| A NATIONAL MOTOR TRACK Germany solves a problem of unemployment - labour camp men work on new road. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5512 |
| Catalog #: | 51000 | |
| Clip Number: | 51000-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 34/5 | |
| Timecode: | 01:41:21 - 01:42:02 | |
| Location: | Prussia, Germany. | |
| Year Shot: | 1934 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CONSTRUCTION: Labor, Manual CONSTRUCTION: Roads & Highways LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Germany TRANSPORTATION: Roads, Misc | |
| Description: | "Elbing to Koenigsberg A NATIONAL MOTOR TRACK - Germany's latest endeavor to give work to unemployed from labor camps - inaugurated!" Germany. Uniformed men, probably from the labor camps, marching through the snowy woods. A man with Swastika band on his shoulder starts digging. Line of uniformed men with shovels over heir shoulders is seen. Men digging - presumably, they are working on the new Elbing to Koenigsberg road. [Elbing is now Elblag in Poland; The city of Königsberg became Kaliningrad in 1946.] | |
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