German Army in Budapest

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1992.252.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0618 | Film ID: 302

Overview

Description: Map of Hungary/Rumania region. VAR views: Germans, armed and on horseback, townspeople in street clothes carry bricks, working together to build roadblocks. VAR views: Germans fire artillery into the city below, incl CU soldiers, LS city, Howitzer is loaded, shot and recoils. MS pan over snowy field dotted with tanks and trucks; ELS view of fields with advancing German infantry. Pan of knocked out Russian tanks and of snowy, rather bleak Budapest (incl one nice MS skyline view). German tanks roll down road toward camera, past smiling and waving civilian workers. German Panzer vehicles massed on roadside, infantrymen walk by camera and follow tanks. LS scout patrol fires at Soviet cavalry in distance. Germans fire weapons in snow, tanks in fog. Line of artillery guns are fired. VAR tank patrol advancing, destroyed and burning tanks along the road.
Film Title: Deutsche Wochenschau
Duration: 00:02:52
Date: Event: 1944?
Production: 1944?
Locale: Budapest, Hungary
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration
Contributor: Camera Operator: Anheck
Camera Operator: Bauch
Camera Operator: Genia Brix
Camera Operator: Geipel
Camera Operator: Heubeck
Camera Operator: Hirt
Camera Operator: Rege
Camera Operator: Huhne
Camera Operator: Huth

Language: German
Genre/Form: Newsreels.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 03:07:54:00 to 03:10:46:00
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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Copyright: Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.
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Copyright Holder: Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.

Keyword: HUNGARY SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (SOVIET) WEHRMACHT (GERMAN ARMY)

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.
Copied From: 35mm DNC
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 0318
Source Archive Number: 242 MID 6082
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive