1940 Warsaw in ruins

1940. Colour film of the ruins of Warsaw filmed by a German soldier in the summer of 1940.

Background music added: Chopin - Etude Op. 25 No. 1

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Warsaw
• Ruins
• Poland
• General
• Gouvernement
• German
• Military
• Wehrmacht
• Vistula
• Stare
• Miasto
• Starówka
• 1940
• Polish
• Campaign

[gorque]

What a shame, all that destruction. Thanks for sharing this film of historical value.

[skoblinI]

@gorque thanks gorque!

[tintinlover123]

It really makes a difference when you see something like this in color. It's not just some distant black-and-white film- it's vibrant.

[mallaka1975]

very interesting to see the old railway station - between 0:20 and 0:30. it existed for only a couple of years (you can still see the construction going on).

[romwro1]

I wonder wherefrom it was filmed. I think parts were filmed from the church at Plac Grzybowski showing ao house of Polish telefon Co. Other sites?

[karol1221]

Hitler Kaput!

[HeiligesReich2]

"Generalgouvernement must become as German as the Rheiland."

Ade Polenland

[TheHand2000]

@CRACOVIA1515

No niekoniecznie. Wyraźnie widać, że jest to lato lub wiosna. Powstanie skończyło się w październiku 1944 w którym już było wyjątkowo jak na tę porę roku zimno. Także nie są to zdjęcia po Powstaniu.

[skoblinI]

@Blankenborn You are correct. The film is indeed dated 1940

[Blankenborn]

@CRACOVIA1515

No, the film surely is made before 1944. You see the damages of the bombings of 1939. On the views from an aerial perspective you see: There is a lot of destruction, but there are also a lot of houses which are undestroyed. After the Warsaw uprising 1944 it was impossible to find any houses in Warsaw undestroyed.