Title:REGIMENTAL DUTIES WITH TROOPS OF STURMGESCHÜTZ ABTEILUNG 200, 1943 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 4240
Other titles:BECKER COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Scenes of the men of Sturmgeschütz Abteilung 200 undergoing training and routine duties at their quarters outside Paris.
Description: The camera shows a signboard "Maisons-Lafitte, Le Vaudoire", the location of the battalion's quarters outside Paris. The film shows the facade of the Hotel Royale in St Cloud, taken over as a troops' rest centre before moving to the well-appointed barracks at Maisons-Lafitte. A six-man guard detachment piles out of a guard house to form up and perform a smart changing the guard ceremony. Recruits dash out of barracks and undergo parade ground drilling, including a final goose-step march past. Several platoons of men are shown on a route march through the Forêt de St Germain. The various groups include machine gun detachments, signallers with portable radios, messengers wheeling bicycles. One detachment is seen wearing gas masks. Major Becker takes the salute as the parade, complete with musicians from 21. Panzer Division, march past. The band leads the heavily armed men through the streets of Maisons-Lafitte as three young Frenchwomen look on. Men serving in Becker's command form up for mess tin inspection before lining up for their midday meal. The menu chalked up on a board is shown, and one man holds his well filled plate out for a camera close-up. NCOs sit down for their meal at a tablecloth covered table decorated with vases of flowers.
Alternative Title:BECKER COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
