Overview
- Description
- Reel 2: Vehicles move on an autobahn. British troops parade and drill. British recruits join up. Hitler reviews German troops. War material rolls from a German factory. Hitler rides through Vienna and across the Czech border. German troops and tanks parade. German refugees flee Polish oppression. Hitler speaks in the Reichstag. Panzer units invade Poland. Hitler looks through an artillery periscope. German railroads transport war material. Newspaper headlines proclaim the war. German naval units cruise off Norway, paratroops land in Norway. German planes fly over Norwegian mountains. Hitler salutes crowds in Berlin. Crowds cheer German troops as they enter the Rhineland, Austria, and the Sudetenland. Animated maps illustrate Czechoslovakia's and Poland's aggression against Germany. German engineers plan, railroads supply material, Hitler Youth work on the Siegfried line. Maps of the conquest of Poland and Norway. Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, Winston Churchill, Leon Blum and others. German troops load and fire artillery.
- Film Title
-
Sieg im Westen [Victory in the West]
- Duration
- 00:07:27
- Date
-
Production:
1940
- Locale
-
Vienna,
Austria
Sudetenland
Norway
Poland
England
Czechoslovakia
Berlin, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Writer:
Svend Nolan
Producer: Fritz Hippler
Music: Herbert Windt
Director: Svend Nolan
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Propaganda.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Mixed
- Time Code
- 01:00:00:00 to 01:07:27:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 218 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 218 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 218 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 218 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 218 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 218 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 218 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 218 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
- This film contains German newsreel footage, the rights to which are held by the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv). Researchers should exercise caution when using newsreel clips from this film, and contact the Bundesarchiv at filmbenutzung@bundesarchiv.de to find out how to use this footage. The online request form is available at:
https://www.bundesarchiv.de/EN/Content/Downloads/request-for-use-av-material.pdf?__blob=publicationFile - Copyright Holder
- Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- ANSCHLUSS (ANNEXATION OF AUSTRIA) ARTILLERY AUSTRIA AUTOBAHN AUTOMOBILES BLUM, LEON BORDERS/CROSSINGS CHAMBERLAIN, NEVILLE CHURCHILL, WINSTON CONSTRUCTION CROWDS CZECHOSLOVAKIA ENGLAND FACTORIES FRENTZ, WALTER GERMAN OCCUPATION GERMANY HITLER, ADOLF INDUSTRY MAPS MARCHING MILITARY ADVANCES MILITARY OFFICERS MILITARY VEHICLES NAVY (GERMAN) NORWAY PARADES POLAND PROPAGANDA PROPAGANDA (NAZI) REFUGEES REICHSTAG RHINE RIVER SOLDIERS/MILITARY (BRITISH) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN) SUDETENLAND TANKS USHMM (PERMANENT EXHIBITION)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in June 1991. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition.
- Note
- Duplicate footage on Film ID 934, Story 1126.
Produced in Germany
Acquired by US Army Signal Corps - Copied From
- 35mm; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1605
Source Archive Number: 111 M 527.6 R-2 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:54:55
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1000931
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