POWs at border crossing at Elbe River

Identifier
irn1002357
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2001.358.1
  • RG-60.2931
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

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

Scope and Content

(LIB 7089) "France Returns," Dessau, Germany, June 7, 1945. SEQ: US, French, and Russian officers question war prisoners who claim the right to cross the Elbe into US territory. Two young Frenchmen, formerly SS men, are questioned. Their papers laid out on a table are examined and one of them is taken away. MCUs, ex-political prisoners and French political deportees are questioned. LS, MS, ex-prisoners enter and leave gate at interrogation area. An American MP guards the gate.

Subjects

  • GERMANY
  • PRISONERS (FRENCH)
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (ALLIES)
  • POWS (FRENCH)
  • PRISONERS (POLITICAL)
  • PRISONERS
  • POWS
  • FRANCE
  • GATES
  • ELBE RIVER
  • BORDERS/CROSSINGS

Places

  • , Germany

Genre

  • Film
  • Unedited.
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