Group of Polish officers and soldiers with a German pilot taken as a prisoner of war

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Title	Group of Polish officers and soldiers with a German pilot taken as a prisoner of war
Date	1939-09
Photographer’s Note	German pilot shot down in one of the first air raids on Warsaw. “Shot Down in Action. The Nazi airman shot during an air raid over Warsaw, awaits the decision of the Polish officers as to what shall be done with him. Ironically, enough, he is being detained in the courtyard of a small German mission church in the capitol.” Forman’s caption in his article featuring this image. “Filming the Blitzkrieg.” Travel. December 1939. Vol. 74 No. 2.
Photographer	Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978
Description	“The officers were given private rooms and accorded every military courtesy. I must admit I did think part of all this was put on for my recording newsreel camera. But this suspicion was quickly dispelled when one day I saw a squad of Polish soldiers marching up the street with two German pilots shot down in the just- finished air raid over Warsaw. A howling, hooting mob trailed behind, waving fists and shouting curses. They were kept from rushing in and tearing the airmen apart only by the bayonets on their own Polish soldiers. I followed into the prison compound, and ground away. The feature of that certainly unrehearsed sequence was a Polish colonel helping one of the wounded pilots pull off a boot from his injured leg. They were seemingly intelligent young fellows, these pilots. Still in their early twenties.” Harrison Forman. (1939). “Filming the Blitzkrieg.” Travel. December 1939. Vol. 74 No. 2.
Subject	World War, 1939-1945--Poland World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland Prisoners of war, German Poland--Armed Forces--Officers Soldiers --Poland
Continent	Europe
Country	Poland
Type	Image
Original Collection	Harrison Forman Collection
Original Item Medium	Photographic prints
Original Item Size	5 x 7 in.
Original Item ID	Forman 0261 (M)
Provenance	Gift of Sandra Carlyle Forman, 1987
Repository	American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Rights	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Digital Publisher	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Digital ID	fr003995
Date Digitized	2009
Digital Collection	Nazi Invasion of Poland in 1939 - Images and Documents from the Harrison Forman
Digital Format	image/tif; image/jp2
Part of	American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive

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