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Burning farms; POWs; town on fire

Film | Accession Number: 1991.260.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0268 | Film ID: 201

LS views of farm burning in Bialystok; soldiers arrest citizens, check IDs. CU of frightened man. Long view of tanks lining road; soldiers. Pan of many wrecked tanks burning in fields near Minsk, all spewing black smoke. HA pan of Russian POWs sitting on the ground (POW camp?). CU endless line of turbanned Russian POWs, many with Asiatic faces. Distance sign: "Berlin/Breslau/Moskau." MS Kalvaria in flames in the distance. Nazis ride into town. Dead horse on road ("Dunaburg"?); scorched earth. Many views of smoking rubble, total destruction.

Film Title
Deutsche Wochenschau
Genre
Newsreel
Duration
00:02:44
Event Date
1941 July
Locale
Bialystok, Poland
Minsk, Soviet Union
Kaunas, Lithuania
Kalvarija, Lithuania
Language
German
Genre/Form
Newsreels.
Credit
Accessed at US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv
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About This Film

Censor Date
1941 July 09
B&W / Color
Black & White
Image Quality
Mixed
Time Code
02:45:00:00 to 02:47:44:00
Film Format
  • Master
    • Master 201 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
  • Preservation
    • Preservation 201 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
    Preservation 201 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Special Collection
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Film Provenance
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, Germany in September 1991. The footage was transferred at Bibo TV in Germany and obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition.
Note
Contrary to information on Bundesarchiv shot list, this reel does not contain footage of "Jews rounded up, the synagogue, and Jewish ghetto with Jewish types." It has been edited out.

See also Story 253, Film ID 200 for an early view of wrecked tanks burning in fields.
Copied From
35mm; b/w
Film Source
Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
File Number
Legacy File Number: 845
Original Archive Number: DW 566/29/41 R1+2
Featured In
Permanent Exhibition - The Holocaust - Audiovisual Monitors: Invasion of The Soviet Union, 1941 - 3.14

Rights and Restrictions

Copyright
Copyright. Transit Film
 
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