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Traditionally described as "Polish cavalry in Sochaczew during the Battle of the Bzura in 1939" now proven to be a picture taken on the set of German propaganda movie
Kampfgeschwader Lützow
Polish cavalry in Sochaczew photograph
Credit: Unknown
Long thought to depict an actual
Polish cavalry
charge in
Sochaczew
during the
Battle of the Bzura
in 1939, one of the last major military actions conducted on horseback,
this photograph
is now believed to have been taken during the filming of
Hans Bertram
's German propaganda movie
Kampfgeschwader Lützow
in 1940.
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