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European Tragedy

Reel Number: 221242-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1945

Country: Czechoslovakia,England,France,Germany,United Kingdom,USSR

Location:

TC Begins: 18:34:24

TC Ends: 18:39:31

Duration: 00:05:07

European Tragedy Pt 4 of ? England, celebration at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London w/ huge crowds in streets, double decker buses on roadside; big poster - “Victory Over Germany 1945”, high angle streets filled w/ people. 18:34:41 France, people in streets celebrate liberation, people congratulate each other, kiss, huge, high angle crowds. De Gaulle saluting CU (18:34:50). High angle city ruins; broken tanks & artillery. Man cuts hay, war prisoners in huge field, guarded by soldiers. 18:35:21 Prague rises up, battle in the city. People arrested on street, crowds push German trucks, burn Nazi flag. CU Czech newspaper headlines announce that they will sanitize Republic. They drive out Germans, people w/ belongings in horse carriages, lines of Germans on the road. Germany, returning people join millions on streets after losing homes; streets full of homeless people. Map of forced relocation of Polish people; Polish people in the area which Germans fled from, people on road carry belongings, refugees enter the shelter. 18:37:15 Map shows forced evacuation of German people from Polish & Czechoslovak territory. Large field filled w/ German refugees w/ all their belongings in horse carriages, people on train platforms, still images w/ refugees in the train cars, monument w/ images of Stalin & ?, various images of refugees. 18:38:03 Berlin, refugee crowds queue outside shelters, woman with young children, high angle people camp on streets, women wash clothes in buckets on street; black market broken up by soldiers. 18:38:35 Map showing 9 million displaced people in Germany who want to get back to their homes, refugees on the road, board open top train carriages, high angle filled train. 18:39:00 Displaced children celebrate their first Christmas, men pull in carriage w/ Father Christmas, kids at the table entertained by army officers. Ship into harbor people wanting to emigrate on the dock, all smile, wave. (Incomplete) Post-WWII Displaced Persons; DPs; Resettlement; Displaced Persons; Post-WW2;

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