Forced labor construction of giant submarine pen

Identifier
irn1000082
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.263.1
  • RG-60.0681
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
  • German naval officer (Camera Operator)

Scope and Content

French POWs, concentration camp inmates, Polish and Soviet POWs from Neuengamme subcamp Bremen-Farge - forced labor at U-Boat construction site "Valentin" in Bremen. 00:02:09 Good establishing shots of construction complex and adjacent Weser River. Train pulling into site, LS men working at base of high wall under construction. Guiding crane. 00:05:50 VS French uniformed POWs digging, lifting girders. 00:06:17 LS concentration camp inmates in striped clothing unloading bags of cement and carrying them on their shoulders, MS then MCU. 00:07:03 LS of train, and pan of buildings, cranes and construction. 00:07:33 Laborers working in LS then pan over fields and woods adjacent to site. LS steel framing and tracks. Pan left, waterway in BG, then gravel or dirt pits, barracks and construction area.

Note(s)

  • See Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, V.1, pp 1091 - 1094, especially Bremen-Farge article, for details about the concentration camp, prisoners, numbers, conditions, and mortality rate. Marineoberbaurat Edo Meiners was in charge of the site. The Bremen-Vulkan Shipyard, part of the Thyssen Group, had control of Project Valentin. About 10,000 workers, the majority forced laborers, were employed on the site. The majority of prisoners were French; also strongly represented were Poles, Soviets, and Greeks. From the summer of 1944, a Marine Reserve Detachment of c.250 men took over guarding the prisoners. On the construction site, prisoners were supervised by German foremen. Evacuation of the Farge subcamp began on April 10, 1945.

Subjects

  • SUBMARINES
  • CONSTRUCTION
  • PRISONERS (JEWISH)
  • INDUSTRY (GERMAN)
  • JEWS
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS
  • POWS (POLISH)
  • UNIFORMS
  • PRISONERS
  • GERMANY
  • POWS (FRENCH)
  • POWS (SOVIET)
  • NEUENGAMME
  • TRAINS
  • FORCED LABOR
  • LABOR

Places

  • Bremen, Germany

Genre

  • Film
  • Amateur.
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