European War Reports 1944

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Item title reads - European war report.

Various shots of the wrecked U-boat pens at Le Havre and Marseilles, the camera pans across the rubble. Various shots of a white flag stuck in the rubble at Brest as the surrendering German soldiers wait to be collected. Various shots of the Germans surrendering...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
39186
Sort Number:
44/079
Time in/Out:
01:38:01:00 / 01:40:12:00
Canister:
44/79
Film ID:
1125.17
Issue Date:
02/10/1944

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  • at the end of the film, the first village on German soil is "Kornelimünster".
    Now part of the City Aachen/ Germany

    belgium 9th Feb 2013

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