Warsaw after bombing 1939, aerial views

Identifier
irn1001214
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.255.1
  • RG-60.0742
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1939
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

Low aerial shots of Warsaw after bombing.Warschau 1939 (in German print) Nuer fuer den Dienstgebrauch! Dies ist ein geheimes Gegenstand im Sinne des 88 Reichs Strafgesetzbuchs (04/24/34) [I.e,. secret, military documentation.] Low aerial of city. Buildings some with smoke. Bombed out houses and apartment blocks. Thick black scratch. Facade of big municipal buildings, interior bombed out. Pan up wreckage of brick building, wrought iron balconies, twisted to sky. View down an alley, bombed out buildings. MS and MLS QF, people and sidewalk, deserted rubble of courtyard. Pedestrians. Rain soaked, rubble. "Theater," has relief still visible inside gutted building. Pan across to other gutted buildings. People appear, small among the devastation. Cables and wires in building archway.

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  • Retransfer on Film ID 500B, 02:09:44-02:18:25

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