Polish and English POWs

Identifier
irn1000423
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1991.260.1
  • RG-60.0259
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv

Scope and Content

Views of extremely long line of Polish POWs trudging along road, including CU of bare and booted feet. LS of POW camp, POWs getting sandwiches. CUs of prisoners lying on ground, looking tired, CU faces. General views of camp, English POWs and Polish POWs. English military officer POW makes statement (in English, synch sound) on the good treatment he has received as a POW. Ethnic Germans in Poland identifying Polish prisoners, with some kind of confusion and angry finger-pointing. 02:07:15: Narrator says that one man recognizes another as the murderer of his brother.

Subjects

  • GERMANS
  • VOLKSDEUTSCH
  • POWS (POLISH)
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY
  • FOOD
  • POWS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (BRITISH)
  • EATING
  • USHMM (PERMANENT EXHIBITION)
  • POW CAMPS
  • PRISONERS (POLISH)
  • POLAND
  • MARCHING
  • MILITARY OFFICERS
  • POLES
  • POWS (BRITISH)
  • POWS (AMERICAN)

Places

  • Krakow, Poland

Genre

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