Background to German invasion of W. Europe

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1125 | Film ID: 934

Overview

Description: Reel 1: German troops swear loyalty to Hitler. Shows panormaic views of the countryside, mountains, people harvesting crops, German cities, a cathedral, steel mills and coal mines. Shot of German colonial post and troop reviewing there. German troops advancing in WWI, and Generals Hindenburg and Ludendorff. Maps show powers arrayed against and allied with Germany in WWI, the extent of German advances and the effect of the Versailles Treaty on Germany's borders. Forts are demolished, cannon and hangars destroyed, ships scuttled and planes junked. German communists arouse crowds. Shows communist literature, examples of currency inflation and people running. Hitler reviews storm troops. Von Hindenburg reviews German troops. German troops train with wooden tanks. Leon Blum and others review a French military parade in Paris. Von Hindenburg appoints Hitler Reich Chancellor. Hitler spades some earth. Men build factories. War material production begins. Concrete is laid for an autobahn.
Film Title: Sieg im Westen [Victory in the West]
Duration: 00:07:50
Date: Production: 1941
Locale: Germany
Paris, France
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Writer: Svend Nolan
Producer: Fritz Hippler
Music: Herbert Windt
Director: Svend Nolan

Language: German
Genre/Form: Propaganda.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 07:06:06:00 to 07:13:56:00
Film Format: Master
Master 934 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 934 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 934 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 934 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation
Preservation 934 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 934 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 934 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 934 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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: This film contains German newsreel footage, the rights to which are held by the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv). Researchers should exercise caution when using newsreel clips from this film, and contact the Bundesarchiv at filmbenutzung@bundesarchiv.de to find out how to use this footage. The online request form is available at:
https://www.bundesarchiv.de/EN/Content/Downloads/request-for-use-av-material.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
Copyright Holder: Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.

Keyword: BLUM, LEON COAL COMMUNISTS DESTRUCTION FACTORIES FARMERS/FARMING FRANCE HARVESTS HINDENBURG, PAUL VON HITLER, ADOLF MAPS MILITARY ADVANCES PARADES SHIPS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN) TANKS TREATIES WORLD WAR I

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: Produced in Germany
Acquired by US Army Signal Corps

The ProRes 422 file (made in 2015) must have been copied from a different source or film version of Sieg im Westen than the one that USHMM purchased from NARA on videotape in 1994 and later digitized in 2013 (the one that streams in the online Collections Search catalog). The DV50 file is more complete.
Copied From: 35mm; b/w; composite
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 1539
Source Archive Number: 111 M 527.6 R-1
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive