Street barricade in Stuttgart; Russian POWs hold May Day ceremony

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2002.541.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3560 | Film ID: 2517

Overview

Description: 04:40:48 (LIB 6127) Stuttgart, Germany, April 29, 1945. SEQ: German civilians carry bricks and rubble and build a barricade around French MG position at street intersection. CU, French soldier directs work of Germans.

04:44:13 (LIB 6128) May Day - Stalag #6, Hemmer, Germany, May 1, 1945. HAS, MS pan Russian POWs hold May Day celebration in POW camp Stalag 6, after liberation by US forces. CU, Russian soldiers carrying sign in Russian and English: "Long live the American Army which liberated us from Nazi captivity." Cut-ins, still portraits of Stalin, Truman, Churchill, Lenin, Zhukov. LS, speakers on platform with portraits. LS, US Maj Gen Ray E. Porter (75th Inf Div), Maj N Mironof (wearing white uniform - Camp Commandant), and other Russian officials on speakers' platform. CUs, assembled Russian prisoners. CUs, Russian nurses march past review stand. Russian army band passes in review. VS, American C rations and cigarettes are issued to released prisoners.
Duration: 00:07:47
Date: Event: April 29 to May 1945
Locale: Stuttgart, Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Camera Operator: Hunt

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 04:40:50:00 to 04:48:37:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2517 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2517 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2517 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2517 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation
Preservation 2517 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2517 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2517 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2517 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.

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in May 2002.
Note: Lt. John Thomas Cooney, Jr., the aide-de-camp to Major General Ray E. Porter, Commanding General of the 75th Infantry Division from December 1944 until June 1945, appears in this footage standing at attention at the rear of the reviewing stand on Gen. Porter's left at 04:44:32, 04:45:03, and 04:45:51. See departmental files and attachment for a 1945 photograph of Lt. John T. Cooney, Jr.
Copied From: 35mm DNS; b/w
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 3713
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 1753
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive