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Ruins in Munich

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2007.145.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4612 | Film ID: 2839

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    Ruins in Munich

    Overview

    Description
    Views of Munich, probably postwar [film stock dates to 1943]. Street scenes show destroyed buildings and piles of rubble. Short clip of the Bürgerbräukeller, the site of the Beer Hall Putsch where Adolf Hitler and the Kampfbund attempted a coup d'état in 1923.

    01:01:02 John Bechtler gets into an army truck (labeled 206008425.) A brief clip of a black dog in the grass. Views of a lake and the surrounding landscape.

    01:01:49 (John?) exits a CIC building. The CIC, or Counter Intelligence Corps, was used after the war to locate former members of the Nazi regime and combat various forms of illegal activity. Additional shots of the landscape. A brief scene of a uniformed army man and two women.

    01:02:26 John lies on an outdoor chair and reads a book. He looks up and smiles at the camera. Short clips of the landscape.

    01:02:39 A man in army uniform drives a jeep through the countryside. Camera shows an older man and three young children fishing. Two small children wheel a cart down the street. Views of the landscape and the road filmed from a moving vehicle. Some pedestrians and bicyclists on the road.

    01:03:30 Additional clips of destroyed buildings in Munich. (Footage appears shaky here.) A brief clip of a tram passing in front of the camera. Bicyclists, pedestrians and cars on the road. Clips of Rathaus (town hall).
    Duration
    00:05:30
    Date
    Event:  after 1943
    Locale
    Munich, Germany
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Claranne Bechtler
    Contributor
    Camera Operator: John C. Bechtler
    Biography
    John Christopher Bechtler was a U.S. soldier in Berchtesgaden in April-May 1945, serving with the Counter Intelligence Corps. He arrested and interrogated various Germans at the end of the war.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Amateur.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    00:59:57:00 to 01:05:27:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2839 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - silent - reversal original - B-wind
      Master 2839 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2839 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - silent - reversal original - B-wind
      Master 2839 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2839 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - silent - reversal original - B-wind
      Master 2839 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2839 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - silent - reversal original - B-wind
      Master 2839 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2839 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2839 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2839 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2839 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
    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
    Claranne Bechtler, the daughter of John Christopher Bechtler, donated another reel from her father's film materials to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in May 2007.
    Film Source
    Ms. Claranne M. Bechtler
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 4959
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:06:22
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