W.W.2 GERMAN WAR POSTER / LEAFLET ''BLOODY SUNDAY OF BROMBERG SEP. 10 1939''

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HELLO.....HERE IS A W.W.2 GERMAN WAR POSTER / LEAFLET.    I BELIEVE THIS TO BE ORIGINAL AS IT CAME WITH A COLLECTION OF NICE W.W.2 GERMAN ITEMS.    BELOW IS THE TRANSLATION OF THE POSTER.    GOOGLE THIS POSER, AND YOU WILL SEE THAT IT IS A RARE WAR TIME PIECE.    IT IS DATED AT THE BOTTOM, SEPTEMBER 1942.   THE INFORMATION BELOW CAME FROM A MUSEUM THAT HAS ONE LIKE IT IN THEIR COLLECTION.    IT IS PRINTED ON A HEAVY STOCK PAPER, AND MEASURES 13 1/2'' TALL, BY 9 1/4'' WIDE.   THE POSTER IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION...LOOKS NICER THAN THE ONE THE MUSEUM HAS SHOWN.    THE LAST PHOTO SHOWS HOW THE POSTER BELOW IT TRANSFERRED TO THE BACK.   I HOPE YOU CAN ADD IT TO YOUR COLLECTION.   PLEASE LOOK OVER THE PHOTOS, AND ASK ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.
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Bloody Sunday (1939)
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Wehrmacht soldiers and journalists with German victims of Bloody Sunday.
[1]
The photo was utilized by the Nazi press and bears the editor's cropping marks, showing the portion of the image that was intended to be used for publication.
[2]
Bloody Sunday
(
German
:
Bromberger Blutsonntag
;
Polish
:
Krwawa niedziela
) was a sequence of violent events that took place in
Bydgoszcz
(
German
:
Bromberg
), a
Polish
city with a sizable
German minority
, between 3 and 4 September 1939, during the
German invasion of Poland
.
After German
Selbstschutz
snipers fired on retreating Polish troops, there was a Polish reaction against the German minority and then the retaliatory execution of Polish hostages by the
Wehrmacht
and
Selbstschutz
, after the fall of the city. All these events resulted in the deaths of both German and Polish civilians. The Polish
Institute of National Remembrance
found and confirmed 254
Lutheran
victims, assumed to be German civilians, and 86
Catholic
victims, assumed to be Polish civilians, as well as 20 Polish soldiers. Approximately 600–800 Polish hostages were shot in a
mass execution
in the aftermath of the fall of the city as a "revenge".
After the Germans took over the city, they killed 1,200–3,000 Polish civilians in retaliation, as part of
Operation Tannenberg
. The event and place of execution became known as the
Valley of Death
. The murdered included the president of Bydgoszcz, Leon Barciszewski. Fifty Polish prisoners of war from Bydgoszcz were later accused by Nazi
Sondergericht Bromberg
summary courts for taking part in "Bloody Sunday" and shot.
10. September - Bromberger Blutsonntag Wenn Das Licht Mit Der FinsternisZusammenprallt Gibt Es Kein Paktieren, Da Gibt Es Nur Kampf Auf Leben Und Tod Bis Zur Vernichtung Des Einen Oder Anderen Teiles. (September 10 - Bloody Sunday Of Bromberg)
10. September  Bloody Sunday Of Bromberg - If The Light Clashes With Darkness There Is No Making Of Agreements, There Is Only A Fight Of Life And Death Until The One Or The Other Part Is Destroyed.]
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10. September - Bromberger Blutsonntag Wenn Das Licht Mit Der Finsternis Zusammenprallt Gibt Es Kein Paktieren, Da Gibt Es Nur Kampf Auf Leben Und Tod Bis Zur Vernichtung Des Einen Oder Anderen Teiles. [September 10 - Bloody Sunday Of Bromberg - If The Light Clashes With Darkness There Is No Making Of Agreements, There Is Only A Fight Of Life And Death Until The One Or The Other Part Is Destroyed.]
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The 'Bloody Sunday of Bromberg' was an incident in 1939 in which several German civilians living in Poland were killed after attacks on Polish troops in the area. The art shows a German soldier comforting a woman with a child while the sun rises over a ruined city in the background. Quote by Dietrich Eckart. From the week 6-12 September, 1942.
Unable to stem the onrush of German forces during the invasion of their country, Polish soldiers and civilians started fleeing eastwards. It was during this flight to the east that the ethnic German civilians, resident in Poland for many years, received the full impact of the spite and hate stored up in the hearts of the fleeing Polish soldiers and their civilian followers. German houses were entered and the occupants arrested and then murdered. Not all were shot, many were brutally put to death by all sorts of tools and their bodies severely mutilated. As the soldiers left to search for more German houses, their civilian helpers were left behind to plunder and steal and in most cases, to set the house on fire. Many of the German women were raped before being shot. During this retreat from the west, the Polish soldiers, together with the civilian irregulars, were responsible for the deaths of around 6,000 German residents. At a later investigation, the testimonies of 593 witnesses established the fact that at least 3,841 named ethnic Germans were murdered by the Poles prior to the full German occupation. In September, 1939 these Volksdeutsche formed themselves into Self-Protection units known as Selbschutz and came under the control of the SS and later under the Ordungspolizei (Order Police). The infamous reputation that it earned caused it to be disbanded on 30th of November, 1939.