The Hun On The Run 1944

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Item title reads - The Hun on the Run.

Russian troops rides past burning houses left by retreating Germans. Trucks ride through in convoys. M/S in Taganrog where people dig out bodies of civilians buried in antitank ditches after they were executed by the Germans. They are carried away on...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
44500
Sort Number:
44/008
Time in/Out:
01:17:01:00 / 01:22:19:00
Canister:
44/8
Film ID:
1350.11
Issue Date:
27/01/1944

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