Overview
- Description
- Home movies filmed during the liberation of Germany. Chicken in grass. Milt Ramoy talking, with Earl Soltan, a German woman, and other soldiers. Milt with a typewriter. 03:59:24 Bombed rubble of German village, remains of buildings. LS, field, convoy of military vehicles. Tank traps built by the Germans line the fields to prevent US tanks from crossing, CUs, called "Dragon's Teeth." 04:00:15 Devastated, bombed German town, gray ashen buildings. Milt poses in front of buildings, moving through town. LS, field of mines. Military convoy/jeeps, yellow sign for Ohrdruf, ruins of town, dead horse, smoke rises from hill in the distance. 04:02:28 Pan, male corpses lined up on ground in wooded area near Neunberg, Germany. VAR shots, civilians burying the dead in plain wood coffins. Men walking, carrying coffins, marching past civilians with more coffins lining the dirt road. Women crying and wiping eyes, carrying coffin, walking and crying. 04:03:53 Four young civilian boys carrying coffin. Civilians gathered in field before parading through village street with coffins [seen from a distance] to the cemetery. 04:04:48 Rifle practice with Sgt. Tulio Fuligni. Milt on motorcycle in field outside Regensburg, tent camp, airplane demonstration, Milt with hardhat, sunset. 04:07:30 Aerial views of Mauthausen sub-camps in Passau, Germany and intense bombing, craters. 04:08:55 Bombed Hitler's home at Berchtesgaden, various views of the damage, mountains, Milt with his still photograph camera, bombed structures, sunset. 04:10:38 Film continues in Innsbruck in black and white. Soldiers breaking for lunch on hillside, eating, waving to camera. Milt poses in river, waterfalll, villa in mountains. Street scene in Innsbruck, traveling on cable car, feeding sheep on mountain top, photographing a boy, Milt. Traveling by vehicle through the Brenner Pass in Italy, welcome sign, Milt pointing out "Italia" carved in marble post. 04:14:00 Military convoy crosses border, damage to city of Munich, street scenes, passing downed German planes in fields along the road, ferrying equipment across river.
- Film Title
-
Postwar Germany -- Milt Ramoy -- amateur
- Film Collection Title
- Sgt. Milt Ramoy Collection
- Duration
- 00:16:57
- Date
-
Event:
1944-1945
- Locale
-
Italy
Ohrdruf, Germany
Berchtesgaden, Germany
Innsbrueck, Austria
France
Regensburg, Germany
Passau, Austria
Munich, Germany
- Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Milton and Leona Ramoy
- Contributor
-
Camera Operator:
Milton Ramoy
- Biography
-
Milton Ramoy was a member of the United States 576th Ordinance and Ammunition Company.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Amateur.
- B&W / Color
- Color
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 03:58:08:00 to 04:15:05:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 155 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 155 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 155 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 155 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 155 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - small
Preservation 155 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - small
Preservation 155 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - small
Preservation 155 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - small
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Sgt. Milton Ramoy
- Conditions on Use
- Sgt. Milton Ramoy is deceased and there is no next of kin to permit use for third parties. The Museum has made reasonable efforts and has not been able to identify and/or locate a copyright owner of this film. The Museum therefore places no restrictions on use of this material, but cannot provide any information to the user about the copyright owner. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used. If you have information regarding the copyright owner, please contact filmvideo@ushmm.org.
- Copyright Holder
- Sgt. Milton Ramoy
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- Sgt. Milton Ramoy filmed the liberation of Germany with his 8mm camera. He donated a copy of the original film as well as a videotape providing additional context to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in August 1991. The videotape is available in SSFVA's wild collection. Mr. Ramoy also donated photographs of his travels through postwar Europe, including the liberation of Buchenwald for which he did not have any moving image film, to the Museum's Photo Archive.
- Copied From
- 8mm; color
- Film Source
- Sgt. Milton Ramoy
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2264
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:03:38
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