us-005578-irn1000504
type: RecordSet
date: 1939 March 23
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had identifier: 2
has or had some members with language: Silent
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn1000504
note: See also Film ID 2552, Bechtler collection, for some duplicate footage.
scope and content: A banner announcing a food transport for the Sudetenland. Food for Sudeten Germans brought in on trucks. Propaganda papers tossed to crowds. A close up of a newspaper reading"Memel ist frei" View of banner reading,"We have arrived home" A man is shown painting over the Lithuanian words on a sign so that only the German is visible. The sign appears to designate a train station. Memel, formerly part of East Prussia until it was ceded to Lithuania under the Versailles Treaty, was annexed back to Germany in March of 1939. Soldiers enter town in trucks, greeted by rambunctious crowd. Shots of Memel fascists in black uniforms, and of active crowds, including schoolchildren carrying small swastika flags. German police (?) with flowers tucked in their overcoats watch planes overhead.
title: Distribution of propaganda; crowds