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German Army South advances in Ukraine

Film | Digitized | RG Number: RG-60.1413 | Film ID: 2983

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    German Army South advances in Ukraine
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    Description
    Pan of the Ukrainian landscape with a Christian cemetery and camp below it. Two German soldiers tour the area. Railroad tracks. 00:09:55 Quick shot of a band playing in an open market. 00:09:57 Destroyed Allied fighter plane. German trucks move out of camp through muddy roads. 00:10:23 CUs of German officers talking. One smiles at camera from a truck. Destroyed and muddy motorcycle towed by a van. 00:10:46 Soldiers eat. Tanks. 00:11:00 A woman carrying a baby examines destroyed fighter plane. Ukrainian fields and a low-flying plane. German soldiers kill a cow. End of reel. Landscape. Train yard. German tanks, camouflage and rubble. 00:12:17 Ruins of an open colonnade and rubble in Ukraine. A town in the distance. More rubble and a crashed plane. 00:12:38 Civilians crowd around a German car stuck in mud. Dark shots in field. Cannon at a campsite. Soldier looks down the barrel of the cannon. HAS, group of civilians crowd around military vehicles. Countryside. 00:13:42 More birds nest on roof. LS, Ukrainian landscape and soldiers. 00:14:28 Soldiers mark graves with helmets. CU name plaque. 00:14:38 Surveillance from a makeshift defense, helmet. Driving across field in a Mercedes. Civilians tour countryside. 00:15:14 Officers sleeping, talking, and reading. Tanks and motorcycles move out along dirt roads.
    Duration
    00:07:09
    Date
    Event:  June 1941
    Locale
    Ukraine
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of John-Paul Himka
    Contributor
    Producer: Unknown German soldier

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Unedited.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    00:08:33:00 to 00:15:42:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2983 Video: DVD - NTSC
      Master 2983 Video: DVD - NTSC
      Master 2983 Video: DVD - NTSC
      Master 2983 Video: DVD - NTSC

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
    Copyright
    Copyright Undetermined
    Conditions on Use
    Owner of copyright, if any, is undetermined. It is possible this is an orphan work. It is the responsibility of anyone interested in reproducing, broadcasting, or publishing content to determine copyright holder and secure permission, or perform a diligent Fair Use analysis.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a DVD copy of this film from scholar John-Paul Himka in 2013. The film was discovered at the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre (UCRDC) in Toronto, Canada by a researcher working on the topic of the Waffen-SS Division Galizien. The film was originally donated to the UCRDC by a Ukrainian community activist. The UCRDC has since stated that the film cannot be located in their archive.
    Note
    Movement of the German Army South on the Eastern Front in 1941 filmed with a handheld camera. From the flower insignia on some of the vehicles, the scenes seem to focus on units of the 1.Gebirgs-Division or 1st Alpine Division, which was in Lemberg/Lvov (then Vinnitsa and Uman) with Army Group South, as of June 1941. It was probably part of XXXIX.Gebirgs-Armeecorps or 49th Mountain Army Corps. The Army South's mission was to capture Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine, and to drive out Soviet troops in advance of the Army North and Army Center's invasion into Eastern Europe and Russia.
    Copied From
    16mm
    Film Source
    John-Paul Himka
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 5632
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:05:27
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