- Title: VM-1204
- Summary: EUROPE IN TRAGEDY: PLIGHT OF EUROPEAN REFUGEES, DISPLACED PERSONS MADE HOMELESS BY WAR DURING WWII.
- Description:00:18:08 - OCEAN LINER DOCKED AT PORT IN HAVANA, CUBA, MAY, 1939, SMALL BOATS IN F/G MCU NAME OF LINER ON BOW "FLANDRE" . VOICE OVER: "AS FLANDRE DOCKS IN HAVANA HARBOR ITS PASSENGERS ARE REFUSED PERMISSION TO LAND". "THESE ARE SOME OF THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES FROM EUROPE WHO FIND THEMSELVES HOMELESS AND UNWANTED". "THEIR FATE IS BUT THE PROLOGUE OF EUROPE'S TRAGEDY". 00:18:12 - MS REFUGEES PEER FROM BEHIND BARS OF ENTRANCE GATE. MS ELDERLY WOMAN WAVES FROM DOCK UP TO LITTLE GIRL ON DECK OF SHIP. TO LITTLE GIRL. MAN ON SHORE SPEAKS TO WOMAN PEERING THROUGH PORTHOLE OF SHIP. ABOVE SHOT WOMAN ON DICK BENDS OVER TO SPEAK TO REFUGEE PEERING THROUGH PORT HOLE WELL BELOW THE DOCK. 00:18:30 - ANIMATED MAP OF EUROPE SHOW HOW "CENTURIES OF WARS AND MIGRATION HAS SCATTERED PEOPLES OF MOST VARIED STOCK OVER THE FACE OF THE CONTINENT". VOICE OVER EXPLAINS HOW VARIOUS COUNTRIES HAVE BI-LINGUAL POPULATIONS. SAYS HOW "GERMANS ARE EVERYWHERE" 00:19:32 - FOREIGN MINISTER MOLOTOV MEETING GERMAN MINISTER IN MOSCOW (AUGUST 23, 1939). TWO NATIONS (GERMANY AND SOVIET UNION) AS TWO DICTATORS (HITLER AND STALIN) AGREE TO DIVIDE THE CONTINENT BETWEEN THEMSELVES. MCU STALIN. ANIMATED MAP SHOWS HOW. 00:19:50 - MONTAGE GERMAN BOMBERS IN FLIGHT, RUSSIAN CAVALRY CHARGING, TANKS ON THE MOVE AS HITLER FEELS AUTHORIZED TO GRAB POLAND, STALIN SOON ANNEXES THE BALKANS."THE SECOND WORLD WAR STARTS WITH THE TRAGEDY OF POLAND". 00:20:06 - POLISH WOMEN REFUGEES ON THE MOVE. ("POLES ARE THE WORLD'S FIRST REFUGEES"). VARIOUS SHOTS REFUGEES. WOMAN HOLDS BOWL IN HAND HOPING TO GET FED. PEOPLE IN WARSAW WATCH IN DESPAIR AS GERMAN TROOPS PASS. ("WARSAW LATER BECOMES SYMBOL OF POLISH RESISTANCE"). 00:20:32 - MS IN THREE SHORT WEEKS GERMAN AND RUSSIAN TROOP COMMANDERS MEET AT THE AGREED DEMARCATION LINE, SHAKE HANDS. CU WRITTEN AGREEMENT. ANIMATED MAP SHOWS PARTITION OF POLAND. SHOWS HOW VARIED NATIONALS ARE MOVED AROUND. 00:20:59 - RUSSIAN FREIGHT TRAIN WITH TWO ENGINEERS SEATED IN FRONT, ARRIVING AT GERMAN STATION. MS RUSSIAN AND GERMAN OFFICERS LOOK OVER PAPERS. CU FACE SHOT SMILING RUSSIAN OFFICER READING PAPER. MS WORKERS SHOVEL RUSSIAN WHEAT OUT OF BOX CARS. OTHERS USE BIG HOSE TO SUCK RUSSIAN OIL OUT OF TANK CARS. 00:21:21 - PAN SAND BAGS WITH FACE OF HITLER AND OTHERS WITH UMBRELLAS (SIGNIFYING PM CHAMBERLAIN ?). PEOPLE PILING SAND BAGS AROUND AND AGAINST BUILDINGS TO PROTECT FROM AIR RAIDS. LS CATHEDRAL WITH BARRAGE BALLOONS IN AIR TO PROTECT AGAINST LOW FLYING DIVE BOMBERS (?) ST. LAURENCE CHURCH BULLETIN BOARD WITH SIGN: "IF YOUR KNEES KNOCK, KNEEL ON THEM". 