Overview
- Description
- A banner announcing a food transport for the Sudetenland. Food for Sudeten Germans brought in on trucks. Propaganda papers tossed to crowds. A close up of a newspaper reading "Memel ist frei!" View of banner reading, "We have arrived home!" A man is shown painting over the Lithuanian words on a sign so that only the German is visible. The sign appears to designate a train station. Memel, formerly part of East Prussia until it was ceded to Lithuania under the Versailles Treaty, was annexed back to Germany in March of 1939. Soldiers enter town in trucks, greeted by rambunctious crowd. Shots of Memel fascists in black uniforms, and of active crowds, including schoolchildren carrying small swastika flags. German police (?) with flowers tucked in their overcoats watch planes overhead.
- Film Title
-
Heimkehr ins Reich
- Duration
- 00:00:42
- Date
-
Event:
1939 March 23
- Locale
-
Sudetenland
Memel, Lithuania
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 00:14:35:00 to 00:15:17:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 200 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 200 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 200 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 200 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 200 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 200 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 200 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 200 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.
- Conditions on Use
- Researchers who wish to use this footage should contact the Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv at filmbenutzung@bundesarchiv.de to sign a release, or submit the online request form at: https://www.bundesarchiv.de/EN/Content/Downloads/request-for-use-av-material.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
- Copyright Holder
- Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- 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
- See also Film ID 2552, Bechtler collection, for some duplicate footage.
- Copied From
- 35mm; b/w
- Film Source
- Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 977
Source Archive Number: 1140 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:54:38
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1000504
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