Media item

The badly hit city of Nijmegen

Week number 45-49

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
01:38
Publication date:
22 November 1945
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
WEEKNUMMER454-HRE0000E828

The centre of Nijmegen has been largely destroyed during World War II. Houses, shops and churches were lost or were very heavely damaged. Some people live in temporary housing in barracks; others in air-raid shelters. SHOTS: -Several shots of heaps of rubble and ruins; -some ext. and int. shots of the housing of people.