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A Defeated People

Item number (ISN):

383062

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

383062

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

WILLIAMS, Ginette

Accession:

2007-0125

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1946

Production company:

Crown Film Unit
Army Film Unit

Production credit:

director, Jennings, Humphrey; producer, Basil Wright; music composer, Guy Warrick; music conductor, Muir Mathieson; commentator, William Hartnell

Sponsor:

British Ministry of Information
Allied Control Commission of Germany

Description:

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This is a film about the practical and moral problems faced by the military government of the British-occupied zone of Berlin, Germany and efforts to rebuild Germany. The commentary describes the defeat of Germany and the need for the allied military government to stay until the German people have "their house in order". Footage shows: the damage inflicted upon Berlin; refugees; reconstruction of railways and other infracture; homelessness; bombed streets; the Krupp mansion,Villa Hügel, in Essen, taken over by the British; coal distribution on the Ruhr and "Operation Coal Scuttle"; forestry; the Hamburg Central Postal Enquiry Service registering missing persons; movement and processing of refugees; means of establishing law and order; military government courts; the new German police force; health; the RAMC and the Red Cross; education and the need to tell the children "that there are other things in life than Nazism and war"; ruins; school; Reichstag and the comment that "Berlin still has the aspect of a battlefield"; criticism of the Krupp family; demobilisation of the Wehrmacht; interviewing soldiers, inspecting for S.S. tattoos and searching for Nazis; night-time curfew; people in air-raid shelters; new judges seen being sworn in; and closing shot of a German taking oath from a British officer.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Source of description is screening and the online catalogue of the Imperial War Museum.~2. 523 feet~3. Presentation of the British Ministry of Information.

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Vault ISN:

448387

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2008-01-0235

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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