“The Enemy Within” Educational Program Collection
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- Description Level
- Item
- Accession No.
- 20181063001
- Physical Description
- VHS
- Scope and Content
- “The Enemy Within” August 12, 2003 Length 51:54 A National Film Board of Canada Production. Written and Directed by Eva Colmers, Produced by Bonnie Thompson and Jerry D. Krepakevich, Executive Producer Graydon McCrea, Cinematographer Randy Tomluk, Sound Recording Larry MacDonald, Editor Justin Pas…
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- VHS
- History Biographical
- This VHS is among a variety of films used by the Galt Museum & Archives for public and educational purposes. Some were produced by the National Film Board, and local 2 &7, CFCN and Global Television stations.
- Scope and Content
- “The Enemy Within” August 12, 2003 Length 51:54 A National Film Board of Canada Production. Written and Directed by Eva Colmers, Produced by Bonnie Thompson and Jerry D. Krepakevich, Executive Producer Graydon McCrea, Cinematographer Randy Tomluk, Sound Recording Larry MacDonald, Editor Justin Pasula, Composed Jan Randall, and Sound Design John Bierot. Narrator is the daughter of a German POW captured by the British and sent to Lethbridge, Alberta. In 1942 he was sent to war, and was captured a year later. Uncle Rolf sent to POW camp in Russia and they talk about the difference in the way that POWs were treated. Hans Pfeffel (Coaldale), Erich Haase (Winnipeg), Siegfried Osterwoldt (Edmonton) interviewed about their experience as POWs. There was talk about the trips to Canada and the transit on the CP rail to the temporary camp Ozada. They talked about the social structure within the camps and how men that were still loyal to Hitler would enforce the ideology. Leo Hamson, Canadian Artillery Lieutenant and POW guard interviewed as well as Bill Westgate, POW guard. Neilie Nilson was a young girl at the time. POWs helped her dad with the sugar beets at their farm near Lethbridge. When the war ended many POWs did not want to go back due to destruction and they liked Canada. Many applied to move to Canada with the farmers they worked with as sponsors.
- Accession No.
- 20181063001
- Collection
- Archive
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