Aftermath of German bombardment in Warsaw, Poland during World War II. 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.
Nazi brownshirts riding on a truck yelling anti-Jewish propaganda in streets of Germany during anti-Semitic campaign of 1933. Signs on Jewish-owned businesses encouraging boycott of those businesses. Brownshirt drawing sign on storefront glass of a shop. Sign with skull and slogan "Achtung Juden" posted on front door of Cafe Unter den Linden. Crowd of German citizens interacting with brownshirts, mostly in support, but one brief scene shows a citizen arguing with a brownshirt posted in front of a Jewish-owned shop. Nazis with swastika armbands leading anti-Jewish chants, while some citizens raise their hands in Nazi salutes. Next scene deals with the Nuremberg Laws including the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor. It shows Herman Goering addressing government officials at the seventh Nazi party congress in September 1935, and reading parts of the so-called blood purity laws and standards. Rudolf Hess and Adolf Hitler are seated in the foreground. Goering reads the proclamation that German citizens are only those of German or related blood, willing to serve the Reich and German people. Goering then reads that marriages between Jews and citizens of German or related blood are prohibited. Scene from courtroom during 1946 Nuremberg trials. Next scene shows Jewish citizens being forcefully and brutally dragged, beaten, and evicted from their homes by Nazis. Some have been stripped of their clothing. A woman is dragged by her hair. A man is beaten. Scenes of German citizens and possibly Gestapo beating and harassing Jewish people in the streets. Clearing of the Warsaw Ghetto in April 1943. Close-up of hand turning device to generate explosive charge. Large explosion in Warsaw Ghetto. Views of buildings burning in the Warsaw Ghetto. People carrying bodies on stretchers. A person being dragged by Nazi soldiers out of a sewer holes where they had been hiding. Nazi German tanks and armor rolling through the ghetto, and artillery being fired at a building. Waffen SS, gestapo police, and Wehrmacht participating in brutality. Jewish man being hit and dragged across street.
Polish General Tadeusz Kutrzeba, deputy commander of Warsaw, is seen accompanied by German officers, as he proceeds toward a military bus where he will sign a ceasefire agreement incident to the capitulation of Warsaw defenders in World War 2. Views of the city in ruins, after the ceasefire. Thousands of Polish citizens gathered in an open square, damaged buildings in background. Polish children being escorted by teachers away from the gathering. Aerial views of the bombed out city, with smoke still rising in places. Unknown locations might include the Warsaw Ghetto. View of Polish General Kutrzeba, inside, the bus, where he signed capitulation agreements. He is reviewing local maps with German officers. He exits the bus and is escorted away (taken as a prisoner of war).
German motorcyclists,trucks,cavalry and infantry on the move as Polish refugees move to the rear near Warsaw, Poland, in World War 2 . Animated map shows tightening of German forces around Polish defenders, early in September, 1939, in World War 2. It shows Polish counterattacks at the Bzura River (German: Kutno) by combined Polish Armies, Poznan and Pomorze, toward Stryków (9-12 September) and toward Lowicz (13-15 September). The German forces then completely encircle by closing them off on the East.The map shows many arrows indicating strong effort by the Poles to breakout to the East,to Warsaw, without success. Scene shifts to many German He-111 bombers taking off. Aerial view shows the bombers taking off simultaneously across a broad dirt field, leaving dust trails behind them. A formation of 18 He-111s is seen in flight. Then a formation of Do-17s is seen followed by more He-111s. Closeups of He-111s.Views of ground from the nose greenhouse. Brief glimpses of targets burning on ground.Bombs dropping from He-111s. More burning targets on the ground.
An African speaker addresses the Pro Soviet World Peace Congress in Warsaw in Poland followed by an Indian speaker. Audience listen to the speeches being delivered with their head phones. A Chinese speaker calls for United Nations admission of Red China.
American representative O. John Rogge disproves of the proceedings and defends American policies at the Pro Soviet World Peace Congress in Warsaw,Poland. Mexican speaker Vincento Lombardo Torlendo denounces 'Yankee imperialism'. Dean of Cantabury and Russian writer Ilya Ehrenberg also addresses the Congress followed by a Polish representative. Writer Johannes Becher verbalizes the German desire for peace.
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