GERMANS SHOWED THIS TERROR FILM-AT OSLO LEGATION PARTY. Stills from the German propaganda film, “Baptism of Fire," which glorifies the destruction wrought by the German air force in Poland. It has been reported that four days before the German invasion of Norway, members of the Norwegian Government were invited to the German Legation in Oslo to sec the film. Afterwards the German Minister said it was a peace film not a war film, since it showed what nations who chose peace would save their people from suffering. The first showing of the film was in Rome, and Count Ciano was the guest of honour among a distinguished company invited by the German Ambassador. At the end of the film Goering himself appears on the screen and says: “What our air force did to Poland we shall repeat on England and France. The German captions to these stills were (upper): “Burning Street in Warsaw,” and (lower) “Refugees Returning to Their Villages.”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 June 1940, Page 9

GERMANS SHOWED THIS TERROR FILM-AT OSLO LEGATION PARTY. Stills from the German propaganda film, “Baptism of Fire," which glorifies the destruction wrought by the German air force in Poland. It has been reported that four days before the German invasion of Norway, members of the Norwegian Government were invited to the German Legation in Oslo to sec the film. Afterwards the German Minister said it was a peace film not a war film, since it showed what nations who chose peace would save their people from suffering. The first showing of the film was in Rome, and Count Ciano was the guest of honour among a distinguished company invited by the German Ambassador. At the end of the film Goering himself appears on the screen and says: “What our air force did to Poland we shall repeat on England and France. The German captions to these stills were (upper): “Burning Street in Warsaw,” and (lower) “Refugees Returning to Their Villages.”