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Memorial service for victims of Lidice; German troops leave Holland; Threat of plague in Germany

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2008.40.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4662 | Film ID: 2850

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    Memorial service for victims of Lidice; German troops leave Holland; Threat of plague in Germany
    Transcript
    Three years ago, in the spring of 1942,
    Himmler's assistant, the Butcher Heydrich,
    was assassinated in Prague.
    In retribution, the Nazis seized the little Czech village
    of Lidice, killed [AUDIO OUT] the town
    and burned the houses down.
    President Benes, on the site of Lidice,
    leads a service in commemoration.
    The country people mourn their murdered friends.
    Lidice was destroyed, but its name
    remains a symbol of the fight for freedom
    in the minds of all free men.
    Back across the Zuiderzee, back from the Western areas
    of Holland they had been ordered to hold,
    come the former soldiers of the Wehrmacht, 180,000 of them,
    dispirited and tired, going back to Germany,
    guarded by a solitary sentry.
    Marching for the last time through the Dutch villages,
    no one acknowledges them.
    They pass in silence.
    Holland has nothing to say.
    Survivors of a once-proud army, they
    are five years older than when they and their comrades
    set out to conquer the world.
    Now their journey is ending where it
    began, on the German frontier.
    They will find a different Germany.
    The harbor of Venice, one of the most beautiful in the world,
    bears silent witness to the German occupation
    and to the attacks of Allied bombers
    before the German army was driven finally out of Italy.
    But in the city itself, along the world famous thoroughfares
    of the canals, there is little sign of war,
    and to Allied soldiers on leave, it
    has become a favorite place of pilgrimage and rest.
    These men of the US Army are seeing
    Venice for the first time, a city that
    is the symbol of the human civilization they
    have fought so long to defend.
    Under her calm historic buildings,
    Venice, during the German occupation,
    became a storm center of Italian patriots
    loyal to the cause of freedom.
    Many thousands of them gathered here in the San Marco Piazza
    to celebrate the day of liberation.
    Now Venice, a serene an ancient city
    which has withstood so many struggles,
    has emerged from her greatest victory.
    The damp ruins of houses, rubbish-filled bomb craters,
    and unwashed clothing are the breeding places of epidemics.
    The lack of fresh water and the crowded dwelling
    places help the spreading of these infections.
    Impure water and body lice are the carriers
    of typhoid and typhus.
    Since water purification plants are in many places
    not yet in operation, the Allied military authorities
    have called on the people always to boil water before using it.
    Military government has taken all possible steps
    to combat the start of epidemics.
    In order to combat the possibility of epidemics,
    delousing stations have been opened.
    It is the body louse that carries typhus.
    They plant their eggs in the seams of clothing and burrow
    into the skin of the contaminated [AUDIO OUT]..
    But in this powder called DDT the Allies
    have found the means to fight these lice.
    The German civilian population must
    help in this fight, aid in its own prophylactic treatment
    before it is too late.
    While women are sprayed with the powder,
    [AUDIO OUT] by to watch the children.
    Clothing must be washed and disinfected
    as often as possible.
    In the interests of their own children,
    mothers must themselves be treated
    and allow their children to be treated
    to spare Germany the fourth terrible horseman, disease.

    Overview

    Description
    Welt im Film. Issue no. 10 (part)

    Title: In Memory of Lidice. A large crowd of people, many of whom are weeping, at a memorial service for the victims of Lidice. The narrator provides the story of the Lidice massacre: the Germans destroyed the town of Lidice and killed most of the inhabitants in reprisal for the assasination of Reinhard Heydrich in June, 1942. Czech president Edvard Benes walks in a procession. Shots of many wreaths and flags at half-mast.

    01:10:08 Title: German Troops Leave Holland. German troops on a ship and on land as they leave Holland to return to Germany. Dutch citizens watch as the troops march through a village. The narrator notes that the Germans pass through the village in silence. Shot of an eagle and swastika adorned with a gas mask and American helmet. The German troops pass a sign that reads: "You are back in Germany. Don't fraternize."

    01:11:48 Title: Camera Survey Venice. Damage to ships in the harbor and buildings in Venice. Allied soldiers ride boats in the Venice canals. The narrator states that Venice has become a place of pilgrimage and rest for these men. An American flag hangs from the window of a house. A canal crowded with gondolas carrying American soldiers. Shots of buildings that front the canal, filmed from a gondola.

    01:14:05 Title: Allies Combat Plague Threat. Scenes of destuction while the narrator says that conditions in Germany could lead to typhus. Germans in line to receive water. A sign warns of the danger of typhus. A man wearing a gas mask leads a horse-drawn cart full of corpses down a road (probably concentration camp victims). Shots of Germans, including children, being deloused with DDT.
    Film Title
    Welt im Film no. 10
    Duration
    00:07:08
    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945 July 20
    Locale
    Germany
    Lidice, Czechoslovakia
    Netherlands
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
    Contributor
    Producer: Welt im Film Newsreel
    Biography
    The Welt im Film [World in Film] newsreel series was produced by the American and British military governments to support the denazification campaign in Germany and Austria. Screening was compulsory in cinemas in the American and British zones of Germany until the late 1940s.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Newsreels.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Fair
    Time Code
    01:09:20:00 to 01:16:28:00
    Film Format
    • Master
      • Master 2850 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
      Master 2850 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
      Master 2850 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
      Master 2850 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
    • Preservation
      • Preservation 2850 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2850 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2850 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2850 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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    Copyright
    Public Domain
    Conditions on Use
    To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.

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    Administrative Notes

    Legal Status
    Permanent Collection
    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the film excerpts from the National Archives and Records Administration in February 2008.
    Note
    Copyright: Technically the Welt Im Film [World in Film] German newsreels are not in the public domain. Rights are generally held by the Imperial War Museum. However, the Welt Im Film issues sold by the National Archives mainly contain Signal Corps footage which is in the public domain or footage of undetermined Allied forces origin to which no one can claim copyright. Researchers interested in duplication should clear rights through the Imperial War Museum if film excerpts or soundtrack have clear British origin.
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    Film Source
    United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 5019
    Source Archive Number: 306 WIF 10, reel 1
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:44:58
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