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German Army and SS (Schutzstaffel) Troops fight Polish resistance in Warsaw, Poland.

German Army and SS (Schutzstaffel) Troops fight Polish resistance in Warsaw. A map shows Warsaw. German troops crush the Warsaw Uprising. The German army troops operating tanks and heavy artillery. Smoke rises up due to explosions as Germans bombard Warsaw. A German soldier looks through binoculars. German take a Polish prisoner. Tanks and artillery on roads of Warsaw during street fighting in Warsaw. German soldiers fire rifles and machine guns. Close up views of faces of German soldiers in combat. German artillery fired. A dead body of a Polish resistance fighter on the street, wearing a resistance armband. German General Reiner Stahel pores over a map with other German officers fighting against the Polish resistance. Rubble on streets. Point of view shots from German guns and German positions targeting Polish resistance positions. German set demolition charges and blow up parts of walled off buildings. The Germans take prisoners and escort male prisoners and sympathizers at a railroad station with trains in background. Polish prisoners walk under German guard. Precise locations in Warsaw unknown, but some scenes could be from the Warsaw Ghetto. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, September
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675054005
The German invasion and destruction of Warsaw, Poland in World War II

German invasion and destruction of Warsaw, Poland, during World War 2. Smoke rises from the distant burning city of Warsaw. Germans soldiers fire artillery shells on the city. People run through the devastated city streets. Ruins of smoking and wrecked buildings. German troops, vehicles and heavy armor advance along the road to Warsaw. Smoke rising from city square. Scene shows dead horses and horse skeletons on the streets. Man cuts meat off a horse's corpse. A building on fire. Narrator talks about final broadcast of Warsaw Radio in September, and the unique chime sound of the Warsaw Radio program is heard. Exact Warsaw locations shown are unknown, but some shots could be from the Warsaw Ghetto.

Date: 1939, September
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029080
German invasion of Poland in 1939

Adolf Hitler addresssing the Bundestag in Berlin. Animated map shows Berlin, Warsaw, and higlights Danzig and the Polish corridor. Newspaper headline reads 'Poles will fight for Danzig.' Polish officer addressing recruits. Polish women and children watching as they march off. Polish women and old men and youths digging trench fortifications. Animated map shows Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia. Map shows Vistula River and tributaries. Map shows Polish defense options. Map illustrates Nazi plan to launch pincer movements around the Polish defenses. Views of German forces marshaling near the Polish border in August, 1939. Polish infantry moving in horse-drawn wagons, supported by old fashioned horse cavalry. Film illustrates dramatic difference in military might, contrasting German armor, aircraft,and numbers to that of Poland. Closeup of German airmen loading bomb under their aircraft. German heavy artillery and siege mortar firing. German Panzer I light tank charging through snow. Motorized German forces entering Poland on September 1st, 1939. German Heinkel HE 111 bomber taking off toward the camera. Several Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers taking off. German aircraft strafing Polish aircraft on an airbase. Aircraft exploding on the ground. A Dornier Do 17 bomber maneuvering. More views from German aircraft strafing Polish aircraft on the ground. Formation of He 111 aircraft in flight. Gunner firing from blister in bomber. Two Polish P50A fighter planes being fired upon and exploding in air. Aerial view of German Me Bf 109 as it maneuvers nearby. Me Bf 109 firing guns and flying through white smoke. A Polish P50 streaming black smoke. Another gunner in bomber firing and hitting a Polish P-50. An aircraft crashing in flames. More He 111 bombers. Glimpse of bombardier in He 111. Bombs striking Polish bridges, roads, railroads, etc. Closeup of Stuka dive bomber starting dive down on target. Polish civilians fleeing in a field. A stuka diving as children watch from hiding places. Bombs bursting near railroad. Closeup of German airman in cockpit. Polish cavalry charging. German tank tows a field artillery piece across a shallow river, A destroyed bridge in background. A Panzer I light tank emerges from the stream. German soldiers racing across the Vistula River in long powered boats. Series of maps show situation from September 5th as Germans advance and Poles retreat, ending with encirclement of Warsaw and defeat of Polish forces. Scenes of Warsaw, encircled and bombarded, but not yet fallen. Firemen respond to bombing and shelling. Buildings crumble. Germans load and fire 142mm Howitzers. Scenes of destruction from shelling. A factory chimney falls. Hitler at the front observing bombardment. Women and children seek shelter in the city. Dead horses in streets. September 27th Warsaw capitulates and German troops occupy it. Map shows Polish forces still resist in the Westerplatte fortress. German battleship, Schleswig-Holstein, firing her guns. Defenders raise white flag on October 1st, 1939. Polish prisoners marching away (one seen barefoot). Polish Nazi collaborator points out persons for arrest. Poles lined up by a pit for execution. German machine gunners firing. Glimpse of Nazi Heinrich Himmler. Bodies of executed. Polish women mourning the dead. Closeups of Polish women, children and old man. A woman throws fuel on a funeral pyre. Closeups of mourning women and girls. Hitler's Ju 52 transport plane takes off. Inside he talks with military passengers. Profile of Hitler silhouetted against the sky, looking at burning city of Warsaw. Russian army entering Poland talks with German officer. Sign boards in England say Britain declares war. French forces respond, marching from Caserne Maginot Barracks. British bombers attack German warships in the Kiel canal. German sailors rush to battle stations and fire anti-aircraft gun. Bombs away view as British planes bombs German Navy.

