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French soldiers load guns in the Verdun forts while German infantry crosses a river and a pontoon bridge in France.

The German assault on France during the Battle of France in World War II. An animated map depicts the German advance across Saar and the Rhine. They close in on Belfort, Verdun, Strassburg, Epinal and Colmar. Explosions near a defense line in the battle field. French troops load guns in the Verdun fort bunkers. French soldiers wearing berets shout out instructions inside the fortifications, load and fire artillery guns. Racks full of shells. Soldiers take aim and fire guns. Soldiers operate various machines and equipment. Explosions near railroad tracks. Numerous explosions on hills. German soldiers prepare and fire a Krupp K5 railway gun. German officers brief soldiers with the help of a map on a wall. German infantry crosses a river in motor launches. Firing on either side of the river. Soldiers in boats go across, land ashore and move into wooded area. German troops advance, reduce French strong points. Soldiers fire artillery. German officers ride by in staff cars. Officers and soldiers survey the surrounding hills and landscape. Germans guard French POWs (Prisoners of War). Troops cross a pontoon bridge and enter French forts.

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021756
Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers dropping bombs during an aerial raid of Mulhouse, France (WW2)

Allied bombers bombard railways in Mulhouse, France a month before the Normandy invasion (World War 2). Animated map shows the location of Mulhouse, near the Franco-German-Swiss border. Bombers flying to Mulhouse. United States Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombers in flight. Lockheed P-38 Lightning, Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and North American P-51 Mustang fighters escort the heavy bombers while flying over France. A German fighter aircraft is shot down by a P-47 as seen from a distance. A German pilot is very faintly seen parachuting after ejecting from fighter. Two United States fighters fly away. Aerial view of Mulhouse, Belfort, and surrounding communes. Bombs dropping over Mulhouse and its freight yard. Pillars of smoke rise from Mulhouse. Another aerial raid to Mulhouse took place on May 25, 1944, two weeks after the initial raid. Aerial view of bombs dropping over Mulhouse. Thick clouds of smoke forms over Mulhouse freight yards. A formation of Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers in flight.

Date: 1944, May
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079835
Free French Forces of the Interior (FFI) in an underground headquarters in Paris, France during World War II.

The secret Free French headquarters in Paris during World War 2. Opening scene shows the Lion Of Belfort Statue, at Place Denfert-Rochereau in Paris, France. Pedestrians and cyclists are moving through the area. Next are views through the windshield of a car driving around the statue. It drives up a side street, and a passenger is let out. As the car drives away, the passenger enters a building, housing the secret headquarters of the Free French Forces of the Interior (FFI) and goes inside. He proceeds through some anterooms and down several flights of stairs deep into a subteranean room where he is admitted by a man wearing a white FFI armband. He delivers a paper message to one of two men sitting at a table. The information causes various members of the FFI in the headquarters to begin taking actions to plan a mission. A woman transmits the informtion and orders via a teletype machine.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067180
French troops and General Jacques Philippe Leclerc of Free French Forces enter Paris duringWorld War II.

General Jacques Philippe Leclerc of Free French Forces and French troops enter Paris during World War II. French civilians greet arriving French troops. The troops on army vehicle move past crowd lined up on the streets in front of the Lion of Belfort in the Place Denfert-Rochereau.

Date: 1944, August 23
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060383
French civilians climb aboard tanks and vehicles to welcome arriving Allied troops in Paris during World War II.

French civilians greet entering Allied troops after the liberation of Paris during World War II. Troops and French civilians atop a tank on a street. Civilians around the soldiers. The civilians and the soldiers in front of the Lion de Belfort. The civilians wave on the streets. A soldier drives a jeep.

Date: 1944, August 25
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060380
Soviet Union backs out of 4-power administration of Berlin and blockades the City. U.S. Army Air Forces supply the city by airlift.

Teacher and school children playing amid rubble in Berlin, in the aftermath of World War II. Children receiving food outdoors. Children in a school classroom being given cups of soup by their teacher. In March, 1948, a Soviet soldier is seen lowering their flag from one of four flag poles displaying it, along with flags of the British, American, and French flags. (They no longer wished to share occupation of Berlin with the other Allied powers.) View of Western representatives preparing to issue a new stable currency. Next, the Soviets block all access to West Berlin (the "Berlin Blockade.") Open rail cars filled with coal are brought to a halt in their tracks. Trucks servicing West Berlin are stopped from moving over a highway. West Berlin citizens stand at a fence watching a U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 transport plane flying supplies to them. View from below of a C-54 transport plane descending to land, with supplies, at Templehof airfield in West Berlin. A C-54 taking off to make another supply run. A pallet of coal being offloaded from a C-54. A tram running on restricted schedule. A Berliner planting food in a deserted lot near a demolished building. People assembled in front of the severely damaged Bundestag and in other places surrounded by war torn buildings. Berlin Mayor Ernst Reuter, speaks of seeking assistance from America, England, France, and Italy, to help his city. Closeups of some of the Berliners applauding him. An airlift airplane labeled "Operation Santa Claus" with a soldier dressed like Santa, dispensing wrapped gifts or candy to German children near the plane's doorway. German children can be seen and heard singing "deck the Halls" in English. A soldier dressed as St. Nicholas stands next to one dressed as a Native American Indian. Children sing Martin Luther's hymn, "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" ("A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"). A British Sunderland flying boat, takes off on the Havel River, in Berlin, after delivering supplies to the city. Grateful Berliners surrounding American pilots. Children run in a street carrying a large model of an airplane to simulate the Berlin airlift. Children playing "airlift" on a sidewalk. An airlift plane crashed and burning in a residential section of Berlin. German fire fighters battle the flames with hoses. A C-54 airlift plane descending to land with its gear extended. Scene at midnight, May 2, 1949, as the barriers isolating Berlin are raised, as the Soviets promised free and improved access to Berlin. People waving flowers as trucks once again move into the city. But Communists are seen violently storming the Greater Berlin City Hall in the Eastern Sector of the city. Non-Communist deputies in the Eastern Sector are forced to meet in West Berlin, where they meet without being molested. View of the Berlin Logo (Bear). Free election vote being deposited in a ballot box. Animated map shows how Berlin was cut in two, separating East Berlin from West Berlin.

Date: 1948
Duration: 4 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037556