GERMAN-RUSSIAN-AMERICAN FRONTIER Part 1

Description

Summary: MS, long line of German refugees carrying their belongings crossing frontier on American side with Russian border in the bg. MS, trucks loaded with refugees as they wait to cross border. CU, sign: "USSR Boundry". MS, women and children are helped out of trucks by American soldiers. MLS, hundreds of refugees lined up on highway anxiously waiting to cross border. Gate is finally raised and they walk wearily across. MCU, German women, some with babies in carriages, others with children sitting on their laps, as they wait in trucks to cross border. MCU, refugee woman arguing with American sergeant as he checks her papers. MLS, refugees waiting in line are served hot food supplied by the German Red Cross. VS, eating at long wooden tables. MLS, Germans loaded in trucks as an American soldier and a Russian soldier count the occupants. MLS, refugees with horse-drawn wagons and carts filled with personal belongings crossing Russian border into American zone.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities