| Source | “Express Poranny” no. 244 04.09.1939. |
| Event referred to | Wehrmacht’s Invasion on Poland |
| Technological characteristics | Type of file: text
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| Description of the source | Kind of source: Newspaper article
Origin of the source: Archive of the library of the University of Gdansk (PL)
Language: polish
Copyright issues: reproduction and pedagogical exploitation authorized in the framework of the MHM project
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| Contextualisation of the source | “Express Poranny” was a source of very precise information for Polish people. It was treated with a noticeable respect by the Polish community. |
| Interpretation of the source | This piece classifies the phase of the war into the military/ strategic aspect and its psychological part. The relation is very vivid typical of the news gathered minute by minute. The relation corresponds to the planning of invaders, the expected results and the mechanisms of the hostile propaganda. |
| Original Contents | Odparliœmy silny napór lotnictwa
Polski ¿o³nierz likwiduje niemieckie czo³gi
Bezustannie reklamowanym przez Niemcy „straszakiem” by³o ich lotnictwo i broñ pancerna.
Mia³a to byæ si³a nie do przezwyciê¿enia, maj¹ca zmieœæ na drodze ka¿d¹ zaporê i umo¿liwiæ przeprowadzenie wojny b³yskawicznej.
Rzeczywistoœæ ca³kowicie zada³a k³am niemieckim przechwa³kom.
W ci¹gu trzech dni wojny, która dopiero sta³a siê najstraszniejszym sprawdzianem si³, mo¿na stwierdziæ, ¿e Polska sta³a siê terenem wielkiego wysi³ku lotnictwa niemieckiego.
Ale równoczeœnie mo¿na stwierdziæ, ¿e wytrzymaliœmy znakomicie ca³¹ ostroœæ tego natarcia.
Impet, z jakim runê³o na nas lotnictwo niemieckie mia³ nie tylko znaczenie strategiczne. Nale¿a³ równie¿ do dziedziny wojny psychologicznej. Mia³ na celu za³amanie i zdemoralizowanie spo³eczeñstwa.
Oczekiwania niemieckie w tym wzglêdzie zawiod³y na ca³ej linii. Nie osi¹gnêli nic. Ludnoœæ zachowa³a wspania³¹ postawê, daj¹c niezbite dowody zimnej krwi i ca³kowitego opanowania nerwów.
Broñ pancerna nie przynios³a równie¿ oczekiwanych przez Niemcy sukcesów. ¯o³nierz polski bije siê œwietnie, wykazuj¹c kamienny spokój i stalowe nerwy.
Wojsko nasze zaopatrzone w doskonale precyzyjny sprzêt przeciwpancerny – z najzupe³niejszym spokojem dopuszcza na blisk¹ odleg³oœæ czo³gi niemieckie i nastêpnie likwiduje je niezawodnie.
Tak by³o np. na Œl¹sku, gdzie w pewnym miejscu Niemcy rzucili do akcji 15 czo³gów. Na placu zosta³y wszystkie, nie wyszed³ ani jeden.
Przed po³udniem w dniu 3 bm. nasze lotnictwo wykona³o nalot na zgrupowanie pancerne, jakie przedar³o siê przez nasze linie do rejonu Czêstochowy.
Kilkakrotne natarcie lotnicze, po³¹czone z bombardowaniem i ostrzeliwaniem z ciê¿kich karabinów maszynowych spowodowa³o pop³och w dwu pancernych kolumnach niemieckich, które panicznie opuœci³y drogê i szuka³y schronienia w terenie.
W innym miejscu zgrupowanie pancernej broni niemieckiej, znajduj¹cej siê na postoju, zosta³o zarzucone bombami i ponios³o wielkie straty, oceniane na 30 procent.
W akcji tej nasze lotnictwo straci³o 4 samoloty.
Oczywiœcie Niemcy rozg³aszaj¹ przez radio fantastyczne pog³oski o swych „sukcesach”, nie wspominaj¹c nic o stratach. I w relacjach z przebiegu wojny pos³uguj¹ siê metod¹ „propagandy”, tak zreszt¹, jak to by³o w niemieckich komunikatach z czasów wielkiej wojny.
W odró¿nieniu od tej „metody” komunikaty polskie, oszczêdne w s³owach, zawieraj¹ absurdaln¹ prawdê nie przeinaczaj¹c obrazu operacji.
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| Original Contents (English Translation) | We Set Back a Strong Pressure of the Air Forces
A Polish Soldier Destroys the German Tanks
A constantly advertised threaten by Germans was their air forces and Panzer weapon.
They were expected to be the powers not to overcome, which were to eliminate any obstacle in its course and make it possible to set on blitzkrieg.
However, the reality appeared to be totally on the contrary to the Germans’ boasting.
In the course of the three days of the war, which only demonstrated to be the most essential test of the forces, it was possibly to state that Poland became a place of a great efforts on the side of the German air forces.
But at the same time, it should be emphasized that Poland resisted to all the potential of that invasion.
The impetus with which the German air forces fell on us did not only have a strategic meaning. It corresponded also to the so called psychological war. Its purpose was breaking down the Polish society.
The German expectations towards that purpose completely failed. They did not achieve anything. The Polish inhabitants preserved their great attitude, demonstrating their proofs of their cold blood and power of will.
The panzer weapon also did not bring the expected successes on the German side. The Polish soldiers were struggling very well, indicating their concentration and resistance of their nerves.
Our army was equipped with a perfectly precise anti panzer equipment- very precisely it allows the German tanks to come closer and then it destroys them without any doubts.
Such a situation took place in Silesia where at a certain moment Germans expedited towards the action 15 tanks. On the spot there remained all of them, none of them did not set off.
Before the noon at the 3rd of this month our air forces executed a raid over a panzer group which had gone through our defense lines to the region of Czestochowa.
Air forces raids joined with bombardments and shooting from heavy machine guns caused a panic among 2 German panzer columns which left the path and were seeking for a shelter.
In another place a group of German panzer weapon situated on the stopping place was thrown down with bombs and suffered from big losses- estimated to 30 per cent.
In this action our air forces lost 4 planes.
Off course, Germans announce marvelous messages according to their victories, without mentioning their losses. And towards the relations according to the war’s course they use a propaganda method, the same way as that happened in the course of the German reports during the Great War.
On the contrary to that “method’, the Polish reports not too much elaborated in words contain the absolute truth, without masking the operational picture.
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