Germany Awake!

Identifier
irn1000812
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.0955
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

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

Scope and Content

Summary of film: Recounts Germany's wartime experience and encourages German citizens to help effect a successful peace. Reel 3: German civilians are shown bodies in Nordhausen and Belsen concentration camps. People, body parts and objects from the Hadamar Institute are shown briefly. Brief shots of gold earings, teeth, etc. being sorted at Majdanek. American POWs shown. Female survivors being treated by Red Cross workers. Belsen- fields of decaying bodies, German civilians and soldiers placing bodies in trucks to be transported for proper burial. VS of high ranking Nazi officials. 08:14:00:00 Tearing down German Propaganda posters, Allied soldier putting up new posters that read: "Military Government Germany / Supreme Commander's Area of Control / Law No. 151 / Frontier Control" Aerial views of destroyed Berlin. VS, United Nations delegates signing documents at round table, delegates in a large hall cheering, where nations are represented by signs in English. Film ends on CU, angle up, flags of the newly united nations waving in the breeze.

Note(s)

  • Script to this film located in department files.

Subjects

  • WOMEN
  • MAJDANEK
  • SURVIVORS
  • UNITED NATIONS
  • ATROCITIES
  • POWS (AMERICAN)
  • RACE
  • CREMATORIA
  • HADAMAR INSTITUTE
  • RED CROSS
  • CORPSES
  • PROPAGANDA
  • FLAGS
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS
  • NORDHAUSEN

Places

  • Nordhausen, Germany
  • Majdanek, Poland
  • Belsen, 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.