Wounded survivors; postwar military parade

Maurits Schaap was in hiding in Axel near Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. 

Wounded survivors; postwar military parade 

The Allies commissioned this four part documentary from Maurits Schaap after liberation. Titles:"Zeeuwsch Vlaandere","Documentaire Film der Verwoestin","En de wateren warden stil... Genesis 8 ". Flooding, possibly from an irrigation system failing, in an unknown location. Title card:"De watertoren bij axe" Water tower. Title,"En de watertoren van Oostbur". The water tower of Oostburg was destroyed. Title:"Sas van Gent het centrum der suiker en meelindustri" Grain is loaded onto carts and processed into flour at Sas van Gent. 05:50:26 Title:"Alarm!!! Het Roode Kruis rukt ui" Female nurse for the Red Cross answers a telephone call before Red Cross personnel enter a vehicle, possibly staged. Title:"In Koewacht, viel een V-" Red Cross vehicle arrives in Koewacht at the site of a destroyed building. Personnel enter in search of survivors and carry several people on stretchers from the structure. The injured are laid onto beds at the Red Cross building, where their wounds are treated. Title:"geen ijs, toch chocolademelk... het v.h.k. aan den arbei". People assemble outside a vehicle marked"Noodvoedsel wage" for food supplies and ice cream. Title,"Met"Vrouwelijk" charme verrich" Red Cross personnel distribute supplies, drive vehicles, refill gas, and tend to the injured. 05:55:51 Title,"De Z.V.T.M. Verlost de diverse plaatsen uit hun isolemen" Horses drag a wagon behind a slow-moving train. Title:"Tante Pos laat zich niet onbetuig" Damaged streets and destroyed buildings. A man repairs wire on a pole. Titles,"Het particulier initiatief heft reeds zijn weg gevonde","En lustig ploegt de boer den akker, die nog kort te voren onder vijandelij","granaatvuur la". Man cuts metal shards into farming tools. Other civilians work nearby. Title:"Nederland herrijs". Sequence of military men walk in parade style between crowds lining street. Netherlands flags hang overhead or ascending flagpoles."Eind" 

Copyright Holder: Eli Schaap 

Videotape label:"Liberation [of the Netherlands], Rolls 5A,5B,5C,5"