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'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.Robert Edwin Hertzstein, 'The War That Hitler Won' p275-6 Polish provocations finally resulted in the blitzkrieg, led by Hitler; Poles were sometimes depicted as brave, to emphasize the German triumph.Robert Edwin Hertzstein, 'The War That Hitler Won' p276

Release



Its premiere was held in the Berlin Ufa-Palast um Zoo, usually used by Goebbels to present important films.Robert Edwin Hertzstein, 'The War That Hitler Won' p275 It received massive media support and was officially described as "valuable from a political viewpoint," "artistically valuable," "educational for the nation," and "a film of instruction.Robert Edwin Hertzstein, 'The War That Hitler Won' p277

See also



*List of German films 1933-1945

*List of films set in Warsaw

References




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