Feldzug in Polen (1940)

Original title

Der Feldzug in Polen

Directed by

Fritz Hippler

Genre

documentary film, propaganda film

Country

Nazi Germany

Runtime

58 min

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film shows the 1939 German invasion of Poland as a justified response to Polish aggression. It presents ethnic Germans in Poland as victims and portrays the Polish defense of Warsaw as futile. The film blames Britain for encircling Germany and downplays French involvement.

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What happens

Feldzug in Polen (The Campaign in Poland) is a 69-minute Nazi propaganda film released in 1940 depicting the 1939 invasion of Poland and directed by Fritz Hippler. Portraying the Poles as aggressors and ethnic Germans living in Poland as an oppressed minority, the film alleges that the Poles employed unheroic tactics in the war and characterizes as senseless the defence of a besieged Warsaw. The film was often screened by German minorities overseas to clarify the German point of view. French involvement was de-emphasized, in order to present Great Britain, in its attempt to encircle Germany, as the villain, to justify the Nazi-Soviet pact. Polish provocations finally resulted in the blitzkrieg, led by Hitler; Poles were sometimes depicted as brave, to emphasize the German triumph. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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