Invasion of Poland

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2009.244.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4864 | Film ID: 2866

Overview

Description: German soldiers lift the barrier between Germany and Poland as they invade the country. The narrator says: "So one eliminates borders that the hate-apostles of Versailles imagine can separate the German people from the German Reich." More shots of the barrier being pushed aside. Motorcycles with sidecars carrying German soldiers speed toward the camera and turn off the road. This is accompanied by fast-paced music and the sounds of gunfire. Soldiers sheltering behind trees, riding by on horseback, setting up a howitzer. Wide shot of a large field filled with tanks and trucks. A tank bearing a white cross rolls by as one of the occupants grins up at the camera. German soldiers on horse-drawn carts are greeted by waving ethnic Germans (presumably). Well-known shot of a line Germans in motorcycles with sidecars diverging at a fork in the road with a sign in the foreground that says something about the town of Bydgoszcz.
Film Title: Ufa Tonwoche
Duration: 00:02:10
Date: Event: 1939 September
Censor: 1939 September 07
Locale: Poland
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
Contributor: Producer: UFA Tonwoche

Language: German
Genre/Form: Newsreels.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 01:24:38:00 to 01:26:48:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2866 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2866 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2866 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2866 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Preservation
Preservation 2866 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2866 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2866 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2866 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.

Keyword: BATTLES BORDERS/CROSSINGS HORSES INVASIONS MOTORCYCLES SIGNS/POSTERS SOLDIERS/MILITARY SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN) TANKS VOLKSDEUTSCH

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this footage from the Bundesarchiv in December 2008 for use in the special exhibition, "State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda."
Copied From: 35mm
Film Source: Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
File Number: Legacy Database File: 5259
Source Archive Number: UTW 470/1939 R1
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive