playback on an Audograph player, which ATA possesses and has modified, allowing line out output connections, direct line, to the input of any other recording format device. Gray Audograph discs were available in three different sizes. The 6-inch diameter disc offered 10 minutes of recording time per side, the 6 & 1/2" disc offered 15 minutes per side. The 8 & 1/2" disc, which is extant in the ATA archive, offered 30 minutes of recording per side. ALONG WITH THE DICTABELT RECORDER, A GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER MACHINE CAPTURED THE ACTUAL LIVE SOUNDS RECORDED OF GUN SHOTS AT THE TIME OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. THESE AUDIO SOUNDS WERE USED IN THE REVIEW BY THE UNITED STATES HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS. THE GRAY COMPANY CEASED MANUFACTURE OF THE GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER IN 1976.
1960-02-25, WPIX, 54 min.
The many faces of Adolf Hitler are documented. Frau Paula Wolf, the sister of Hitler is interviewed. Westbrook Van Voorhis provides the narration.#13458: REMEMBER US
Order1960-07-18, WNEW, 53 min.
- Adolf Hitler
- Steven Spielberg
- Phil Gries
- Quentin Reynolds
- Dr. Gisela Perl
- Sonia Weissman
- Janus T.
- Alain Resnais
- Leo Weissman
1 Results found for Remember Us Pages: [1] #13458: REMEMBER US 1960-07-18, WNEW, 53 min. Adolf Hitler, Steven Spielberg, Phil Gries, Quentin Reynolds, Dr. Gisela Perl, Sonia Weissman, Janus T., Alain Resnais, Leo Weissman A one-hour special report. Jewish survivors of Nazi atrocities and concentration camp horrors relate their past experiences. Quentin Reynolds is the host and narrator. "Nothing will remain of the Jewish question but a cemetery," predicted a Nazi official when Hitler's program to eliminate the Jews began in earnest in 1938. Many hundreds of cemeteries were filled before Allied victory halted the Nazi machine in 1945. " REMEMBER US" tells the story of the millions of European Jews who died in prison camps and ghettos during this period, and of those who survived. Past footage from Documentary films and the accounts of survivors are used to piece together a scenario of life and death as Typhus and starvation stalked the prisoners in the concentration camps, including Dachau, Breendonk, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald, and the ghettos of Europe. Survivors describe the resistance which met the Nazi decision to destroy the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, lengthy trips by cattle-car to extermination camps, capricious selection of gas chamber victims and the endless variety of tortures devised to bring about Hitler's "final solution to the Jewish question." Broadcast on TV on July 18, 1960 the "Remember Us" documentary which includes fragments from Alain Resnais' classic 32 minute documentary "Night and Fog" (1956), opens with Dr. Gisela Perl, a survivor of the Holocaust...a Romanian Jewish Gynecologist deported to Auschwitz in 1944 where she attended hundreds of women as an inmate gynecologist without the bare necessities to perform her work, delegated by Josef Mengele. She relates her ordeal and the ordeal of others. Dr. Pearl is best known for her published book in 1948, "I Was A Doctor in Auschwitz." Other interviews are spoken by Sonia Weissman (the donor's wife and a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto), Janus T (a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising), and Mr. Friedman (a survivor of Treblinka). The film goes on to use various well-known pieces of footage that exists in the USHMM film and video collection, such as German newsreel footage, Nuremberg War Crimes Trials as well as other war crimes trials, Mogilev gas van footage, etc. The film also incorporates well-known still photographs. There are images (and montages) of equipment used for medical experimentation, for example, a gynecological examination chair. At the conclusion of the film, narrator Quentin Reynolds warns that the Holocaust must be remembered least it be repeated. He then goes on to use the example of apartheid in South Africa as a [contemporary] parallel. This extraordinary documentary which aired only one time and repeated in the early morning hours, has been forgotten by the public for 60 years. It is not available anywhere except for an archived 16mm print donated as a gift by Leo Weissman to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999. A Variety Review described the film this way. "In the annals of TV there probably hasn't been a more gruesome documentary than 'Remember Us,' an hour-length depiction of the Nazi horror which ravaged 9 ,000,000 lives and left an open sore on humanity's conscience. No better telling has caught the diabolic character of the Nazi regime than ‘Remember Us,' a title which echoes and re-echoes when matched against the past and present. It is not easy to view and listen; a terrible reminder for an