00:21:29 - CU SOLDIER KISSING CRYING WOMAN ON FACE. CU WOMAN HOLDS FACE OF FRENCH SOLDIER IN HER HANDS BEFORE KISSING HIM. CU MAN PLACING GAS MASK ON FACE OF LITTLE GIRL. SAME ON INFANT. MS LITTLE BOY FIGHTS, AND STRUGGLES TO AVOID GAS MASK. LITTLE GIRL SAME. LITTLE CHILD WALKS WITH GAS MASK CANISTER AROUND NECK. 00:21:55 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINE IN ENGLAND: "CALLING OUT AIR FORCE RESERVE". AS EXPEDITIONARY FORCE IS RAISED TO FIGHT ON WESTERN FRONT. CIVILIAN MEN SIT ON GROUND AS THEY AWAIT JOINING UP. MS HUNDREDS BRITISH SOLDIERS AT ATTENTION WITH RIFLES, FACING CAMERA. 00:22:00 - GERMAN SOLDIERS, ARTILLERY CREWS BEGIN ATTACK ON FRANCE (MAY 1940). GERMAN SOLDIERS RUNNING THROUGH VILLAGE. LONG COLUMN OF ARMORED VEHICLES, TANKS ON ROAD TO FRANCE. 00:22:16 - REFUGEES ON ROADS IN BELGIUM AND FRANCE, INCLUDE LITTLE GIRL AND OTHER CHILDREN WITH BABY CARRIAGES FULL OF BELONGINGS, TOWARDS CAMERA.. SOLDIER FEEDS CHILD TIN CUP OF WATER. RETREATING FRENCH TROOPS ON HORSEBACK AND IN WAGONS. MCU EXHAUSTED SOLDIER. SLEEP IN SITTING POSITIONS. 00:22:34 - REFUGEES WITH BIKES, ON HORSE AND WAGON, PASS THROUGH FRENCH VILLAGE. THREE ELDERLY, WRAPPED IN BLANKETS, RIDE ON BACK OF WAGON. ABOVE VIEW CATHOLIC NUNS WALKING. PUSHING CARTS PASS ALONG CANAL TOWARDS CAMERA. 00:22:50 - FRENCH SOLDIERS FALL TO THEIR KNEES AGAINST SHORT WALL AS SOUNDS OF GERMAN DIVE BOMBERS ARE HEARD OVERHEAD. LS HUGE EXPLOSION FRON BOMB. FRENCH SOLDIER CARRYING WHITE FLAG WALKS DOWN CITY STREET ALONG TROLLEY TRACKS. IN A MERE 6 WEEKS THE CAMPAIGN IS OVER, ENDING IN ARMISTICE. GERMAN TROOPS RIDE IN ON TRUCKS. HORDES OF REFUGEES RETURN TO THEIR HOMES. 00:23:10 - LINER FULL OF ETHNIC GERMANS WHO HAVE SETTLED IN BALTICS, COME BACK TO THE REICH AFTER SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS. GERMAN SOLDIERS HELP FAMILIES OFF SHIP. "HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS WHOSE FATE WAS DECIDED BETWEEN STALIN AND HITLER, SOON FIND THEIR HOME IN GERMANY IS STRANGE AND ALIEN". CU GERMAN OFFICER HOLDS SMALL CHILD IN ARMS. THEY SETTLE IN TERRITORY GERMANY JUST TOOK FROM POLES". 00:23:26 - PEOPLE LINE RAILROAD STATION GIVE NAZI SALUTE TO PEOPLE IN TRAIN AS IT PULLS INTO STATION TOWARDS CAMERA. 00:23:28 - VARIOUS VIEWS CARAVANS OF GERMAN PEOPLE TRAVELING THROUGH SNOW BOUND ROADS IN COVERED WAGONS AS THEY RIDE FROM THEIR HOMES IN BALKANS TO THEIR NEW HOMES. WAGON STOPS ON BRIDGE, RIDER SHAKES HANDS WITH GERMAN OFFICER. ROWS OF HUNDREDS OF PARKED COVERED WAGONS CAMPED IN ROUTE TO DESTINATION IN POLAND. MS WOMAN WITH BABUSHKA HEAD COVER WRAPS HERSELF IN HEAVY SHEEPSKIN(?) BLANKET. 