Germans fighting in Kiev; city views; burning town
Creator(s)
- Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
- Heeresfilmstelle (Producer)
Scope and Content
Reel 1: 00:42:40 Kiev railway station, exterior and platform view. Postal signs. Portraits of Engels and Marx. Shot of a post box. Downtown Kiev scenes, including ZUM Department Store. Men work on constructing a bridge. Damaged buildings. Reel 6: 00:45:05 Buildings burning (set on fire by Ukrainians), probably September. The wounded are bandaged inside a building (poor quality). 00:46.17 Russian prisoners cook soup in bathtubs. Russian women and children huddle on the ground in front of a building. German soldiers walk towards a village that is engulfed in flames, various shots of the village. German troops with flamethrowers setting homes on fire. Blazing buildings, closeup.
Note(s)
See departmental files for more detailed information in German from the Bundesarchiv. Viewed with Vadim Altskan for location identification. Reel 1: USHMM ocpied 26 of 152 meters; Reel 6: USHMM copied 48 of 173 meters. There are 7 reels of this film 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
- RUINS
- DESTRUCTION
- WEHRMACHTSAUFNAHMEN
- WOUNDED
- MILITARY ADVANCES
- SHOPS
- REFUGEES
- UKRAINE
- VILLAGES
- INVASION OF THE SOVIET UNION
- CITIES
- CIVILIANS
- PRISONERS (SOVIET)
- FIRES
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)
- SOVIET UNION
Places
- , Soviet Union
- , Ukraine
- Kyiv (Kiev), Soviet Union
Genre
- Unedited.
- Film
Copies
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