Overview
- Description
- (LIB 6854) Military Government, Cologne, Germany, May 3, 1945. SEQ: Civilians remove records and money from wrecked bank vault. LSs, walls of bombed building are torn down. CU, boy smears poster of "Hitler Jugend" so as to obscure lettering. LS, workman using acetylene torch removes Nazi emblem from atop building entrance. SEQ: Emblem crashes to ground; two workmen destroy it with sledge hammers. Also tackle bust of Hitler. Sledge hammer breaks before the bust. 01:09:28 LSs, children burn propaganda leaflets, posters, and flags.
- Duration
- 00:10:34
- Date
-
Event:
1945 May 03
Production: 1945
- Locale
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Cologne,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Camera Operator: Jack Muth
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 01:00:36:00 to 01:11:10:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2570 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2570 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2570 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2570 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2570 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2570 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2570 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2570 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in 2002.The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's special exhibition in 2003 on Nazi bookburning, "Fighting the Fires of Hate."
- Copied From
- 35mm DNS; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 3650
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 4727 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:44:46
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