Destruction of Warsaw, Poland

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1992.252.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0612 | Film ID: 301

Overview

Description: Examines the destruction of Warsaw by the Nazis during September 1939 and the efforts of the Polish underground to rebel. Includes scenes of Warsaw before and after the German invasion, including views of the Jewish ghetto.

Under siege in 1939 cityscape smoke rising. Germans shelling. People running through scarred city street. VS of destruction. German troops and vehicles advance along road. Smoke rising from city square. Dead horses on their sides, men cutting meat off of horses, horse skeletons in street. Polish and German officers at surrender ceremony in bus. Occupation and ruins. Various activities of underground, man on his knees in tunnel, firearms, man setting type and running press, printed pamphlets, German poster announcing executions. Men pasting anti-Nazi posters, results of acts of sabotage, wrecked bridges and trains. Destroyed remnants of ghetto. Large cardboard cartoon figures of Hitler hoisted onto wall and lamp post and underneath "Nur fur Deutsch." Newspaper headlines telling of beginning of 1944 uprising.
Film Title: Tale of A City
Duration: 00:10:17
Date: Event: 1939-1944
Locale: Warsaw, Poland
France
Netherlands
Belgium
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Producer: Polish Army Film Unit

Language: English
Genre/Form: Documentary.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 02:28:57:00 to 02:39:14:00
Film Format: Master
Master 301 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 301 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 301 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 301 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Preservation
Preservation 301 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 301 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 301 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 301 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

Conditions on Access: You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
Copyright: Public Domain
Conditions on Use: To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.

Keyword: DESTRUCTION GHETTOS INVASIONS NEWSPAPERS POLAND RESISTERS/RESISTANCE (POLISH) RUINS SIGNS/POSTERS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (POLISH) SURRENDER WARSAW GHETTO WARSAW UPRISING (1944)

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in March 1992. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Learning Center.
Note: Commentary by James McKechnie.
See Story 1024, Film ID 929 for duplicate footage.

Copyright permission received from USIA. May need to contact the Imperial War Museum (PM note- August 1991)
Copied From: 35mm FGMC; b/w
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 0312
Source Archive Number: 306.210
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive