German troops return home

Identifier
irn1004641
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.141.1
  • RG-60.1362
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • UFA (Producer)
  • Imperial War Museums

Scope and Content

Banner welcoming soldiers returning home by train reads a Hearty Welcome to you Brave Soldiers. Women, children and old men wave joyfully, and soldiers descending from railway cars hug girls, who offer flowers, to sound of song including Herrlich ist die Heimat. Tank crews lift children onto their flower-garlanded tanks to play. Cheering Germans in garrison town welcome back tank regiment as it parades by. Hitler Youth boys wave white handkerchiefs and young members of the BDM throw flowers at the tanks passing by. CUs of Germans.

Note(s)

  • Original newsreel number is DW 514.

Subjects

  • SWASTIKAS
  • FLOWERS
  • CHILDREN
  • GERMANS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)
  • BDM (LEAGUE OF GERMAN GIRLS)
  • TANKS
  • WOMEN
  • MILITARY VEHICLES
  • TRAINS
  • PARADES

Places

  • , Germany

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.