French liberation: FFI, Germans, collaborators, POWs

Identifier
irn1000824
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.0967
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Le Comite de Liberation du Cinema Francais (Producer)
  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference

Scope and Content

Reel 2: FFI and German units fight in the streets. Collaborationists are rounded up. Gestapo torture chambers are examined; prisoners are released. FFI wounded are treated. A rifle is seized from a wounded German. FFI riflemen fire from barricades at German tanks. Shows smashed German vehicles and German POWs. Allied tanks and motorized info enter the city. The tricolor is raised and German signs torn down. Machine guns and rifles are fired at German snipers in the Place de la Concorde.

Note(s)

  • France Libre Actualites.

Subjects

  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (FRENCH)
  • FIGHTING
  • MILITARY ADVANCES
  • WOUNDED
  • PRISONERS
  • LIBERATION
  • WEAPONS/ARMS
  • ALLIES
  • MILITARY VEHICLES
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY
  • GERMANS
  • FRANCE
  • TANKS
  • POWS (GERMAN)
  • GESTAPO
  • ROUNDUPS
  • GUNS
  • FLAGS
  • COLLABORATORS
  • STREETS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)

Places

  • Paris, France

Genre

  • Film
  • Documentary.
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