us-005578-irn1003139
type: RecordSet
has beginning date: 1945-01-01
has end date: 1945-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 2
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: fra
has or had subject: 851
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn1003139
note: Opening credit: Service Cinema Armee Francaise
scope and content: 00:01:57"Temoignages Accablant" Sasbach, Westphalia (20 km from Stuttgart) Prisoners of war, various nationalities. In striped uniforms, liberation. Good CUs faces, survivors. Barbed wire. Burial, carrying bodies on litter. MS, military burial, French officers and military salute with accompanying music, CU headstone. Fire. Survivors at table, talking to officers. Nurses provide medical treatment. Put weak survivor in truck. 00:04:44"A travers la foret Noir" French troops, bicycles and by foot through the woods. Dead Germans. Tanks, good landscape atmosphere. Liberation. Burning village. Women with belongings, pulling bundles, fleeing. Burning buildings, smoke. LS, nurse attempt to rescue in fire. Tanks, troops, crossing river Tauben. Town (Stuttgart?), troops, liberating prisoners. German soldiers with hands behind head. Soldiers leaving town with bundles, waving. 00:09:56"La Prise de Stuttgar" (no footage, intertitle only)
title: POWs liberated; medical care; burning village; evacuation; French troops