Parade of people in German area of Poland proclaiming their German-ness.
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- Film ID:
- 667.20
- Media URN:
- 4887
- Group:
- Pathe newsreels
- Archive:
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 31/03/1932
- Sound:
- Mute
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration:
- 00:01:24:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:37:19:00 / 01:38:43:00
- Canister:
- 32/26
Unknown user says
Hello, The foretitle indicates that the film shows a manifestation by Germans living in Poland, and that the time should be 11 years after the Plebiscite held arond 1920. But if so, the film doesn´t make sense. The town of Gleiwitz (today Polish Gliwice) in Upper Silesia , was a border town on the German side in the years between the wars. Incidentally, this was where Hitler started WWII, staging a "Polish" attack on a German radio station in Gleiwitz. Concentration camp prisoners were dressed in Polish unforms, then shot dead after a German mock attack on the station, and left behind as "proof" of a Polish aggression . Everything in the film indicates that it was taken on German soil. To start with , Polish authorities would never have allowed a German demonstration like this. And the mounted policemen are clearly in German uniforms. So are the soldiers seen in the picture. A puzzling feature is that it looks like they are wearing the pattern of steel helmet worn in WWII, introduced…
Unknown user says
Hello again. The men parading in feathered hats are miners in traditional ceremonial costume that is still worn in both Germany and Poland on festive occasions.
Mats Laurin, Sweden laurin.mats @gmail.com
MMImedia says
The "11 years" is a bit confusing as this is likely the 10th anniversary of the 1921 plebiscite that resulted in Gleiwitz being allotted to Germany. These were German Silesians celebrating the occasion.
"Deutsche vergeßt nie!" = Germans never forget!