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Episode 21, Nemesis : Germany, February - May 1945

Item number (ISN):

436630

Series title:

The World at War

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1974

Item number (ISN):

436630

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: OFF-AIR

Accession:

1977-0304

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1974

Release date:

1977 ?

Production company:

Thames Production

Production credit:

director/producer, Martin Smith; executive producer, Jeremy Isaacs; scenario, Stuart Hood; editing, Beryl Wilkins; music, Carl Davis; narrator, Lawrence Olivier

Country of production:

cn

Distributor name:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Description:

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The twenty-first episode of this television documentary series looks at the last days of the third Reich for its foot-soldiers and for its leadership, for its village folk and for its city people.~The topics and events covered are: the bombing of Dresden; the defeat of Germany's eastern front; Nazi propaganda; battles of the German western front; German civilian sentiment during the Reich's last days; Allied enforcement of law and order in its occupied areas of Germany; the release of prisoners in Germany; the Battle of Berlin; German resistance; Allied morale; life in Hitler's bunker; and the Soviet treatment of Berliners.~The following scenes, shots and sounds are seen and heard: German propaganda newsreels of rape and murder victims of the Soviet "invader"; a review of German adolescent troops; a young adolescent soldiers being decorated with an Iron Cross; Allied prisoners of war beating a former prison guard; highly distressed German civilians, some weeping, walk away from the entrance of a Nazi death camp after being forced to view the carnage; a sign in destroyed Berlin reading "Berlin bleipt Deutsch"; Hilter patting his pet german shepherd dog; and the meeting of the British and Russian soldiers at the Elbe River.~Comments are made by: Ursula Gray, a Dresden civilian; Albert Speer, Hitler's Armament Minister; John Seney, a US paratrooper; Felix Putterman, a US artilleryman; Willy Feldheim, a 15 year-old soldier; Lieutenant Colonel C.J. Duffin of the British 6th Guards; Heinz Linge, Hilter's valet; Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary; Carola Stein, a German civilian; Major Anna Wikulina of the Red Army; Lieutenant Yelena Revetskaya; and Christa Ronke, Berliner. <60mn>

Language:

English

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1. Source of description: viewing of document.~2. Made in association with CBC and produced with the cooperation of the Imperial War Museum.~3. Includes promos for: ACTRA Awards; Canadian Curling Championships; Canadian Skiing Champioship; Children of Our Time; the CBC series THE NATIONAL DREAM.~4. Includes a commercial for Right Guard deodorant.
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

~To be Determined / À déterminer

Donor restrictions:

The permission of the donor, the CBC, is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Thames Productions.

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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