00:23:53 - MS MAN NAILS SHUT DOOR TO HOUSE IN AFTER GERMANS WERE FORCED TO LEAVE THEIR ANCIENT FARMS IN LITHUANIA, YUGOSLAVIA AND THEIR VILLAGES IN SERBIA AND CROATIA. 00:24:10 - VARIOUS SCENES GERMANS AS WELL AS ROMANIANS ON THE MOVE IN VARIETY CONVEYANCES, AS RESULT OF GERMAN SOVIET PACT. 00:24:32 - GERMAN SOLDIERS ARE SILHOUETTED BY BURNING BUILDINGS AT NIGHT AS DICTATORS PACT FALLS APART. RUSSIAN REFUGEES ON THE MOVE AS HITLER'S ATTACK ON RUSSIA TURNS EUROPEAN TRAGEDY INTO NIGHTMARE. THE ATTACK UNLEASHES FORCES WHICH WILL TURN 50 MILLION PEOPLE INTO HOMELESS WANDERERS. 00:24:42 - RUSSIAN WOMAN AND CHILDREN CRAWL OUT OF UNDERGROUND SHELTERS, MOVE DOWN ROADS, CARRYING BELONGS. SOLDIER IN TRUCK MOUNTED WITH MACHINE GUNS HANGS OVER SIDE, DEAD (GRAPHIC). 00:25:08 - MS GROUP PEASANT WOMAN STANDING AROUND, CRYING. GRAPHIC SHOT PEASANTS WRAP THEIR DEAD AND PUT THEM IN COFFINS AS THOSE WHO OPPOSED FORCED INCORPORATION OF THEIR NATION INTO THE SOVIET UNION WERE MURED AND DEPORTED. MS PEASANT WOMAN CRYING AND PLEADING. 00:25:16 - ANIMATED MAP OF EUROPE SHOWS HOW STARTING IN 1939 MILLIONS OF POLES, LITHUANIAN AND LATVIANS, WERE FORCIBLY SETTLED IN THE INTERIOR OF SOVIET UNION, BY STALIN'S DECREE GERMAN MINORITIES WERE FORCED OUT OF THEIR COMMUNITIES AND TRANSPORTED TO SIBERIA. "NO ONE KNOWS THE EXACT NUMBERS FORCIBLY DEPORTED, NEVER TO RETURN." MS REFUGEES BEING PACKED INTO BOX CARS. GRAVE YARD WITH CROSSES. 00:25:50 - HAND PEEL THROUGH THICK BOOK OF NAMES. VOICE OVER NAMES OF MISSING FROM ESTONIA ALONE FILLS VOLUMES". MS ABOVE VIEW TRAINS GOING ONE WAY PASS THE OTHER GOING THE OTHER WAY. TOWARDS AND AWAY FROM CAMERA. 00:26:04 - MS GERMAN MEN IN BLACK TRENCH COATS, PICK OUT MEN AND WOMEN FROM CROWD OF REFUGEES TO WORK AS FORCED LABOR AS HITLER'S WAR MACHINE NEEDS HUMAN FODDER. ANIMATED MAP SHOWS HOW WORKERS WERE DRAWN FROM ALL OVER EUROPE, THEY COME IN HORDES FROM OCCUPIED NATIONS, DEPORTEES, ETC. "MANY WILL NEVER COME BACK". "THE TRAGEDY OF JEWS IS WITHOUT PARALLEL IN TRAGEDY OF EUROPE". 00:26:26 - LS PAN ABOVE SHOT REFUGEES BY THREE THOUSANDS MOVE ON WINDING ROAD AS FAR AS EYE CAN SEE, TOWARDS CAMERA.. MCU SAME. CU FEET OF REFUGEES ON ROAD. WOMAN WITHOUT SHOES. 00:26:41 - ABOVE VIEW PEOPLE WALK BY DEAD BODY IN WARSAW GHETTO. TWO LITTLE CHILDREN SIT ON CURB, BUNDLED UP, STARVING, AS "OFFICIAL DECREE CONDEMNS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS TO DEATH BY STARVATION, OTHERS ARE SENT TO GAS CHAMBERS". GROUP LITTLE KIDS CROUCH ON GROUND WITH ADULT WOMAN, EAST FOOD FROM BOWL. VOICE OVER WOMAN SINGING PATHETIC SONG IN GERMAN AS OTHER SCENES, CHILDREN, WOMEN SEATED ON GROUND AGAINST BUILDINGS WAITING TO DIE OF STARVATION. AS PEOPLE PASS THEM LIKE THEY DONT EXIST. 