Unveiling of the Limburg liberation monument (Week number 52-38) 🔴
Channel: Creative Commons Media
Date: 2018-02-21

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Content by: Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)

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Publication Date: 1 September 1952

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

Description (more): The minister of War, C. Staf, unveils a monument in remembrance of the liberators from the Second World War in Maastricht in the presence of a.o. the American ambassador Selden Chapin. SHOTS: - The monument stands on a square, still covered by cloth, in front of it four soldiers with folded flags in their hands are waiting near empty flagpoles; - Staf and Chapin (with glasses) inspect the guard of honour; - Staf unveils the monument; - four militairy trumpeters sound the "Last Post"; - the mayor of Maastricht, baron W. Michiels van Kessenich, lays a wreath; - ext. monument; - the designer of the monument, Charles Eyck, watches with great interest.