us-005578-irn1000431
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date: 1941 July 09, 1941 July
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note: See Story 348, Film ID 201 for similar footage. The Germans used the NKVD massacre as propaganda to incite a pogrom in which over 4,000 Jews were killed. A further 7,000 Jews were murdered by the Einsatzgruppen. Historical information on 1941 Lvov pogrom taken from Photo Archives database records.
scope and content: Townspeople watch, shocked and tearful, as dead bodies from Lemberg (Lvov) massacre are carried from the prison in which they were killed and laid aside in lines for identification. The retreating Soviets had massacred the mostly Ukrainian nationalist prisoners. The Germans blamed the massacre on the Jews --"Innocent victims of Bolsheviks" says narrator. Bullet-pocked, smoking buildings, grisly pans of bloody, mangled corpses. Wailing woman, stunned onlookers. Poor quality HA views of man being arrested, trying to kick himself free. CU propagandistic shots of Jewish men who"helpe" (narrator) being rounded up, arrested.
title: Lvov/Lemberg massacre; Jews arrested