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.
Scenes from the period of the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany during World War II. During preparation for exchange of prisoner, ethnic German victims walk in front of a line of captives and are seen pointing at and identifying Poles responsible for what the Germans called the Bromberg murders or Bloody Sunday (that occurred in Bydgoszcz). Polish Jews and Bolsheviks, whom the Nazis accuse of being partly responsible, are forced to perform hard labor. View of a row of Jewish men in Poland. Then a large group of Jewish and Bolshevik men seated together and being held captive in an outdoor setting (possibly Krakow area based on similar Bundesarchiv photographs). Scene of Jewish men and Bolshevik men at forced labor where they dig ditches and roads with shovels (slave labor).
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.
Invasion of Poland by Germany during World War II. German troops fire field artillery at targets in Polish port city of Gdynia (Gdingen, in German). Smoke rises from shell fire on buildings. A Polish steamship sunk in the harbor. German battleship SMS Schleswig Holstein fires guns. Black smoke billows rise up from shore.
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