Germany Awake!

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0953 | Film ID: 911

Overview

Description: Summary of film: Recounts Germany's wartime experience and encourages German citizens to help effect a successful peace.
Reel 1: Explosion of Swastika in Nuremberg Stadium. Dead Germans and POWs. Rubble in Cologne, Nuremberg, Hamburg, and Berlin. Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery; Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta. Hitler, Streicher, Hess, Himmler and Goebbels addressing crowds. Germans are shown bodies in the Nordhausen and Belsen concentration camps. Gen. Eisenhower and Gen. Patton tour Ohrdruf concentration camp. Scene of burned bodies on truck chassis, as at start of Museum's permanent exhibition.
Film Title: Deutschland Erwache!
Duration: 00:09:13
Date: Production: 1945
Locale: Poland
Cologne, Germany
Hamburg, Germany
Nuremberg, Germany
Berlin, Germany
Belsen, Germany
Nordhausen, Germany
Leipzig, Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.

Language: German
Genre/Form: Propaganda.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Mixed
Time Code: 07:47:47:00 to 07:57:00:00
Film Format: Master
Master 911 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 911 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 911 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 911 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation
Preservation 911 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 911 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 911 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 911 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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Copyright: Public Domain
Conditions on Use: To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.

Keyword: BELGIUM BERGEN-BELSEN BERGEN-BELSEN TRIAL CHURCHILL, WINSTON CIVILIANS CONCENTRATION CAMPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION) CONFERENCE (YALTA) CONFERENCES CORPSES COURTS/COURTROOMS CROWDS EINSTEIN, ALBERT EISENHOWER, DWIGHT EXPLOSIONS GERMANS GERMANY GOEBBELS, JOSEPH GOERING, HERMANN HADAMAR INSTITUTE HESS, RUDOLF HIMMLER, HEINRICH HITLER YOUTH HITLER, ADOLF MAJDANEK MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS MILITARY OFFICERS NORDHAUSEN NUREMBERG (INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL) OHRDRUF PATTON, GEORGE POLAND POWS PROPAGANDA ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. RUBBLE RUINS SPEECHES STALIN, JOSEPH STREICHER, JULIUS SWASTIKAS TRUMAN, HARRY S. UNIVERSITIES WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS ZHUKOV, GEORGY

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1994.
Note: Script to this film in department files.
Copied From: 35mm; b/w; composite
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 154
Source Archive Number: 111 M 1208 R1
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive