Overview
- Description
- Life as RADwJ (Reichsarbeitsdienst der weiblichen Jugend), referred to as "Arbeitsmaiden" The young women tend to garden, cook, help farmers, do calisthenics, dance, care for hospitalized. Young women walking. Train in Hamburg. "Arbeitsmaiden-Transport ins Elsass (Alsace)" Exiting train, entering home, receiving uniform, medical examination, running outside, playing with ball, chalet on water, singing in forest, Nazi flag, mopping floor, cleaning house, preparing meal in kitchen, eating, washing dishes, gardening, talking at table outdoors, riding bicycles, laundry. Young woman playing with children in circle. More gardening, helping civilians in village, riding bicycles. Sign: "Wichtige Bekanntmachung!...Sonntag-Wanderung" [Important Notice: Sunday Hike]. BDM girls singing, walking towards and through village, all dressed the same, returning home with flowers. Outdoors, having tea, bread, and jam, writing postcards. Sign, "Litzmannstadt 10KM" [Łódź 10 km]. Receiving mail. Sign, "Bessarabiendeutsche Willkommen in der neuen Heimat" [Bessarabian Germans, Welcome to the new Homeland] Women retrieving water from well. Peasant family arriving on cart with horses, man in uniform with boots, walking towards camera and cemetery. 01:56:13 Sign, "In neugewonnener Deutscher Erderuhen hier." Pan, CUs, graves of German war heros, headstones with swastikas, names. Farming. Children at play on see-saws. Sitting under trees, group lessons/school outdoors, assisting peasant man with reading. Women dancing, playing violins, elders, eating, playing flutes, children playing, standing around flagpole with Nazi flag. Woman speaking. Telegrams, nurses with wounded, factory, printing press.
- Duration
- 00:13:46
- Date
-
Event:
1943
Censor: 1943 February 13
- Locale
-
Łódź [Litzmannstadt],
Poland
Hamburg, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
- Contributor
-
Director:
Heinz-Hermann Schwerdtfeger
Producer: UFA
Camera Operator: Erichhans Foerrster
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Propaganda.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Excellent
- Time Code
- 01:46:31:00 to 02:00:17:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2559 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2559 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2559 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2559 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large- Preservation
Preservation 2559 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2559 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2559 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2559 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.
- Conditions on Use
- Researchers who wish to use this footage should contact the Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv at filmbenutzung@bundesarchiv.de to sign a release, or submit the online request form at: https://www.bundesarchiv.de/EN/Content/Downloads/request-for-use-av-material.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
- Copyright Holder
- Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- CALISTHENICS CARTS/WAGONS CHILDREN COOKING DANCING EATING FACTORIES FAMILIES FARMERS/FARMING FLAGS FLOWERS GERMANS GRAVES HITLER YOUTH KITCHENS MEDICAL CARE MUSIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NAZI PARTY NURSES PEASANTS PLAYING POLAND PROPAGANDA PROPAGANDA (NAZI) SINGING SWASTIKAS TRAIN STATIONS TRAINS UNIFORMS VILLAGES VOLKSDEUTSCH WOMEN
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, Germany in April 2002.
- Note
- Opening credits: Ein UFA Kulturfilm. Manuskript: Dr. Martin Rikli and Heinz-Hermann Schwerdtfeger ; Regie: Heinz-Hermann Schwerdtfeger ; An der Kamera: Erichhans Foerrster ; Musik: Hans Ebert. UFA Aufnahmegeraet: Klangfilm, Tonkopie: AFIFA. End credit: Swastika with "RADWJ"
Additional documentation available in departmental files.
The RADwJ emblem can be seen on the girls' brooches, the flag, and at the end of the film. - Copied From
- 16mm b/w print
- Film Source
- Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 521
Source Archive Number: 212 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:54:26
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