Overview
- Description
- Soundtrack starts with fanfare for Eastern Front reports on Deutsche Wochenshau issues.
Map, narrator: “gegen die Barbarei”. Attack, night and day. "Zollamt" Border barrier removed. Tearing down high wooden fencing.
01:02:15 KAUNUS Advance toward Kovno. 01:02:20 LIETOVOS RESPUBLIKA “Litauische Grenze” [Lithuanian border] Sharpshooters defending. House to house fighting. Flamethrowers. Burning building. German soldiers with flamethrower. Medics carry stretcher. First prisoners. Dazed men taken from building.
01:04:01 “Gefangene Bolschewisten” [Bolshevik prisoners] Crossing pontoon bridge. Bicycles. Rifles seen against water. Rail lines. Artillery fired from railway lines. Advance of vehicles and infantry. 01:05:27 Tanks along railway lines.
01:05:53 On Soviet Russian soil - “als das deutsche Soldat das wahre Paradies kennenlernt” [as the German soldier gets to know ‘the true paradise’] 01:06:20 Heavy artillery, various scenes. Border. Crossing. Pioneers repairing bridge.Tank track.
01:07:43 Soviet prisoners cross bridge, hands up. Long lines of Soviet POWs, along rail tracks, some barefooted or without pants. 01:08:57 Luftwaffe. Loading shells, tanks on the move, hauling rockets. Loading bombs, planes, in the clouds. Air-to-air shots of bombers. Air-to-ground shots, strike after strike on Soviet territory. (Well-known Third Reich theme music of Eastern front -- Beethoven). Luftwafffe fleet in the air. UFA - Film Title
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Ufa Schmalfilm Magazin Nr. 54
- Duration
- 00:13:04
- Date
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Event:
1941 June 22
Production: 1941
- Locale
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Kaunas,
Lithuania
Lithuania
Soviet Union
- Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of the University of Texas Libraries
- Contributor
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Producer:
Universum-Film AG (Ufa)
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Newsreels.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:00:00:00 to 01:12:54:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 4357 Film: positive - 16 mm - safety - b&w - sound
Master 4357 Film: positive - 16 mm - safety - b&w - sound
Master 4357 Film: positive - 16 mm - safety - b&w - sound
Master 4357 Film: positive - 16 mm - safety - b&w - sound
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- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.
- Conditions on Use
- Researchers who wish to use this footage should contact the Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv at filmbenutzung@bundesarchiv.de to sign a release, or submit the online request form at: https://www.bundesarchiv.de/EN/Content/Downloads/request-for-use-av-material.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
- Copyright Holder
- Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Film Provenance
- The University of Texas purchased this collection of 280 German language films from Lorraine Crockett in 2005. Lorraine's husband collected the films. UT donated the films to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in March 2016.
- Film Source
- University of Texas Libraries
- File Number
- UT Can Number: 82
- Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:56:14
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