Overview
- Description
- (LIB 6232) Disinterment, Reburial of Russian Prisoners of War, Wuhlfel, Germany, May 2, 1945
SEQ: Germans under supervision of the British Military Government Detachment #518 and the US 35th Inf. Div. XII Corps are assembled, briefed, and provided with picks and shovels. MSs, Russian officer speaks to German civilians through an interpreter. MSs, CUs, British officers supervise the exhumation and reburial of murdered prisoners by German civilians. MCU, MS, former Russian prisoners identify bodies. Several women are crying. CU, body of Russian woman killed by the Nazis. MSs, trucks carrying bodies, followed by procession of freed Russian civilians and group of German civilians, passing through streets. HASs, funeral procession. SEQ: sheet-wrapped bodies are reburied in memorial park near Hanover city hall. CUs, wreath is removed from front of truck. CU, card attached to wreath reading in Russian, German, and English: "Lest We Forget". - Duration
- 00:11:43
- Date
-
Event:
1945 May 02
- Locale
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Wuhlfel,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 03:00:07:00 to 03:11:50:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2743 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2743 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2743 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2743 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 2743 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2743 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2743 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2743 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
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- Copyright
- Public Domain
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- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
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Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this footage from the National Archives and Records Administration in November 2004.
- Note
- See RG-60.4323, Film ID 2743 for more burial scenes in Wuhlfel.
- Copied From
- 35mm MPS
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4610
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 4185 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:46:13
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