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German troops return home

Film | Accession Number: 2012.141.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1362 | Film ID: 2953

Banner welcoming soldiers returning home by train reads a Hearty Welcome to you Brave Soldiers. Women, children and old men wave joyfully, and soldiers descending from railway cars hug girls, who offer flowers, to sound of song including Herrlich ist die Heimat. Tank crews lift children onto their flower-garlanded tanks to play. Cheering Germans in garrison town welcome back tank regiment as it parades by. Hitler Youth boys wave white handkerchiefs and young members of the BDM throw flowers at the tanks passing by. CUs of Germans.

Film Title
Die Deutsche Wochenschau
Duration
00:02:58
Event Date
1940 July
Locale
Germany
Language
German
Genre/Form
Newsreels.
Credit
Accessed at US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Transit Film
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About This Film

Censor Date
1940 July 10
Contributor
Producer: UFA
B&W / Color
Black & White
Image Quality
Fair
Time Code
00:00:02:00 to 00:03:00:00
Film Format
  • Master
    • Master 2953 Digital: ProRes HD HQ 422 - HD
Special Collection
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Film Provenance
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the film excerpts from the Imperial War Museums in June 2012.
Note
Original newsreel number is DW 514.
Copied From
35mm print (269 ft)
Film Source
Imperial War Museums
File Number
Legacy Database File: 5582
Source Archive Number: GWY 167-07

Rights and Restrictions

Copyright
Copyright. Transit Film
Conditions on Use
Contact footage@transitfilm.de to license this film footage.
 
Record last modified: 2018-11-27 11:05:02
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