In Our Time (1944) - Main Title & Ending Card "Titles" - (WB - 1944)

It wasn't so long ago, March 1939.

Poland had always seemed a faraway country, yet as the train ran across her picturesque countryside,

I thought of England, my home. We were worried about the war,

but they told us there would be peace in our time.

Little did we know how soon that peace would end and how important Poland was to become in our time.

In the 16th century, Poland was a vast empire extending from the Baltic Sea to the Crimea.

In fact, one of the great forces in Polish life is their memory of a glorious past.

Oh, darling.

Jenny.

Darling, I know what you're going to say.

But it doesn't matter what happens.

I'm with you.

La Lechka.

Life has been good, Stephen, and it's going to be even better

for those that come after us.

For 28 days and nights, the people defended the city of Warsaw.

Finally, it was smashed to ruins, burned to ashes.

But the people fought as long as it was possible, until at last, starvation and disease forced them to submit.

Not the Nazis.

Today, we have what we needed so desperately then.

For the first time in history, the massed forces of humanity are on the march,

and like London, Bataan, Stalingrad, Warsaw has become a symbol of the future world we are fighting to achieve,

that will be achieved.

In our time.