us-005578-irn1001325
type: RecordSet
notes: Entire film runs 85 minutes. See Story 133, Film ID 156 for Reels 1 through 6 of this documentary, and Story 20, Film ID 4 for Reels 7 through 9. See Stories 3432 and 3433, Film ID 5 for possible duplicate footage. There are many familiar scenes from Signal Corps reels throughout this film.
has beginning date: 1947-01-01
has end date: 1947-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had identifier: 2
has or had some members with language: eng
has record set type: Item
history: L. Bennett "Elb") Fenberg, a U.S. Army soldier serving in the 163rd Signal Corps as a combat photographer, captured with his movie camera the huge explosion, detonated by U.S. soldiers, which destroyed the giant metal swastika atop the tribune at the Zeppelin Field on the Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg in spring 1945.
identifier: irn1001325
scope and content: US propaganda/documentary film about World War II. A post-war U.S. narrative of intentions in Germany. Berlin's war ruins, rubble,"Unter den Linde" street sign laying on ground. Allied victory celebrations in Paris and London. Lots of waving, happy crowds, parade. Scenes of soldiers marching. Flashbacks to war scenes show Allied planes bombing enemy cities, parachutists, plane crashes, amphibious landings. 04:46:11, cut to Gens. Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton, and others visit a concentration camp and see German atrocities. Former prisoner (survivor) with scarf describes scenes at camp. Liberated concentration camp inmates are loaded aboard Red Cross ambulances. Shows German refugees exiting destroyed building with belongings in crates. 04:47:43, cut to Nazi symbols destroyed in Berlin.
title: Postwar retrospective: Germany, war in Europe