Germany Awake!
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
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Deutschland Erwache!
- Duration
- 00:09:13
- Date
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Production:
1945
- Locale
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Poland
Cologne, Germany
Hamburg, Germany
Nuremberg, Germany
Berlin, Germany
Belsen, Germany
Nordhausen, Germany
Leipzig, Germany
- Language
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German
- Genre/Form
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Propaganda.
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
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