Private Nazi films; ice sailing; Jews with armbands in Poland (color); Roma camp

Identifier
irn722001
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2016.518
  • RG-60.5481
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1941
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Agentur Karl Hoeffkes
  • Götz Hirt-Reger (Camera Operator)

Biographical History

Götz Hirt-Reger was trained in Berlin as a German film reporter and reported to the Eastern Front as a Nazi soldier. He covered the German advance on Moscow, the battles of Orel, the tank battle of Kursk, the Kuban bridgehead and at the front of the Dnieper. He filmed the German defense of Romania on the Black Sea, joined a raiding patrol against Soviet lines, and witnessed battle in Kischinow and Jassy, where some 250,000 Germans died or fell into Russian captivity. Hirt-Reger filmed the entire war period with two cameras and partly in color. With one camera, he filmed the official recordings or "Deutsche Wochenschau"; with the other, private 16mm Kodak camera, he recorded life of German soldiers in war. See also https://tv.orf.at/orf3/stories/2534405/

Scope and Content

Material from Götz Hirt-Reger. Some parts with title cards in German. Air rifle shooting, women's sport, men's sports, man limps, stadium sports competitions, lunch table. Family, dog, garden, Leipzig. Agriculture, grain harvest in Saxony, hunting. 10:54:41 1943. Ice sailing on the Rangsdorfer See. 11:00:19 German withdrawal in Russia, mud, stuck vehicles, riders. City, bomb damage, Dornier whale. Russia, soldiers hunt pig, tanks. 11:17:17 RAD camp (color). Brief shot, Jews performing hard labor. 11:17:49 Title card: "Warschau ost-Einfahrt" City views, rubble, Jews with armbands (color), around April 1940. 11:18:43 Title card: "Ruckfahrt nach Radom" RAD, bare-chested men, digging, "Latrine" sign on barracks. 11:20:12 Russia, refugees walking along road. 11:23:40 to 11:27:28 Roma camp in Tiraspol. 11:27:30 Hanged Jews in Minsk in November 1941. (see also RG-60.1281). Burning Russian wooden crate, color.

Places

  • , Soviet Union
  • Leipzig, Germany
  • Lublin, Poland

Genre

  • Film
  • Amateur.
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