Children refugees; Nazi atrocities

Identifier
irn1000870
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.1016
Dates
1 Jan 1946 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

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

Scope and Content

A War Department Film. Army-Navy Screen Magazine, no. 75 Reel 1: Masses of children wandering in war-ravaged cities begging, stealing, and scavenging for food. CUs mental and physically retarded children. Portraits of the "next generation", comparisons to fascist leaders of WWII. Empty fields marking the site of Lidice, Czechoslovakia. Women survivors of the Lidice massacre at gravesite. Nazi footage of Hitler Youth, Hitler, von Rundstedt speech. CUs starving children. Packed courtrooms at Nuremburg, Germany and trials of captured SS men. Hitler speech (narrated in English). Ruins of German cities, destruction. Emphatic narration of "rebirth" shown against images of disease, filth, lice, typhus, hunger, etc. Corpses piled up in concentration camps, cremation.

Note(s)

  • Writer: Art Arthur

  • Film raised over $200,000,000 for UNRRA and won an Academy Award in 1947 for Best Documentary - Short Subjects.

Subjects

  • CHILDREN
  • WOMEN
  • NUREMBERG (INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL)
  • ORPHANS
  • LIDICE (ATROCITY)
  • BABIES
  • GERMANY
  • POWS (GERMAN)
  • POSTWAR
  • COURTS/COURTROOMS
  • SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL)
  • WOUNDED
  • ATROCITIES
  • CREMATORIA
  • RUINS
  • CORPSES
  • RUBBLE
  • HITLER YOUTH
  • HITLER, ADOLF
  • JAPAN
  • REFUGEES
  • BOMBINGS
  • CIVILIANS

Places

  • , Germany
  • Nuremberg, Germany
  • Lidice, Czechoslovakia
  • , Japan

Genre

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