Sternjaeger Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 I have never seen this one before, the amount of stuff is mind boggling! I guess it's actually a postwar thing, but one wonders what happened to all this stuff! Amazing!
Pierre64 Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 This film is supposed to be have been taken during an exhibition of captured german military stuff in Gorki Park, Moscow, in 1943 (?). Actually, I cannot identify any late war Luftwaffe aircraft or vehicle. Not visible here but on a screenshot found in his biography, one of the captured 109s is Assi Hahn's G2/R6 W.Nr. 13949 shot down on 22 february 1943 when he was the Kommandeur of II./JG 54. And I also noticed the girls with red, yellow and blue dress, passing by again and again in front of the camera
Sternjaeger Posted February 13, 2014 Author Posted February 13, 2014 This film is supposed to be have been taken during an exhibition of captured german military stuff in Gorki Park, Moscow, in 1943 (?). Actually, I cannot identify any late war Luftwaffe aircraft or vehicle. Not visible here but on a screenshot found in his biography, one of the captured 109s is Assi Hahn's G2/R6 W.Nr. 13949 shot down on 22 february 1943 when he was the Kommandeur of II./JG 54. And I also noticed the girls with red, yellow and blue dress, passing by again and again in front of the camera mmmmh the clothing of people looks a bit postwar though, don't you think? Not to mention the colour film..
DD_Arthur Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 mmmmh the clothing of people looks a bit postwar though, don't you think? Not to mention the colour film.. Its a film of the 1943 exhibition of captured German equipment in Gorky Park. Nothing mysterious about it. Colour film was unusual but if the Americans could give the Soviets complete chemical works as part of lend-lease then I don't suppose a few reels of colour film would be beyond them either. This film was made for both a domestic and foreign audience. The most important features of the film as far as the Soviet authorities were concerned was not the captured hardware but the people, the ambiance. The smart clothing and healthy, smiling Russian civilians. It was an ad for how wonderful it was in the USSR. The reality was that most of the civilian population worked a six and a half day week in rags and were starving. 1
Finkeren Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 I don't know why color film would be an issue, especially one shot for propaganda purposes in safe distance from the war. The Gorky film studios had been shooting color film since the mid '30s. 1
MiloMorai Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 Lots of military, women and children but not to many civilian males in the video.
Finkeren Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 Lots of military, women and children but not to many civilian males in the video. They were occupied elsewhere - East of the Ural.
MiloMorai Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 They were occupied elsewhere - East of the Ural. Many males west of the Urals > several millions worth.
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