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Breslau, Germany, now Wroclaw, Poland.
It is a private footage, we can see a boy who was a son of a high-ranked local Wehrmacht officer, on his way to school. Then there is a military inspection at the Polish border and a father and son trips outside the city.
It is strange to see Wehrmacht uniforms in a private film. It is a lovely summer of 1939, just a few weeks before the war.After a bit of searching, it turns out the footage must have come from private archives of Edwin Graf von Rothkirch und Trach, who was the Commandant of the Fortifications of Breslau. He appears on the film with other officers and later with his son Leopold (Poldi).
A little bit of googling later I found another video of Edwin Graf von Rothkirch und Trach. This time it is right at the end of the war, in an American propaganda piece from 1945. He's being captured by the US Army. You can easily recognize the face from previous film.
He appears in the clip at 4:54
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