DPs in Germany

Identifier
irn1003040
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2002.541.1
  • RG-60.3564
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

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

Scope and Content

(LIB 4171-4178) Displaced Persons, Anrath, Germany, March 15, 1945. MCU, young male child holds large pieced of black bread and eats from large bowl. MCU, two eat from community bowl. In BG, male DPs. MS, CUs, women wash dishes in courtyard. Trucks loaded with male DPs leave center. SEQ: Italian woman crying as husband leaves in truck. Woman faints as truck pulls away. SEQ: US soldiers try to console Italian girl. Other DPs stand in BG as girl weeps. CU, INT, military government office. Officer at desk speaks. (no sound)

Subjects

  • GERMANY
  • WOMEN
  • TRUCKS
  • FOOD
  • BREAD
  • DISPLACED PERSONS (DP)
  • EATING
  • CHILDREN
  • RELOCATION
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)

Places

  • , Germany

Genre

  • Film
  • Unedited.
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