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Towns in ruins as German troops advance; dead Russian soldiers

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.180.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4256 | Film ID: 2784

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    Towns in ruins as German troops advance; dead Russian soldiers

    Overview

    Description
    Reel 1: 00:22:06 First scene appears to be in German territory(?), view of a large church and a city street with people walking. Several different shots of a city with severe damage, including civilians carrying on with their business. German soldiers work to clear a road of debris (vehicle wreckage). CU of a dead Russian soldier on the ground. CUs of several Russian prisoners with hands raised. A vehicle blazes in the middle of a road. German soldiers and young Soviet prisoners (some appear to be boys) talking, close views. Planes circling overhead, with German soldiers watching explosions in the distance. Soldiers standing in a city. Views of a severely damaged city/vehicles. Panning shot of a group of captured Russian soldiers.

    Reel 2: 00:28:36 Long stretch of open road littered with destroyed Russian tanks and artillery. A group of Russian prisoners (male civilians) wait on the side of the road. CU of destroyed Russian military vehicles. CU of horses. Russian prisoners gather belongings and begin to move down a road. German military on motorcycles travels down a road. Russian peasants with wagons/carts travel down a road. A train car full of goods burns. Panning shot of train yard and burning railcars. Shot of wreckage/rubble. Shot of yard containing hundreds of Howitzers. CU of a tank in a ditch. German units march through the streets of a town, past a church. Prisoners, some wounded. Russian prisoners work on a makeshift pontoon bridge.

    Reel 3: 00:34:09 Destroyed Russian tanks. German general talking to an officer. German soldiers with Soviet POWs in the forest, some wounded. Panning shot of a Russian airfield with damaged airplanes. Views over a burning, partly destroyed city. Destroyed bridge over river. German military vehicles in front of a very large building. German soldiers in front of a blazing building. Armored vehicle on a residential street. View of several blazing homes. Russian peasants gathered outside a home. German soldiers showing Russian civilians how to raise their hands in surrender; frisking the civilians.

    Reel 4: 00:38:49 Soviet women and men leaving a building. Men stand around a truck with many dead Soviet troops. Shots of several dead Soviet soldiers in a field, CU of one with a bullet hole in the side of the head (00:39:46). CUs of dead Russian soldiers interspersed between stacked logs. Russian peasants carrying furniture out of a large building. Brief shot inside building of people carrying furniture/papers. CU of a downed plane. Groups of German soldiers resting in the countryside, eating, (00:41:01) CU of soldier reading the newspaper "Danziger Vorposten" with the headline, "Die bolschewistische Luftwaffe entscheidend geschwächt" (The Bolshevik air force drastically weakened).
    Duration
    00:20:38
    Date
    Event:  1941 July
    Locale
    Soviet Union
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
    Contributor
    Producer: Heeresfilmstelle

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Unedited.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    00:22:03:00 to 00:42:41:00
    Film Format
    • Master
      • Master 2784 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
      Master 2784 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
      Master 2784 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
      Master 2784 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
    • Preservation
      • Preservation 2784 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2784 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2784 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2784 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Conditions on Use
    Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.

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    Administrative Notes

    Legal Status
    Permanent Collection
    Film Provenance
    Forms part of the Wehrmachtsaufnahmen collection at the Bundesarchiv. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this footage in March 2005 from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, Germany.
    Note
    See departmental files for more detailed information in German from the Bundesarchiv.

    Reel 1: USHMM copied 64 of 143 meters; Reel 2: USHMM copied 86 of 133 meters; Reel 3: USHMM copied 51 of 128 meters; Reel 4: USHMM copied 43 of 104 meters.
    Copied From
    16mm
    Film Source
    Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 4545
    Source Archive Number: 1775 R1,2,3,4
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:03:32
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