Germans fighting in Kiev; city views; burning town

Identifier
irn1003736
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2005.180.1
  • RG-60.4271
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1941
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

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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.

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