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Swedish Red Cross Aid for prisoners in Germany, 1945

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.714.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4114 | Film ID: 2740

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    Swedish Red Cross Aid for prisoners in Germany, 1945
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    Description
    "Witness Stand: A Reportage on the Swedish Red Cross Aid Action for Prisoners in Germany" Production date, April 1945.
    Part 2, the ambulance column arrives. Memorial day for E V Ringmann, ambulance driver who was killed in an allied aircraft, whose casket is loaded onto a railroad car. Norwegian paramedic team. Doctors examine the new arrivals. Women with naked torsos show their tattoo marks. Naked women bathing, showering, and get new clothes. They are disinfected from lice. Registration stall for Danes and Norwegians. Danes get new clothes. Some people talk with each other, doctors examine people, and a Danish architect shows his drawings of the death chambers of the camp ("the camp’s death cell"). Then a convalescent center in the spring sun in a park.
    Film Title
    Witness Stand
    Duration
    00:12:18
    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945
    Locale
    Sweden
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Sveriges Television AB
    Contributor
    Director: Nils Jerring
    Producer: SF (AB Svensk Filmindustri)

    Physical Details

    Language
    Swedish
    Genre/Form
    Newsreels.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    01:29:07:00 to 01:41:25:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2740 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
      Master 2740 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
      Master 2740 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
      Master 2740 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2740 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2740 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2740 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2740 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
    Copyright
    Sveriges Television AB
    Conditions on Use
    For copyright clearance, contact SVT at librarysales@svt.se.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this footage from Sveriges Television AB, SVT Sales in Stockholm, Sweden in October 2004.
    Note
    See also RG-60.4111 and RG-60.4112 for outtakes from this newsreel. See RG-60.4113 for the first half of this newsreel.

    SVT Note: Original provenance is "SF short film 1709"
    Copied From
    transferred from Betacam SP (PAL)
    Film Source
    Sveriges Television AB
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 4351
    Source Archive Number: SF 2770B
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:00:31
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