Overview
- Description
- Reel 2: 00:24:31 A German military convoy crossing a bridge into a town (Narva, Estonia). Panning shot of a long line of German soldiers on bicycle riding down a dirt road. Men with armbands herd a group of captive local men and women down a street. (Bundesarchiv notes the men with armbands are likely affiliated with a local Baltic security service.) Several panning shots of German soldiers and locals standing and talking in a street. CUs of Russian soldiers taken captive, marching next to a train depot.
Reel 3: 00:26:50 Several quick shots of captured military supplies/munitions. Soldiers loading a gun cart onto a train. Shot of a street full of dead horses. Panning shots of a bombed out building, followed by numerous destroyed train cars. View of a bombed, smoking Reval, Estonia from a distance. Soldiers walking, followed by a shot of a barricaded street. A group of local men and women in armbands sing as they march with guns through the street. Several CUs of locals smiling and talking with German soldiers. Women waving and one woman hugs a German soldier. Panning shot of St. Olaf's church and the market square around it, full of people. Old women talking with German soldiers. Several different shots of groups of locals gathering in the street/square, smiling and talking with soldiers. Locals seem to be welcoming the German soldiers; an elderly gentleman and his wife shuffle sideways so as to be prominently in front of the camera; shot of women climbing into a military vehicle with a swastika; local man clapping in the middle of several German soldiers. - Duration
- 00:05:50
- Date
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Event:
1941
- Locale
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Estonia
- 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
- Good
- Time Code
- 00:24:31:00 to 00:30:21:00
- 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.
Reel 2: USHMM copied 24 of 109 meters; Reel 3: USHMM copied 39 of 91 meters from the original film.
Part of this story (Reel 3) was transferred in reverse. The correctly transferred version appears at the end of the tape from 00:48:01 to 00:49:47. - Copied From
- 16mm
- Film Source
- Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4535
Source Archive Number: 1767 R2+3 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
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- 2024-02-21 07:51:48
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