Never seen before WW2 photos reveal Polish army on the eve of Hitler’s invasion
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Never seen before WW2 photos reveal Polish army on the eve of Hitler’s invasion
STUNNING photographs taken in the weeks before Adolf Hitler’s tragic invasion of Poland, reveal cheerful soldiers unaware of the impeding attack and dawn of the Second World War. Hitler’s Germany invaded Poland on the morning of September 1, 1939, under the false pretence of Polish sabotage actions along the border.Two days later Britain joined the fight, declaring war on Germany. What followed was the valiant but unsuccessful September Campaign to drive out the aggressors.On September 17, Poland was invaded by the Soviet Union from the east and the country was brought down to its knees on September 27.Photographer Mr Poddębski first came to prominence for his landscape and photo-journalistic work in the 1930s with the German-made Leica camera. It is likely he was one of several photographers commissioned to document the war games by the Polish Armed Forces Ministry.Sadly the photographer died in 1945 at the German Veihingen concentration camp.The museum’s historians assume the photographs have remained a secret for nearly 80 years, because Mr Poddębski never had the chance to get them developed before the war broke out.Miraculously the negatives survived a raging fire in the tragic 1944 Warsaw Uprising, when the Germans systematically reduced the city to rubble. They were then bought by the museum from Mr Poddębski's daughter Krystyna Kukieła in 2014.And the unearthed pre-war photographs hold a significant historical value, because they debunk several myths about the Polish army in 1939, claimed a museum expert.Marcin Westphal, argued the photos challenge the widely held assumption that the Polish army was undermanned and ill equipped for war.He said: “The photos also debunk the myth of the Polish cavalry, which claims it attacked German panzer divisions with lances and sabres.
“You can clearly see on the photographs that the horses were used by the cavalry only as a means of transport, and that they used machine-guns for combat.” The photographs have been praised for their preserved quality and attention to detail achieved by the famed photographer.One of the more stunning photographs on display shows a heavily armed cavalry unit charging across a field in an exercise drill.And other pictures show a group of smiling soldiers huddled around a Vickers tank, in what appears to be a moment of quiet downtime in the summer sun.In another a group of soldiers were snapped resting on the side of ditch, helping themselves to a meal. Elsewhere a squadron of PZL P.11 fighter planes were photographed in an open field, tended to by engineers.None of the photo negatives were accompanied by notes or descriptions about their whereabouts, which posed a challenge for historians.But a scrupulous study of the soldier’s fatigues and equipment, helped them decipher the manoeuvre’s locations. Most were taken between July and August at military training grounds around Warsaw, Okęcie, Legionowo and Minsk Mazowiecki.The photos will remain on exhibition until March 15 2018 .. 00FastNews. Please Subscribe!
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Never seen before WW2 photos reveal Polish army on the eve of Hitler’s invasion
STUNNING photographs taken in the weeks before Adolf Hitler’s tragic invasion of Poland, reveal cheerful soldiers unaware of the impeding attack and dawn of the Second World War. Hitler’s Germany invaded Poland on the morning of September 1, 1939, under the false pretence of Polish sabotage actions along the border.Two days later Britain joined the fight, declaring war on Germany. What followed was the valiant but unsuccessful September Campaign to drive out the aggressors.On September 17, Poland was invaded by the Soviet Union from the east and the country was brought down to its knees on September 27.Photographer Mr Poddębski first came to prominence for his landscape and photo-journalistic work in the 1930s with the German-made Leica camera. It is likely he was one of several photographers commissioned to document the war games by the Polish Armed Forces Ministry.Sadly the photographer died in 1945 at the German Veihingen concentration camp.The museum’s historians assume the photographs have remained a secret for nearly 80 years, because Mr Poddębski never had the chance to get them developed before the war broke out.Miraculously the negatives survived a raging fire in the tragic 1944 Warsaw Uprising, when the Germans systematically reduced the city to rubble. They were then bought by the museum from Mr Poddębski's daughter Krystyna Kukieła in 2014.And the unearthed pre-war photographs hold a significant historical value, because they debunk several myths about the Polish army in 1939, claimed a museum expert.Marcin Westphal, argued the photos challenge the widely held assumption that the Polish army was undermanned and ill equipped for war.He said: “The photos also debunk the myth of the Polish cavalry, which claims it attacked German panzer divisions with lances and sabres.
“You can clearly see on the photographs that the horses were used by the cavalry only as a means of transport, and that they used machine-guns for combat.” The photographs have been praised for their preserved quality and attention to detail achieved by the famed photographer.One of the more stunning photographs on display shows a heavily armed cavalry unit charging across a field in an exercise drill.And other pictures show a group of smiling soldiers huddled around a Vickers tank, in what appears to be a moment of quiet downtime in the summer sun.In another a group of soldiers were snapped resting on the side of ditch, helping themselves to a meal. Elsewhere a squadron of PZL P.11 fighter planes were photographed in an open field, tended to by engineers.None of the photo negatives were accompanied by notes or descriptions about their whereabouts, which posed a challenge for historians.But a scrupulous study of the soldier’s fatigues and equipment, helped them decipher the manoeuvre’s locations. Most were taken between July and August at military training grounds around Warsaw, Okęcie, Legionowo and Minsk Mazowiecki.The photos will remain on exhibition until March 15 2018 .. 00FastNews. Please Subscribe!
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