Wuhlfel burial of Russian POWs

Identifier
irn1003776
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.712.1
  • RG-60.4323
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
  • United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
  • Hardwick (Camera Operator)

Scope and Content

(LIB 6231) Disinterment, Reburial of Russian Prisoners of War, Wuhlfel, Germany, May 2, 1945 Head-on shots, several Russian civilians riding bicycles; red flag on handlebars of first bike. LSs, city hall building in Hanover. MSs, CUs, German civilians dig up bodies of 250 murdered Russian prisoners. MSs, bodies are wrapped in white sheets, placed in trucks, and transported to reburial grounds. VAR, released Russian slave laborers observing reburial. Pan from German civilians carrying bodies to Russian flag flyings atop pole. CU, Russian flag lowered to half-mast. MCU, US chaplain conducting services. MS, Honor Guard firing volley.

Note(s)

  • See RG-60.4322, Film ID 2743 for more burial scenes in Wuhlfel.

Subjects

  • BURIALS
  • BICYCLES
  • FLAGS
  • CORPSES
  • CHAPLAINS
  • MASS GRAVES
  • POWS
  • GERMANS
  • CIVILIANS
  • GERMANY
  • POWS (SOVIET)
  • RELIGIOUS SERVICES

Places

  • Wuhlfel, Germany

Genre

  • Unedited.
  • Film
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