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Building the WWII defensive line; German aircraft

Film | RG Number: RG-60.1981 | Film ID: 4267

Reel 1, Siegfried Line elevators, rooms, tunnels, showers, toilets, telephone switchboards, electric power generators, antitank guns in its arsenals, munitions dumps, artillery. antiaircraft guns, and searchlights. Troops with listening devices. Messerschmidt planes take off from an airfield.

Film Title
The Siegfried Line
Genre
Propaganda
Duration
00:10:42
Locale
Germany
Language
German
Credit
Accessed at US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
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About This Film

Production Date
1944
B&W / Color
Black & White
Image Quality
Good
Film Format
  • Master
    • Master 4267 Digital: ProRes HD HQ 422 - HD
Special Collection
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
In process
Film Provenance
Jack Penman donated high definition film transfers of World War II materials from the National Archives and Records Administration to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in April 2017.
Note
The Siegfried Line was a defense system stretching more than 630 km (390 mi) with more than 18,000 bunkers, tunnels and tank traps. It went from Kleve on the border with the Netherlands, along the western border of the old German Empire as far as the town of Weil am Rhein on the border to Switzerland. Adolf Hitler planned the line from 1936 and had it built between 1938 and 1940. In English, "Siegfried line" commonly refers to this World War II defensive line opposite the French Maginot Line; the Germans called this the "Westwall."
Film Source
Jack Penman
File Number
Original Archive Number: 242 MID 2761 R-1

Rights and Restrictions

Copyright
No restrictions on use. Public Domain
 
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