Overview
- Description
- Reel 1: 00:14:34 German military convoy moving through Russian countryside. Several shots of burning buildings. CU of a bombed tank in a hole.
Reel 2: 00:15:43 German Panzer convoy moving into a town. Several shots from different angles of a group of Russian soldiers under German guard. Local Russian townspeople gathering in city square. Russian peasants loading belongings onto wagons. German soldiers taking cover. Burning building. CU of Russian local. German soldiers running down a road, fighting, shooting next to buildings. Men standing next to a truck looking up into the air, presumably due to an air raid. Next shots show fire and smoke emanating from a town in the distance. The church towers are visible. Panning shot of smoke and fire through the trees. Shot of a damaged tank by the side of a road. Camera follows a plane as it crashes in the distance, followed by a large plume of black smoke. The next shot shows the pilot as he parachutes to the ground. Switches to soldiers bandaging a person lying on the ground, along with several dead bodies (appear to be Russian).
Reel 3: 00:19:42 German army rolling into bombed out city. German soldiers walking past dead bodies of Russians. Russian locals milling around as German army enters the town. Locals marching along single file under German escort. Pan of a badly damaged buildings/pile of rubble. Russian locals marching down the street, carrying the injured on mattresses on their shoulders. Russian women gathered around a large tank, filling bottles. German military vehicles struggling through a very muddy street.
Reel 4: 00:22:36 Several shots of destroyed buildings with only the chimneys standing. Russian locals walk past with a horse and cart.
Reel 5: 00:23:11 German military personnel relaxing under a tree and eating. - Duration
- 00:09:50
- Date
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Event:
June/July 1941
- Locale
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Soviet Union
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
- Contributor
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Producer:
Heeresfilmstelle
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 00:14:34:00 to 00:24:24:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2781 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
Master 2781 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
Master 2781 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
Master 2781 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large- Preservation
Preservation 2781 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2781 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2781 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2781 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
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Administrative Notes
- 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
- 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: 4534
Source Archive Number: 1763 R1,2,3,4,5 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:03:22
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