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DPs return to Germany

Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2343 | Film ID: 899

(LIB 6901) Return of Displaced Persons, from Ohrdruf to Chemnitz, Germany, June 2, 1945. LSs, MSs, Russian DPs board trucks. Trucks filled with DPs leave the camp as persons remaining wave farewell. HASs, LSs, DPs in US trucks moving over autobahn. MSs, CUs, smiling Russian DPs seated in trucks. MLSs, US soldier tells Russians to climb aboard truck. MSs, CU, woman giving infant its bottle. Russians dismount from truck with their belongings and walk to waiting train. MSs, CU, women, children, and men prior to boarding the train.


Duration
00:08:55
Date
Event:  1945 June 02
Locale
Ohrdruf, Germany
Language
Silent
Genre/Form
Unedited.
Credit
Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration

About This Film

Contributor
Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Camera Operator: M. Fleming
B&W / Color
Black & White
Image Quality
Good
Time Code
02:20:08:00 to 02:29:03:00
Film Format
  • Master
    • Master 899 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
  • Preservation
    • Preservation 899 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
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.
Copied From
35mm; b/w
Film Source
United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number
Legacy Database File: 1998
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 4745

Rights and Restrictions

Copyright
No restrictions on use. Public Domain
Conditions on Use
To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain.
 
Record last modified: 2020-08-04 09:20:42
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