DPs return to Germany

Identifier
irn1001461
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.2343
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
  • United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
  • M. Fleming (Camera Operator)

Scope and Content

(LIB 6901) Return of Displaced Persons, from Ohrdruf to Chemnitz, Germany, June 2, 1945. LSs, MSs, Russian DPs board trucks. Trucks filled with DPs leave the camp as persons remaining wave farewell. HASs, LSs, DPs in US trucks moving over autobahn. MSs, CUs, smiling Russian DPs seated in trucks. MLSs, US soldier tells Russians to climb aboard truck. MSs, CU, woman giving infant its bottle. Russians dismount from truck with their belongings and walk to waiting train. MSs, CU, women, children, and men prior to boarding the train.

Subjects

  • DISPLACED PERSONS (DP)
  • TRAINS
  • GERMANY
  • OHRDRUF
  • SURVIVORS (SOVIET)
  • TRAIN STATIONS
  • TRUCKS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)

Places

  • Ohrdruf, Germany

Genre

  • Film
  • Unedited.
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