Naval battle between Allied warships and German forces inland at Menton, France during World War II. Aerial view of German shells landing in Menton, near the Italian border. The French battleship Lorraine and United States destroyers are sailing off the French Riviera. Smoke rises from bombardment of German positions in the mountains. Battleships fire their artillery, bombarding German positions. Smoke rises from the coast of Menton. Allied soldiers find two German sneak craft human torpedoes, also known as mini subs, beached in Cape Martin, a headland situated between Monaco and Menton in Southern France.
A large crowd gathers outside the City Hall (17 Rue de la République, 06500 Menton, France) in Menton, France during World War II. Barber shaves hair of a girl collaborationist as people stand in the background look at her and mock her. Another female Nazi German-collaborator stands among the viewers. A barber shaves the head of a young woman as she sits in a chair and large crowd watches her outside the City Hall.
Aerial views of the city of Menton in France. Houses in the city with mountains in the background. Shoreline of Monaco, Monte Carlo. A French soldier looks at the view from above the shore. (World War II period).
Austrian Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma, wife of the late ex-Emperor Karl I and the last Empress of Austria, descends stone steps in the gardens of the Villa Annunciata Hotel (Today the CCAS Holiday Apartment at Cor André Tardieu, 06500 Menton, France), adjacent to the Monastery of the Annunciation (2135 Cor André Tardieu, 06500 Menton, France). A traditional brick-lined well in the garden. Stone steps in a lush garden. Rose bushes and other plants growing. Trellis with vines. A road in Menton, hills are seen in the background. Distant view of Villa Annunciata Hotel, camera pans to view of the Monastery of the Annunciation and its chapel. Sign hanging beside the arch reads “Monastère” (“Monastery” in English).
Exiled members of the Habsburg Dynasty and their followers in Menton, France. Count Heinrich von Degenfeld, a loyal aristocratic follower of the Habsburg household, walks his dogs in the Hotel Villa Annunciata’s Garden (Today the CCAS Holiday Apartment at Cor André Tardieu, 06500 Menton, France) View of Monastery of the Annunciation in the background. Count von Degenfeld reads a newspaper inside the villa. Count von Degenfeld poses on the side of the road leading to the Monastery of the Annunciation in Menton. Count von Degenfeld smiles while sitting on a garden bench. The count descends from stone stairs with his dogs. Count von Degenfeld strolls in the garden.
French soldiers in a half truck on a highway. Custom Officers and French soldiers talk to each other. American patrol soldiers march towards Menton, France as they walk on paved path along a road. Soldiers at the Franco Italian border look over into Italy. (World War II period).
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