Conditions of Use and/or Copyright updated. Correspondence from Bundesarchiv in May 2023, initially sent to Leslie Swift states: Public Domain. However, since copyright law may differ between the U.S. and Germany, Use statement U3 is being applied.
See also Stories 2542 b to 2549 b on Film ID 248 for duplicate footage, transferred in the early 1990s at NCJF via John E. Allen. See also Story 3840, Film ID 2661 for a more recent transfer of the same film reel from WFDiF. Some shots related to sequence in Story 2539, Film ID 248. See also Stories 2114 and 2115, Film ID 2257 for much better quality and more sustained shots of the prison and prisoners. For similar footage of Jewish police driving people through streets, see Stories 2546 b and 2547 b, Film ID 248; and Story 2114, Film ID 2257 (longer, better quality). For similar footage of placing corpse in a casket, see Story 2115, Film ID 2257; Story 723, Film ID 247 (although those shots are much poorer quality and less gruesome); and Story 3824, Film ID 2324. BA Porotkoll sheet describes this as amateur footage, but not all of the footage is taken by the amateur to whom it is attributed, namely the scene of Volksdeutsch with captured Polish soldiers, pointing out certain ones; this scene comes from a Deutsche Wochenschau. Private names associated with this material, listed in the BA document, are: Paul Adam, Dr. Herbert, and Andreas Honowski.
Street, Warsaw ghetto inhabitants, men with armbands. Pan up to"Fotografi" facade. CU, police officer with Ordnungspolizei armband, directing traffic, smiling (seems staged). Group, woman with tickets, wicker basket. Pan up, EXT of tram building. Open doors. Group of ghetto inhabitants on open cart, awaiting transport. CU, old man with crutch, boy. 01:43:15 CU, Star of David armband. INT, shop with piles of garbage/hay, empty bottles, jam, man purchases laboratory tube at counter. 01:44:05 Two children sit huddled together on sidewalk. German officer standing on street. Crowds walking about. CU, mentally disturbed ghetto inhabitant swaying. Large group congregated in street, CUs. Shops. CU, signs:"Fleckfiebe""Tyfus Plamist". Pan right to Jews with armbands. Carts/wagons. Jewish market, CUs wares. Pan, building ruins inside ghetto. Bricklayers. 01:46:24 Jews in Jewish quarter of ghetto, behind barbed wire, guarded by soldiers. Daily activity, bicycles, carts. 01:47:05 Bridge. Closing the gate. Boys running out of prison, one trips and falls. Men huddled in cold, boys in line. Women with shaved heads leaving prison, running. VAR CUs, feet. Corpse on road. Man walking with cane. Police moving body into wooden coffin [quick shot of a man taking photographs or film in the BG at right], ghetto inhabitants/Jews in BG, one with a Star of David armband. Loading corpse into wagon. Girls singing and begging. Crowd forced to move through the ghetto by police, running.
Antisemitic propaganda of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto