French refugees and POWs
Refugee families with heavily loaded wagons cross in front of camera at end of town. Refugees, including children, push bicylces and baby carriages. Tanks pass by. Camera shoots from ground up toward soldiers atop tanks. The soldiers look and sometimes smile at camera. Germans search boarded-up shops, sprawl around city, taking over town. Brief inerior of soldier, asleep in a chair. French POWs entering and exiting building, being rushed down a street by German guard. A couple of civilians, including a woman, with the POWs. Various shots of POWS marching down road, with a tank and flowers growing by roadside. Empty village, much destruction, shot of two military (?) graves. German Army's horses line road. (Good composition.)
- Film Title
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Westfeldzug 1940. Kaempfe in Nordfrankreich. [Western campaign 1940. Fighting in Northern France.]
- Duration
- 00:05:07
- Date
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Event:
1940
Production: 1940
- Locale
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France
- Language
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Silent
- Genre/Form
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Unedited.
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
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