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Panzer Division in city square and setting up field tents

Film | Accession Number: 2005.180.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4244 | Film ID: 2781

Reel 1: 00:00:01 German Panzers (Panzerkampfwagen IV) in a city plaza. Civilians in the street. Destroyed buildings. Tanks traveling through the Russian countryside. Burned out truck/tank. Soldiers waiting in a forest. Russian civilians traveling by horse and wagon, including CU. Team of horses pulling a Howitzer out of a river. Russian POWs running with German guards on horseback. Camouflaged tank and Howitzer.

Reel 2: 00:04:32 Soldiers of the 3rd Panzer Division setting up camp. Camouflaging vehicles, setting up tents. Checkpoint sign. Soldiers walking around, typing, playing with dog, reading. Camouflaged field kitchen, soldiers eating.

Film Title
Russlandfeldzug. Kämpfe im Mittelabschnitt, Sommer 1941. [Russian campaign. Fighting in the central sector, Summer 1941]
Genre
Unedited
Duration
00:11:02
Event Date
1941
Locale
Soviet Union
Language
Silent
Genre/Form
Unedited.
Credit
Accessed at US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv
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About This Film

Contributor
Producer: Heeresfilmstelle
B&W / Color
Color
Image Quality
Fair
Time Code
00:00:01:00 to 00:11:03:00
Film Format
  • Master
    • Master 2781 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
  • Preservation
    • Preservation 2781 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Special Collection
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Film Provenance
Forms part of the Wehrmachtsaufnahmen collection at the Bundesarchiv. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this footage in March 2005 from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, Germany.
Note
Vestiges of color remain; extent of color varies throughout footage.
See departmental files for more detailed information in German from the Bundesarchiv.
Copied From
16mm
Film Source
Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
File Number
Legacy Database File: 4532
Source Archive Number: 1761 R1+2

Rights and Restrictions

Copyright
Copyright. Transit Film
Conditions on Use
Contact footage@transitfilm.de to license this film footage.
 
Record last modified: 2018-08-08 16:29:33
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