Fox Toenende Wochenschau №36 (1939)

Newsreel №62962, 1 part, Duration: 0:10:03 B/W
Studio Foks

Reel №1

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Danzig in German hands.

Erecting barbed wire around the city to prevent Polish advance.

Funeral of stormtrooper Josef Wessel killed while installing barbed wire.

Funeral procession.

Volksdeutsche refugees.

Houses devastated by the Poles are burning, cattle are killed, houses are in ruins.

The city of Beuthen.

Damaged houses.

One of the Volksdeutsche gives an interview on "Liberation" of Danzig.

Members of the British government in Downing Street, who according to the announcer had a hand in the atrocities in Danzig.

Residents of Danzig read the declaration on the liberation of the city by Adolf Hitler.

The commissioner of the People's Union, which governed Danzig, Dr.

Burka, leaves the administrative building.

Flags with swastikas are flying over the city's government institutions.

A shootout is underway.

German soldiers use an armored personnel carrier, open fire from flamethrowers.

There is a fire in the courtyard.

Berlin.

A rally dedicated to the liberation of Danzig.

Hitler convened a meeting of the Reichstag.

A meeting is underway.

Danzig.

The entrance of German units into liberated Danzig.

Residents enthusiastically greet them.

Equipment drives along a street decorated with fascist symbols.

The Reich is preparing for war with England.

Shutters are hung on the windows to darken the sky, and gas masks are distributed to residents.

Boys from the Hitler Youth throw sandbags onto the Pergamon Altar, install beams, and reinforce the windows.

The position of anti-aircraft troops in Berlin.

Mobilization of reservists.

Their departure by car.

Military industry plant.

Grinding a gun barrel.

Transporting barrels.

Barrels stacked in stacks.

Assembling anti-aircraft gun carriages.

Before the offensive on the German-Polish border.

German cavalry units cross the German-Polish border.

An infantry unit marches.

The barrier on the road is removed, the Polish coat of arms is taken down - the road to Poland is open.

Military operations in Poland.

At a German artillery battery.

Firing.

The advance of the German infantry.

Polish fortifications with traces of German shells.

Weapons abandoned by the Poles.

A downed plane.

German convoys on the streets of a town.

Fires in houses.

The advance of German military equipment.

A column of soldiers with their hands raised.

Bromberg.

Several people guilty of the death of Volksdeutsche are being driven away.

Several Poles are surrounded on the street.

German soldiers search a man and lead him away.

An escorted column of Polish men in civilian clothes.

Among them are Jews, mostly old men.

A group of Jews in the back of a truck.

Internees in a camp.

A chronicle from 1918, refuting the rumors of the time that German troops had trampled a Polish relic - the Black Madonna of Czestochowa.

A church ceremony in England.

Czestochowa.

German soldiers in the cathedral courtyard.

The cathedral from the inside.

The service.

A view of the unharmed icon.

The march of German troops.

The passage of equipment.

A blown-up bridge.

German sappers restoring the bridge and blown-up railway tracks.

A pontoon bridge.

Restoring a large arched bridge.

Cars driving on a wooden deck.

A German military plane in the air.

Landing.

Negative films from a reconnaissance plane.

Officers examine them, note them, clarify something

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