00:27:27 - LS SHIP IN HARBOR WITH LUCKY FEW THAT ESCAPED FROM ALL CORNERS OF CONTINENT. 00:27:31 - VARIOUS SHOTS PEOPLE FROM ALL CORNERS OF CONTINENT THAT WERE LUCKY TO HAVE ESCAPED SPEAK TO CAMERA. MCU TWO YOUNG WOMEN WITH LARGE STRAW HATS, "WE COME FROM VIENNA. MCU YOUNG MAN "I COME FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA (IN NATIVE LANGUAGE), COUPLE WITH DAUGHTER ,"OUR HOME WAS SPAIN",; CU YOUNG COUPLE "WE ARE MAN AND WIFE FROM BOHEMIA", YOUNG COUPLE "MY HUSBAND WAS CIVIL ENGINEER, AND OUR HOME WAS BELGIUM. 00:27:48 - MCU RUSSIAN OFFICER GIVES SIGNAL FOR ARTILLERY TO FIRE. VARIOUS VIEWS HUGE CANNONS FIRING BARRAGES AS RUSSIA GOES ON THE DEFENSIVE. VARIOUS WAR SCENES RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ADVANCING THROUGH VILLAGE; MACHINE GUN FIRING; RUSSIAN SOLDIER ADVANCING SLIPS THEN THROWS HAND GRENADE, SOLDIER FOLLOWING BEHIND FALLS DEAD; RUSSIAN CAVALRY CHARGING THROUGH FIELD UNDER FIRE. 00:28:08 - MCU GERMAN HELMET ON GROUND WITH BIG HOLE IN IT. FACE SHOT DEAD GERMAN (GRAPHIC); RUSSIAN FEET RUNNING PAST GERMAN BODIES. FEMALE RUSSIAN MEDIC BANDAGES HEAD OF WOUNDED SOLDIER AMID DEBRIS OF BUILDING. MORE OF VICTORIOUS RUSSIANS. 00:28:28 - RUSSIAN HIGH COMMAND ENTERS LOG HOUSE TO ACCEPT GERMAN SURRENDER AT STALINGRAD. MS GERMAN FIELD MARSHAL POLLER (?) SIGNS SURRENDER OF GERMAN ARMY. PAN RUSSIAN AND GERMAN OFFICERS AT TABLE. LS FIREWORKS FILL SKY AT NIGHT OVER MOSCOW. HAPPY WOMEN EMBRACE, KISS. PAN HAPPY FACES. LS MORE FIREWORKS. AS STALIN PROCLAIMS "THE PATRIOTIC WAR", COMMUNISM HAS RE-DISCOVERED THE STRENGTH OF NATIONAL SENTIMENT". 00:29:03 - AERIAL VIEW TENS OF THOUSANDS GERMAN PRISONERS MARCH THROUGH STREETS ON MOSCOW. SAME TOWARDS CAMERA. OTHER CLOSER SHOTS. ELDERLY WOMAN LOOKS ON IN SCORN. MCU WOMAN SPITS AT THEM, THROWS SOMETHING. HUGE CROWD RUSSIANS FOLLOW PARADE OF PRISONERS. (SHOTS OF BEATEN ENEMY). 00:29:30 - TWO SANITATION TRUCKS WATER DOWED STREETS FOLLOWING PARADE. 00:29:34 - CU WHISTLE ON LOCOMOTIVE SOUNDS. BOX CAR DOOR IS SHUT AS GERMAN PRISONERS TAKE LAST LOOK AT SUNLIGHT ON WAY TO PRISON CAMP. FOR MANY, THEIR LAST JOURNEY, "A FATE THEY SHARE WITH 3 MILLION SOVIETS CAPTURED BY GERMANS". SOVIET SOLDIER LOCKS BOX CAR DOOR. PAN BOX CARS AS TRAIN TAKES OFF. 00:29:59 - RUSSIAN REFUGEES RETURNING, VARIOUS SCENES RUSSIAN RETURNING REFUGEES DIGGING UP MASS GRAVES OF THE LOVED ONES LEFT BEHIND. HYSTERICAL, CRYING WOMEN REACT TO SIGHT. CROWDS GREET RUSSIAN LIBERATORS. CU RUSSIAN SOLDIER IS KISSED BY WOMAN. 00:30:20 - REFUGEES WHO FEAR COMMUNISM MORE THAN THE ENEMY JOIN GERMANS IN THEIR RETREAT. MLS HUGE EXPLOSION BLOWS UP ROAD BEHIND RETREATING GERMANS. 