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title: Remains of Lidice in June 1942
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scope and content: Lidice, June 10-24, 1942. This film was made by Czech filmmakers for the newsreel"Aktualit" and discovered in a secret German archive in Prague in 1945. It documents the immediate aftermath of the Lidice tragedy, where 173 men were murdered and the town was set on fire by members of the Gestapo from Kladno and Prague. Section 6 of the RAD was summoned to remove all external evidence of this Nazi crime and was housed in nearby barracks. SS officers and the leader of the Kladno Gestapo, Wiesmann, can be seen in the footage. Two Czech filmmakers were already in Lidice on June 10, 1942. The material had been ordered by Horst Böhme and Hans Ulrich Geschke. Franz (František) Treml (1908 -1945) was responsible for direction and asked Mirko (Miroslav) Wágner (1900-1963), a cameraman and the owner of Zenit Film Company from Prague, to cooperate. They were using Zeiss Ikon Movikon 16mm movie cameras. The two men were also filmmaking on June 26, 1942 when the Aktualita film crew went there to shoot the demolition of the church. After WW2, the Czech film director František Sádek worked with this uncollated and unorganized film material for a movie he made about the Lidice case. Rocks and dirt, piles of rubble from the destruction of the town of Lidice. Workers hack away at the piles of rock, shovel rubble into carts and push away. Four men lock the cart into position on the tracks and then chain it to the cart in front.Two men shovel. A man dumps out a wheelbarrow. WS of the labor. Men use pickaxes to break apart the rubble. A man dumps dirt out of a wheelbarrow. The rubble train moves across the landscape. Men dig away at the dirt. They eat at tables on their break, drinking from canteens. One takes a bite of his food and smiles at the camera. View from on top of one of the carts full of rubble as it moves along the track. They push the carts over and dump out the rubble. An officer wearing a Nazi armband instructs them to move the train tracks. The landscape. The RAD workers …
date: 1942, June 10-24
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note: Notes in the acts of the Extraordinary People´s Court versus Karel Pečený: Karel Pečený:"Regarding the village of Lidice I was not there and I even didn´t know at that time they went there to shoot. Kučera, Mašek and Zahradníček went there. The working material of Lidice was presented at our place but only after it was edited under supervision of Germans, Lampl and the others Germans took away the whole of it" Jan Kučera noticed:"One day Lampl came to me saying I had to go and shoot something which wouldn´t be part of a newsreel. I have no idea, why he chose me. I think, that the material, I had shooted there, was not the same, as that presented at the process with K. H. Frank" Čeněk Zahradníček:" A day before Lidice case, the accused had told me to get ready with my camera, as the next morning we would be filming. He also specified the time of departure, but now I don´t remember exactly if it was at 6, 7 or 8 a.m. Three of us went there: me, Kučera and Franěk. I am not sure if the accused was in the office that morning and who told our driver Chodil where to go. A German car was driving ahead of us. It took place about a week or two after Lidice case. We were filming the church´s blow-up there" From 13:46 - 16:21, Czech intertitles: LIDICE, CESKÁ VES Prozatímní úprava: FRANTISEK SÁDEK Vsechny snímky tohoto filmu jsou puvodní dokumenty o lidické tragedii, která odhalila krutou nemeckou zbesilot pred celým svetem Scény byly natoceny v míste zkázy na úzký i normální film pri plánovitém nicení obce. Zachycují také zlocince SS, dozírající na surovou práci svých pochpu. Film byl objeven v tajném nemeckém archivu v Praze roku 1945 a vyl vydán jako prímé svedectví bez vetsích rezijních zásahu. Asi 10 km od hranic Prahy stála do roku 1942 obec Lidice. 10. Cervna 1942 zastrelili Nemci bez jakéhokoliv soudu na zahrade Horákova statku 173 lidické muze. Lidické domy polili benzinem a zapálili je. Práci. Provádeli clenové Gestapa z Kladna a Prahy. Smecka gestapáku si prohlízí úc…