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The Battered Port of Cherbourg

Date released

10 Jul 1944

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

44/55

NoS ID

100424

Story no

3 / 4

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Extensive damage to the port and harbour installations of Cherbourg presents a big job for the naval salvage squads. Sunken vessels in the harbour acted as block ships to harass the allies’ arrival and the...

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Conspiring Saint, The: Memories of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1989 Video)

aka: Saint Who Conspires, A: Remembering Dietrich BonhÖffer

Producer

Hava Beller

Subject

German studies; History

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 44 min.

Portrait of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Protestant theologian who died on 9 April 1945 in Flossenbürg concentration camp. Looks at his fight against National Socialism; as an important theologian he was...

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West Front War Report

Date released

19 Feb 1945

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

45/15

NoS ID

100636

Story no

3 / 3

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

In Alsace, men of the American Sixth Army edge their way into Oberhofen against heavy German resistance. Infantry and tanks shoot it out with snipers in foxholes. Snow bound aerodrome makes the Western front...

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The War in Russia

Date released

18 Mar 1943

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

43/22

NoS ID

099891

Story no

2 / 2

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

As the Russian army continues its advance in the Northern Caucasus and liberates towns and villages the inhabitants return to their homes only to find heaps of rubble that had been houses and bodies of loved...

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Cutting off Holland

Date released

12 Apr 1945

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

45/30

NoS ID

100682

Story no

3 / 3

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Men of the American 17th Armoured Division are given a lift in Churchill tanks of the Grenadier Guards Armoured Brigade, after the link up for the thrust into Bocholt, Munster and Bremen. Men of a Welsh...

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D-Day (1944 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A special issue of the German National Socialist Workers’ Party newsreel on resistance to the D-Day landings (June 1944).

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The Noose Tightens (Mix to )

Date released

17 Jul 1944

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1396

NoS ID

039231

Story no

1 / 1

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

War advances towards German soil. Enemy faces dreaded fact as Allies battle victoriously on all fronts. Latest Normandy pictures show British and American advance along 100 mile front. French military court...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Western Front - AAchen and Venray

Date released

30 Oct 1944

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

804

NoS ID

013264

Story no

2 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Western Front - Aachen & Venray. DESCRIPTION: The city of Aachen, which once symbolised German resistance, now lies in ruins. Latest newsreel pictures show the capture under fire of...

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Leningrad Fights (1942 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The frustration of the German attempt to conquer Leningrad in 1941. The city is besieged throughout the winter but the resistance of the population never breaks.

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The Push on the Rhine

Date released

22 Feb 1945

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

45/16

NoS ID

100639

Story no

3 / 4

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Buffalo tanks with bren gun carriers on board, drive through flooded areas. In the heavily wooded country between Cleve and Goch British gunners hammer away at enemy resistance. Thousands of Germans are...

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