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POWs & Jews are rounded up and forced to march

Film | Accession Number: 1991.260.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0349 | Film ID: 201

Sign: "Gefangenen Sammelstelle." [Prisoner collection point]. In the countryside, mass of civilian POWs stand behind roped-off area; pan of mass of soldiers (POWs) sitting on the ground, also roped-off. VAR CUs of civilians as they are frisked (some wear caps, all look shabby). The narrator states that the prisoners consist mainly of Jews, and that through the actions of the Fuerher Germany is protected from this danger. The camera lingers on a few individual faces. POWs flood train platform and embark onto waiting train. Endless line of prisoners march 4-5 abreast along the railroad tracks through a town. CU bundled and booted feet. Haze, sun, and dust.


Duration
00:01:47
Date
Event:  1941 July
Censor:  1941 July 23
Locale
Minsk, Soviet Union
Language
German
Genre/Form
Newsreels.
Credit
Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
 
Record last modified: 2023-04-05 09:32:14
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