Fighting the Germans 40 to 1 (2024, WW2 Documentary)

In the first days of the war, Captain Władysław Raginis commanded a defense operation on the outskirts of the small Polish town Wizna. He and his unit of 720 Polish soldiers faced the impossible task of stopping a vastly superior German force: 42,000 men, 450 tanks, 108 150mm howitzers and 58 lighter guns. On the 4th day of the battle the defenders were running out of ammunition. The Poles had no other option but to surrender. The event that went down in history as the Polish Thermopylae would become a remarkable act of heroism and courage of the Polish troops when they fought odds of more than 40:1.

Chapters:
00:00 Polish troops at Wizna prepare for German invaders
00:41 The Battle of Wizna begins
01:35 World of Tanks
02:37 German tanks are on the horizon
04:11 The Poles ambush the Germans
05:33 The Germans assault the Polish position again
07:45 The battered Germans retreat
08:36 Schmidt and his scouting crew
09:31 The Poles defend against the advancing Germans
09:50 German planes attack the Polish positions
10:42 10th Panzer Division attacks the Polish bunkers
11:36 The first Polish bunker is destroyed
11:58 Polish Spartans' valiant defense
13:10 The defenders of the second bunker surrender
14:19 Raginis and his crew have no ammunition
14:47 The last speech of Raginis

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