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DPs; postwar rehabilitation

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.146.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2614A | Film ID: 1003

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    DPs; postwar rehabilitation

    Overview

    Description
    A Crown Film Unit Production. Short film documenting the aftermath of the war, including the movement of refugees, Displaced Persons camps, rehabilitation, and going home.

    Young men crossing bridge. Women and men moving bushels of hay, guarded by a soldier. Labor in fields, railroads, factories. Liberation scenes: tanks moving through villages, people shaking hands, celebrating; men emerging from forests; crowds leaning out windows, cheering; beating a Nazi?; destroying buildings. Refugees moving on foot and truck with belongings/luggage. Destroyed bridge. More refugees, smiles beaming (staged?), crossing river.

    Allied officers establish DP camps. Survivors register at tables. A female survivor slaps another woman (presumably a Nazi or collaborator). Survivors being disinfected with DDT to prevent the spread of typhus, then being examined by medical personnel. VAR shots of many sick, wounded, emaciated survivors. Scenes in a hospital with patient, doctor, and nurse. More shots of survivors. Rehabilitation workers preparing bread, rations, clothing for distribution. Survivor trying on clothing provided by workers. Flags. VAR views of life at the camp: INT, officers at desks; CU, nurse and baby; soldiers with baby; children in a classroom; crowd listening to speech delivered outdoors; crowd listening to radio broadcast; band performing; men and women dancing, drinking, socializing; woman in peasant attire performing traditional dance. Large groups of survivors exiting camp on truck, waving, at airfield and train station. Getting off trains, looking for family members in waiting crowd. Some embrace, kiss, cry. CUs, MCUs faces as they meet. More shots of EXT and INT of DP camp. CU, peasant women with scarf wrapped around her head. Classrooms. Crowds milling about camp, sitting with belongings/luggage. Another shot of flags.
    Duration
    00:11:22
    Date
    Production:  1946
    Locale
    Germany
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Imperial War Museums

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Documentary.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    01:00:00:00 to 01:11:22:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 1003 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Master 1003 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Master 1003 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Master 1003 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 1003 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 1003 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 1003 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 1003 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    Imperial War Museums
    Conditions on Use
    For licensing enquiries and requests, contact Imperial War Museums (IWM) at filmcommercial@iwm.org.uk. IWM also offers limited services for non-commercial parties, such as for museums, armed forces, veterans and their immediate family, family history researchers, and students. For such purposes, contact film@iwm.org.uk.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased these liberation segments from the Imperial War Museum in London in February 1995.
    Note
    See Film ID 1004 for the Portuguese version of this film.

    Credits:
    Sound Recordist: Ken Cameron
    Commentator: Derek Guyler
    Commentary: Arthur Calder Marshall
    Edit: Terry Trench
    Music: Elisabeth Lutyens
    Film Source
    Imperial War Museums
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 2741
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:56:57
    This page:
    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/irn1001300

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