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Occupation of the Ruhr & Weimar Republic Scenes 221093-04 | Footage Farm

1,915 views · Published 11 December 2013 · 7:04 · Indexed 17 October 2026

Channel: footagefarm · 2013 · Film & Animation

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[Occupation of the Ruhr & Weimar Republic Scenes]
Military officers marching w/ belongings under arms - PoWs.  Prisoners searched.  PoWs onto truck; trucks pass through makeshift roadblock.  Soldiers carrying drawers full of documents & equipment out of building supervised by French officer.  More German PoWs along country lane w/ belongings.
18:37:17  High shot military band & troops marching along street towards camera.  Flag removed from town hall?  Troops march under bridge w/ sign in German.  Troops onto train & out of station waving - past sign Dortmund Hof Kein Ausgang.  Probably during French occupation of the Ruhr district.    
18:38:55  Various tracking shots across ruins of bombed factory & houses.  Civilians, some wounded, try to salvage possessions.  Kids look at camera, one w/ bandaged head.
18:40:28  Berlin [?] street scenes - German police stopping civilians pass.  High shots demonstration in park - banners inc. 'Fight for the Socialist Republic' - black flags - could be rebellion of Oct-Nov 1918.  Crowds in center of city w/ police on horseback.  Conductor & orchestra? - crowds waving hats & German flags.
Germany 1910s / 1920s.

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