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Growth of the German Nazi party and military might (German remilitarization) during the 1930s leading up to World War II

Nazi rally in Nuremberg, Germany ca.1934. Massed Storm troopers and spectators salute Hitler.An artillery piece is fired. Hitler personally recognizing loyal Storm troopers. Animated map of Asia, showing Japanese occupation of Manchuria, and Italian occupation of Ethiopia. Newspaper headlines describe Britain and France hesitating to support League of Nations oil sanctions against Italy; and U.S. increasing its oil exports to Italy by 600% (ca. 1935). Hitler and Hermann Goering looking pleased in Hitler's private railroad car. Adolf Hitler at a planning table covered with maps. German citizens traveling abroad and Joachim von Ribbentrop visiting London, as ambassador to Great Britain, in 1936. View of Léon Degrelle and his Catholic-fascist, Rexist party in Belgium (ca. 1936). View of Colonel Francois de la Rocque speaking at a Cross of Fire (Croix-de-Feu) party night rally in France.Konrad Henlein,leader of the Sudeten German Party in Czechoslovakia. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian National Socialist official, seen in an automobile during a parade. Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, addressing followers and defending Hitler. Street scenes of public disorder attributed to Nazi sympathizers in France and Belgium. Mass meeting of the German American Bund in Madison Square Garden, New York City,1939. U.S. flags and picture of George Washington decorate stage. Fritz Julius Kuhn addresses the gathering and members rough up a protester. Views of heavy industry in Germany, especially steel manufacturing for remilitarization. Persons working at a German concentration camp. Dramatized execution by machine gun. View of Heinrich Himmler. German President Paul von Hindenburg. German national conscription of 1935. German youth training pilots with gliders. German paratroopers, Junkers 52 aircraft, soldiers goosestep, tanks. Ju 87 Stuka plane. German invasion of Rhineland, 1936. Construction of Siegfried Line. Antitank barriers, bunkers, dragons teeth. Hitler visiting Westwall. German military parade.

Location: Germany
Date: 1939
Duration: 8 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043608
Government officials visit the British Expeditionary Forces in France during the "Phoney War" at outset of World War II.

British Army officer leads British Cabinet officials on tour of the wartime front in France, during December, 1939, in the so-called "Phoney War" at outset of world War 2. A British Naval officer accompanies them. The weather is foggy. Next, a closeup reveals that among the officials is British foreign minister, Lord Halifax (Viscount Halifax). The group converses as they are escorted about the British Expeditionary Force areas of operation. Momentary glimpse of General Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Commander of II Corps in the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). Views of extensive fortified trenches, and a sign reading: "Canadian Front Line, 1917." Change of scene shows contingent of Canadian troops marching in a town. Their commanding officer salutes as they pass. Standing with him, is a French officer in battle helmet. Local French civlians watch the troops on parade. More soldiers march past in background, behind the French spectators. Scene shifts again, to the civilian officials being escorted on tour of the area. Camera focuses on the Canadian War Memorial, at Vimy Ridge, and then pans to the touring group arriving there.

Location: France
Date: 1939, December
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053838
Wrecked Luftwaffe aircraft at the damaged Villacoublay airfield after Allied bombings during World War II.

Results of air assaults by the British Royal and U.S. Eighth Air Forces over industrial areas in and around German-occupied Paris during Wolrd War II. The Villacoublay airfield and aircraft factories, a major airfield for the Luftwaffe, important flight training school and a site for immense aircraft shops. The damaged airfield after six daylight attacks by the U.S. Eighth Air Force. Bomb damaged hangars and wrecked German aircraft. Allied officers survey the damage. Damaged structures and buildings. Officers in military jeeps survey the airfield. Collapsed structures and rubble on the ground. Debris strewn all around. Wrecked Luftwaffe aircraft.

Location: Paris France
Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021877
Soldiers, correspondents and civilians pay their respects at a British and American cemetery in Villacoublay, Paris.

U.S. correspondents visit British and American cemetery in Villacoublay towards the end of World War II. Graves of U.S. Army Air Forces and British Royal Air Force fliers buried with honor by the French. The graves inside the high stone walls of the cemetery. Plain white crosses, flowers, and bushes planted over the graves. Allied officers, soldiers, U.S. correspondents and civilians pay their respects.

Location: Paris France
Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021884
Funeral rites for the sailors who perished in the undersea craft "Phenix", held in Le Havre, France.

Scenes of warship and people on the French Navy ship in Le Havre, France. French submarine "Archimède" is moored beside the ship. The Archimède is then seen underway and submerging in ocean waters. On shore, a funeral ceremony is held to honor French sailors who died in the Redoutable-class submarine "Phenix" lost off Indochina on 15 June, 1939. French Navy sailors and officers offer garlands and officers keeping their caps low and heads down in a ceremony in the Place Gambetta, at the site of the French memorial known as Monuments aux Morts. French political and military leaders stand by. Sailors with rifles on shoulders pass by marching in formation. Large crowd gathered to see the memorial ceremony.

Location: Le Havre France
Date: 1939, June
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034121
German Field Marshal Fedor von Bock and Field Marshal Georg von Kuchler review the German Victory Parade in Paris, France.

The Germans capture Paris in June 1940 during World War II. 1939: British troops march with French troops during the French National Day parade. The troops and tanks parade before the Arc De Triomphe on Champs Elysees. The German Victory Parade on Chams Elysees after the fall of Paris. German Field Marshal Fedor von Bock and Field Marshal Georg von Kuchler review the German troops. Civilians watch the parade. Aerial view of the parade.

Location: Paris France
Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021922
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