Gestapo Torture Chamber 1944

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Title reads: "Gestapo Torture Chamber".

Paris, France.

Various shots of French officials, including F.F.I. (French Forces of the Interior), members looking at stakes at which victims were shot. The bullets have reduced the tops of the stakes to splinters. The execution posts are inside...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
39137
Sort Number:
44/073
Time in/Out:
01:52:55:00 / 01:53:52:00
Canister:
44/73
Film ID:
1123.23
Issue Date:
11/09/1944

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