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Disinterment & Reburial of Russian PoWs, Wulfel, Germany

Reel Number: 200031-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1945

Country: Germany

Location: Wulfel

TC Begins: 09:00:39

TC Ends: 09:08:52

Duration: 00:08:13

Disinterment & Reburial of Russian PoWs, Wulfel, Germany 02May45 : High angle shots of people digging up mass grave - many bodies of murdered Russian prisoners laid out - relatives, military police & investigators? milling around - women holding handkerchiefs over faces. CU body of female prisoner. Convoy of cars & trucks carrying remains moves slowly past camera - followed by men & women on foot, some w/ Soviet flags - relatives of the dead. Top shots convoy, showing bodies wrapped in white cloth on back of trucks. Convoy proceeds past bombed buildings; street sign pointing to Bremen, Hamburg etc. 09:05:22 LS reburial ceremony on hillside w/ large bombed building in BG. Man removing wreath from truck. CU sign on wreath in three languages ‘Lest We Forget - In Remembrance’. Wrapped bodies carried from trucks. Soviet flag held over grave. 09:07:04 Vars shot of people mourning at grave site. CU decomposed corpse on stretcher. Corpses carried for reburial. WWII; War Crimes. Atrocities. Prisoners of War; Exhumation;

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