00:30:34 - POLISH REFUGEES MOSTLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN, WHO WERE TRANSPORTED TO SIBERIA IN 1939 MOVE AGAIN FROM SIBERIA TO IRAN, TWO GROUPS MEET IN ROAD, WOMEN KISS HUG THEIR CHILDREN. OUTDOOR CATHOLIC MASS IS CELEBRATED BY REFUGEES. VARIOUS SHOTS EMACIATED BOYS AS ORDEAL HAS LEFT ITS MARK. CU BOY IS PRACTICALLY ALL BONES AND FLESH, PEERS INTO CAMERA. 00:31:18 - POLISH WOMEN, THEN MEN MARCH IN SOVIET UNIFORMS AS THEY JOIN IN FIGHT AGAINST GERMANS. CU SMALL POLISH UNDERGROUND PRESS IN ACTION IN POLAND. MLS POLISH MAN PAINTS SCAFFOLD WITH NAZI SWASTIKA HANGING FROM ROPE, ON WALL. OTHERS HANGS HITLER IN EFFIGY ON LAMP POST. MAN IN TRENCH COAT, BACK TO CAMERA, READS SPRAWLING ON HOUSE WALL BOLDLY TELLING GERMANS "THE WAR IS LOST"..00 31 49 MORE REFUGEES HIT ROAD TO ESCAPE SOVIET COMMISSARS. MS TEAM OF CAMELS HITCHED TO WAGON. (oddity) . FINNISH REFUGEES ON THE MOVE AGAIN AS FARMS CHANGE HANDS FOR THE THIRD TIME IN FIVE YEARS. FACE SHOTS CHILDREN, WOMEN. 00:32:00 - CU MAN WITH KNIFE IN HAND EATS MORSEL OF FOOD. 00:32:11 - ANIMATED MAP SHOW HOW KOREANS FLED AND RUSSIANS TOOK OVER IN 1939; 1941 RUSSIANS FLED AND THE FINNS CAME BACK; 1944 RUSSIANS RETURN AND FINNS MUST LEAVE AGAIN. 00:32:20 - ROCKET BARRAGES LIGHT UP THE NIGHT, AS GERMANS TRY TO STOP UNSTOPPABLE SOVIET DIVISIONS. SHOTS GERMAN SOLDIERS IN ACTION. CU FACE SHOT YOUNG GERMAN SOLDIER DIGGING FOXHOLE. COLUMNS SOLDIERS, REFUGEES, PRISONERS OF WAR MARCH THROUGH VILLAGES. 00:33:00 - VARIOUS VIEWS CROWDS REFUGEES GATHER AT PIERS, SHIPS CROWDED WITH REFUGEES MOVE BY SEA, AS E. PRUSSIA IS CUT OFF AND 450,000 ARE BROUGHT WESTWARD TO REMAINING GERMAN BRIDGEHEAD. 00:33:13 - U SMALL GERMAN BY DRINKING FROM CUP GERMAN SOLDIER POSES WITH CHILD IN ARMS. 00:33:22 - GERMAN WARSHIP CROWDED WITH REFUGEES SAILS OUT TO SEA. DESPITE MINES, SUBMARINES, ATTACKS FROM AIR. "SOME MAKE IT SOME DON'T" LS SINKING SHIP LOADED WITH 3000 REFUGEES, ALL BUT 900 DIE. SHOTS REFUGEES IN LIFEBOATS. 00:33:40 - VARIOUS SHOTS THOUSANDS REFUGEES TRYING TO FLEE IN 1945, ON ICE OF FROZEN RIVERS, THOUSANDS DIE OF DROWNING AS BOMBS SHATTER THE ICE, CHAR HORSES AND PEOPLE (GRAPHIC PHOTOS) . GENERALLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN, OLD AND SICK. CU DEAD BODIES. 00:34:27 - AERIAL SPECTACULAR SHOTS OF DRESDEN, GERMANY BURNING AFTER FIRE BOMBED BY ALLIED PLANES. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS DIE IN HOLOCAUST OF FIRE BOMBS AND BOMBS."MORE PEOPLE DIED HERE THAN THE LATER A-BOMB ATTACK ON HIROSHIMA". "THE NUMBER MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO BURY THE DEAD". VARIOUS GRAPHIC PHOTOS INCLUDING SKELETAL REMAINS OF THE CITY, TELL STORY. 