unsettled world." NOTE: It is interesting that 34 years later Steven Spielberg would initiate a six-year worldwide filming coordination, producing "Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Project," begun in 1994 with the objective to film/video tape and preserve first-person survivor testimonies and encourage their use in education. In 1985, Phil Gries, founder and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc. filmed a series of interviews with filmmaker Cluade Lanzmann which were televised each night for four consecutive nights after an installment of Lanzmann's nine-and-a-half-hour epic documentary SHOAH, broadcast on PBS in its entirety. Nine years later, in December of 1994, Gries worked on the documentary "Bringing the Holocaust Home," for the BBC. For many days Gries filmed inside the new United States Holocaust Museum, in Washington DC, which was closed to the public during filming sequences within the museum. This landmark institution opened its doors for the first time to the public the previous year (March 22, 1993). Half - a- year later Phil Gries was hired to film 15 interviews (July-September 1995)...65 hours of footage with holocaust survivors for the Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah project at the inception of Spielberg's visionary undertaking. Most of the sit-down interviews, conducted by social workers, averaged two hours long. Some of them lasted four hours long. It was ALWAYS an emotional experience for subject and all others involved in the filming. Today, twenty-five years later,112,000 thousand hours (52,000 separate interviews) of interviews have been conducted around the world and are preserved in The Visual History Archive. The material is digitized, and fully searchable via indexed keywords, and hyperlinked to the minute at the USC SHOAH FOUNDATION in Southern California. REMEMBER US (1960), in many respects one of the first of such documentary retrospectives of the horrors of the Holocaust, remains a most hard hitting and compelling reminder and retelling of the horrors of Adolf Hitler's "solution to the Jewish question."1961-01-03, WNBC, 57 min.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Alexander Scourby
- Adolf Hitler
- Robert Russell Bennett
- Richard Hanser
- Wilson Hall
- Henry Salomon
- Fidel Castro
- Joseph Goebbels
- Hermann Goering
- Heinrich Himmler
- Rudolf Hess
Alexander Scourby narrates this documentary showing the rise and fall of Adolf Hitler. Produced by Henry Salomon and Richard Hanser. Musical score by Robert Russell Bennett. NBC news bulletins with Wilson Hall interrupts programming, stating that "President Eisenhower has broken off U.S. relations with Castro's Cuba." This program originally aired on March 14, 1956. NOTE: This was the second of over 30 different NBC PROJECT XX documentaries made for television (1954-1970). This broadcast depicts a chronicle of the rise and fall of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany. The story begins with scenes of Hitler as a shabby street-corner orator in Munich Germany. It shows his rise to a position of supreme power in his homeland and eventually in much of Europe. High Nazi officials are seen strutting about at the height of their success. Goering, Goebbels, Himmler and Hess are among the figures seen in addition to Adolph Hitler. Aside from newsreel shots of concentration camps there are reconstructed scenes of Nazi victims being prepared for extermination. There are scenes of mass Nazi rallies. As Nazi power begins to fail, there are scenes of Germans fleeing for shelter from "Allied bomb s. From a recent German movie comes re-enacted details of the abortive bomb lot against Hitler's life on July 20, 1944. Newsreels show Der Fuhrer being congratulated on his escape from death. But in fact his health is broken. While he broods in his bunker, Berlin falls in ruins above him. As the Russians advance on the doomed capitol Hitler takes his own life. An exceptional original music score is composed by Robert Russell Bennett to compliment and give impact to the visuals, and the narrative by Alexander Scourby is superb. He would continue to narrate over half of all Project XX events during its 16 year television cycle.
#13774: "GERMANY: FATHERS AND SONS"
Order1962-09-10, NBC, min.
An NBC News Special. A one hour documentary of Germany today and Germany under the Nazis-interviews with former Nazis and others. The Germans reject the responsibility for the persecution of the Jews during World War 11. The barrier of silence between two German generations are explored. A focus of those born during the last days of the Third Reich. Ex Nazis Max Moritz and Rolf Boy tell why they went along with Adolf Hitler. Members of the younger generations testify to their hazy knowledge of the Nazi era and to the lack of parental explanation on the subject. John Rich reports.
#16051: 60 MINUTES
Order1969-01-07, CBS, min.
