The Nazi propaganda poster that appears in this film (USHMM Photo Archives W/S 68331) is entitled,"Das judische Komplot" "The Jewish Conspirac"). The wall newspaper was issued by the"Parole der Woch" and published by the National Socialist Party propaganda office in Munich. Summary Notes by IWM cataloger: The sequence in this film appears muddled geographically and historically, as the film jumps between Poland and the USSR in the summer of 1942, unless this simply reflects the varied postings of the cameraman's unit. The main title appears halfway through the film (01:08:13), and may either be misplaced or indicate that the opening section of the reel was part of another film, although the amateur style is recognizably that of the same cameraman. The subtitle of the film"The Paradis" probably refers to the contemporary Nazi ironic attack on the Soviet Union, held up by the Nazis' Communist enemies as a"workers' paradis".
Amateur film with German titles shot by a member of the German Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD) [State Labor Service] records scenes of cordial contact between Germans of this non-combatant (railway repair?) unit and local Polish and Russian civilians, some female, before the unit entrains for their Eastern Front destination of Stalingrad (not seen) during the German advance in the summer of 1942. Scenes include:"Lichaya the Steppes Tow", traveling through Legionowo (Central Poland), bartering, soldiers "Class of 192") attending an anti-Jewish indoctrination lecture (classroom interior with a poster showing an antisemitic caricature of a Jew at 01:06:52), kitchen and laundry scenes, a camouflaged tent encampment at Oskoshnoye, Russian peasants"fleeing from the Soviet horde", German military grave markers, sign for Belgorod military hospital (Russia), cooking and receiving rations, German RAD man and Rumanian soldier guarding marshalling yard, and tracking shots past Narewka (Eastern Poland) and Zelwa (Volkovysk region, Poland).
Amateur film of German Labor Service unit headed to the Eastern Front, including anti-Jewish indoctrination