Description: St Hedwig's Cathedral blazes in the night, silhouetting the neo-classical parapet figures and leaving a shell the next morning. Commentary claims that raid is heaviest to date and that 10,000 tons of incendiaries were dropped on the western and south-western residential districts of the capital, causing the destruction of two children's homes and three hospitals, including the Graf Botho Schwerin Hospital. Film shows people clearing up rubble and bringing their belongings out of their ruined homes. Nuns stand outside devastated Dahlem Hospital from which ward beds are salvaged. Firemen play hoses on still burning St Hedwig's, visited by Goebbels in his capacity of head of the capital's air raid protection.
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Colour:B&W
Digitised:
Object_Number:RMY 58-6
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM-GERMAN
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1942
Production Country: Germany
Production Details:
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Goebbels, Paul Joseph (person)
German Fire Service (regiment/service)
Keywords: buildings, German - religious: cathedral, St Hedwig's (object name)
destruction, German military - area: bomb (object name)
equipment, German civilian - damage control: hosepipe (object name)
Germany & Berlin, Berlin <Dahlem Hospital> (geography)
Germany & Berlin, Berlin <Graf Botho Schwerin Hospital> (geography)
Germany & Berlin, Berlin <St Hedwig's Cathedral> (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: Swedish
Title language: None
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 301 ft; Running time: 3 mins
