Copyright/Use statement updated from Bundisarchiv to U3 after an Illumin message, including correspondence with bundesarchiv where they claim that they are not the copyright holders. POSTANSCHRIFT Bundesarchiv, Postfach 45 05 69, 12175 Berlin HAUSANSCHRIFT Finckensteinallee 63, 12205 Berlin Matthew Roberts Like a Shot Entertainment POSTANSCHRIFT Bundesarchiv, Postfach 45 05 69, 12175 Berlin TEL +49 (0)3018 7770-8625 BEARBEITET VON Florian Höhensteiger E-MAIL filmbenutzung@bundesarchiv.de INTERNET www.bundesarchiv.de DATUM 05.04.2023 MEIN ZEICHEN 2016/0000#0288 To whom it may concern, The Bundesarchiv confirms that the film “Erste Kampfhandlungen im Südabschnitt der Ostfront, Rußland, Sommer 1941“ as found at https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1000493 is in the public domain as far as our documents and research has shown. The Bundesarchiv does not hold any rights. On Behalf, Florian Höhensteiger
Sign:"Gefangenen Sammelstelle" [Prisoner collection point]. In the countryside, mass of civilian POWs stand behind roped-off area; pan of mass of soldiers (POWs) sitting on the ground, also roped-off. VAR CUs of civilians as they are frisked (some wear caps, all look shabby). The narrator states that the prisoners consist mainly of Jews, and that through the actions of the Fuerher Germany is protected from this danger. The camera lingers on a few individual faces. POWs flood train platform and embark onto waiting train. Endless line of prisoners march 4-5 abreast along the railroad tracks through a town. CU bundled and booted feet. Haze, sun, and dust.
POWs & Jews are rounded up and forced to march