Title:DEVASTATION IN COLOGNE AND MAINZ AND AT THE KRUPP FACTORIES IN ESSEN [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 4686
Other titles:ERNEST BREWIN AMATEUR FILM [Alternative Title]
Summary: Amateur film shot by linguist Ernest Brewin records the effect of RAF Bomber Command attacks on German industry in the Rhineland and Ruhr, probably while he was interpreting for British delegations touring the British Zone of Occupation in the early summer of 1945.
Description: Brewin records devastation and clearance scenes in Cologne, self facing camera, river and road traffic on and over the Rhine, women and children refugees eating in street, train journey passing tent camp for German POWs (?), Mainz railway station, devastated steel works and Krupp gun barrel works at Essen. Colour film shows Baldeneysee and exterior of Krupp mansion Villa Hügel with sign in English and German stating that "Alfried Krupp von Bohlen is under house arrest and is not permitted to receive visitors" (under arrest at Villa Hügel from 10 April - 21 May 1945), and that area is off limits to American troops (replaced by British forces in June 1945), concluding with British Army and RAF officers making notes on damage to Krupp works in Essen, where Main Administrative Building still stands.
Alternative Title:ERNEST BREWIN AMATEUR FILM [Alternative Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:MGH 4686
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1945
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Brewin, Ernest (Production individual)
