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Fleeing Polish civilians with horse cart, 1939

Name: Fleeing Polish civilians with horse cart, 1939
Uploaded: 2026-09-04T00:39:32.386Z
Duration: 9 s
Channel: The March of Time (Outtakes)

On a country road in the Polish Corridor, a civilian drives a horse-drawn cart to escape the German advance. Such scenes of flight repeated along the entire front in the first days of the war, as hundreds of thousands of Polish civilians tried to escape the combat zones. The Wehrmacht often filmed such images deliberately to underline its own rapid advance and perceived superiority. The footage comes from unedited material on the invasion of Poland in September 1939.

Period: c. September 1939–December 31, 1939
Credit: The March of Time (Outtakes)US National ArchivesPublic Domain (NARA) · Digitalisierung und Bearbeitung: © zb Media GmbH

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Clip name: HFE010251
Length: 0' 09"
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames per Second: 24 fps
Chroma Subsampling: yuv422p10le
Resolution: 1920 × 1080
Format: MOV
File Size: 207,038,372 bytes

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