Maidanek : PT4 - Memorial Ceremony
Maidanek : PT4 - Memorial Ceremony
Maidanek (Majdanek) : PT4 - Memorial Ceremony - From a documentary film made for German viewers after the liberation of this giant Nazi death camp by Red Army troops on July 23, 1944 ; Soviet production, with heavy, lugubrious Russian choral accompaniment.
Maidanek : PT4 - Memorial Ceremony
DO NOT USE: Title card: (trans. from German) "In Liberated Lublin: Funeral for the Murdered of Maidanek."
Maidanek : PT4 - Memorial Ceremony
Various shots of the memorial set up on the site; a tall cross set up in front of a wall; also a few pine trees, lots of flowers; MS woman kneeling, her hands to her eyes as if crying. MCU a Soviet soldier stands saluting, beside this wall decorated with branches, and with a plaque higher up; 2 other men are putting the last bricks into place - -perhaps bricking up the ashes and bones that were discovered? Shot panning on a large crowd; row of soldiers stand in FG. LS cross, a painting (Madonna & child?), flowers etc.; pan down to priests, facing this display.
Maidanek : PT4 - Memorial Ceremony
MCU little girl with woman who is holding flowers. MSs & pan on saluting Red Army officers - - super-decorated General (Rokossovsky?). GV pan on scene looking toward memorial. MCU nuns. MS more military leaders incl Zhukov, with heads uncovered. Hign ang. GV pan over the area showing the very large crowd.
Maidanek : PT4 - Memorial Ceremony
DO NOT USE: Title Card: "End of the Special Report."