Westerplatte Resists

Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the mouth of the harbour at Gdansk. Before the Second World War it held a Polish ammunition depot. The area lay inside the Free City of Danzig. The garrison was one infantry company. There were civilians there too. A hundred and eighty two people in all. It was the only Polish post at the mouth of the Vistula. There were five sentry positions. The armament was one field gun, two anti tank guns and four mortars. The first shots of the Second World War were fired there. The film is about that defence and the days the garrison held out. Zygmunt Hübner and Arkadiusz Bazak lead, with Tadeusz Schmidt and Józef Nowak in the cast. The ninety one minute film is a Polish production Stanisław Różewicz finished in 1967.