60,000 Steps To Degredation Aka Degradation (1944)

Title reads: “60,000 steps to degradation“. Moscow, Russia (Soviet Union, USSR). Various C/Us of dejected German soldiers in filthy ragged uniforms. Various shots of the 60,000 dirty, scruffy German prisoners being marched through streets of Moscow. At the head are German officers (including 19 generals), then the men follow on. Good C/Us of Russians (mainly women and children) watching the prisoners pass with solemn faces. Red army soldiers guard the prisoners with fixed bayonets. Water carts spray the streets where the Germans have marched in a “subtle gesture of contempt“. FILM ID:1123.2 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.