00:35:06 - PAN DOWN BELL TOWER GOVERNMENTAL BUILDING (CATHEDRAL (?) TO HUGE CROWD IN STREETS, BELLS CHIMING AS HUGE CROWDS IN ENGLAND CELEBRATE PEACE AND SURVIVAL. AERIAL VIEWS MILLIONS IN STREETS AMID TWIN DECKER BUSES. LARGE SIGN ON BUILDING "VICTORY OVER GERMANY 1945". CROWD IN FRANCE KISSING SOLDIERS. 00:35:27 - CU GENERAL DEGAUL SALUTING. MILLIONS JAM UNDER ARCH DE TRIOMPHE. AERIAL VIEWS UTTER DESTRUCTION OF CITIES. DESTROYED MILITARY VEHICLES FILL FIELDS, SILENT CANNONS. MAN CUTTING WHEAT WITH SICKLE. OPEN FIELDS FULL OF TENS THOUSANDS GERMAN PRISONERS. 00:35:58 - HANDS OF FREEDOM FIGHTERS IN PRAGUE GRAB HAND GRENADES FROM BOX. ABOVE VIEW GERMAN SOLDIERS IN STREETS UNDER ATTACK BY SNIPERS POV SNIPER. FREEDOM FIGHTERS DRAG WOUNDED COMRADE TO SAFETY. EMOTION TAKES OVER AS MANY CIVILIANS WHO COLLABORATED WITH ENEMY SURRENDER WITH HANDS UP. FLAGS AND ANY VESTIGE OF GERMAN OCCUPATION ARE BURNED IN STREET. GERMAN FAMILIES ARE DRIVEN OUT CAUSING MORE REFUGEE MOVEMENT. CROWDS GERMAN REFUGEES HIT THE ROAD. MORE THAN 2 MILLION GERMAN LIVES ARE LOST DURING THESE FORCED EXPULSIONS. 00:37:00 - VARIOUS SHOTS REFUGEES IN STREETS OF DESTROYED GERMAN CITIES FIND UTTER CHAOS. 00:37:15 - ANIMATED MAO SHOWS HOW ENTIRE STATE, POLAND, IS TRANSPLANTED EAST TO WEST BECAUSE OF AGREEMENT AT POTSDAM, THEY SETTLE IN AREAS WHICH GERMANS HAVE FLED. MORE REFUGEES ON MOVE. ONE QUARTER OF LAND REPRESENTING PRE-HITLER GERMANY IS PUT UNDER POLISH OR SOVIET ADMINISTRATION (ANIMATED MAP). ABOVE VIEW REFUGEES IN WAGONS CRAMMED WITH BELONGINGS. TWO LITTLE GIRLS SEATED IN WAGON. OTHER SHOTS OF MASSIVE NUMBER OF REFUGEES 00:38:43 - WOMAN DRAGS BABBY CARRIAGE LOADED WITH BELONGINGS AS HER FOUR LITTLE CHILDREN HELP HER PUSH THE HEAVY BURDEN. PAN THOUSANDS WOMEN, CHILDREN SLEEPING IN STREETS, BARELY ENOUGH ROOM BETWEEN THEM.. 00:38:58 - TWO YOUNG BERLIN WOMEN WASH THEIR CLOTHING AT OUTDOOR WATER PUMP. "ON THESE STREETS THE BLACK MARKET OFFERS THE BEST CHANCE TO STAY ALIVE". 00:39:17 - ANIMATED MAP SHOWS HOW 9 MILLION DISPLACED PERSONS TRYING TO GET BACK TO THEIR HOMES. LS MORE COLUMNS REFUGEES. YEARS GO BY BEFORE THEY ARE SETTLED. WOMEN AND CHILDREN SMILINGLY POSE ON CATTLE CARS. ABOVE VIEW CROWD IN OPEN GONDOLA CARS WAVE TO CAMERA. SOLDIER IN SANTA COSTUME AND OTHER BRITISH SOLDIERS GIVE GIFTS TO CHILDREN OF HOMELESS DISPLACED PERSONS. MANY DO NOT WANT TO GO BACK BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN. THEY EITHER STAY IN GERMANY OR IMMIGRATE ABROAD. LS SHIP IN HARBOR LOADED WITH DISPLACED PERSONS. MCU SAME. 00:40:08 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-1204