POWs liberated; medical care; burning village; evacuation; French troops

Identifier
irn1003139
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1998.188.1
  • RG-60.3677
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • French
Source
EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

00:01:57 "Temoignages Accablants" Sasbach, Westphalia (20 km from Stuttgart) Prisoners of war, various nationalities. In striped uniforms, liberation. Good CUs faces, survivors. Barbed wire. Burial, carrying bodies on litter. MS, military burial, French officers and military salute with accompanying music, CU headstone. Fire. Survivors at table, talking to officers. Nurses provide medical treatment. Put weak survivor in truck. 00:04:44 "A travers la foret Noire" French troops, bicycles and by foot through the woods. Dead Germans. Tanks, good landscape atmosphere. Liberation. Burning village. Women with belongings, pulling bundles, fleeing. Burning buildings, smoke. LS, nurse attempt to rescue in fire. Tanks, troops, crossing river Tauben. Town (Stuttgart?), troops, liberating prisoners. German soldiers with hands behind head. Soldiers leaving town with bundles, waving. 00:09:56 "La Prise de Stuttgart" (no footage, intertitle only)

Note(s)

  • Opening credit: Service Cinema Armee Francaise

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