Warsaw Uprising (1944)

Footage №194714,

Reel №1

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August 1944, the streets of Warsaw, a flag over the barricades.

Explosions, smoke from the explosions above the buildings.

The uprising of Polish resistance units in Warsaw: people running through the streets, people at the barricades, gunfire.

Women and children among the uprising participants.

An empty street.

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Reel №2

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A plane is dropping weapons and provisions for the uprising participants.

A wounded man is being carried.

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Reel №3

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Burning houses, smoke.

People stand near a Polish flag on a barricade.

A boy stands guard at the entrance to a house.

A soldier carries a dead child in his arms.

A woman straightens her shirt.

A boy with a rifle.

People queue for water.

Women cook food over fires.

Homemade grenades.

Men clean and assemble weapons.

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Reel №4

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German aircraft bomb Warsaw, explosions.

German tanks on the city streets.

Gunfire, explosions, people running.

A wounded man on the pavement.

Carrying a wounded man on a stretcher.

Warsaw residents running through the streets.

Burning buildings, soldiers on the streets, explosions, smoke.

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Reel №5

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Resistance fighters surrender their weapons.

A column of prisoners marches down the street.

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Reel №6

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The leader of the Warsaw Uprising, Colonel Bur-Komorowski, who signed the act of capitulation, gets into a car.

The feet of people walking down the street.

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Reel №7

Hitler's speech in the Reichstag.

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Reel №8

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The destruction of Warsaw: fires, explosions of buildings, a sign with the city's name among the stones.

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