Hospitals; Russian DPs in Ossendorf camp near Cologne

Identifier
irn1003058
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2002.541.1
  • RG-60.3582
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Jack Muth (Camera Operator)
  • United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
  • Mott (Sound Contributor)
  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference

Scope and Content

(LIB 6967) Military Government, Cologne, Germany, June 13, 1945. MSs, CUs, woman copying point values from poster. MLSs, broken lamppost in the rubble. MLSs, large German hospital taken over by the US Army; ambulances drive up to entrance. CU, sign over hospital entrance, "7th Convalescent Hospital." Grounds of St. Vincent's Hospital showing Russian civilian convalescents including woman holding infant child. MLSs, EXTs, St. Augstin's Hospital; nurses, nuns, and doctors enter and exit from entrance. MLSs, CUs, Russian displaced persons in Ossendorf Camp attend outdoor classes. LSs, civilians dumping coal from hand trucks. LSs, Russian children marching through gates of DP camp outside Cologne.

Note(s)

  • Dates recorded on cameramans' slates: June 7 and 8, 1945

Subjects

  • SCHOOLS
  • MARCHING
  • HOSPITALS
  • GATES
  • GERMANY
  • COAL
  • TRUCKS
  • DOCTORS
  • AMBULANCES
  • RUINS
  • DISPLACED PERSONS (DP) CAMPS
  • NUNS
  • REPATRIATION
  • CHILDREN
  • GERMANS
  • NURSES
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
  • DISPLACED PERSONS (DP)
  • WOMEN
  • MEDICAL PERSONNEL

Places

  • Cologne, Germany

Genre

  • Film
  • Unedited.
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