Bilder aus der großen Schlacht. 4. Teil (1918)

Production company
Bild- und Filmamt (BUFA) (Berlin)
Source
Bundesarchiv

Pictures from the great battle (Part 4)

1. Intertitle: On the advance roads. Image: infantry columns advancing to the front. 2. Intertitle: Rest on the road. 5 minutes sleep. Image: rest on the road. 3. Intertitle: At rest. Image: front-line troops in resting position. 4. Intertitle: Big clean-up. Image: washing laundry, cleaning uniforms. 5. Intertitle: Cobbler in the field. Image: repairing boots. 6. Intertitle: In pursuit of the „small enemies“. Image: hunting for lice. 7. Intertitle: Destroyed English flight hangars. Image: destroyed English aeroplane hangars. 8. Intertitle: At the Somme. Image: soldiers resting on the banks of the Somme. 9. Intertitle: Victims of the battle of the Somme. French cemetery. Image: French military cemetery of the battle of the Somme 1916. 10. Intertitle: English cemetery. Image: English miltary cemetery of the battle of the Somme 1916. 11. Intertitle: The city of Laon is continuously under fire from the heavy French cannon. Image: panorama of the city with cathedral. 12. Intertitle: View of the cathedral. Image: view of the cathedral. 13. Intertitle: A direct hit on St. Martin's Church. Image: scenes of St. Martin's Church and the shell impact. 14. Intertitle: A direct hit on the prefecture. Image: prefecture with bombardment damage. 15. Intertitle: Desecration of German soldiers' graves by our enemies in the area evacuated by us in early 1917. 16. Intertitle: Churchyard in Nesle. The wooden crosses have mainly been torn out by the enemy and violently broken. The gravestones deliberately knocked over and their inscriptions defaced. Image: destruction in the German military cemetery in Nesle. 17. Intertitle: Churchyard in Roye. 18. Intertitle: The German graves have been separated by the enemy from their own by a fence made of wire and roofing cardboard. Image: German soldiers' graves in the churchyard at Roye. 19. Intertitle: The Kaiser Alexander Guard Grenadier regiment's memorial. Image: the memorial, but because of the lighting conditions the inscriptions are not legible. 20. Intertitle: The desecrated memorial of the Queen Augusta Guard Grenadier regiment. Image: memorials of the Kaiser Alexander Guard Grenadier regiment and the Queen Augusta Guard Grenadier regiment. 21. Intertitle: A grave established by the Germans in which German and French soldiers rest. On the cross, with black paint, the enemy has painted the word „comrades“ out of the inscription „Here rest German and French comrades“. Image: Cross of a German-French mass grave. 22. Intertitle: So who are the barbarians - ??!