Media item

Inundation of the Wieringermeer

Week number 45-36

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

Type:
video
Length:
01:26
Publication date:
1 June 1945
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
WEEKNUMMER453-HRE0002EAB0

Boat trip in the Wieringermeer polder, which was flooded by the Germans on April 19, 1945. Shots of the breached dike and shots of the half flouded, sometimes partially collapsed, businesses, houses, churches and barns; 01:05 the monument of De Zaaier (The Sower) rises above the water.