Shadow over Europe (1938)

Danzig and the Polish Corridor.

The Polish Corridor is the part between East Prussia and the rest of Germany.

Newspaper issues from September 5, 1933. Everyone is asking the question: who owns the Polish Corridor - Poland or Germany? "Parisien" from September 29, 1933: is it necessary to revise the German-Polish border?

Danzig and the Polish Corridor are those parts of Poland that belonged to Germany until 1918. A director flies from Paris to Warsaw to make a film about the Polish Corridor.

For the Poles, this is not the "Polish Corridor", but one of the provinces - Pomerania, which should remain Polish.

Warsaw.

Views of the city, the center.

Krakow - an industrial region of Poland.

Pipes, a coal plant, furnaces, steel.

Flight to Torun - a city with access to the sea, divided by the Germans into two parts.

View of the city from a helicopter.

Travel through the center.

The 14th century city hall, the square, a meeting with the head of the city and the region, he offers to drive through this province.

Pomerania belonged to Poland since the 10th century.

The river.

Poles on rafts playing cards

Train from Prussia to Pomerania.

Torun, customs.

Transport of German troops through the corridor.

Pomeranian Lake.

Church service in Pomerania, the population professes the Catholic faith.

Soldiers in helmets.

Children dance in a circle.

People in national clothes - despite the German rule of the region, people have not forgotten the traditions of their ancestors.

Folk songs and dances.

Training of the female fire brigade.

After classes, girls sing folk songs around the fire.

Nature: rural views.

Wings of a mill, a stork's nest.

Field workers, geese, rams, weeding, pigs. 90 percent of the population of Polish Pomerania are Poles.

The population of the village welcomes units of the Polish army.

Dancing to a brass band

Arrival in Danzig.

Barrier.

German officers check documents.

Danzig is a free city.

Views of the city.

Monument to Guillaume I. 16th century tower with types of Polish weapons.

Neptune Fountain.

River, bridge.

Central shops.

Port of Danzig.

Fascist flags over buildings.

Gdynia.

Workers go to the construction site singing.

Different types of work.

New city on the site of a fishing village.

Views of the city: streets, houses, telegraph, view from a helicopter.

Port.

Pier.

Ships.

Mechanisms for unloading and loading coal.

Forest, boards

Polish sailors.

Fleet.

Genre scenes of fishermen about the fact that on this land they have always spoken and will always speak Polish.

The sea.

Annual sea festival.

Parade.

Departure of the ship.

On the shore - a ceremony of taking an oath to protect the sea.

The entire formation with a flag on horses enters the sea.

March with a song.

Demonstration of Polish military power: planes in the sky.

Infantry, cavalry