Overview
- Description
- Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 392, Part 3. Release date, 04/23/1945.
According to UN Official Motion Picture Release:
"Germany in Ruins" Duisburg, Limbourg, Osnabruck, and Munster are entered. The streets are filled with hills of broken buildings and wreckage. Mayors try to rally their citizens. The pathetic Volksturm - the home guard - surrenders, to join the thousands of combat troops previously captured. Frantic, hungry civilians break into ruined stores and stalled trains to steal food and clothing.
"German Atrocities" Allied armies free thousands of slave laborers - both men and women - from the infamous concentration camps. The victims hands had been mutilated, and numbers tattooed on their arms. One tremendous graveyard contains 30,000 dead. The occupant of each grave had been sent there by Nazi torture and barbarism.
"Germany in Ruins" The Allies continue to pile up crushing defeats on the Nazis as they rush eastward from the Rhine. Heidelberg University is entered. Only shells of the ancient buildings are standing, while a modernistic building built by US funds reveals the generosity of American financiers and philanthropists. At Coblenz, the huge bridge lies broken in the Rhine, and doughboys maintain the "Watch on the Rhine." General Bradley and General Patton attend flag raising ceremonies at Ehrenbreitstein Castle.
Other parts of the newsreel include:
13:16:35 1: "Molotov in Washington, DC"
13:17:18 2A/2B: "Jumbo Aeroplane Tire" / "Final Seattle B-17" - Film Title
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Germany in Ruins; German Atrocities
- Duration
- 00:05:17
- Date
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Event:
1945 April 23
- Locale
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Koblenz,
Germany
Heidelberg, Germany
France
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
Universal News
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Newsreels.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 13:18:44:00 to 13:24:01:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2393 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 2393 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 2393 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 2393 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 2393 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2393 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2393 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2393 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
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- 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
- ATROCITIES BRADLEY, OMAR N. BRIDGES CIVILIANS CLOTHES CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION) CORPSES DESTRUCTION FLAGS FOOD FORCED LABOR FRANCE GERMANS GERMANY LIBERATION MASS GRAVES MILITARY OFFICERS PALACES/CASTLES PATTON, GEORGE POWS RHINE RIVER RUHR VALLEY RUINS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (ALLIES) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) TATTOOS TORTURE UNIVERSITIES
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 2001.
- Note
- Narrator: Ed Herlihy
- Copied From
- 16mm MPS/MAG; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 105
Source Archive Number: 200 UN 18-392-3 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:49:09
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