Feuertaufe (Baptism Of Fire)

About this film

National Archives description: "Reel 1 shows airplanes in flight; a Polish newspaper; a parade of Polish cavalry units; and Polish planes, armored units, and tanks. Maps illustrate Poland's presumed expansionist tendencies which include the conquest of Germany. Crowds in Danzig listen to a Nazi orator. German-Danzig troops patrol and construct wire obstacles. Shows German flags and symbols on Danzig buildings, German troops, German warships, and German planes on the ground. Includes a montage of maps and scenes of Zurich, Budapest, London, Warsaw, and Paris. Reel 2, Polish officers salute troops and enter a railway car where they surrender to German officer. Shows devastated Polish cities, refugees, and a destroyed railway yard. Reel 3, German planes land, the pilots deplane, bombs are loaded into airplanes, aerial cameras are taken from an observation plane and the film is developed, pilots study aerial photos, Stukas bomb Danzig and one crash lands, pilots study maps, men attach bombs to Stukas, and Stukas bomb railway yards and strafe Polish columns. Reel 4 maps German aerial attacks of Polish cities and shows German planes in flight. German soldiers examine bomb craters and rui…

Directors & creators

WWII

Subjects

WWII, World War, 1939-1945, National Socialism, World War II, Newsreel, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Poland, Goering, Hermann, 1893-1946, World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial Operations, German, Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945, World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Warsaw

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