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Romanian volunteers for SS; Christmas in Germany 1943; Goering; Rommel

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1992.252.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0635 | Film ID: 303

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    Romanian volunteers for SS; Christmas in Germany 1943; Goering; Rommel

    Overview

    Description
    Romanian volunteers for the SS in Transylvania. Panorama of village. Young men exit building where young girls in native dress greet them with flowers. Young men wave goodbye. MS as they walk to train station with girls. Young boys with Nazi banners; young men stand in line and are reviewed by SS Obergruppenfuerher Werner Lorenz. LS of city street as Romanian and German troops march through. Wall to left, local flags, young men marching. People waving and throwing flowers and fruit. LS, WS crowd at train station. Young volunteers board train. MLS train crowded with volunteers and decorated with wreaths pulls out of station as crowd and soldiers wave. Hermann Goering visits aircraft plant, chats with workers, many of whom, as the narrator notes, are women. Christmas time activities of the NSV (National Sozialistische Volkswohlfahrt, a charitable organization). Mothers and children play in the snow and celebrate Christmas in Quickborn. The setting appears to be a group home where women and children who are living in dangerous areas of the country can come to stay. Food and gifts given to wounded in hospital, women in the German Air Force auxiliary (Nachrichthelferin), soldiers on the Channel Coast, sailors aboard a mine ship, and soldiers at base in Germany. General Rommel inspects barbed wire, concrete defenses, and artillery positions in Jutland, Denmark. He is shown with General Hermann von Hanneken. Map showing Gomel, Shitomir, Kriwoi Rog and Dniepr River. On Eastern front in USSR in winter, German soldier runs through trenches. German transport takes off and drops supplies to infantry units.
    Duration
    00:10:01
    Date
    Event:  1943
    Production:  1943 December 22
    Locale
    Romania
    Transylvania
    Zhitomir, Ukraine
    Quickborn, Germany
    Soviet Union
    Jutland, Denmark
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Genre/Form
    Newsreels.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Fair
    Time Code
    04:00:00:00 to 04:10:01:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 303 Video: One Inch - NTSC
      Master 303 Video: One Inch - NTSC
      Master 303 Video: One Inch - NTSC
      Master 303 Video: One Inch - NTSC
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 303 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 303 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 303 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 303 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.
    Conditions on Use
    Researchers who wish to use this footage should contact the Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv at filmbenutzung@bundesarchiv.de to sign a release, or submit the online request form at: https://www.bundesarchiv.de/EN/Content/Downloads/request-for-use-av-material.pdf?__blob=publicationFile

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in March 1992. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Learning Center.
    Note
    DW 694/1944 is the original Deutsche Wochenschau number and should be used when applying to Transit for permission to use this footage.
    Copied From
    35mm DNC (P)
    Film Source
    United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 0335
    Source Archive Number: 242 GN 99
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:54:17
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