Liberation of Poland. The Unknown War №16 (1979)

B. Lancaster speaking (simultaneously in English).

Newsreel - Fighting on Polish territory: a soldier running, tanks driving by, a cannon firing, a destroyed street, a wounded soldier being carried on a stretcher.

A monument to Soviet soldiers who died fighting for the liberation of Poland.

Remembrance Day in Poland - people at the cemetery by the graves, lighting candles.

Newsreel - The head of the Polish government in exile, General W. Sikorski, visits the USSR. Negotiations with the Soviet government.

Army commander General Anders takes part in the negotiations.

A camp of Polish army units in the rear of Soviet troops.

General Anders reviews the parade of Polish units. 1943 - Units of the Polish army under the command of General Anders, on the orders of the Polish government in exile, leave London for the Middle East.

Foreign newspapers with Goebbels' statement about the discovery in the Katyn forest near Smolensk of a burial site of Polish officers shot in 1940. Goebbels speaks at the microphone.

Formation on the territory of the USSR under the command of Colonel Berling of a Polish military unit - the Tadeusz Kosciuszko Division - Polish soldiers take the oath in a military camp, Colonel Berling speaks, parade.

Combat operations of the Polish division near Smolensk.

Newsreel - The ruined city of Smolensk after its liberation from the Nazis. 1944 - Members of the Soviet investigative commission conduct an investigation in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk into the discovery of a mass grave of Polish officers.

Soldiers open the grave, members of the commission stand: Metropolitan Nikolai, writer A. Tolstoy, and others, among the foreign correspondents is the daughter of the US Ambassador to the USSR, Kathleen Harriman.

Members of the investigative commission examine the discovered remains and letters of Polish soldiers dated 1941. Nazi atrocities in occupied Poland - flags with swastikas flutter, German soldiers lead the arrested to the gallows, men and women stand with their hands raised.

Warsaw ghetto - arrested people sit, with a six-pointed star on their sleeves.

The Germans put people in freight cars.

Photographs of arrested and murdered Jews.

Summer 1944 - Soviet troops begin an operation to liberate Poland.

The commander of the First Belorussian Front, Marshal Rokossovsky, and the representative of the Headquarters, Marshal Zhukov, are standing.

Airplanes are flying, tanks are moving, guns are firing, soldiers are running, soldiers are fording the river, equipment is being transported across the river.

Newsreel - Soviet troops in the liberated Polish city of Chelm, the population greets the soldiers, the soldiers are given flowers, people cry and hug the soldiers.

Fierce battles for the liberation of Lublin - tanks are firing, fighting on the streets of the city.

Residents of Lublin greet Soviet soldiers with flowers, Soviet tanks drive by, people in the square.

Majdanek concentration camp - barbed wire, prisoners behind barbed wire, cells.

The commission for the investigation of fascist atrocities in the concentration camp inspects the crematorium.

There are burnt corpses, skulls, bags of bones, hair, mountains of crowns, glasses, shoes.

A doctor examines a child, children are led out of the concentration camp.

Children show numbers on their hands.

Combat operations of Soviet troops on the territory of Poland - equipment is moving, soldiers are running, explosions, tanks are burning.

The inscription "Glory to the heroes in the battles for the Vistula!" Soldiers drink water from a bucket, transportation of wounded soldiers.

Fights on the streets of the city.

Pre-war chronicle - Warsaw.

Carriages drive along the street, people in a cafe, a soldier plays the piano.

Newsreel - August 1944. Uprising of Polish resistance units in Warsaw - people at the barricades, uprising participants running through the streets.

Airplanes dropping weapons and food for the rebels.

Soviet and Polish military actions on the approaches to Warsaw, crossing the Vistula.

Warsaw - Uprising participants cooking food over campfires, a man assembling a machine gun, people making homemade grenades.

German troops attack the rebels - planes flying, explosions in the city, dead people lying, a wounded man being carried on stretchers, houses burning, Germans in the city.

The leader of the Warsaw Uprising, Colonel Bur-Komarovsky, who signed the act of capitulation, gets into a car. A. Hitler speaks (synchronously) with an appeal to "raze Warsaw to the ground", the Germans applaud.

Buildings in Warsaw are burning, explosions, houses are collapsing.

Various plans of combat operations in which Polish soldiers took part - planes flying, a plane exploding, ships at sea, guns firing, a funeral for a dead sailor, soldiers at a tank, the storming of the Monte Cassio monastery in Italy, graves of fallen Polish soldiers.

January 1945 - the Soviet offensive near Warsaw.

Katyushas firing.

Marshals G. Zhukov and Konev at the command post.

Planes dropping bombs, explosions, wrecked military equipment, soldiers running to attack behind tanks.

Newsreel - Soviet troops march through the streets of liberated Warsaw.

Destroyed buildings, broken transport, destroyed monuments.

Report on Warsaw, people on the streets, monuments, young people in cafes, couples walking.

Newsreel - Residents return to liberated Warsaw, people walk through the ruins, notes on the ruins, people hug, there is a queue.

Soviet soldiers help rebuild the city: soldiers pull cables, sappers work, the sign "No mines".

Combat operations of Soviet troops on the territory of Poland - planes fly, a plane drops bombs, explosions on the ground, guns fire, soldiers run, tanks move.

Battles for the liberation of Poznan - soldiers at the guns, guns fire.

General Chuikov in position.

Battles on the streets of Poznan - soldiers run through the ruins, fire from machine guns, a dead German.

People greet Soviet soldiers, an orchestra passes, tanks drive by.

A column of captured Germans is walking.

Newsreel - Soviet tanks moving towards Krakow.

Marshal Konev and other members of the command.

The population of Krakow greets the Soviet soldiers.

Contemporary footage - A report on Krakow: streets, squares, people walking by, children in strollers, monuments, the town hall.

Newsreel - Soviet troops attack the Pomeranian line of fortifications on the border with Germany: guns firing, explosions, the destroyed Pomeranian rampart, bastions.

German prisoners are escorted out, a cameraman films, a flag with a swastika falls.

Soviet troops in liberated Gdansk.

The restored border of Poland - the Polish flag, a sentry, the coat of arms of Poland.

Soviet soldiers by a fire, planes flying, tanks moving, tanks in the city.