Polish Film Chronicle 70/17A

The Brown Shadow: a historical report about the beginnings and consequences of fascism in the history of mankind. The starting point are the profiles of two veterans of the First World War - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, who gathered dissatisfied people around them. Hitler comes to power, breaks the Treaty of Versailles, restores the army, begins rearming. He starts to demand: he occupies Austria, Czechoslovakia threatens Poland and the rest of Europe: he destroys many places and starts genocide. Finally, he invades the Soviet Union and he suffers a defeat at Stalingrad. He retreats from the Soviet Union and Berlin has to give up. But fascism still threatens the whole world, and it has to be reminded, especially on the 25th anniversary of victory.