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British officials meet in England as Adolf Hitler prepares his troops in Germany during World War II.
The first phase of German assault on France and the Low Countries during World War II. Animated maps illustrate Czechoslovakia and Poland defenses against Germany, and the East Prussian Corridor. Civilians including children flee war violence. German troops and tanks parade. England: UK Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain addresses a gathering. Britain's Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax (Edward Fredrick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax), Winston Churchill, Leon Blum, and other officials. Germany: Hitler arrives at the Reichstag in Berlin. He addresses the Nazi officers and officials. A sign for the custom border district at Kreis. Bullet ridden walls and bomb damaged buildings. German troops load and fire artillery. German Panzer tank units invade Poland in 1939. Hitler looks through an artillery periscope. Black smoke rises due to numerous explosions.
The invasion of Poland, Dunkirk evacuation, Second Armistice, and London Blitz during World War II.
'50 Years of Cinematography' depicts the role of military and news cameramen during World War II. Germany starts the War. Invasion of Poland in 1939: German Nazi Luftwaffe bombers in flight over Warsaw. Explosions due to the bombardment. Burning and damaged buildings in the war torn city. Civilians amidst rubble and ruins. Soldiers and civilians look at corpses on a sidewalk. A woman with her child cries. A man walks on a street. Dunkirk Evacuation in 1940: Allied troops evacuated from the Dunkirk coast. Allied troops on ships. Smoke rises from a ship under German attack. Soldiers wade through the water towards waiting ships. Burning ships. The Second Armistice at Compiegne after the German victory in the Battle of France, 1940: German troops stand at attention. German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, President of the Reichstag Hermann Goering, German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and other German officers arrive at the venue. The leaders and officers walk past the soldiers at attention. Hitler gives the Nazi salute. The Blitz, London in 1940-1941: Bomb damaged buildings. Cars and pedestrians amidst ruins and rubble on the streets. A train over a collapsed wall. Civilians in a horse cart. A wrecked bus in a damaged building. Rescue workers among the rubble. Clouds over the city.
England and France declare war on Germany; German troops conquer Denmark and Norway during World War II
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.
View of crew member standing above open bottom hatch inside a Heinkel H-111 bomber, airborne over Germany.
Interior view of German Heinkel H-111 bomber, as parachute equipped crewman stands over open bottom hatch of the aircraft. View from another airplane of the H-111 with objects appearing to parachute from it. Chutes are not open. One seems to stream, without opening.
German Stuka dive bombers taking off from German airfield during World War II.
A Squadron of German Junkers JU-87 (Stuka) dive bombers taking off from German airfield, during second world war.
Montage of brief German Nazi scenes prior to World War II
Film opens showing German military marching band parading on city street. Spectators line sidewalks and a few stand outside 2nd story windows on buildings. The band stops marching and moves into formation facing to the side of the street opposite the spectators on the sidewalk. A glimpse of Adolf Hitler, smiling. View of the military band again, playing in their fixed formation. A Smiling Field Marshal Hermann Goering see at the head of a group of German miitary officers watching the events. Two Military leaders from Axis States walk past the camera and render Nazi salute. View of Military drummer on horseback performing as he passes statue of 18th Century Prussian General Gerhard Johann David Waitz von Scharnhorst, on Unter den Linden. Italian Benito Mussolini walking with Adolf Hitler on Berlin Street in 1937. They are followed by entourage of Italian and German military officers.Scenes of dense crowds cheering Adolf Hitler in various places and times. Film concludes with showing Hitler giving an impassioned speech.