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Inundation of the Wieringermeer

Week number 45-36

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

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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.

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

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User:
Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
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