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Jan 29, 2023 · Between March 4 and 18, 1945 Kolberg (today Kołobrzeg in Poland) was under siege by troops of the Red Army and the Polish People’s Army. Since 1807, the former German bathing resort on the Baltic coast had seen no violence of war.
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Jan 30, 2023 · The last German strongpoint on the coast was Kolberg, transformed into a defensive bastion even as 70,000 civilian refugees poured into the city. The German Army High Command (OKH) hoped to keep Kolberg open as a supply port for forces farther east while bleeding the Russian army white at the gates.
The Battle of Kolberg or Battle of Kołobrzeg (also, battle for Festung Kolberg) was the taking of the city of Kolberg, now the city of Kołobrzeg, in Pomerania by the Soviet Army and its Polish allies from Nazi German forces during the World War II East Pomeranian Offensive.
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From 4 to 18 March 1945, Kolberg was besieged by troops of the Red Army and the Polish People's Army. The German seaside resort on the Baltic coast had not seen war since 1807. Back then, the siege by Napoleon's troops had ceased after an armistice was signed between France and Prussia.
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Kolberg, which was filmed in vivid Agfacolor, was produced late in the war to shore up the wilting spirits of ordinary Germans. Goebbels, with the help of director Veit Harlan, planned the movie as far back as 1943 to be a sort of National Socialists’ answer to Gone With the Wind. The star-studded epic follows the trials and tribulations of Joachim...
The scope of Kolberg was staggering. Berlin poured the scandalous sum of 8.5 million RM (the modern equivalent of about $30 million) into this Heaven’s Gate of a movie. Seemingly no expense was spared in the production either. As many as 50,000 German soldiers were pulled from active duty to flesh out the film’s panoramic battle sequences, while ah...
Ironically, following the film’s premiere, the real city of Kolberg was overrun by the Red Army. Many of its buildings were flattened in the savage fighting. What was left of the town was stripped from Germany following the Potsdam Conference and handed over to Poland. Today, it’s known as Kołobrzeg.
Kolberg vanished into obscurity with the downfall of National Socialism. It reemerged in the decades following the war as a historical curiosity. A 50th anniversary reissue in 1995 was accompanied by a documentary. The movie is now the property of the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, a non profit heritage film preservation agency operated by th...
Kolberg is a 1945 Nazi propaganda historical film written and directed by Veit Harlan. One of the last films of the Third Reich, it was intended to bolster the will of the German population to resist the Allies.
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Dec 21, 2017 · It ended at the Babelsberg studios in Potsdam, while the Allied bombers ravaged that city and Berlin. The film was parachuted on the besieged base of La Rochelle. The film was released in two simultaneous passes on January 30, 1945, coinciding with the 12th anniversary of Hitler's rise to power.