Date: 1939, September
Duration: 13 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043611
Youth march in Warsaw, Harry Truman and other political effigies paraded during the Cold War

Communist youth rally in Warsaw during the Cold War. Participants carry two large posters bearing the images of Joseph Stalin and Polish President Dr. Boleslaw Bierut. Polish drummers march. Polish flags are being waved. Polish people clap in unison as they watch the youth rally. Polish official wave with rose bouquet. North Korean youth delegates, wearing the North Korean Pioneer uniform, march in Warsaw Youth Rally with the North Korean flag and posters of Supreme Leader of North Korea and President Kim Il-Sung and Chinese Communist Leader Mao Zedong. North Korean youth delegates waving flowers and flags in the air during Youth Rally. Polish Youth Rally participants marching. Polish President Dr. Boleslaw Bierut claps during rally. Polish spectators clap in unison from building. Youth rally marching with Stalin’s poster in Warsaw. Polish youth rally participants carry large letters spelling “WROCLAW” and the coat of arms of Wroclaw, Poland. Polish youth rally participants carry letters spelling cities in Poland. Female polish youth carry flags during youth rally. Youth rally participants carry posters of communist figures and a model of the Warsaw Palace of Culture and Science. Polish couple, the woman wearing a floral headscarf and the man with sunglasses, watch the rally. An political effigy of United States President Harry Truman, depicted holding a Nazi Swastika wand, is being paraded during the youth rally. Effigies of rats with top hats, skeletons and Nazi Swastikas, are being paraded around Warsaw by Polish youth during rally. Polish officials watch from review platform. Polish youth rally marching.

Date: 1952, July 20
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078470
The invasion and siege of Warsaw, Poland by German forces during World War II

The German viewpoint of events during the Polish Campaign in Warsaw, Poland, during World War 2. Ostensibly to spare Warsaw from destruction, German soldiers, in a mobile communications center, issue an ultimatum from the German High Command, to the Commander of the city of Warsaw, demanding capitulation of defending forces within 12 hours. A German Junkers Ju-52 trimotor transport aircraft parked at a small airport. The aircraft takes off (to disperse handbills with this message.) A German Dornier DO-17 bomber takes off. Next, a German checkpoint is seen clogged with vehicles amd persons attempting to leave the city. Narrator states that only 870 members of the Diplomatic Corps and 1200 foreigners elected to leave. They are seen departing along a road set aside for that purpose by the German High Command. German officers supervise their departure. One,carrying Japanese diplomats, bears a large Japanese flag on its roof. Next, the siege of Warsaw begins, with German gunners loading and firing a 305mm siege mortar. They take refuge in a trench behind the weapon when it fires. Other German field artillery firing, including a 75mm field piece, a 15 cm sfh18 german heavy field howitzer and others not seen. German gunners using periscopic range finding equipment and looking through binoculars to direct artillery. A freight train hit by gunfire. More German 15cm sFH 18 guns firing. German troops watching the artillery barrages from a trench. Smoke rising in distance. More sfh18s firing. Smoke clouds forming above the city. Adolf Hitler observing the artillery siege through periscopic binoculars. Tops of the heads of his officer entourage (their uniform caps) as they crowd around Hitler. More smoke rising as the artillery barrages continue. Adolf Hitler holding binoculars as he stands in the company of army officers. He, and they, look up at sound of aircraft overhead. View of Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers low overhead. Aerial view of smoke on ground and formed into billowing clouds above the city. View from cockpit of observation plane, of smoke rising from Warsaw citadel.

Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032092
The Fall of Warsaw, Poland, and continued struggle of Poles during occupation in World War II

Shows the fall and destruction of Warsaw, Poland during World War 2. Polish General Tadeusz Kutrzeba, deputy commander of Warsaw, walks to a bus in which German officers await to negotiate a cease fire. He is seen inside, through the window of the bus as they discuss disposition of forces using a map. Nazi occupation of the city and bombed ruins. Examples of Polish resistance in the city, such as man on his knees in a tunnel, firearms, printing pamphlets, man setting type and running press, distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets, German poster announcing executions in Lublin, Poland. Exact Warsaw locations unknown, but some possibly within the Warsaw Ghetto. Scene shows men pasting anti-Nazi posters, doing graffiti on wall, taking still photographs. Wrecked bridges and trains.

Date: 1939, September
Duration: 5 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029081