German Field Marshall and Generals confer
Creator(s)
- Fedor von Bock (Subject)
- Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
- Guenther von Kluge (Subject)
- Heeresfilmstelle (Producer)
Biographical History
Fedor von Bock was Commander-in-Chief of Army-Group Centre, 22 June 1941 - 19 Dec 1941, Fuehrer-Reserve OKH, 19 December 1941 - 16 January 1942, C-in-C of Army Group South, 16 January - 9 July 1942.
As of 19 Dec 1941, Günther von Kluge was C-in-C of Army Group Centre.
Scope and Content
Reel 1: 00:33:13 German transport vehicles lined up and being checked/worked on. Piles of wagon parts, wheels, skis/skids, snowshoes, sleds/sleighs. Horse-drawn cart struggles through a muddy field. Table with a crate of dynamite "Monachit", soldier prepares fuses, explosive devices. Soldiers use explosives to break up ice on a river. Views of destroyed bridges. German Field Marshal (Günther von Kluge?) leaving a building with other Generals, departing by car. 00:41:36 Close side view of handshake. FM flag on car, drives off. Soldiers cross a temporary wooden bridge. German soldiers use pickaxes to break up the ground (unclear why?). Soldiers make ammunition belts for machine guns. A soldier fires his gun towards shapes in the distance. A soldier has his shoulder bandaged. Two soldiers come running with a stretcher. CUs of soldiers in a trench, carry a wounded soldier off. German soldiers gather around a field kitchen. Reel 2: 00:45:47 Camouflaged vehicles. Panning shot of a tree line. Russian men and women walking through the streets of a damaged city. CUs of some of the civilians, men on a wagon, a woman holding a baby, three men sitting on a step. An old Russian woman walks down the street, CU of her face. An old Russian man stands on a sidewalk. A large mass of dead Soviet soldiers lie in a trench. Panning shot of a battlefield, severed human leg, bunker. German soldiers work in a trench. CU of a soldier loading a machine gun. Different shots of a battlefield/debris. Smoke rises in a city with a domed church visible. CUs of burning city. Men and horses/wagons move through the destroyed city. German soldiers scavenge through a debris-filled train yard. CU of a burning factory. Soldiers delouse their uniforms using a barrel and fire. Different shots of soldiers moving through a trench; CU of a map. A plane (Russian?) flies over as German soldiers fire at it. Military vehicles struggling through mud.
Note(s)
See departmental files for more detailed information in German from the Bundesarchiv. USHMM copied Reels 1 and 2 in their entirety (Reel 1: 144 meters; Reel 2: 122 meters. There are 4 reels total in this title at the Bundesarchiv).
Conditions of Use and/or Copyright updated. Correspondence from Bundesarchiv in May 2023, initially sent to Leslie Swift states: Public Domain. However, since copyright law may differ between the U.S. and Germany, Use statement U3 is being applied.
Subjects
- TRENCHES
- MACHINE GUNS
- WEAPONS/ARMS
- WOMEN
- TOWNS
- WEHRMACHT (GERMAN ARMY)
- RIVERS
- CIVILIANS
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)
- HORSES
- CARTS/WAGONS
- MUD
- FIRES
- WOUNDED
- WEHRMACHTSAUFNAHMEN
- CORPSES
- RAIL SYSTEMS
- ICE
- MAPS
- MILITARY OFFICERS
- TANKS
- AMMUNITION
- BRIDGES
- UNIFORMS
- CHURCHES
- SOVIET UNION
- MILITARY VEHICLES
- AIRPLANES
- FLAGS
Places
- , Soviet Union
Genre
- Film
- Unedited.
Copies
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