Heimkehr Filming Locations
Where was Heimkehr filmed? Heimkehr was filmed in 3 locations across Poland in the following places:
Heimkehr Filming Locations
Chorzele is a town in Przasnysz County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, on the Orzyc River. As of December 2021, the town has a population of 3,047. The town is crossed by the national road No. 57 Bartoszyce - Pułtusk and provincial roads 614 to Myszyniec and 616 to Ciechanów.
Szczytno is a town in northeastern Poland with 27,970 inhabitants. It is the seat of Szczytno County in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodship, within the historic region of Masuria. Olsztyn-Mazury Regional Airport, located nearby, is the most important airport of the Masurian region.
Heimkehr (1941)
This Nazi propaganda film attempts to justify the invasion of Poland--and thus the start of World War II--by "showing" how the ethnic Germans in Poland were discriminated against and oppressed by the Poles, and how they were rescued from extinction only by the intervention of the German army.