The German viewpoint of events during the Polish Campaign in Poland. A map shows German troops establishing contacts with the Russians in the inter Polish territory. Negotiations between the German and the Russian units. After brief negotiations the German and the Russian units meet. A map shows Warsaw, the capital city of Poland, and Modlin.
The German viewpoint of events during the Polish invasion campaign, in Warsaw, Poland. Adolf Hitler, the Chancellor of Germany, arrives in a car with other officials. A crowd runs after the car. He is greeted by an officer. He walks with other officers. He salutes the soldiers.
The German viewpoint of events during the Polish Campaign in Warsaw, Poland, during World War 2. Ostensibly to spare Warsaw from destruction, German radio operator soldiers wearing headphones, 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 envoys or diplomatic delegation, 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.
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.
German activities after World War I. Hans Von Seeckt, a German General, reviews parade of German Army infantry and artillery in Potsdam. Paul Von Hindenburg, a German General, reviews a parade. The German Army using cardboard tanks and fake weapons in maneuvers during period after World War I and before militarization of Germany under the Nazis. Promulgation of new German constitution in the Garrison Church of Potsdam in March of 1933 in the presence of Paul Von Hindenburg, Adolf Hitler and Franz Von Papen, a German Catholic Monarchist politician. Parade scenes of German soldiers in the early 1930s. Newly created Nazi Labor Corps and Adolf Hitler digging with a shovel at an inaugural ceremony. Shirtless labor corps members pulling together on ropes. Scenes of factories, manufacturing, industrialization and rebuilding of Germany and its military with remilitarization in the mid 1930s.
Police officer looks at minor damage on fender and headlight of a parked car. A stack of broken cars in a junkyard in the United States. Cars being lifted by a crane. Car being towed by truck with "Southwest Ford Sales" painted on its side. The side of a junked car reads 'The Last ride'. Another one reads "Goodbye Cruel World. My owner retired, Why shouldn't I ?"Stack of cars set on fire. A blazing inferno of junked cars.
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