XX Century The Collapse of Europe

The first part, b / w c / t footage of 1939-1940. Poland, Warsaw, 1939, a man talks to nurses in the hospital corridor. Representatives of the diplomatic corps descend into a bomb shelter under the US flag, men with white armbands set up sandbags at the entrance to the basement of the US Embassy. Smoke over Warsaw. Column of Sigismund. September 1-17, 1939, the President of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Ignacy Moscicki signs a document, Polish military leaders are standing nearby. A Polish officer raises the flag of Poland on a flagpole at a military airfield, in the background - planes (early September 1939). Meeting of the French delegation at the Polish military airfield. Polish pilots are sitting in the office at the tables, the coat of arms of Poland hangs on the wall. A group of Polish soldiers with suitcases is walking along the platform. A military plane takes off. [September 30, 1939 - 1940], Colonel-General of the Polish Army Wladyslaw Sikorski exits the plane. The Polish flag flies on the yard. Airplanes in the sky. Great Britain, 09/05/1940 - 1942, Polish and British pilots are at the plane. Polish military aircraft at the airport preparing for takeoff. Airplanes in the sky perform aerobatics. The British representative talks with Polish pilots (August 1940). Presentation of the guards banner to the representatives of the Polish army. A Polish officer kisses the Polish banner with the inscription "MILOSC ZADA OFIARY". V. Sikorski is awarding the Order of Virtuti Military to Polish soldiers. Polish soldiers marching with a banner across the field. Winter, crosses in a Polish cemetery in England. Polish pilots play chess. 1939, passers-by on the street of destroyed [Warsaw]. Refugees are walking along the road. German cavalrymen are galloping, followed by a column of military equipment, German soldiers are walking. One of the streets [London], a view of the windows sealed from the bombing. Demonstrators walk down the street [London] with the Polish flag and the flag of Great Britain. Beginning September 1939, men digging trenches on the streets of [Warsaw]. Great Britain, 1940, men digging a trench. Shoots a German artillery gun. September 27, 1939, German troops enter Warsaw. 1939 - 1940, Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile V. Sikorski among the Polish military. Polish commanders are walking along the line of soldiers. Horse carriages, cars of the Polish army are on the road. Aiming a combat weapon from a ship at sea. Sailors sail on a boat, hook a mine. Flag of the Polish Navy on a warship. Signalmen on the ship at work. The Polish military with suitcases are on the platform. V. Sikorsky talks with the pilots. Soldiers shoot from trenches, jump over a burning fence. Polish officers are escorting King George VI of Great Britain and Queen Elizabeth to the trench. Queen Elizabeth examines the Polish banner. Operating room, the doctor gives the man an injection in the back. Babies in the maternity hospital. A Polish Red Cross car drives down the street. The main entrance to the Brest Fortress is the Kholmsk Gate, the Polish flag over the gate. Beginning September 1939, a review of the Polish garrison at the gates of the Brest Fortress. [The head of the garrison, Konstantin Plisovsky] enters the gates of the fortress, walks along the line of the garrison. 1939, summer camps, everyday life of Polish soldiers. [General K. Plisovsky], surrounded by the military of Poland (among them - the Minister of Internal Affairs of Poland V. Rachkevich) and Great Britain, conduct a review of troops at the Brest Fortress. Children on the sidelines greet the Polish military. Lorries with Polish soldiers are driving, Poles are standing on the sidelines, greeting them. Young Poles - scouts (members of the Polish National Scout Organization) are walking along the road. Polish artilleryman at the cannon. A woman with children on the street of a Polish city. The militias are digging a ditch. People are dismantling the rubble outside the house after the bombing. The dead are on the ground. A Polish boy stands among the ruins, holding a cage with a bird. Women stand outside the house after the bombing. Two women are praying in the street among the ruins. Broken tram cars. The Polish military are sitting at tables in a cafe. On September 22, 1939, Brest, Soviet and German commanders (among them - Soviet brigade commander Semyon Krivoshein and German general Geitz Guderian and) take a joint military parade. Tanks on the parade in Brest. A. Hitler's entrance to Warsaw (1939). German soldiers in burning Warsaw. The second part of. The dumb Alcoholic is convulsing on the couch, the doctors are holding him - alcoholic epilepsy. The patient's face after an attack. An elderly man - an alcoholic swinging on the bed in the ward, talking with a doctor, crying. Alcoholics talk, gesticulate in the ward. A child cries on the bed, two men calm him down, hold out a toy. A psychic man calms a crying child in a room. In the summer, in the courtyard of one of the rural houses, a psychic conducts sessions with the villagers. Bees flock to the hive in the apiary. A masked beekeeper sits in front of the hive, fumigates the bees, takes out the honeycomb. The third part. Dumb. The doctor examines the patient in the narcological department of the hospital, gives an injection, massages the back. The patient is lying on the couch, the doctor is giving her a massage. Chemical laboratory staff at work. The upper part of the body is a dummy of a person with acupuncture points. The face of a Chinese doctor. Acupuncture session - the doctor places needles on the patient's neck. The needles are on the patient's back, the doctor holds a candle over the needles. Photos of Polish teacher, writer, doctor Janusz Korczak. A page from the personal file of Y. Korchak. Title pages of Y. Korchak's books.

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