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  • Short Summary

    German POWs, ruins of a bombed airfield and British troops blow up a wrecked bridge.

  • Description

    Unused / unissued material - dates and locations unclear or unknown.

    Germany (probably 1945).

    Several shots of bombed railway lines and wagons. M/S of German sign on the side of a wrecked wagon.

    Young German soldier stares at the camera until British soldiers decide that's enough and push him away. Panning shot of large crowd of German POWs (prisoners of war).

    Shots of wrecked planes and buildings at an airfield.

    Soldiers look at ruined buildings. Troops travel in a tank under a partly wrecked bridge. Soldiers inspect a ruined plane at the airfield. L/S of the wrecked bridge being blown up.

    A soldier has a wash. One of his mates washes his back for him.

    Researches indicates that the scene with a train station is Wintermoor, near Soltau, Germany, in April 1945, after an airstrike on the transport of munitions. The scene at an airfield is Wenzendorf near Buchholz/Nordheide, Germany. The scene of blasting a bridge over a highway is the Autobahn A1 near Maschen, Germany.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    1994.08
    Media URN:
    62174
    Group:
    Unissued unused
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    Sound:
    Mute
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:05:09:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:26:34:00 / 01:31:43:00
    Canister:
    UN 1151 B

Comments (1)

  1. Unknown user says

    Note at 0:35 the sign in the background the sign saying "PW Cage" - a PW cage was a temporary field installation designed to hold prisoners of war, pending further evacuation.

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