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First free vote in Berlin; salvaging remains from the Cap Arcona; mushrooms; furniture donation to needy Germans

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2008.40.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4671 | Film ID: 2851

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    First free vote in Berlin; salvaging remains from the Cap Arcona; mushrooms; furniture donation to needy Germans

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    Welt im Film. Issue no. 75

    Title: Der Wahltag in Berlin [Voting day in Berlin]. People pass out election literature in the run-up to the first free vote in Germany in 14 years. Election posters and signs (Wahlpropaganda) for the SPD and the SED on buildings, including on the Reich Chancellery. Sign reading: You are Leaving the American Sector. People stand in line to vote and inside a polling place. The vote is observed by Allied military representatives. Voting in a hospital. Shots of the candidates voting. The ballots are counted and the results displayed on a large board.

    02:27:52 Title: Taucher unter Toten [Divers among the dead]. Salvaging victims' remains and effects from the wreckage of the Cap Arcona and the Thielbek. In early May 1945 these ships were loaded with concentration camp prisoners and anchored in Luebeck harbor in order to lure the British airforce into bombing them and killing the prisoners on board. The narrator notes that of the 7,520 prisoners only 380 could be rescued by the Allied troops who soon occupied the coast. A diver emerges from the water with a bag of personal effects, with which the British-led team hope to identify the dead. The last shot shows a wooden cross on the beach.

    02:29:22 Mushroom farming in a former air-raid shelter in Berlin; people donate furniture and other household goods to the Deutsche Hilfsgemeinschaft in Hamburg, which distributes the goods to needy families.
    Film Title
    Welt im Film no. 75
    Duration
    00:06:13
    Date
    Event:  1946
    Production:  1946 October 30
    Locale
    Hamburg, Germany
    Berlin, Germany
    Luebeck, Germany
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
    Contributor
    Producer:

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Genre/Form
    Newsreels.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    02:25:21:00 to 02:31:34:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2851 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
      Master 2851 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
      Master 2851 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
      Master 2851 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2851 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2851 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2851 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2851 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    Public Domain
    Conditions on Use
    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

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the film excerpts from the National Archives and Records Administration in February 2008.
    Copied From
    35mm DNC
    Film Source
    United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 5030
    Source Archive Number: 306 WIF 75
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:44:17
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