German Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, visits Gdansk (Danzig), Poland during German occupation in World War II. Nazi flag flies from Neptune's Fountain of the Long Market. Hitler rides in a car along a street and waves to the crowd. Crowd cheers him.
Invasion of Poland by Germany during World War II. Warsaw capitulates after two days of shelling. German troops fire heavy artillery , field artillery and mortars against targets in Warsaw, Poland. Smoke rises from shell fire in the background. Aerial views of destruction from German Stuka dive bombers.
Polish General Tadeusz Kutrzeba, deputy commander of forces in Warsaw, Poland, walks to a bus in which Nazi German officers await to negotiate a cease fire. They discuss disposition of forces using a map. General Kutrzeba then leaves, returns salute of German officer and returns to his soldier garrison.
German soldiers keeping watch on a high bluff of the German Westwall (Ziegfried or Siegfried Line) early in World War 2. German soldiers entering fortifications of the Westwall. Fortifications decorated with relief carvings of German soldiers. Camouflaged German heavy artillery guns being elevated on the Westwall (Ziegfried Line) at German standardized bunker Regelbau 35 (R35). Field artillery being fired. French and Germans exchange gunfire on Franco-German border. View of damaged houses in Herbitzheim, Germany, 10 kilometers from the border. View of damaged house where Moroccans lived. German troops using secret types of explosive charges inside buildings, and making their way through French village where they encounter a booby trapped wagon. French prisoners being escorted and processed by German soldiers, and then driven away in trucks.
Captain Gunter Prien and crew of German U-boat, U-47, being greeted in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Crew members of U-47 submarine exit aircraft at Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, and are greeted by officers and cheered by crowd. Motorcade of crew member pass on a street cheered by crowd. Next scene, unrelated, shows Jozef Tiso, President of the Slovak State (Slovakia) greeting victorious Slovak 1st Infantry Division soldiers of the Field Army Bernolák following their participation with Nazi Germany in the invasion of Poland. Axis Slovak soldiers in Holíč M32 helmets (style of Czechoslovakia) seen marching and receiving awards from Slovak commander and Minister of Defense, Ferdinand Čatloš. View of a visiting German General greeting a non-uniformed official. Then same General poses with Ferdinand Čatloš seen behind his right shoulder.
German troops parade in Prague, Czechoslovakia during German occupation of Czechoslovakia in World War 2. German troops parade in Prague. German artillery and tanks roll through central Prague. Troops march at Wenceslas Square. Equestrian statue of Wenseslas, Duke of Bohemia, in armor, carrying a banner. Troops and tanks parade as German officers watch them. German Luftwaffe planes fly overhead.
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