Minsk in ruins
Creator(s)
- Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
Scope and Content
LS pan of billowing smoke over burning Minsk (in daytime). Pan of rubble, views of soldiers, buildings afire, motorcycle (with sidecar) and jeeps drive down street through destroyed town. LS of big blocky building (Communist architecture) and shot of Lenin statue (narration calls it the "Soviet paradise"). VAR rubble heaps, some smoking; civilians sorting through; MLS of very little children wandering around rubble, watching adults try to salvage what they can. Jeep/trucks drive through muddy streets of village, invading. In BG, citizens watch by edge of house.
Subjects
- INVASION OF THE SOVIET UNION
- CIVILIANS
- SOVIET UNION
- RUINS
- JEEPS
- HOUSES
- VILLAGES
- RUBBLE
- BUILDINGS
- CHILDREN
- STATUES
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)
- TRUCKS
- FIRES
- MOTORCYCLES
- USHMM (PERMANENT EXHIBITION)
- MILITARY ADVANCES
- SMOKE
- STREETS
- INVASIONS
- DESTRUCTION
Places
- Minsk, Soviet Union
Genre
- Newsreels.
- Film
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Bundesarchiv, Berlin-Lichterfelde (Abteilung Filmarchiv)