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Description: | Krupp railway siding; WWI horse artillery; elevation gear; film comedy fragment; war veterans' rally; railway gun.
I. Locomotives shunt coal trucks to and fro into the Krupp complex, Essen. Hauptverwaltungsgebaude tower visible in background mist [ca 1940].
II. German soldiers assist horses drawing gun carriages up a hill past a German-style house. Soldiers also assist horses drawing mortar, gun and limber down a slope [ca 1915].
III. Worker in Krupp factory works multi-cogged elevation gear, probably of a railway gun [ca 1940].
IV. Fragment of a silent comedy film in which four men dressed as a prince, judge, detective and waitress perform. The prince devours a meal in fast motion and the waitress produces a cigar [ca 1935].
V. Dark film records a commemorative outdoor ceremony attended by many WWI veterans bearing their colours as well as by members of the various Nazi organisations (SA, SS) and the Army. A succession of individuals in Nazi uniform and civilian dress dig with a ceremonial shovel before a speech by an elderly civilian in winged collar. Then a speech by a Gauleiter which concludes with part of the audience heiling. Many of the veterans wear top hats and white sashes bearing the Imperial German Emblem and may be members of the Kyffhaeuserbund. Soft peaked caps of SS representatives suggest date between 1933 and 1935.
VI. Camouflage-painted railway gun on a firing range is prepared for firing by workers. Breech is loaded and barrel raised before firing. Workers then return gun to its former state. Gun platform is marked Essen. [ca 1935]
35mm | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Krupp Imperial German Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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