Postwar retrospective: Germany, war in Europe

Identifier
irn1001325
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1988.184.1
  • RG-60.0033
Dates
1 Jan 1947 - 31 Dec 1947
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
  • L. Bennett Fenberg (Camera Operator)
  • David Haspel & Associates

Biographical History

L. Bennett ("Elby") Fenberg, a U.S. Army soldier serving in the 163rd Signal Corps as a combat photographer, captured with his movie camera the huge explosion, detonated by U.S. soldiers, which destroyed the giant metal swastika atop the tribune at the Zeppelin Field on the Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg in spring 1945.

Scope and Content

US propaganda/documentary film about World War II. A post-war U.S. narrative of intentions in Germany. Berlin's war ruins, rubble, "Unter den Linden" street sign laying on ground. Allied victory celebrations in Paris and London. Lots of waving, happy crowds, parade. Scenes of soldiers marching. Flashbacks to war scenes show Allied planes bombing enemy cities, parachutists, plane crashes, amphibious landings. 04:46:11, cut to Gens. Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton, and others visit a concentration camp and see German atrocities. Former prisoner (survivor) with scarf describes scenes at camp. Liberated concentration camp inmates are loaded aboard Red Cross ambulances. Shows German refugees exiting destroyed building with belongings in crates. 04:47:43, cut to Nazi symbols destroyed in Berlin.

Note(s)

  • Entire film runs 85 minutes. See Story 133, Film ID 156 for Reels 1 through 6 of this documentary, and Story 20, Film ID 4 for Reels 7 through 9. See Stories 3432 and 3433, Film ID 5 for possible duplicate footage. There are many familiar scenes from Signal Corps reels throughout this film.

Subjects

  • SWASTIKAS
  • GERMANS
  • AIRPLANES
  • BOATS
  • FRANCE
  • MILITARY OFFICERS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (ALLIES)
  • WEAPONS/ARMS
  • CROWDS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
  • PARADES
  • CORPSES
  • GERMANY
  • RED CROSS
  • AMBULANCES
  • SURVIVORS
  • MILITARY VEHICLES
  • ENGLAND
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
  • REFUGEES
  • LIBERATION
  • EISENHOWER, DWIGHT

Places

  • London, England
  • Berlin, Germany
  • Paris, France

Genre

  • Documentary.
  • Film
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