- Harry Reasoner
- Robert Trout
- Mike Wallace
- Spiro Agnew
- Dick Martin
- Dan Rowan
- Benito Mussolini
- Adolf Hitler
- Otto Skorzey
- Tom Smothers
- Dick Smothers
September 24th, 1968- An hour newsmagazine with a strong emphasis on investigative reporting. 60 Minutes began in 1968 as a bi-weekly show, alternating on Tuesday evenings with CBS Reports. In the fall of 1971, it shifted to Sunday evenings. In the fall of 1975, it became a weekly series. It remains a fixture on Sunday evenings on CBS to this day. The eighth broadcast of this bi-weekly news magazine. 1- A behind-the-scenes look at television comedy profiles Rowan and Martin and the Smothers Brothers. 2- An interview with vice-president Spiro Agnew. 3- Former SS Colonel Otto Skorzey tells correspondent Robert Trout how he headed the team that spirited Benito Mussolini out of Italy and delivered him to Adolf Hitler in September, 1943. Moderators: Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace.#17298: 60 MINUTES
Order1973-04-29, CBS, min.
September 24th, 1968- Report on the upsurge in interest of Adolph Hitler. An hour newsmagazine with a strong emphasis on investigative reporting. 60 Minutes began in 1968 as a bi-weekly show, alternating on Tuesday evenings with CBS Reports. In the fall of 1971, it shifted to Sunday evenings. In the fall of 1975, it became a weekly series. It remains a fixture on Sunday evenings on CBS to this day. "The Short Unhappy Life Of Rover." (pet population explosion in the US). "Hitler Was Here?" (interest in Hitler). Host:Harry Reasoner
#6751: LIFE OF ADOLF HITLER
Order1974-12-19, PBS, 52 min.
(Part I) German-produced biography of the Nazi Fuhrer narrated by Leo Genn & Marius Goring. "Das Leben von Adolph Hitler" made in 1960-61 by the English documentarian Paul Rotha first aired on PBS television February 19, 1968 and subsequently re-ran on TV in the 1970's. This film largely fulfilled Rotha's goal of creating a historical document infused with strong personal conviction.
#6752: LIFE OF ADOLF HITLER
Order1974-12-20, PBS, 52 min.
(Part II) German-produced biography of the Nazi Fuhrer narrated by Leo Genn & Marius Goring. "Das Leben von Adolph Hitler" made in 1960-61 by the English documentarian Paul Rotha first aired on PBS television February 19, 1968 and subsequently re-ran on TV in the 1970's. This film largely fulfilled Rotha's goal of creating a historical document infused with strong personal conviction.
#6753: LIFE OF ADOLF HITLER
Order1975-09-23, PBS, 90 min.
German-produced biography of the Nazi Fuhrer narrated by Leo Genn & Marius Goring. "Das Leben von Adolph Hitler" made in 1960-61 by the English documentarian Paul Rotha first aired on PBS television February 19, 1968 and subsequently re-ran on TV in the 1970's. This film largely fulfilled Rotha's goal of creating a historical document infused with strong personal conviction.
#9086: PHIL DONAHUE SHOW, THE
Order1975-11-20, SYN, 110 min.
1970-1996- Nationally Syndicated. In 1977 Phil Donahue shifted his base of operations to Chicago from Dayton, Ohio and the show's title became known simply as "Donahue," a one-hour show usually devoted to a single topic or guest. The guest is German architect and former World War II German minister of armaments and war production Albert Speer. A rare one on one interview with Albert Speer, one of the few Nuremberg accused admitting guilt to war crimes, serving twenty years in prison. While incarcerated Speer wrote "Behind the Third Reich" on toilet paper. NOTE: ATA#9086 contains both part one, broadcast on November 20, and part two broadcast on November 21, 1975. Albert Speer became Adolf Hitler's Minister for Armaments after being his favorite architect and designing many famous Reich buildings. At the 1945-1946 war-crimes trial of Nazi leaders in Nuremberg, Speer was sentenced to 20 years in Berlin's Spandau prison for his complicity in Hitler's atrocities, and for his use of slave labor. He served his time and was released in 1966. Unlike his co-defendants, Speer readily accepted responsibility