Germany invades Poland. Polish officers surrender to German officers and they salute each other. Polish officers get inside an army vehicle. A German officer looks at a map on the table.
Air raid by Germany in Poland during Battle of Westerplatte of World War II. German aircraft parked at an airfield. Soldiers work on bombs. Aircraft takes off from an airfield. Aircraft in flight. Squadron of aircraft in flight. Machine gunner in an aircraft. Terrain as seen from the aircraft. Aircraft drop bombs.
Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany during World War II. Camouflaged artillery guns being fired on field. A damaged fortified cave on field. German officers examine aerial intelligence photographs in the field. German Luftwaffe Chief, Hermann Goering discusses strategy and map with staff officers. Interiors showing German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, German Air Force Chief, Hermann Goering with other German officers as they attend a conference. German airmen man their bombers. Soldiers physically carry large bombs to the aircraft. German Stuka dive bombers with bombs mounted underneath. Stuka aircraft take off and fly in formation. View of bombed hangar and damaged aircraft at an airfield. The first casualties are tended and evacuated by a railroad train.
Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany during World War II. Polish peasants returning to their farms, are assisted by German soldiers, following hostilities. German soldiers round up, from their hiding places, persons accused of being responsible for what the Germans called the Bromberg murders, or Bloody Sunday, that occured in Bydgoszcz. Slate states that man shown is a murderer from Konitz. The relieved ethnic German people of the region begin returning and are assisted by the German military. They sit at a bombed bridge. Some are ferried in small boats. They receive food and care from German soldiers.
German troops enter and occupy Poland after invading it during World War II. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler makes a surprise appearance and reviews German troops as they cross the San River. Hitler mingles with German soldiers. Crowd of Volksdeutsch in Chorzow (Konigshutte in German) cheer as German tanks and officers enter the town, bordering Germany.
Invasion of Poland by Germany during World War II. Aerial view of damaged Polish bridge; destroyed Gas tank near railroad marshalling yard; and smoke rising from burning buildings all along a major highway. Smoke rises from explosions on a field. German troops pass over debris and through bombed out buildings where snipers abound. Fires rage in some buildings. German troops and equipment advance along a road. German troops include one walking with a captured goose under his arm, and one soldier who prepares a pig for a roast. Remnants of pig roast. A soldier distributes newspapers among other soldiers. Newspapers report enemy armored train stopped at Warsaw. Views of the destroyed Polish armored railroad train.