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Germans fighting in Kiev; city views; burning town

Film | Accession Number: 2005.180.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4271 | Film ID: 2789

Reel 1: 00:42:40 Kiev railway station, exterior and platform view. Postal signs. Portraits of Engels and Marx. Shot of a post box. Downtown Kiev scenes, including ZUM Department Store. Men work on constructing a bridge. Damaged buildings.

Reel 6: 00:45:05 Buildings burning (set on fire by Ukrainians), probably September. The wounded are bandaged inside a building (poor quality). 00:46.17 Russian prisoners cook soup in bathtubs. Russian women and children huddle on the ground in front of a building. German soldiers walk towards a village that is engulfed in flames, various shots of the village. German troops with flamethrowers setting homes on fire. Blazing buildings, closeup.


Duration
00:06:44
Date
Event:  1941
Locale
Soviet Union
Ukraine
Kyiv (Kiev), Soviet Union
Language
Silent
Genre/Form
Unedited.
Credit
Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
 
Record last modified: 2022-07-28 22:02:06
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