for crimes committed by a government in which he played a leading role, although he always denied knowing about the Holocaust even though he attended a speech on the subject by Heinrich Himmler in 1943. Phil Donahue and a 16mm film crew went to Heidelberg Germany and filmed Speer in his home. The interview lasted for 103 minutes and was used in two parts back-to-back telecast, November 20, and November 21, 1975. Two-part rare broadcast (combined part 1 ATA#9086A and part 2 ATA#8097B) interview with former Nazi Minister of Armaments, Albert Speer. Phil Donahue visits him at his home in Heidelberg Germany where a 103-minute interview is recorded on 16mm film. In the first of two parts (second part broadcast November 21, 1975) Speer discusses Adolf's Hitler's personae charisma and his plans for world domination. Also discussed is Albert Speers forthcoming book "Inside Spandau Prison," a record of his Nuremberg conviction and subsequent 20 year imprisonment. Also discussed: -last hour meeting with Hitler prior to his own suicide. -issue of the Jews (Speer states that he was not an anti-Semite). -12 years Hitler's architect yet not being aware of the death camps until 1944. -10 years freedom following 20 years in prison. NOTE: In part ONE the broadcast is interrupted for a SPECIAL REPORT press conference lasting four minutes. Governor Ronald Reagan has officially stated that he will run for President of the United States in 1976. He states his campaign will revolve around the principle of the people determining their government’s role in spending. Returning to the Phil Donahue Show Albert Speer addresses many topics including: -Hitler's captivating personality -His real personality when not facing the public -Hitler's goal for world domination -Hitler's suspicious nature of other women wanting intimacy with him for only special favors -diminishing sexual interest during his last years -His eating habits...vegetarian...did not smoke or drink -Hitler's exercise routines in front of an open window PART 2 of this interview (ATA#9087B) broadcast November 21, 1975 was entitled, "Eyewitness to Hitler." Topics discussed include: -Hitler's thoughts about United States conquest...thoughts of destruction of New York City...Hitler, a negrophilic, Speer's attempt to kill Hitler...the Pope's failure to act in protest of what Adolf Hitler was doing...Hitler's view of the Church...Hitler's belief in God...How such madness and atrocities were able to happen...Rudolph Hess, last survivor of Hitler's leaders still in prison after 30 years...Speer's account of his own incarceration and limited visitation by his wife and children...courting his wife Margaret when he was a teenager...his wife waiting 20 years while Speer was incarcerated...current estranged relationship with his children...how Speer wrote his book on toilet paper...at 70 years of age, how Speer now sees himself...current speaking engagements at universities with students...when he first saw Adolf Hitler speak in 1931 and was motivated to go into politics...Jews responsible in 1917 for organizing a revolution which would affect Speer's view of Jews...repenting now for what he did, and not do... Albert Speer states that if had to do it all over again he would not have followed Adolf Hitler if he would have been more educated in understanding history and humanity. Now, as a free man he states he is not happy, inwardly feeling guilt and responsibility of the times and of his involvement. NOTE: This complete two-part broadcast interview is not known to be extant in any audio, video, or transcript form to the public except for these original ATA off the air broadcast recordings, tape recorded (direct line for excellent sound reproduction) almost a half century ago off. Without these off the air recordings at the time of their original TV broadcasts, this incredible peerless historic interview document would be unavailable for research or for any related documentary or literary usage.#9086A: PHIL DONAHUE SHOW, THE
Order1975-11-20, SYN, 50 min.
