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HISTORY ARTS CULTURE DOCUMENTARY 30 MIN. VERSIONS Arabic, English, German, Spanish: 02 x 30 min. RIGHTS Worldwide, VOD, Mobile ORDER NUMBER 36 4738 | 01, 02 Hitler’s Assault – How World War II Began It was Hitler’s invasion of Poland that triggered World War Two in Europe. This assault by National Socialist Germany, which contravened international law, began on 1 September 1939 when German troops entered Poland without warning. It ended on 6 October that same year when the last remaining Polish forces capitulated. The commonly accepted theory is that the war began when the German warship SchleswigHolstein shelled a Polish garrison on the Westerplatte peninsular in the city of Gdansk. In fact, however, a German air force bomber squadron had already reduced the small Polish town of Wielun to rubble. The town’s unsuspecting residents were taken by surprize as they lay sleeping in their beds. Wielun was a town without any military presence or strategic importance. It was almost completely destroyed in three bombardments. Hitler’s Assault is without precedent in television history. It is the first German-Polish co-production to document the events that started World War Two. The bombing of Wielun forms the dramatic framework of the film, which is told from both sides – German residents of the border region and soldiers on the one hand, and Polish eyewitnesses on the other. 70 years on, they talked about their personal recollections of how the war began. Renowned historians also discuss the events of August and September 1939. DW TRANSTEL