Rare Oder Front Films 1945

[Jerome]

Hi guys,

Here you can watch some rare Oder Front films from 1945..

These films were unfinished and uncut, the end of the war was only weeks away and the films never made a wartime public showing. They really show the human face of war and are therefore a powerful reminder of the sacrifice of all wars.

The first film is in black and white and the film was found in East German archives, it was filmed on the Oder Front in the last weeks of the war. It starts with an officer asking soldiers how they felt. They say they will give the Russians "what for" when they come. A Soviet deserter is questioned. He says he feared German artillery and that some 300 men in his unit will be put to death because he deserted. He goes on to say that he did not take the German uniform from a dead German, but saw it laying on the ground and he was cold.

The Battalion Commander is interviewed next, he says that his group is built up from various Reserve and Alarm Units, they have been there for a month and realise how important it is to be defending German soil.

Towards the end of the film you see defenders building defences and the camera then pans over the horizon, you can hear Soviet artillery in the background and the comments of the German soldiers building the defences. Very few of these soldiers would have survived the war and therefore this gives the film a very powerful human face.

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[big ned]

Linky no worky!

[John Brandon]

Pretty impressive stuff, and a fine website with attention to detail.

Incidently the links don't work unless you go to the main page.

If you right click, and "save target as". You can download them

[Jerome]

Linky no worky!

I have change the link..