Germany Awake!

Identifier
irn1000807
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.0953
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference

Scope and Content

Summary of film: Recounts Germany's wartime experience and encourages German citizens to help effect a successful peace. Reel 1: Explosion of Swastika in Nuremberg Stadium. Dead Germans and POWs. Rubble in Cologne, Nuremberg, Hamburg, and Berlin. Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery; Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta. Hitler, Streicher, Hess, Himmler and Goebbels addressing crowds. Germans are shown bodies in the Nordhausen and Belsen concentration camps. Gen. Eisenhower and Gen. Patton tour Ohrdruf concentration camp. Scene of burned bodies on truck chassis, as at start of Museum's permanent exhibition.

Note(s)

  • Script to this film in department files.

Subjects

  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
  • PATTON, GEORGE
  • GERMANY
  • BERGEN-BELSEN
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS
  • OHRDRUF
  • SWASTIKAS
  • SPEECHES
  • HITLER, ADOLF
  • NUREMBERG (INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL)
  • UNIVERSITIES
  • GERMANS
  • RUBBLE
  • NORDHAUSEN
  • WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
  • MAJDANEK
  • STREICHER, JULIUS
  • CROWDS
  • CIVILIANS
  • BERGEN-BELSEN TRIAL
  • RUINS
  • EXPLOSIONS
  • MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS
  • TRUMAN, HARRY S.
  • HITLER YOUTH
  • CHURCHILL, WINSTON
  • POWS
  • GOEBBELS, JOSEPH
  • CONFERENCE (YALTA)
  • ZHUKOV, GEORGY
  • PROPAGANDA
  • EINSTEIN, ALBERT
  • COURTS/COURTROOMS
  • EISENHOWER, DWIGHT
  • HIMMLER, HEINRICH
  • HESS, RUDOLF
  • STALIN, JOSEPH
  • ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D.
  • MILITARY OFFICERS
  • POLAND
  • CONFERENCES
  • HADAMAR INSTITUTE
  • GOERING, HERMANN
  • CORPSES
  • BELGIUM

Places

  • Belsen, Germany
  • Nordhausen, Germany
  • Leipzig, Germany
  • Nuremberg, Germany
  • , Poland
  • Cologne, Germany
  • Hamburg, Germany
  • Berlin, Germany

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.