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Campaign in Poland 1939 Part 1 - Feldzug in Polen - Lord Haw-Haw - William Joyce - Sir Oswald Mosely

SUPPORT THE CHANNEL www.Patreon.com/Military1945 This is footage of the paramilitary Danziger Heimwehr formation attacking the Polish post office in Danzig on Sept. 1, 1939. That unit would expand to become the 60. motorized ID and then eventually the elite Panzergrenadier Division Feldhernhalle. I’ve got private footage of the 60.,as it advanced into Russia, let me know in the comment section below if you’re interested in seeing that. Today we’re looking at the 1940 German propaganda film Feldzug in Polen, The Campaign in Poland. The original film has a runtime of 66 minutes however a special shortened and now rare English language version was produced for export that was only 33 min. long. Since the film footage in the German version is of much better quality, I’ve used it and replaced the German language with the English tone. This gives me about half an hour which I’ll use to put the film into historical context and introduce a number of related propaganda films that were produced later during the war. In addition, the speaker in the English version who was known as Lord Haw-Haw was infamous in his own right and I’ll be talk about his unique history. Combining elements from different productions of the same film is not unusual. For example, with the 1943 film Asse zur See which shows German torpedo boats, all of the original German versions that we could find had relatively poor film quality. Finally a Dutch version was found with near perfect footage. Combining elements to create a better quality original is almost always preferable to altering or doing enhancement work to original material. Rather than leaving out the extended scenes in the original German version, for the YouTube presentation I just left them in. The content is self explanatory. So the speaker in this film was known to the British, almost affectionately, as Lord Haw-Haw. His real name was William Joyce and he was an American born British fascist politician who, in 1940 would take on German citizenship and become a propaganda broadcaster. He was an anti-semite, a braggart and a brawler claiming that a large scar that he had down the left side of his face had been caused by a fight with some jewish marxists; it’s believed that it had actually been done by an Irish woman. In 1934 Joyce joined the British Union of Fascists, the BUF, that was led by Sir Oswald Mosely. and began speaking at party events. In this role he was popular and by 1934 was promoted to become the BUF’s Director of Propaganda and then again quickly promoted to be deputy leader of the party. The story of the BUF is fascinating. Archival footage that is often historically most important is politically incorrect material for example that shows the BUF, the German American Bund or Norwegian, Dutch, French or Belgian fascists. To this day some countries surprisingly still try to control the showing of certain footage which means that on YouTube there are limits to what can be shown. It’s unfortunate that in 2021 historical correctness still sometimes loses out to political correctness. It’s certainly better than it was a number of years ago but it’s still a problem. An important asset to the BUF, Joyce was put up as the party candidate for the 1937 elections to the London county council. But he also soon began to be seen as a loose canon getting quickly into fights with anti-fascists and putting the BUF too often in trouble with the authorities. In addition he started pushing a stronger anti-Semitic vision for the party which was more difficult for the general public to go along with and by the end of 1937 Mosely sacked him. Free of Joyce the DUF would focus less on anti semitism and more on actively campaigning for the avoidance of getting into a war with Germany. Joyce formed his own party which was called the National Socialist League, or the NLS, which intended to develop a kind of home grown British Nazism but really only became a copy of German Nazism. The BUF saw the NLS as a competitor and brawls would often break out between the groups during events. Frustrated that development of the party had not lived up to his exceptions Joyce gave up leadership of the party in May of 1939. In August of 1939, shortly before war broke out, Joyce and Margaret his wife moved to Berlin, Germany and by 1940 they had become German citizens. There he managed to get an interview at the Rundfunkhaus (broadcasting house) and was hired to write scripts and do radio announcements in his native English. The nick name Lord Haw Haw had been given to other announcers before him however as Joyce became the regular radio announcer he grew fond of the name and he began being introduced as William Joice, otherwise known as Lord Haw Haw. His broadcast always started with the announcer’s words, “Germany calling, Germany calling, Germany calling.”