us-005578-irn1004401
date: December 1942
identifier: irn1004401
title: Propaganda film about Jewish emigres in the British army
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scope and content: Title on screen:"Into Battle No. 1: Lift Your Head Comrad" British propaganda film. British soldiers march up to a building and are called to attention. Their sergeant attempts to call the roll but stumbles over the foreign names and orders one of the soldiers to do it for him. As the soldier reads the foreign names, the camera pans over to the commanding officer, who explains that this company is almost entirely composed of anti-fascists from Austria and Germany. The officer says that for these men the war started in 1933 when Hitler came to power. Interior of an office. The CO pulls an identification card for one of his soldiers from a board on the wall, saying that the man's name has been blacked out to protect his family still in Austria. The officer states that many of his men have served time in concentration camps. He turns to a white haired man sitting at a desk, who has calculated the total amount of time served in prisons and concentration camps by the men in the company (125 years, 7 months and 6 days). The CO turns to another man in the office, who shows his"release ticke" from Dachau. The CO narrates a flashback scene to 1939, saying that back then the soldiers had little confidence. Standing outside a barracks, the CO lists some of the achievements of his unit. The camera focuses on individual soldiers as the CO gives a brief history of each man. One of the men says that he was kicked twice, once by a horse and once by Schicklgruber [Hitler] and that he preferred the horse. The men spend their morning break playing soccer. Men working to safeguard the coast"somewhere in England" Bobby Spooner tells his story: he was the amateur bantamweight champion of Europe. After Hitler entered Vienna Spooner was sent to Dachau because he was Jewish. While in Dachau he was hung from a tree and lost some of the use of his hands. A doctor who was also in Dachau demonstrates this torture technique. The CO says that the group is not a gloomy lot: shot of the company orc…
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