Forced labor construction of giant submarine pen

Identifier
irn1000083
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.263.1
  • RG-60.0682
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
  • German naval officer (Camera Operator)

Scope and Content

French POWs, Jewish concentration camp inmates, Polish and Soviet POWs from Neuengamme subcamp Bremen-Farge - forced labor at U-Boat construction site "Valentin" in Bremen. 00:09:50 Concentration camp inmates and POWs coming down several flights of wooden walkway next to high wall, CU of same, some appear to have patches of some sort on their jackets. MS of men walking through construction area next to railroad track. 00:10:40 Roll call of camp inmates. Soviet and Polish POWs eating in construction area, others walking, sitting, and large group clustered eating next to barracks. One funnels food into cup then puts it under spigot. 00:12:48 VS construction site and men working around high walls, small train and ore cars goes by. LS of earlier wooden stairway, work party lifting large metal forms with pulley, men working high up on top of wall. 00:17:55 Work gang moving rails, men on railcars as they move along track. Camp inmates working on scaffolding high up wall. Men working with long metal rods around shack, scaffolding frame next to wall. 00:20:47 Soviet POWs carry girder, Werkschutz guard with them.

Note(s)

  • See Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, V.1, pp 1091 - 1094, especially Bremen-Farge article, for details about the concentration camp, prisoners, numbers, conditions, and mortality rate. Marineoberbaurat Edo Meiners was in charge of the site. The Bremen-Vulkan Shipyard, part of the Thyssen Group, had control of Project Valentin. About 10,000 workers, the majority forced laborers, were employed on the site. The majority of prisoners were French; also strongly represented were Poles, Soviets, and Greeks. From the summer of 1944, a Marine Reserve Detachment of c.250 men took over guarding the prisoners. On the construction site, prisoners were supervised by German foremen. Evacuation of the Farge subcamp began on April 10, 1945.

Subjects

  • NEUENGAMME
  • POWS (POLISH)
  • FOOD
  • EATING
  • POWS (SOVIET)
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS
  • CONSTRUCTION
  • JEWS
  • FORCED LABOR
  • PRISONERS (FRENCH)
  • GERMANY
  • PRISONERS (POLISH)
  • TRAINS
  • PRISONERS (SOVIET)
  • LABOR
  • SUBMARINES
  • UNIFORMS

Places

  • Bremen, Germany

Genre

  • Amateur.
  • Film
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