DPs; postwar rehabilitation
Creator(s)
- Imperial War Museums
Scope and Content
Titles read: Um Resultado da guerra. Descito por aimbere. Short film documenting the aftermath of the war, including the movement of refugees, displaced persons camps, rehabilitation, and going home. Young men crossing bridge. Women and men moving bushels of hay, a soldier guards them. Labor in fields, railroads, factories. Liberation scenes: tanks moving through villages, people shaking hands, celebrating; men emerging from forests; crowds leaning out windows, cheering; beating a Nazi?; destroying buildings. Refugees moving on foot and truck with belongings/luggage. Destroyed bridge. Military soldiers. More refugees, smiles beaming (staged?), crossing river. Allied officers establish DP camps. Survivors registering at tables. A female survivor slapping another woman (presumably a Nazi). Survivors being disinfected with DDT dusting, to prevent the spread of typhus, examined by medical personnel. VAR shots of many sick, wounded, emaciated survivors. Scenes in a hospital with patient, doctor, and nurse. More shots of survivors. Rehabilitation workers preparing bread, rations, clothing for distribution. Survivor trying on clothing provided by workers. Flags. VAR views of life at the camp: INT, officers at desks; CU, nurse and baby; soldiers with baby; children in a classroom; crowd listening to speech delivered outdoors; crowd listening to radio broadcast; band performing; men and women dancing, drinking, socializing; woman in peasant attire performing traditional dance. Large groups of survivors exiting camp on truck, waving, at airfield and train station. Getting off trains, looking for family members in waiting crowd. Some embrace, kiss, cry. CUs, MCUs faces as they meet. More shots of EXT and INT of DP camp. CU, peasant women with scarf wrapped around her head. Classrooms. Crowds milling about camp, sitting with belongings/luggage. Another shot of flags.
Note(s)
See Film ID 1003 for the English version of this film.
Subjects
- DISPLACED PERSONS (DP)
- DISINFECTION
- LUGGAGE
- BABIES
- MUSIC
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (ALLIES)
- REFUGEES
- DANCING
- BANDS
- CLOTHES
- TRUCKS
- VILLAGES
- GERMANY
- HOSPITALS
- TANKS
- RAIL SYSTEMS
- RADIOS
- FLAGS
- DOCTORS
- MILITARY VEHICLES
- TEACHERS
- MEDICAL CARE
- ENTERTAINMENT
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY
- DISPLACED PERSONS (DP) CAMPS
- NURSES
- BREAD
- WOUNDED
- TRAINS
- FACTORIES
- LIBERATION
- SCHOOLS
- BRIDGES
- MEDICAL PERSONNEL
- DESTRUCTION
- MILITARY OFFICERS
- TRAIN STATIONS
- WOMEN
- SURVIVORS
- SPEECHES
- PEASANTS
- CROWDS
- LABOR
- CHILDREN
- REFUGEE CAMPS
- GERMANS
Places
- , Germany
Genre
- Film
- Documentary.