Various wartime scenes

Identifier
irn1000821
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.0964
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • United States. Office of Strategic Services. (Producer)
  • US Army Signal Corps in cooperation with Office of Strategic Services (Producer)
  • United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference

Scope and Content

A film report examining Nazi methods to control morale. Consisting mostly of captured films. Civilians leave bombed cities and receive food. Shows Goering and Himmler and explains their civilian defense responsibilities. Streets are cleared and antiaircraft guns fire during an air raid. Shows wrecked planes, US POWs, and a bomber being shot down. A newsreel shows boxing, Axis troops, and, on the Russian front, mud, demolitions activities, and tanks being strafed.

Subjects

  • FIRES
  • FOOD
  • GERMANS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (SOVIET)
  • TANKS
  • BOMBINGS
  • MILITARY ADVANCES
  • SOVIET UNION
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY
  • CIVILIANS
  • HIMMLER, HEINRICH
  • DESTRUCTION
  • MILITARY OFFICERS
  • MILITARY VEHICLES
  • GOERING, HERMANN
  • AIRPLANES
  • POWS (AMERICAN)
  • GUNS
  • STREETS
  • GERMANY

Places

  • , Soviet Union
  • , 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.