us-005578-irn1003721
type: RecordSet
date: 1941 July
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 2
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: Silent
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identifier: irn1003721
note: 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.
note: See departmental files for more detailed information in German from the Bundesarchiv. Reel 1: USHMM copied 64 of 143 meters; Reel 2: USHMM copied 86 of 133 meters; Reel 3: USHMM copied 51 of 128 meters; Reel 4: USHMM copied 43 of 104 meters.
scope and content: Reel 1: 00:22:06 First scene appears to be in German territory(?), view of a large church and a city street with people walking. Several different shots of a city with severe damage, including civilians carrying on with their business. German soldiers work to clear a road of debris (vehicle wreckage). CU of a dead Russian soldier on the ground. CUs of several Russian prisoners with hands raised. A vehicle blazes in the middle of a road. German soldiers and young Soviet prisoners (some appear to be boys) talking, close views. Planes circling overhead, with German soldiers watching explosions in the distance. Soldiers standing in a city. Views of a severely damaged city/vehicles. Panning shot of a group of captured Russian soldiers. Reel 2: 00:28:36 Long stretch of open road littered with destroyed Russian tanks and artillery. A group of Russian prisoners (male civilians) wait on the side of the road. CU of destroyed Russian military vehicles. CU of horses. Russian prisoners gather belongings and begin to move down a road. German military on motorcycles travels down a road. Russian peasants with wagons/carts travel down a road. A train car full of goods burns. Panning shot of train yard and burning railcars. Shot of wreckage/rubble. Shot of yard containing hundreds of Howitzers. CU of a tank in a ditch. German units march through the streets of a town, past a church. Prisoners, some wounded. Russian prisoners work on a makeshift pontoon bridge. Reel 3: 00:34:09 Destroyed Russian tanks. German general talking to an officer. German soldiers with Soviet POWs in the forest, some wounded. Panning shot of a Russian airfield with damaged airplanes. Views over a burning, partly destroyed city. Destroyed bridge over river. German military vehicles in front of a very large building. German soldiers in front of a blazing building. Armored vehicle on a residential street. View of several blazing homes. Russian peasants gathered outside a home. German soldiers showing Russian civi…
title: Towns in ruins as German troops advance; dead Russian soldiers