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Minsk in ruins

Film | Accession Number: 1991.260.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0281 | Film ID: 201

LS pan of billowing smoke over burning Minsk (in daytime). Pan of rubble, views of soldiers, buildings afire, motorcycle (with sidecar) and jeeps drive down street through destroyed town. LS of big blocky building (Communist architecture) and shot of Lenin statue (narration calls it the "Soviet paradise"). VAR rubble heaps, some smoking; civilians sorting through; MLS of very little children wandering around rubble, watching adults try to salvage what they can. Jeep/trucks drive through muddy streets of village, invading. In BG, citizens watch by edge of house.


Duration
00:01:35
Date
Event:  June/July 1941
Censor:  1941 July 16
Locale
Minsk, Soviet Union
Language
German
Genre/Form
Newsreels.
Credit
Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
 
Record last modified: 2023-11-07 12:07:32
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