Liberation of Poland

Liberation of Poland , 1979 (48:16)

Annotation: The film tells about the liberation of Poland from the German invaders during World War 2.

Film description: 1 hour - Arrival Sikorski in the USSR. Camp Anders. Polish army in Iran. 2 hours - the Warsaw ghetto. Warsaw during the occupation. Documents to be shot in Katyn (Soviet version). 3 hours - When the city of Chełm, Lublin. The camps in Majdanek and Auschwitz. 4 hours - Uprising in Warsaw. The rebels on the barricades. The plane drops cargo for the insurgents. Colonel Bourg-Komorowski. Soviet troops stormed Warsaw. Street battles. 5 hour - Destroyed Warsaw, clearance. Release of Krakow. Krakow today. Pomeranian shaft. Fighting for Gdansk. Soldiers run to the sea. Gdansk after release. Traffic controller. Sculpture with a Polish flag. Coat of arms of the Polish Republic.

Source description 1: Says B. Lancaster (sinhr. of English. Language).
Newsreel - The fighting in Poland: running soldiers, riding tanks, firing cannon, destroyed street on a stretcher carry a wounded soldier.
[_] A monument to Soviet soldiers who died in the battles for the liberation of Poland.
Day of Remembrance in Poland - the people in the cemetery near the graves, light candles.
Newsreel - The visit to the USSR head of the Polish exile government of General W. Sikorski.
Negotiations with the Soviet government.
The negotiations involved the army commander General Anders.
Camp part of the Polish army in the rear of the Soviet troops.
Gen. Anders takes a parade of Polish units.
1943 - Part of the Polish army under the command of General Anders on the orders of the Polish exile government in London go to the Middle East.
Foreign newspapers with a statement about the discovery of Goebbels in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk graves of Polish officers, allegedly shot in 1940.
Goebbels said at the microphone.
The formation of the USSR under the command of Colonel Burling Polish military compound - the division of. Tadeusz Kosciuszko - Polish soldiers take the oath of office in a military camp, in favor Colonel Berling, parade.
Fighting Polish division of Smolensk.

Source description 2: Newsreel - The ruined city of Smolensk after liberation from the Nazis.
1944 - Members of the Soviet Commission of Inquiry in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk conducting an investigation regarding the discovery of mass graves of Polish officers, who claimed Russian Goebbels shot in 1940.
The soldiers reveal the grave, are members of the commission: Metropolitan Nicholas, the writer Tolstoy and others, among the foreign correspondents present the daughter of U.S. Ambassador to the USSR by Kathleen Harriman.
Members of the Commission of Inquiry consider the letter and discovered the remains of Polish soldiers, dating back to 1941 year.
The atrocities committed by the Nazis in occupied Poland - blowing Yield-Use flags with swastikas, German soldiers are prisoners to the gallows, are men and women with their hands.
Warsaw Ghetto - sit arrested, on their sleeves - a six-pointed star.
The Germans put men into boxcars.
Photos arrested and murdered Jews.
Summer 1944 - Soviet troops begin an operation to liberate Poland.
Are standing commander of the First Belorussian Front, the marshal and the representative Rokossovsky Odds Marshal Zhukov.
Flying airplanes, moving tanks, shooting guns, running soldiers, soldiers crossing a river ford, ferry equipment across a river.

Source description 3: Newsreel - Soviet troops liberated the Polish town of Helm, the population welcomed the soldiers, the soldiers presented with flowers, people cry and hug soldiers.
Fierce fighting for the liberation of Lublin - shooting tanks, fighting in the streets.
The inhabitants of Lublin with flowers greeted the Soviet soldiers, passing the Soviet tanks, the people in the square.
The concentration camp at Majdanek - barbed wire, prisoners behind barbed wire, cameras.
Commission of Inquiry into the atrocities the Nazis in concentration camps examines crematorium.
They lie charred corpses, skulls, bags of bones, hair, the mountain crowns, glasses, shoes.
The doctor examines the child, children are being withdrawn from the camp.
Children show numbers on their hands.
The fighting Soviet troops on Polish territory - moving equipment, running soldiers, explosions, burning tanks.
The inscription "Glory to the heroes in the battle of the Vistula"
The soldiers drink water from a bucket, transporting wounded soldiers.
The fighting in the streets.
Pre-war chronicle - Warsaw.
The street passing carriages, people in a cafe, a soldier played the piano.

Source description 4: Newsreel - August 1944.
The revolt of the Polish resistance units in Warsaw - the people at the barricades in the streets fled the uprising.
With sbracyvayut aircraft weapons and food for the rebels.
Fighting Soviet and Polish on the approaches to Warsaw, crossing the Vistula.
WARSAW - An uprising at the stake cook, a man collects automatic, people are making home-made grenades.
The German troops attacked the rebels - flying airplanes, explosions in the city, lying dead on a stretcher a wounded bear, burning houses, the Germans in the city.
The head of the Warsaw uprising, Colonel Bor-Komorowski, who signed the instrument of surrender, sits in the car.
Speaker A. Hitler (sinhr.) called "raze Warsaw to the ground, the Germans applauding.
Are burning building in Warsaw, explosions, collapsing houses.
Various plans of hostilities, with the participation of Polish soldiers - they fly the planes, the plane explodes, the ships at sea, firing guns, bury the dead sailors and soldiers in a tank assault on the monastery of Monte Cassio in Italy, the graves of Polish soldiers.
January 1945 - Soviet offensive near Warsaw.
Shoot "Katyusha".
Marshals Zhukov and Konev at the command post.
Planes drop bombs, explosions, broken voennayatehnika, the soldiers are fleeing to attack the tanks.

Source description 5: Newsreel - Soviet voycka pass through the streets of liberated Warsaw.
Destroyed buildings, destroyed vehicles, destroyed monuments.
[_] Report of Warsaw, the people on the streets, monuments, young people in a cafe, are couples.
Newsreel - The liberation of Warsaw residents return, the people attending the ruins, the notes on the ruins, hugging people, is all.
The Soviet soldiers are helping rebuild the city soldiers pull cable, working engineers, the inscription "Min no.
The fighting Soviet troops on Polish territory - flying planes, planes dropped bombs, explosions on the ground, shooting guns, fleeing soldiers, moving tanks.
Fighting for the liberation of Poznań - men at the guns, shot guns.
Gen. Chuykov on positions.
The fighting in the streets of Poznan - soldiers ran among the ruins, firing their machine guns, killed by a German.
The people met the Soviet soldiers who runs the orchestra, passing tanks.
There is a column of German prisoners.

Source description 6: Newsreel - Soviet tanks moving in the direction of Krakow.
Marshal Konev and other members of the command.
The population of Krakow welcomes Soviet soldiers.
Modern surveying - Report on Krakow: streets, squares, are people, children in wheelchairs, monuments, city hall.
Newsreel - Soviet forces attack the line Pomeranian strengthening ny on the border with Germany: shooting guns, explosions, destroyed Pomeranian shaft, bastions.
Shall hold German prisoners, removes cameraman falls flag with a swastika.
The Soviet troops liberated Gdansk.
Restored the border of Poland - the Polish flag, clock, coat of arms of Poland.
The Soviet soldiers near the fire, fly airplanes, moving tanks, tanks in the city.

Directors: Gutman I.

Script writers: Itskov I., Karmen R., Slavin K.

Composers: Muravlev A.

Announcer: Lanovoy V.

Text writers: Itskov I.