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3,500 German POWs; Mine Clearing; German Rocket Scientists Surrender; 03-04May45

Reel Number: 221651-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1945

Country: Austria,Germany

Location: Furstenzell,Limbach,Reutte

TC Begins: 10:15:40

TC Ends: 10:24:48

Duration: 00:09:08

3,500 German POWs; Mine Clearing; German Rocket Scientists Surrender; 03-04May45 LIB 6369 Slate. 04May45 MPs leading 3,500 German prisoners of war marching along road, Furstenzell, Germany many officers among POWs. CU boots past. 10:16:31 German men & Red Cross women feeding prisoners along roadside; MS pouring coffee. 10:16:47 Slate R2. Prisoner leaving food stop; CU getting soup, faces. 10:17:36 Marching towards camera from above road. LS from field of group walking. CU past camera. Overhead shot. NOTE much of roll has negative scratches. 10:18:57 LIB 6370 Limbach, Germany Slate: 04May45. Roll 1 US soldier into field to fence w/ danger sign for mines. MCU turning & gesturing forward. US Army truck & soldiers along lane & stops, village behind. 10:20:06 Slate. Roll 2 Troops march across field; US army trucks on road in background. Soldiers stop, put down small bazooka-like weapon & CU of hands tying dynamite (?) fuse or rope. Taping mortar shell (?). 10:21:14 Slate. Roll 3 CU GI w/ knife holding & scraping mortar shell w/ small wire. MS fixing coil of rope or fuse to mortar shell w/ tape & loading cut-away barrel. CU tying knot. Officer watches, men walk back & lay down, signal & twisting of switch to fire. 10:22:16 Slate. Roll 4 Fire twice, first short. Pulling rope back. CUt taping rope onto metal line. Firing dynamite fuse across mine field. GI walks along strip & signals rest to follow. 10:23:21 Slate. Roll 5 CU boots, ls men walking across field path cleared of mines. 10:23:44 LIB 6347 03May45 Reutte, Germany (?). Wernher Von Braun (w/ arm in cast) w/ German Maj. Gen. Walter Dornberger & Pennemunde lab staff out of building in light snow. Speaking (MOS) to US Lt. Col Herber Axter. CUs. WWII; WW2; Surrendering; German Rocket Scientists; Mine Clearing; 1945; Operation Paperclip;

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