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Annual harvest festival at Bueckeberg

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2013.42.8 | RG Number: RG-60.1389 | Film ID: 2946

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    Annual harvest festival at Bueckeberg

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    Description
    Large groups of civilians travel along a road to the harvest festival in Bueckeberg on October 6, 1935. Germans heil officials and watch a large procession. Tillman describes in his diary how one million people traveled by special trains and by foot to the rally. "The whole mountain... was alive with people, hardly room for more... People of different parts of G[ermany] with their native costumes marched in procession until 12:00 when the Fuehrer arrived - walked through the crowd to platform on top of mountain to watch the battle - very realistic." In his manuscript "Meine Herrschaften" (in USHMM's collection) Tillman describes the festival as similar to Thanksgiving Day in the United States and notes that..... (pg 5-6)
    Duration
    00:01:21
    Date
    Event:  10/06/1935
    Locale
    Bueckeberg, Germany
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Philip Sloan and Katherine Tillman
    Contributor
    Camera Operator: Mr. John Vincent Tillman
    Biography
    John Vincent Tillman (1907-1956) was on a fellowship at the University of Munich studying German opera between October 1935 and the summer of 1936. Tillman recorded his travels across Germany (some via motorcycle), from small towns in the Alps to Berlin, Dresden, and Munich, on 16mm film and kept a diary. He later received a doctorate from the University of Chicago and chaired the German department of St. Louis University.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Amateur.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Fair
    Time Code
    01:06:48:00 to 01:08:09:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2946 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - Kodak - AGFA - B-wind - original
      Master 2946 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - Kodak - AGFA - B-wind - original
      Master 2946 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - Kodak - AGFA - B-wind - original
      Master 2946 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - Kodak - AGFA - B-wind - original

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Conditions on Use
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum places no restrictions on use of this material. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this film footage.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    Phillip Sloan and Katherine Tillman donated two reels of 16mm black and white film to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in April 2013. The films document the travels of Katherine's father, John Vincent Tillman, an American who studied at the University of Munich from 1935 to 1936. The collection also contains a diary, manuscript, photograph, German print publications, and 1938 Mutterkreuz medal.
    Note
    The harvest festivals took place annually from 1934 to 1937 in Bueckeberg and stopped in September 1938, a few days before the 1938 festival, because the special trains that were used to bring participants to the nearby station of Hameln were bringing troops to the Czech border. Unlike the party rallies in Nuremberg, which carried a military focus, harvest festivals were for the national community where peasants and city dwellers, men, women and children, came from all over the Reich.
    Film Source
    Mr. Phillip R. Sloan
    Ms. Katherine Tillman
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 5608
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:05:48
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