Overview
- Description
- (events in 1939) Film about the railroad system in Poland after start of war. Newspaper style titles: Reichs Railroad Film Unit. Early September 1939, map of Poland and railroad system. Bromberg (Bydgoszcz, Poland) Destroyed RR installations, RR bridges in Poland, areas close to German border. Narrator identifies different locations, damage. 01:21:45 "Refugees...Jews fleeing" (on wagons, with hats and coats). 01:26:49-01:28:14 Dwelling near the RR station damaged by bombs. The local inhabitants clear up. Jewish inhabitants, who often comprise more than 50% of the population, must do physical work too. Long sequence of Jewish men digging, clearing rubble. Narrator continues: along the road to Kielce; rail station in Kielce. 01:29:03 In streets of Kielce, horse cart carries coffins of Poles shot as lawbreakers. 01:31:50 Radom: destruction. 01:32:58 Lightly wounded prisoners (presumably Polish) onto train. 01:34:15 Jewish work column - older men, passing rocks and rubble. 01:34:34 Polish POWs, of which the Jews form their own group (acc. to narrator). 01:35:03 Jewish civilians. 01:35:35 Kutno: columns of prisoners under German military guard.
- Duration
- 00:24:54
- Date
-
Event:
1939 September
Production: 1940
- Locale
-
Radom,
Poland
Kielce, Poland
Bydgoszcz, Poland
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Deutsche Bahn
- Contributor
-
Producer:
Reichs Railroad Film Unit
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 01:13:44:00 to 01:38:38:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2504 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2504 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2504 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2504 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large- Preservation
Preservation 2504B Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2504B Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2504B Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2504B Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
- Copyright
- DEUTSCHE BAHN
- Conditions on Use
- Contact Deutsche Bahn AG at oeffentlichkeitsarbeit@bahn.de for permission to reproduce and use this film.
- Copyright Holder
- DEUTSCHE BAHN
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- ARTILLERY BRIDGES CARTS/WAGONS CIVILIANS COFFINS DESTRUCTION FACTORIES FORCED LABOR GERMANY JEWS LABOR MAPS MUSIC POLAND POLES POLICE POWS (POLISH) PRISONERS PROPAGANDA (ANTI-JEWISH) RAD (GERMAN LABOR SERVICE) RAIL SYSTEMS RAILCARS REFUGEES (JEWISH) RUBBLE SIGNS/POSTERS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN) TRAINS TRUCKS VOLKSDEUTSCH
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, Germany in January 2001 for possible use in the Museum's special exhibition "Deadly Medicine.".
- Note
- The film passed censorship on February 20, 1940.
- Copied From
- 16mm; b/w
- Film Source
- Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 3246
Source Archive Number: 3356 (E.Nr.233508) - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:54:08
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