Liberation of Prussia, including Insterburg POW camp
Creator(s)
- Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (Krasnogorsk)
Scope and Content
A column of German civilians carrying their belongings flees the Soviet advance. The narrator says that all roads of escape have been blocked. Close-up on a poster advertising the German Volkssturm. Captured German troops and civilians. Close-up of Margarethe Gensler, who the narrator says was a female member of the SS. A woman points out a man who she says used slave labor at his factory. POWs, including French and British soldiers are liberated from the Insterburg (Prussia) POW camp. The men exit through a barbed wire gate and receive cigarettes from Soviet soldiers. Brief close-up of a former POW with a badge showing the British flag on his lapel. French prisoners walk in a column carrying a French flag.
Subjects
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (SOVIET)
- POWS (FRENCH)
- POWS (SOVIET)
- SIGNS/POSTERS
- POWS (GERMAN)
- POWS (BRITISH)
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY
- POW CAMPS
- POWS
- LIBERATION
Places
- , Soviet Union
Genre
- Documentary.
- Film