World War 2. Britain (United Kingdom) and France declare war on Germany. German infantry carrying Panzerschreck antitank weapons. British troops mobilizing for war. Sign reads "A Call to Arms." Groups of new recruit British soldiers marching in large columns, including soldiers from Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa. British Queen Elizabeth class battleship with other warships. Animated map showing units of British fleet blockading Germany at Suez, Malta, Gibralter, the English Channel,and the North Sea. Adolf Hitler and German General staff make war plans. Animated map shows European countries around Germany. Ice skaters near Windmills in Holland. Farmers harvest grain. Bicyclists in Netherlands. Radio towers broadcast Nazi propaganda. Joseph Goebbels. Hitler denying intent to harm other countries. German military planners identify Norway as a target. Map shows German U-boats using Norwegian fjords. Map shows British fleet at Scapa Flow, and blockading ships in range from Norway. April 9, 1940, German army enters Copenhagen as Danes watch. German freighters in Norwegian ports smuggle troops and war materiel. German warships proceeding up Norwegian fjords, carrying troops and equipment. German Ju-87 and Ju-88 bombers and Me 109 aircraft in flight. Ju-88 over treetops. Junkers Ju-52 trimotor aircraft carrying German soldiers. Quislings seize power in Norway. View of Vidkun Quisling. Nazi posting up rules for citizen residents of Oslo Norway.
People board a ski train in Oslo Norway, heading for ski mountains during winter in World War 2. People gather outside a train station building in Oslo. Buildings along the sides of a street. People walk holding skis on the train platform. They load skis onto the outside of railroad cars and then fill the cars with skiers. A ski train at a railroad station. The train leaves the platform bringing recreational skiers to mountains.
Norwegian citizens flee Oslo in advance of invading German troops, who are seen marching into the Capital city during World War 2. Street scenes as the German troops occupy Oslo. Offshore, German warships are seen, including an F-class escort vessel (Flottenbegeleiter), the F-26. German naval guns firing and torpedo launched. Norwegian vessels being sunk. View of Norwegian harbor with parts of sunken vessels seen above the water.
Vidkun Quisling is sentenced to death in Oslo, Norway. Men stand outside the Court House. Vidkun Quisling arrives at the Court House. He gets out of the wagon. Vidkun Quisling inside the court room. He leaves the court after the sentence is announced and enters a patrol wagon.
Inspection of task force buildings in Oslo, Norway during World War II. Officers stand and talk. U.S. Army General Omar Nelson Bradley arrives in a car and is greeted by officers. General Bradley and U.S. Brigadier General Owen Summers and other officers on an inspection tour of Task Force 'A' buildings. The two Generals enter and leave buildings and cars while inspecting.
Aerial view POV from window of a German Ju-52 aircraft of another one off its left wing in a formation carrying paratroopers to drop over Norway during German invasion on April 9, 1940. View from inside a Ju-52 as paratroopers jump from the aircraft. Aerial views of the German paratroopers leaving more Ju-52s with their chutes deployed and descending toward earth. Shots from below of paratroopers with open chutes filling the screen. Formation of German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter planes in flight. Bombs exploding on the ground. Norwegian citizens rushing to evacuate areas under attack, in vehicles and on foot. A woman running on the street past burning debris. Bombs pouring out of a German Heinkel He-111 bomber. Building being destroyed and on fire. Children running for cover. Men, women, and children filling an open truck to evacuate. German Army troops marching into Oslo, Norway, as citizens watch from sidewalks. (World War II period).