us-005578-irn556029
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date: 1945, May 5-20
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scope and content: TÝDEN VE FILMU. Ceskoslovenska filmova kronika KVĚTEN 1945. The first post-war newsreel - called Week in Film 1945 no. 1 WS of Prague. St. Vitus cathedral above the rest of the city. Street in Prague. Trees. Soldiers. Women in a crowd try to hand another woman money. News of the death of Hitler: “VUDCE PADL.” A man reads “LIDOVE LISTY” on the sidewalk. Women and children stand with their belongings on the sidewalk. Women in uniform walk into the street carrying suitcases. Young boys lounge, one packs his suitcase. People stand on the back of a truck. Military trucks. Trolley cars. 5. KVĚTEN. Man erases"Europa bevo" on a storefront. Woman scratches at words on a window. People knock down a storefront sign: “Sudetendeutsche Gla--beiten”. A man scales the side of the building that says “Reinhard-Heydrich-Ufer.” People raise a flag. Soldiers, people run through the streets. A man in uniform reads into a microphone, using the radio. Soldiers in a truck. Bullets hit the side of a building. Soldiers hide behind cars. A man drags a body along the sidewalk. Men unroll a hose and spray it at an alleyway and the nearby windows. People run. Papers fly from windows. They burn a Nazi flag. People dig up bricks from the ground and pass the bricks along assembly line style. The rubble barricades the street. Jewish star on building above the word “KRALOVKA.” A man reloads a gun. Hand grenades from a box. A soldier scales a rooftop, shoots a gun through a window, anti-aircraft gun. A building in the city burns. Spire on the Prague Astronomical Clock tower burns. Arrests of Germans and civilians - women with their hands raised. Group of soldiers with their arms raised is frisked. Soldiers with white flags climb over one of the rubble barriers. A man in cuffs holds his arms above his head. More men and women with their arms raised are led through the street. Smoke rises. 9. KVĚTEN 1945. The Red Army arrives in Prague. Soldiers drive through town waving a white flag. Procession, man on …
title: Chronicle of the Prague uprising and first days of liberation, May 1945