1. Germany
Danzig in German hands.
– View of Danzig from the sea.
– Traffic along the embankment past the houses, old warehouses.
– German soldiers installed barbed wire around the city against possible attack by Polish troops.
2. The Polish front.
The funeral of the SA man Joseph Weichsel.
– Joseph Weichsel was killed while installing the barbed fences.
– View of the funeral procession carry the coffin, wreaths.
– German soldiers and officers salute at the grave Weichsel, wife and children throwing flowers.
– Close-up on a wreath, the inscription on the ribbon from the Gauleiter of Danzig.
Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans) refugees with their belongings are going on the road.
– People near the barracks, close-ups of children, women and the elderly.
– Children are crying.
– Images illustrating their losses: burning houses devastated by the Poles, slaughtered cattle lying in yards, ruins in place of houses.
– A signpost to the town of Beuten.
– Post indicating unexploded ordnance.
– View of a brick house whose wall has been pierced by an automatic rifle round.
– Another house with a hole in the roof.
– One of the Volksdeutsche in front of his house with a gaping hole in the wall giving an interview.
– View of broken rooms and kitchen with furniture wreckage.
The liberation of Danzig.
English Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax and members of the English Parliament in Downing Street, they walk toward the building.
– The police are holding back the crowd.
Danzig residents read on the wall the Adolf Hitler’s proclamation about the liberation of the city.
– The Commissar of the League of Nations - Dr. Burkhardt, who govern the city, leaves the administration building.
– Swastika flags are flying over Danzig’s government offices.
– There is a firefight at one of the buildings.
– German soldiers shot at the building with a cannon.
– German soldiers are moving under the cover of an armored vehicle with the SS marking and the name “Sudetenland” on the armor.
– A soldier from the roof of the transporter throws grenades into the courtyard behind the fence.
– Machine-gun fire on the building.
– There is a fire in the yard, the front door is blown apart.
– Firefighters put out the fire.
Cortege of cars rides through the streets of Berlin on the day of the rally to celebrate the liberation of Danzig.
– Adolf Hitler’s arrival at the Reichstag meeting.
– View of the stage, there is a meeting.
The entrance of the German troops in the liberated Danzig.
– Residents enthusiastically greet the troops.
– Passage of vehicles on the streets decorated with German flags.
– A man hands out newspapers to German soldiers on the trucks.
– Newspaper vendor with a pile in his hands barely time to sell them.
3. Germany
The Reich is preparing for war with England.
– The Pergamon Museum in Berlin.
– Residents lay down the walls of houses with sandbags, laying the doorways.
– To darken the windows hang shutters, the inhabitants are given gas masks.
– Boys from the Hitler Youth in Pergamon museum, they cover the Pergamon altar with sandbags, installing beams, reinforcing the windows.
– View of the position of anti-aircraft troops in Berlin.
– Observation point on the river.
– The anti-aircraft gunners are watching the sky.
Mobilization of reservists, their departure by truck.
– The reservists are marching with their suitcases to the barracks.
At the factory of military industry.
– Shaping of gun barrels.
– Transportation crane barrels.
– Stacked trunks.
– Assembly carriages anti-aircraft guns.
4. The Polish front.
The warship Schleswig-Holstein arrives in Danzig.
– The ship’s guns are hitting the shore.
– The captain looks through binoculars.
– Sailors are throwing empty shell casings in a pile.
– Close-up of a sailor in a sailor’s cap, it says “Schleswig-Holstein”.
– Shooting at the coast of anti-aircraft guns.
– Explosions and fires in the city.
The entrance of German troops in Danzig.
– On the road riding a motorcyclist, walking infantry, 3 soldiers at the radio.
– The soldiers are passing, burning houses, unattended cattle wandering.
– The troops are walking along the wooden bridge, horse-drawn artillery is passing.
– Engineer squad is engaged in the restoration of bridges.
– Residents watch the movement of troops, welcomed them.
– Along the road going cars, tanks.
– Residents of the destroyed bridge makes its way to the other side.
– Destroyed railroad, fallen cars.
– The large railway bridge, broken by shells, plunged into the river.
– Flying planes in the sky.
– Tank rides on the turf to the bridge, passing trucks, mechanized artillery.
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