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Forcing Jews to wash the street

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2009.205.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4952 | Film ID: 2879

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    Forcing Jews to wash the street
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    Description
    "Reibpartie", a man (Jew?) is forced to wash the street. Victim is in a suit, and looks up at the filmmaker's lens. A second victim, in shirt and vest on his knees, frantically cleaning the street, feet of onlookers are visible to the right and in BG. Cut back to victim 1 with CU of hands. Counter-shot of young woman in a coat being "showcased" to the filmmaker. Behind her a SA man and a civilian hold hands to shut her off from the crowd in the BG. Crowd cheering while SA man grabs her right arm. Woman (Jew?) is made to hold a broom up in her right, makes an embarrassed gesture with her left, turns, face grimacing (crying?). 01:13:54 Very quick glimpse of the top of a head (man forced to scrub the street?) at the middle bottom of the frame.
    Film Alternate Title
    Amateur shots in Vienna, Spring 1938
    Duration
    00:00:09
    Date
    Event:  March-May 1938
    Locale
    Vienna, Austria
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Österreichisches Filmmuseum
    Contributor
    Camera Operator: Walter Nitsche
    Biography
    At the time of the Anschluss, Walter Nitsche was 20 years old and a student at the Höhere Staats-Gewerbeschule at Schellinggasse 13 in Vienna's 1st district. He graduated from school in June 1938 and shortly thereafter took up a job as a local construction supervisor at the "Road Administration of the Province of Lower Austria." At the end of November 1938, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. Walter Nitsche became an American prisoner of war in 1944, from which he was released on June 1, 1946. It is unlikely that Nitsche was a member of the NSDAP or one of its sub-organizations. Research in this regard in archives and private documents was fruitless and nothing is known about this within the family.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Amateur.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Mixed
    Time Code
    01:13:46:00 to 01:13:55:00
    Film Format
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2879 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2879 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2879 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2879 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2879 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2879 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2879 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2879 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
    Copyright
    Österreichisches Filmmuseum
    Conditions on Use
    For permissions, contact the Film Museum at kontakt@filmmuseum.at

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a HDCam copy of the original 9.5mm film from the Austrian Film Museum in May 2009. The donation to the Austrian Film Museum included six additional reels of 9.5mm footage.
    Note
    See photographs of street scrubbing in USHMM collection: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/?f%5Brecord_type_facet%5D%5B%5D=Photograph&q=street+scrubbing&search_field=all_fields

    Refer to: https://visual-history.de/en/2021/04/26/dokumentation-und-demuetigung-judenverfolgung-in-amateurfilmen-wien-1938/

    You can also find the fragment on Höffkes’ website: https://www.archiv-akh.de/filme/2840#1
    Copied From
    9.5mm Pathex, pos, b/w, silent
    Film Source
    Österreichisches Filmmuseum
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 5355
    Source Archive Number: Sig. 0019-0174
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:05:37
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