Poland 1939: When German Soldiers Became War Criminals

Poland 1939: When German Soldiers Became War Criminals (2019)

August 31st, 20190h 52min

Documentary, Animation, History
80%

Overview

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these circumstances, how is it that ordinary German soldiers suddenly became vicious killers, terrorizing the local population? Did everyone turn into something worse than wild animals? The true story of the first World War II offensive that marks in the history of infamy the beginning of a carnage and a historical tragedy.


Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!

Trailer

Similar Movies

Sharpshooter: Master of Camouflage and Deception

Sharpshooter: Master of Camouflage and Deception


Released on: 1944-03-24
Documentary, War

German training film from World War II.

Shooting the Darkness

Shooting the Darkness


Released on: 2019-01-30
Documentary, History, TV Movie

The testimony of the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own towns ...

Rouge ! L'Art au pays des soviets

Rouge ! L'Art au pays des soviets


Released on: 2019-03-10
Documentary, History, TV Movie

When Paris was German

When Paris was German


Released on: 2020-11-09
Documentary, History, War, TV Movie

Discovering Paris under the German occupation through the story of an SS soldier and more generally ...

Words for an End of the World

Words for an End of the World


Released on: 2020-11-13
Documentary, History

Spain, April 14, 1931. The Second Republic is born. From the beginning, the writer Miguel de Unamuno...

Modus Operandi

Modus Operandi


Released on: 2008-03-05
Documentary, History

Between 1942 and 1944 some 24,916 Jews were deported from Belgium to Auschwitz. The roundups and dep...

The Imperial Lullaby

The Imperial Lullaby


Released on: 2020-03-21
Documentary, History

The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminati...

Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow

Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow


Released on: 2022-12-28
Animation, Family, Comedy, Mystery

After being put on indefinite leave by his chief of police uncle, the highly intelligent and arrogan...

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society


Released on: 2018-04-19
Romance, Drama, History

Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guer...

Hope Dies Last

Hope Dies Last


Released on: 2017-08-10
Drama, History

A sickly scrawny man in a striped uniform takes a shaving brush and foam, and with a sharp blade, he...

Wasp Network

Wasp Network


Released on: 2020-01-29
Drama, History, Thriller

Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind...

The Tin Drum

The Tin Drum


Released on: 1979-05-02
Drama, History, War

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur


Released on: 1959-11-18
History, Drama, Adventure, Action

In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor


Released on: 2001-05-21
War, History, Romance, Drama, Action

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...

The Last Emperor

The Last Emperor


Released on: 1987-10-04
Drama, History

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

Zakázaný výlet

Zakázaný výlet


Released on: 1981-05-01
History, Family

Novi Sad Remembrance

Novi Sad Remembrance


Released on: 2024-05-26
Documentary

Teodor Kovač, Ivan Ivanji and Marta Flato survived the 1942 pogrom known as the Novi Sad raid, when ...

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film


Released on: 2019-06-05
Documentary

An intimate portrait of the superb actress Gena Rowlands, icon of independent cinema. Together with ...

The New Deal: The Man Who Changed America

The New Deal: The Man Who Changed America


Released on: 2021-08-10
Documentary, History, TV Movie

Elected in November 1932, as the economic crisis ravaged the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevel...

Before Father Gets Back

Before Father Gets Back


Released on: 2018-08-13
Documentary, Drama

In a darkened classroom, the white cracked walls serve as a movie screen. We are in a remote mountai...