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Germany Awake!

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

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
Language
German
Genre/Form
Propaganda.
Credit
Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration

About This Film

Contributor
Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.
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
  • Preservation
    • Preservation 911 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Special Collection
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

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

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
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.

 
Record last modified: 2021-06-03 12:42:16
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