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Kaluga, USSR

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2003.458 | RG Number: RG-60.3904 | Film ID: 2689

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    Kaluga, USSR

    Overview

    Description
    Sounds of artillery and grainy pan of trees and German soldiers. The narrator says that the infantry is entering Kaluga [USSR]. In the town itself: dead horses in the street, destruction. German soldiers moving along a street. They do house-to-house-searches. Civilians on the street (brief close-ups) as a long column of German soldiers moves through, some pushing bicycles. More destruction caused by Stukas (according to the narrator), including a destroyed and still-smoking transport train. Soviet POWs in "endless columns" march past buildings with thatched roofs. The line of prisoners stretches far into the distance. The column marches through a town. A brief shot of one of the prisoners, limping and with torn clothing. The prisoners break into a run at one point. A shot of a tank, as the narrator says that German tanks have reached the outer ring of defense outside Moscow (Kaluga is southwest of Moscow). Tanks in a long line traveling along the Smolensk-Moscow road. The narrator states that the cameraman who took these images was riding in one of the first tanks traveling toward Moscow. The perspective changes to that of someone in the tank as it crashes through trees and across fields. The reporter/cameraman gives his report as the battle ensues. Tanks driving across a field, explosions, burning structures, night fighting. The next day: the reporter states that snow has fallen overnight, but the battle goes on. Soldiers on foot and in tanks proceed along a snowy road. More fighting, shooting, explosions, burning buildings, planes from the Luftwaffe flying overhead in support of the ground troops. The reporter is now reporting events from the third, decisive day. Soldiers load and fire artillery. Germans in tanks and on foot pass burning buildings and dead bodies on the road. Finally, he reports, they have broken through the defenses. The original narrator returns and explains the several lines of defenses used by the Soviets in this battle, including automatic flamethrowers, pits to trap tanks, "hedgehogs" (crisscrossed iron bars strung with barbed wire), and a river lined with barbed wire entanglements, among others. The point is illustrated with a graphic of the various defenses as well as actual footage. The narrator points out that all of this was not enough to hold the Germans back.
    Duration
    00:11:05
    Date
    Event:  October 1941
    Production:  1941 November 05
    Locale
    Kaluga, Soviet Union
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of George R. Wheeler
    Contributor
    Producer: Deutsche Wochenschau

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Genre/Form
    Newsreels.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Fair
    Time Code
    01:00:36:00 to 01:11:41:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2689 Film: positive - 16 mm - sound - b&w - composite print - B-wind
      Master 2689 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2689 Film: positive - 16 mm - sound - b&w - composite print - B-wind
      Master 2689 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2689 Film: positive - 16 mm - sound - b&w - composite print - B-wind
      Master 2689 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2689 Film: positive - 16 mm - sound - b&w - composite print - B-wind
      Master 2689 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2689 Film: negative - full-coat mag track - 16 mm - polyester - sound - duplicate negative - Kodak - 3234
      Preservation 2689 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2689 Film: negative - full-coat mag track - 16 mm - polyester - sound - duplicate negative - Kodak - 3234
      Preservation 2689 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2689 Film: negative - full-coat mag track - 16 mm - polyester - sound - duplicate negative - Kodak - 3234
      Preservation 2689 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2689 Film: negative - full-coat mag track - 16 mm - polyester - sound - duplicate negative - Kodak - 3234
      Preservation 2689 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.
    Conditions on Use
    Researchers who wish to use this footage should contact the Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv at filmbenutzung@bundesarchiv.de to sign a release, or submit the online request form at: https://www.bundesarchiv.de/EN/Content/Downloads/request-for-use-av-material.pdf?__blob=publicationFile

    Keywords & Subjects

    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    George R. Wheeler obtained this collection of wartime films from his late wife's first husband, Mr. Givens, who received the films from an acquaintance and watchmaker, Mr. Greenberg. Greenberg smuggled them out of Germany in the late 1930s or early 1940s. Mr. Wheeler, himself a member of the 94th Engineers Regiment during World War II, donated the 16mm films to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in October 2003.
    Note
    Original film canisters located in Museum offsite storage. Donor of the collection had no information as to the copyright status. The numbers found in the "Source Archive #" field of the USHMM database are the original German newsreel numbers and production dates, as found in Bucher, Peter. "Wochenschauen und Dokumentarfilme 1895-1950 im Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv" Koblenz: Bundesarchiv, 1984.
    Film Source
    George R. Wheeler
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 4136
    Source Archive Number: DW 583/46/1941
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:55:43
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