1970-1996- Nationally Syndicated. In 1977 Phil Donahue shifted his base of operations to Chicago from Dayton, Ohio and the show's title became known simply as "Donahue," a one-hour show usually devoted to a single topic or guest. The guest is German architect and former World War II German minister of armaments and war production Albert Speer. A rare one on one interview with Albert Speer, one of the few Nuremberg accused admitting guilt to war crimes, serving twenty years in prison. While incarcerated Speer wrote "Behind the Third Reich" on toilet paper. Albert Speer became Adolf Hitler's Minister for Armaments after being his favorite architect and designing many famous Reich buildings. At the 1945-1946 war-crimes trial of Nazi leaders in Nuremberg, Speer was sentenced to 20 years in Berlin's Spandau prison for his complicity in Hitler's atrocities, and for his use of slave labor. He served his time and was released in 1966. Unlike his co-defendants, Speer readily accepted responsibility for crimes committed by a government in which he played a leading role, although he always denied knowing about the Holocaust even though he attended a speech on the subject by Heinrich Himmler in 1943. Phil Donahue and a 16mm film crew went to Heidelberg Germany and filmed Speer in his home. The interview lasted for 103 minutes and was used in two parts back-to-back telecast, November 20, and November 21, 1975. Part One of a rare broadcast interview with former Nazi Minister of Armaments, Albert Speer. Phil Donahue visits him at his home in Heidelberg Germany where a 103-minute interview is recorded on 16mm film. In the first of two parts, broadcast on November 20, 1975 (second part broadcast November 21, 1975) Speer discusses Adolf's Hitler's personae charisma and his plans for world domination. Also discussed is Albert Speers forthcoming book "Inside Spandau Prison," a record of his Nuremberg conviction and subsequent 20 year imprisonment. Also discussed: -last hour meeting with Hitler prior to his own suicide. -issue of the Jews (Speer states that he was not an anti-Semite). -12 years Hitler's architect yet not being aware of the death camps until 1944. -10 years freedom following 20 years in prison. NOTE: The broadcast is interrupted for a SPECIAL REPORT press conference lasting four minutes. Governor Ronald Reagan has officially stated that he will run for President of the United States in 1976. He states his campaign will revolve around the principle of the people determining their government’s role in spending. Returning to the Phil Donahue Show Albert Speer addresses many topics including: -Hitler's captivating personality -His real personality when not facing the public -Hitler's goal for world domination -Hitler's suspicious nature of other women wanting intimacy with him for only special favors -diminishing sexual interest during his last years -His eating habits...vegetarian...did not smoke or drink -Hitler's exercise routines in front of an open window PART 2 of this interview broadcast (ATA#9087B) November 21, 1975. Entitled, "Eyewitness to Hitler." Topics discussed include: -Hitler's thoughts about United States conquest...thoughts of destruction of New York City...Hitler, a negrophilic, Speer's attempt to kill Hitler...the Pope's failure to act in protest of what Adolf Hitler was doing...Hitler's view of the Church...Hitler's belief in God...How such madness and atrocities were able to happen...Rudolph Hess, last survivor of Hitler's leaders still in prison after 30 years...Speer's account of his own incarceration and limited visitation by his wife and children...courting his wife Margaret when he was a teenager...his wife waiting 20 years while Speer was incarcerated...current estranged relationship with his children...how Speer wrote his book on toilet paper...at 70 years of age, how Speer now sees himself...current speaking engagements at universities with students...when he first saw Adolf Hitler speak in 1931 and was motivated to go into politics...Jews responsible in 1917 for organizing a revolution which would affect Speer's view of Jews...repenting now for what he did, and not do... Albert Speer states that if had to do it all over again he would not have followed Adolf Hitler if he would have been more educated in understanding history and humanity. Now, as a free man he states he is not happy, inwardly feeling guilt and responsibility of the times and of his involvement. NOTE: This complete two-part broadcast interview is not known to be extant and not available in any audio, video, or transcript form to the public except for these original ATA off the air broadcast recordings, tape recorded almost a half century ago off the air, without their availability relegating this incredible peerless historic interview unavailable for research or related documentary or literary usage. NOTE: ATA#9086 is available containing both part ONE and part TWO of the two part broadcast, November 20th and 21st, 1975.#9087B: PHIL DONAHUE SHOW, THE
Order1975-11-21, SYN, 55 min.
