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German occupation of Kharkov; daily life

Film | Accession Number: 1991.260.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0323 | Film ID: 202B

Soldiers in Kharkov, busy city street scene, marketplace, etc. German soldiers and military vehicles throughout. Shot of German women crossing street, probably nurses (they wear military uniforms and white caps). Signs in German, including "Soldatenheim." Germans and civilians in busy marketplace. German soldiers walk past a bedraggled Soviet soldier (?) sitting in the marketplace. One of the Germans asks for and is given the man's cigarette. German soldier talking with old man, who removes his hat and refuses the cigarette offered to him by the German -- the old man appears a bit crazy. POWs walk down dusty road, pushing wagon. Germans in a truck pass them in the opposite direction. Village life vignettes. Horse and cart, women chat, little boy. Two men with horse and cart, piled high with wares, walk down road. Children climbing on and playing on a German tank


Duration
00:08:43
Date
Event:  Summer 1942
Production:  1942
Locale
Kharkov, Soviet Union
Language
Silent
Genre/Form
Unedited.
Credit
Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
 
Record last modified: 2022-07-28 22:04:26
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