Soviet POWs rounded up

Identifier
irn1000442
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1991.260.1
  • RG-60.0276
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv

Scope and Content

German soldiers search farm. Bedraggled old man comes out of little hut; mustached man is frisked by soldier; soldier pokes/searches in leafy bush with his bayoneted rifle. Dappled sun. MS wounded POWs slowly make their way across field under guard, arm in arm, some being carried, some dragged. Most are wounded, hands up in surrender. All are in some kind of disarray in the field: chaos, fatigue, despair. Very dusty and dry.

Subjects

  • PRISONERS (SOVIET)
  • FARMERS/FARMING
  • DESTITUTION
  • SOVIET UNION
  • SURRENDER
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)
  • POWS (SOVIET)
  • ROUNDUPS
  • WOUNDED
  • USHMM (PERMANENT EXHIBITION)
  • GUNS
  • POWS

Places

  • , Baltic region
  • , Soviet Union

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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