1970-1996- Nationally Syndicated. In 1977 Phil Donahue shifted his base of operations to Chicago from Dayton, Ohio and the show's title became known simply as "Donahue," a one-hour show usually devoted to a single topic or guest. The guest is German architect and former World War II German minister of armaments and war production Albert Speer. A rare one on one interview with Albert Speer, one of the few Nuremberg accused admitting guilt to war crimes, serving twenty years in prison. While incarcerated Speer wrote "Behind the Third Reich" on toilet paper. Albert Speer became Adolf Hitler's Minister for Armaments after being his favorite architect and designing many famous Reich buildings. At the 1945-1946 war-crimes trial of Nazi leaders in Nuremberg, Speer was sentenced to 20 years in Berlin's Spandau prison for his complicity in Hitler's atrocities, and for his use of slave labor. He served his time and was released in 1966. Unlike his co-defendants, Speer readily accepted responsibility for crimes committed by a government in which he played a leading role, although he always denied knowing about the Holocaust even though he attended a speech on the subject by Heinrich Himmler in 1943. Phil Donahue and a 16mm film crew went to Heidelberg Germany and filmed Speer in his home. The interview lasted for 103 minutes and was used in two parts back-to-back telecast, November 20, and November 21, 1975. Part Two of a rare broadcast interview with former Nazi Minister of Armaments, Albert Speer. Phil Donahue visits him at his home in Heidelberg Germany where a 103-minute interview is recorded on 16mm film. In the first of two parts, broadcast on November 20, 1975 (second part broadcast November 21, 1975) Speer discusses Adolf's Hitler's personae charisma and his plans for world domination. Also discussed is Albert Speers forthcoming book "Inside Spandau Prison," a record of his Nuremberg conviction and subsequent 20 year imprisonment. Also discussed: -last hour meeting with Hitler prior to his own suicide. -issue of the Jews (Speer states that he was not an anti-Semite). -12 years Hitler's architect yet not being aware of the death camps until 1944. -10 years freedom following 20 years in prison. NOTE: In part One of the broadcast (ATA#9086A) the program is interrupted for a SPECIAL REPORT press conference lasting four minutes. Governor Ronald Reagan has officially stated that he will run for President of the United States in 1976. He states his campaign will revolve around the principle of the people determining their government’s role in spending. Returning to the Phil Donahue Show Albert Speer addresses many topics including: -Hitler's captivating personality -His real personality when not facing the public -Hitler's goal for world domination -Hitler's suspicious nature of other women wanting intimacy with him for only special favors -diminishing sexual interest during his last years -His eating habits...vegetarian...did not smoke or drink -Hitler's exercise routines in front of an open window PART 2 of this interview broadcast (ATA#9087B) November 21, 1975. Entitled, "Eyewitness to Hitler." Topics discussed include: -Hitler's thoughts about United States conquest...thoughts of destruction of New York City...Hitler, a negrophilic, Speer's attempt to kill Hitler...the Pope's failure to act in protest of what Adolf Hitler was doing...Hitler's view of the Church...Hitler's belief in God...How such madness and atrocities were able to happen...Rudolph Hess, last survivor of Hitler's leaders still in prison after 30 years...Speer's account of his own incarceration and limited visitation by his wife and children...courting his wife Margaret when he was a teenager...his wife waiting 20 years while Speer was incarcerated...current estranged relationship with his children...how Speer wrote his book on toilet paper...at 70 years of age, how Speer now sees himself...current speaking engagements at universities with students...when he first saw Adolf Hitler speak in 1931 and was motivated to go into politics...Jews responsible in 1917 for organizing a revolution which would affect Speer's view of Jews...repenting now for what he did, and not do... Albert Speer states that if had to do it all over again he would not have followed Adolf Hitler if he would have been more educated in understanding history and humanity. Now, as a free man he states he is not happy, inwardly feeling guilt and responsibility of the times and of his involvement. NOTE: This complete two-part broadcast interview is not known to be extant and not available in any audio, video, or transcript form to the public except for these original ATA off the air broadcast recordings, tape recorded almost a half century ago off the air, without their availability relegating this incredible peerless historic interview unavailable for research or related documentary or literary usage. NOTE: ATA#9086 is available containing both part ONE and part TWO of the two part broadcast, November 20th and 21st, 1975.1976-02-21, PBS, 14 min.
October 18, 1975 - February 28, 1976 PBS half hour television series, presented in New York on WNET Channel 13, Saturday evenings, 7:00 - 7:30pm, recalling the great events of the Twentieth Century through newsreel footage. Hosted by veteran radio newsman Lowell Thomas. Contemporary retrospective footage was filmed in Thomas' study and are intercut with old newsreels. 19 broadcasts were aired on WNET focusing on the years circa 1920's and 1930's. 1933 is remembered. Profile of Frances Perkins, first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet and the rise of Fascism. Adolf Hitler's rise to power overwhelmingly elected Chancellor, January 30, 1933, receiving over 20 million votes. Amos 'N' Andy, the Depression and President Franklin Roosevelt quest to be President of the United States. NOTE: This series was never distributed to the public after its release on television. Most of these broadcasts are not known to exist, and not one of them are archived at The Library of Congress, UCLA Film & TV Archive or Paley Museum for Media. One of the last broadcast commitments by Lowell Thomas who passed away August 29, 1981.
1976-02-25, PBS, 30 min.
Series of documentaries about the people who lived in London, Berlin, and Leningrad during World War 11. Seventy five percent of Berlin was reduced to rubble during the Second World War.