Swedish Red Cross Aid for prisoners in Germany, 1945

Identifier
irn1003548
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.714.1
  • RG-60.4113
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Swedish
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Nils Jerring (Director)
  • Sveriges Television AB
  • SF (AB Svensk Filmindustri) (Producer)

Scope and Content

"Witness Stand: A Reportage on the Swedish Red Cross Aid Action for Prisoners in Germany" Production date, April 1945. Part 1 Greve Folke Bernadotte leaves for mission to Germany, plane takes off. Red Cross personnel get off a white bus. In Malmo they take a ferry to Copenhagen. Happy, freed prisoners board the boat at the dock. Poles and French land in Sweden. Old women. Small children. Womenfolk. Wagon rolls inland from ferry. Countess Maj-Lis from Eichstedt, born Luening, greets them welcome home. Boarding ambulances, taken to curatorium/convalescent home. Old woman greets her stretcher bearer. Bearer loads her onto ambulance.

Note(s)

  • See also RG-60.4111 and RG-60.4112 for outtakes from this newsreel. See RG-60.4114 for the second half of this newsreel. SVT Note: Original provenance is "SF short film 1709"

Subjects

  • BOATS
  • POLES
  • BUSES
  • WOMEN
  • AMBULANCES
  • RED CROSS
  • PRISONERS
  • DOCTORS

Places

  • , Sweden

Genre

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