A German soldier uses a scissors telescope to peer over a trench during WW2 invasion of Poland, 1939. German soldier holds and listens through a field telephone. Another soldier operates a field telephone system. Artillery gun fires at the Polish enemy. A second scissor telescope being used by a German soldier. More artillery fire from cover of brush. German soldiers load and fire a mortar. Scene changes to view of train on railroad track, explosion hits train car. German soldiers drive and push combat vehicles through muddy terrain, flaming and smoking train in the background. Aerial view of the invasion, sky covered in smoke. Large clouds of smoke rising. Scene changes to September 27, 1939, Polish General Tadeusz Kutrzeba is escorted by German officers to a larger German group, where General Kutrzeba salutes German Colonel-General Johannes Blaskowitz, Commander of the German 8th Army. General Kutrzeba is escorted inside a military vehicle. Inside the vehicle, the two parties talk and review papers, discussing the surrender of Warsaw, the Polish capital. General Kutrzeba is escorted out of the vehicle. Poland's formal capitulation occurred the following day. Taken from a Spanish newsreel.
Aerial view of British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous and a destroyer nearby, which was sunk by German submarine (type VIIA U-boat) of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, on September 17, 1939. Scene changes and German submarine U-29 emerges from the water. Submarine cruises surfaced above water, German soldiers stand on the deck. The victorious submarine comes into port in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, on September 26, 1939. Soldiers standing on deck saluting. Nazi flag flies. Crew of the U-boat walk across plank to dock and assemble. The crew, standing in a line, shake hands and greet other German officers. The commander and crew are decorated with the Iron Cross award. Close ups of smiling crew. Nazi flag flying. Taken from a Spanish newsreel.
Invasion of Danzig, 1 September 1939, during German invasion and occupation of Poland. Polish people in the streets. Women read a proclamation on wall. Officials leave a building as crowd sings 'Deutschland Uber Alles'. Artillery in street fires at Poles holding out in the Post Office at Heveliunsplatz . The Germans attack them with a Steyr ADGZ M35 armored car with the name "Sudetenland" painted on its side. Two grenades are thrown from the armored car. German troops move shielded by the armored car, which fires its guns at the buliding. A fire bursts out around it. Soldiers try to put out the fire with water hoses. Soldiers dashing in the street. A motorcade arrives at the Kroll Opera House in Berlin, with Adolf Hitler in a convertible. Hitler enters and addresses the Reichstag regarding Danzig and Poland. He is greeted with cheers. Nazi officers seated for the meeting. Nazi Swastika and symbol in the hall. German occupying troops are seen driving through Danzig aboard SD Kfz 7 half track trucks, amid cheers from civilians.
Invasion of Poland, 1 September 1939: German tanks, troops and cavalry on the move. They advance towards Poland. Soldiers on tanks. Horsemen advance through fields. Soldiers march on a road. Soldiers on horses. Soldiers lift a barricade on the border to let the troops pass. Soldiers on motorcycles in a field. Enemy fire through the trees. Soldiers jump out of the motorbikes and lie low in the field. Fire in prone position.
Canine blue bloods, vying for honors at a "Debutante Dogs of 1939", take part in a dog show with their masters, in Boston, Massachusetts. Dogs dressed in brilliant costumes. People with their pets. DP Wilson with his Scottish deer hounds win first prize at the dog show.
College students from the University of California Bears crew team begin training in hopes of winning the 1939 rowing championships. California oarsmen in Oakland turnout for the spring training. Ten shells get underway for vigorous practice on Frisco Bay. Crew teams rowing on the bay.
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