Germany invades Poland. The animated map shows Warsaw and Modlin in Poland. Bomb craters on fields. Damaged building in the city. Smoke rises from bombed areas. A wrecked train and water in a bomb crater. A broken bridge. Destroyed Polish aircraft at an air base in Warsaw.
German invasion of Poland during World War II. Civilians run to save themselves as an air raid siren is sounded in Warsaw. An empty street car on a road. People in a corridor. After effects of bombing depicts damage caused to buildings. Debris and wreckage spread across an area. Wrecked German aircraft. A damaged building of a children's sanatorium. Blood stains on the floor. Dead Polish children.
Film begins showing German General Johannes Blaskowitz strolling along a street in Warsaw, Poland during World War 2, to meet a Polish Officer, authorized to surrender Warsaw to the invading Germans. The exchange regular military salutes. The Polish officer contingent stands in front of a large bus, that they enter along with the German officer contingent. View of the bus parked in a yard, guarded by German soldiers. View through windows of the bus, of negotiators sitting opposite one another inside. They consult a map and make markings on it. At the conclusion of their consultations, the parties leave the bus. View of dense smoke rising in the background. Long distance view of German soldiers (looking like ants) along the banks of the Vistula River. Closer view of German infantry entering Warsaw, past destroyed barricades. Destroyed Polish military equipment piled up at the side of the road. Polish street cars overturned across several streets to hinder German invaders. German troops entering Warsaw with horse-drawn wagons pulling artillery pieces. German soldiers in military vehicles drive past piles of destroyed military hardware.
Numerous German Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers are seen taking off from an airfield, on bombing missions against targets in Warsaw, Poland, during invasion of Poland in World War 2. Ground crews load bombs aboard the aircraft. A Dornier D0-17 bomber is seen taking off. A Henkel He-111 is seen in flight. View of ground target from nose of the bomber. Smoke rising from burning targets on the ground. Narrator refers to Bzura River area (where Polish forces had launched a counterattack). The Confluence of the Rivers, Vistula and Narev, are seen and the Polish fortress of Modlin, as the bombers approach it. Fires and smoke are seen rising from the German bombing.
Polish officers leave and German officers enter the Polish military headquarters in Warsaw, Poland. German soldiers take up guard positions, following the invasion of Poland and surrender of Warsaw in World War 2. German officers look over surrendering Polish officers. German troops formally parading into and occupying Warsaw, led by German officers on horseback, followed by mounted troops pulling field artillery pieces. They pass the equestrian statue of Prince Józef standing before the Polish General Staff building (the Saxon Palace). Large numbers of Polish troops and wagons assembled under German guard, in an open field. An Honor Guard of three goose-stepping German soldiers leads a parade of goose-stepping German troops into the city. Adolf Hitler reviews the troops as they march. Major general (generalleutnant) Kurt von Briesen, Commander of the German 30th Infantry Division, is seen briefly with Hitler. The parade continues with German artillery and tanks. Luftwaffe bombers fly in formation overhead.
Aftermath of German bombardment in Warsaw, Poland during World War II invasion of Poland. Smoke covered residential areas of Warsaw. Smoke over the buildings. Wrecked and damaged buildings. Rubble lies in the street. Civilians walk in front of the burned and ruined buildings.