German military transports cargo across a river; signs in wooded areas

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.180.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4255 | Film ID: 2784

Overview

Description: Reel 3: 00:15:45 Sign indicates tonnage that can be carried by road/bridge, and seems to have the signature of "2.Komp." Vehicles of the IV Panzer Division roll across the bridge. Numerous shots of soldiers transporting cargo/men across a river on a ferry. Civilians present as wagons are unloaded.

Reel 4: 00:18:40 An officer presents a soldier with an Iron Cross as other soldiers look on. 00:20:00 Signs with unit markings and directions. Survey of a destroyed wooded area. CU of a large sign beside the road: "Hier beginnt der Arsch der Welt!" Various signs: "Gehst du von hinnen, denk an Götz von Berlichingen" (a reference to Goethe's famous Götz quote?), "Zur Front", etc. German soldiers resting/guarding a road in a forest. A blockhouse in the forest with a sign reading, "Fahrdienstleiter - Güteranmeldung" (Movements Inspector - Reporting of Goods).
Film Title: Kämpfe im Nordabschnitt der Ostfront, Russland, Frühjahr 1942 [Fighting in the northern sector of the Eastern Front, early 1942]
Duration: 00:06:29
Date: Event: 1942
Locale: Soviet Union
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
Contributor: Producer: Heeresfilmstelle

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 00:15:24:00 to 00:21:53:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2784 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2784 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2784 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2784 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Preservation
Preservation 2784 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2784 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2784 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2784 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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Keyword: BRIDGES CARTS/WAGONS DESTRUCTION FORESTS HORSES IRON CROSS MILITARY OFFICERS RIVERS SIGNS/POSTERS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN) TANKS WEHRMACHT (GERMAN ARMY) WEHRMACHTSAUFNAHMEN

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 3: USHMM copied 58 of 146 meters; Reel 4: USHMM copied 63 of 165 meters.
Copied From: 16mm
Film Source: Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
File Number: Legacy Database File: 4544
Source Archive Number: 1774 R3+4
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive