Minsk in ruins

Identifier
irn1000435
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1991.260.1
  • RG-60.0281
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv

Scope and Content

LS pan of billowing smoke over burning Minsk (in daytime). Pan of rubble, views of soldiers, buildings afire, motorcycle (with sidecar) and jeeps drive down street through destroyed town. LS of big blocky building (Communist architecture) and shot of Lenin statue (narration calls it the "Soviet paradise"). VAR rubble heaps, some smoking; civilians sorting through; MLS of very little children wandering around rubble, watching adults try to salvage what they can. Jeep/trucks drive through muddy streets of village, invading. In BG, citizens watch by edge of house.

Subjects

  • SOVIET UNION
  • INVASIONS
  • RUINS
  • USHMM (PERMANENT EXHIBITION)
  • INVASION OF THE SOVIET UNION
  • TRUCKS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)
  • CIVILIANS
  • CHILDREN
  • STREETS
  • DESTRUCTION
  • FIRES
  • RUBBLE
  • MILITARY ADVANCES
  • MOTORCYCLES
  • BUILDINGS
  • VILLAGES
  • STATUES
  • JEEPS
  • SMOKE
  • HOUSES

Places

  • Minsk, Soviet Union

Genre

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