us-005578-irn718534
type: RecordSet
date: 1938 October
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
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has or had some members with language: Silent
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn718534
note: This film is featured in the Ephemeral Films Project: National Socialism in Austria. Watch the historic film through an innovative film player showing contemporary images, geographical mapping, and shot-level analysis at efilms.ushmm.org.
scope and content: Title card reads: “1938 Wiener Schutzpolizei in Südmähren.” Title card: “Wille und Tat des Führers ermöglichen die friedliche Heimkehr des Sudetenlandes in das Groẞdeutsche Reich.” Title: “Ein starker Gurtel von Betonbunkern und Hindernissen sollte deutsche Menschen ewig trennen. Volksbewusstsein und Opferwille überwanden auch diese eiserne Grenze.” LS, then pan, of a fortification in the countryside. Fortification building with the words “Pravda vitezi” [“Truth prevails”] painted on it. Two Ordnungspolizei walk into the building. More shots of the fortification. Buildings in Podyji National Park in South Moravia, with Burg Hardegg castle in Lower Austria visible in the BG. Alternating shots of buildings, with Ordnungspolizei entering and exiting, and the countryside fortifications. Title card: “Zusammenkunft einer deutsch-tschechischen Kommission zur Festlegung der neuen Grenze.” Pan up of a building labeled as the ‘community office of the city of Znaim.’ In Czech, the town is called Znojmo. Clock tower with a Nazi flag waving in the wind. Pedestrians and Ordnungspolizei walk down the street. Title card: “Die neue Grenze wird bezeichnet.” A group of Nazi soldiers and Ordnungspolizei walk down a street. They hammer a stake into the ground. Title card: “Die Kaserne und das Abschnittskommando Südmähren der Schutzpolizei in Znaim.” A Nazi police officer walks up the steps of a low building decorated with Nazi insignia. Several young boys wearing uniforms speak with a police officer. Title card: “Schutzpolizei hilft!...” “...beim Einbringen der Ernte…” Nazi soldiers ride on horse-drawn carts. Men shovel and harvest. A line of soldiers stand at attention. They perform drills. Title card: “...durch Opferspenden für die Ausspeisung bedürftiger Kinder.” Two men in aprons portion food onto plates. Children sit at a long dining table. A woman ladles soup into their bowls and they eat. The children are weighed. Title card: “Die Kleinen lohnen es durch erfreuliche Gewichtszunah…
title: Ordnungspolizei in Moravia; Daluege