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U.S. Anti-Fascist propaganda film during World War 2 depicts Axis leaders and Allied forces fighting in both World War 1 and World War 2.
Mix of actual footage and scenes with actors. Professor in laboratory extolling virtues of international research and researchers, in science and medicine. Voice-over with German accent speaks about inferior peoples and the scenes darken. Images of Nazi, Fascist, Japanese leaders and their followers including Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, Pierre Laval, Oswald Moseley, Fritz Kuhn, Japanese Emperor Hirohito, Rudolf Hess (or Heß), Julius Streicher, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler and Benito Mussolini. Footage from World War I era shows rubble from bombing in French cities and towns, and French citizen refugees leaving homes with hand pulled wagon carts. German Kaiser Wilhelm II descends steps and reviews cheering German Army forces in 1914. French poster calls for military mobilization. Mobilized French soldiers march in France as citizens cheer them off to war. Explosions of shells on World War 1 battlefield. French "taxicab army" of French military vehicle line leaving Paris. Battles of Verdun and Chemin des Dames showing French artillery and French soldiers. David Lloyd George confers with Clemenceau. Close ups of General Foch and then of General Joffre. Armament factory in France manufacturing arms in World War 1. British battle scenes at Passchendale and Ypres. Scenes of U.S. battles at Chateau Thierry, the Argonne. U.S. Marines battling at Balleau Wood and Cantigny. Lloyd George greets citizens in England. Close up of British General Haig. American General John J Pershing greets French Generals in World War I. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson is shown. World War II era events: Adolf Hitler addressing a crowd. Brownshirt SA soldiers and other German Army soldiers march and goosestep. Remilitarized Germany invades Poland in 1939, and then France in 1940. Hermann Goering reviews marching troops. Elevated, overhead view of German troops marching with hands raised in Nazi salute, and shadows of their salutes are cast on the ground in front of them as they march. Close up side view of Hitler giving Nazi salute to cheering troops. German artillery and railroad guns fired and tanks advance during invasion of France. French Army soldiers fighting the invading German soldiers; French soldiers fire artillery. French civilian women and children refugees flee in carts as Luftwaffe aircraft fire guns and strafe their path.
German forces wreak destruction during Battle of France in World War II
Opening scene shows German heavy artillery firing as German forces invade France in 1940, during World War 2. Houses being destroyed by gunfire. Formation of Dornier Do 17 bomber aircraft in flight. Formation of German Heinkel He 111 bombers dropping bombs on France. Bombs exploding on the ground. German Panzer I and Panzer 38 tanks crossing a field. Glimpses from inside a tank. A tank smashing through a concrete block wall. German tanks moving through a French town, as infantry move along the sidewalks. A German sIG 33 auf Geschutzwagen self-propelled 15-cm gun fires point blank at a building and destroys it. A formation of Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers flies past a barrage balloon. Smoke rising all around Rouen Cathedral and environs from German bombing. Buildings in the area ablaze and collapsing. French citizens fleeing war zones in their private cars. An open truck evacuating several Catholic nuns. Parisian children carrying their luggage and belongings as they are being evacuated. French children being placed aboard a railroad train by their parents, for evacuation to safer areas. Closeup of one child's coat bearing his name and other information. French men and women placing their children aboard a bus for evacuation to safety, waving goodbye, and crying as their children leave. Sign identifying Valenciennes, France. Camera pans to scenes of destruction from German bombing. Street sign points to Avancon 7K and Reims 41k. A German Ju 87 aircraft diving and pulling out as it attacks. A German Panzer IV tank moving and firing straight ahead as it goes. Street sign for Chateau Porcien. Two Panzer 38 tanks racing along past a burning vehicle at the side of a road. A team of horses pulling an artillery piece. Tanks racing past the camera. Sign identifying Bazeilles, Montmedy, and Verdun. German tank plunging into stream at side of road, as it crosses. Dornier Do 17 bomber aircraft releasing bombs from a dive.
King Alfonzo XIII, of Spain, escorted by French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, visits war torn Verdun and battlefield.
King Alfonzo XIII of Spain, French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, and other officials, speak with a Roman Catholic clergyman inside bombed-out remains of Cathedral of Notre-Dame (7 Pl. Mgr Ginisty, 55100 Verdun, France) in Verdun, France. The king and others walk out of the building. King Alfonso XIII at the Gare de Verdun train station. King Alfonzo XIII, and others, escorted by French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, examines the Verdun battlefield. Snow on the ground. From a high point overlooking the battlefield, Marshal Foch points out key locations with his swagger stick and then escorts the king down into a trench and dugout. The king with Marshal Foch in a car.
Wrecked buildings and cathedral after the battle in Verdun, France (WW1)
The conditions of Verdun and surrounding after the Battle of Verdun, France, during World War I. Wrecked buildings near the Meuse River. A wrecked bridge over the river Meuse. French soldiers walk on the street. Buildings along the sides of the street. Military vehicles pass on the street. French soldiers stand outside a building. Ruins of buildings and rubble near the river Meuse. Trees in the area. Interior of the wrecked Verdun Cathedral (7 Pl. Mgr Ginisty, 55100 Verdun, France).
French dead and wounded during the Battle of Verdun, WWI
A French soldier dresses the wound of an injured comrade during the Battle of Verdun in World War 1. Bodies of dead French soldiers, partly buried in mud, found in trenches. Two men walk past bodies of the deceased. More bodies of French soldiers are scattered in the trenches. Removal of battlefield casualties. Bodies of soldiers killed during the Battle of Verdun are shown in various stages of decomposition. French soldiers wearing the Red Crosses on their arms digging graves for dead bodies removed from the battlefield. Devastated hill in Verdun. French soldiers trudging through destroyed Verdun landscape.. Bodies of deceased soldiers and scattered wreckage. French soldiers carry away wounded on stretchers.
Long truck convoy along the Voie Sacrée "Sacred Way '' to Verdun during WWI.
French troops leave Souilly, the headquarters of French Generals Philippe Pétain and Robert Nivelle, for Verdun by trucks during World War 1. Outside Souilly, General Philippe Pétain observes the trucks leaving for Verdun. Trucks drive along the Voie Sacrée ("Sacred Way”), a road that connects Bar-le-Duc to Verdun (Meuse), France. Long convoy of trucks transport troops, supplies and artillery through the Voie Sacrée ("Sacred Way ''). Trucks driving along the Voie Sacrée ("Sacred Way ''). Soldiers disembark from trucks after arriving in Verdun. Soldiers push field artillery attached to a truck.
