Overview
- Description
- Hitler Youth digging trenches with Baltic civilians along German border. CU Hitler Youth blows whistle, LS Hitler Youth in uniforms rush to get in formation, 3 CU, then MS of them in ranks with shovels. MS, boys marching with shovels over shoulder through gate with swastika, MLS of them marching down road. CU as they march toward and past camera. Assist in digging a wall of fortifications along the entire eastern border. Another group of Hitler Youth with shovels approach, then a group on bicycles approach the camera. They leap in along the full length of trench. VS of boys digging under supervision of Nazi officers in trenches 5 feet deep or more. Long line of civilians trudging with tools along edge of ditch. VS of men and women digging. AV trench. Good AV of design and extent of defensive line in context of surrounding countryside.
- Duration
- 00:01:52
- Date
-
Event:
1944
Production: 1944?
- Locale
-
France
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 03:53:37:00 to 03:55:29:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 302 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 302 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 302 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 302 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 302 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 302 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 302 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 302 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
- Keyword
- HITLER YOUTH
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in March 1992. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Learning Center.
- Note
- Captured German footage located in the Office of the Secretary of War record group at NARA.
- Copied From
- 35mm DNC (P); b&w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 0333
Source Archive Number: 107.840 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:47:54
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