Nazis enter Gdynia

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1991.260.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0256 | Film ID: 201

Overview

Description: Nazis enter Poland. POV front of truck into barricaded street in city of Gdynia, side view. Men (holding hands up in surrender) are searched and ID-checked by German soldiers. View of sandbagged building guarded by German soldiers. Poster reads: "Do Braci Polakow...Twierdza musi nam byc kazdy prog." Former state president speaks with and surrenders to commander of German troops. Men in civilian dress, some wearing white armbands, leave sandbagged building and march past camera (VO indicates they are Polish troops who had taken off their uniforms). VAR shots: masses of German troops in the streets; small SS tank with death's head symbol riding down street; soldiers pass small group, including women with expressions of anger, anxiety; German soldiers pry and pull down the Polish national eagle emblem from a wall.
Duration: 00:01:06
Date: Event: 1939 September
Censor: 1939 September 20
Locale: Gdynia, Poland
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv

Language: German
Genre/Form: Newsreels.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 02:02:38:00 to 02:03:44:00
Film Format: Master
Master 201 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 201 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 201 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 201 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Preservation
Preservation 201 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Preservation 201 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 201 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Preservation 201 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 201 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Preservation 201 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 201 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Preservation 201 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

Conditions on Access: You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
Copyright: Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.
Conditions on Use: Researchers who wish to use this footage should contact the Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv at filmbenutzung@bundesarchiv.de to sign a release, or submit the online request form at: https://www.bundesarchiv.de/EN/Content/Downloads/request-for-use-av-material.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
Copyright Holder: Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, Germany in September 1991. The footage was transferred at Bibo TV in Germany and obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition.
Copied From: 35mm; b/w
Film Source: Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
File Number: Legacy Database File: 830
Source Archive Number: UTW 472/39 R1
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive