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Scenes of Utrecht, Netherlands and Brussels, Belgium, during World War 2
Scenes in Utrecht, Netherlands, during World War Two. The Dom-tower ( clock tower known as: de Dom). Dutch pedestrians and vehicular traffic on the roads. Pedestrians by a canal. Dutch civilians on bicycles. A busy market street. Scenes of Brussels, Belgium in Second World War. Trams make their way up and down a street. Pedestrians and cars on roads. Belgian civilians seated at street side cafes. Civilians and German soldiers outside a monument. Pedestrians and cyclists on the streets. Soldiers and civilians at a vegetable market.
Netherlands celebrates the birth of Willem-Alexander, son of Princess Beatrix
Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands gives birth to Willem-Alexander, the first male child born to the Dutch royal family, the House of Orange, in over a century. People view a light shaped like a cradle. Crowds gathered outside the Utrecht University Hospital (now known as the University Medical Center Utrecht Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, Netherlands). A spokesman speaks to reporters announcing the birth of Princess Beatrix’s child. Dutch people dancing and rejoicing on the streets.
Former U.S. war correspondents meet prince Bernhard in Palace Soestdijk, the Netherlands.
Former American war correspondents arrive in the Netherlands on a tour of Europe 25 years after the Allied Invasion during World War II. A bus full of American correspondents and their wives on a Maarse and Kroon bus. The correspondents get off the bus and talk. The correspondents seated inside the bus. War correspondents visit the home of Dutch Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, the Soestdijk Palace (Amsterdamsestraatweg 1, 3744 AA Baarn, Netherlands), located in the small town of Baarn, Utrecht Province. The bus pulls up outside the Soestdijk Palace. The correspondents enter the building and meet prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, the Prince Consort of the Netherlands. Correspondents drink and talk together. They come out with Prince Bernhard and pose on the lawns. Correspondents pose outside the building. Prince Bernhard, wearing a white flower on his lapel, speaks to correspondents as photographers take pictures.
German Army invades Belgium and the Netherlands in 1940
Invasion of Belgium and the Netherlands by Germany on 10th May, 1940. Belgium: Nazi troops enter Belgian border crossing with armor and infantry, and invade Belgium. Netherlands: German Ju 52 trimotor transport aircraft carry paratroopers who jump over Rotterdam, Netherlands. They land and move against defenders on the ground. Defenders surrendering under white flags. German aircraft bomb parts of Rotterdam and cause a large conflagration at Rotterdam Port. Fires burning in Rotterdam. civilians leaving areas of fire carrying belongings. (World War II period).
German troops planning and launching May 1940 attacks across Luxembourg, Belgium, and Holland; Rotterdam blitz scenes (WW2)
Hermann Goering, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler and others as Italy joins Germany in declaring war against Britain and France June 10, 1940 (World War II). Animated map illustrates possible Axis war plans. Aerial view of Maginot line. Fire burning from German bombing in Scandinavia. Windmill turning in Holland.Map outlines Allied strategy for defense. Views of the Ardennes Forest. French Generals examining map. British Field Marshal John Vereker (Viscount Gort) studying map with two Generals.Narrator states they dismissed German attack through the Ardennes. May 9, 1940 - News headline reports German troops on move. Netherlands and French recruit troops mobilizing. French army soldiers standing at train station platform and loading into passenger railroad trains. Exterior of the Basilique du Sacre-Coeur (Basilica of the Sacred Heart) at Montmartre, Paris. People lighting candles. Statue of Madonna and Child. Views of several churches. A Catholic Bishop blessing people. People kneeling in prayer. Hitler and other Nazi leaders, including Himmler, Goebbels, Bormann, Hess and Rohm, haranguing crowds. Hermann Goering leading crowd in salutes. Ludwig Muller, Reichsbischof, Hitler supporter. Many views of Germans shouting Sieg Heil. German troops moving out on May 10, 1940. Hermann Goering, chief of Luftwaffe, in uniform. German pilots run to airplanes. Ju-87 Stukas take off. D0-17 bombers take off. German tanks, motorcycle troops, armor and infantry cross borders of Luxembourg, Belgium, and Holland. Map depicts action. German forces destroy obstacles at border crossings and move past windmill in Holland.He-111 bombers in flight. German paratroops jump from Ju-52 transport over Rotterdam. They capture key facilities. Troops riding on tanks. Dutch General Henri Gerard Winkelman walks with German officer over Maas-bridges in Rotterdam. He and delegation enter building at Rijsoord to sign surrender on May 15, 1940. German bombers destroy Rotterdam. View of German bomber bomb bay doors open and bombs away toward targets. The city in flames, with sound. Remains of the city. Numerous dead civilians.
The Dutch people walking on the streets in Netherlands.
A documentary film titled 'The Netherlands' on the geography and the people in the Netherlands. The map of Europe. The map outlines Netherlands. Germany and Belgium also located on the map. Another map locates North and South Holland. Windmills in an area. A man and woman walking on a street with children. The woman with a child in a stroller. Traffic passing on the street. Buildings along the sides of the street. A steam boat underway on a river.
