German Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, visits Gdansk (Danzig), Poland during German invasion and occupation in World War II. Nazi flags fly near Neptune's Fountain of the Long Market. Hitler rides in a car along a street and waves to the crowd. Crowd cheers him.
Invasion of Poland by Germany during World War II. Warsaw capitulates after two days of shelling. German troops fire heavy artillery , field artillery and mortars against targets in Warsaw, Poland. Smoke rises from shell fire in the background. Aerial views of destruction from German Stuka dive bombers.
Polish General Tadeusz Kutrzeba, deputy commander of forces in Warsaw, Poland, walks to a bus in which Nazi German officers await to negotiate a cease fire. They discuss disposition of forces using a map. General Kutrzeba then leaves, returns salute of German officer and returns to his soldier garrison. (World War 2.)
German soldiers keeping watch on a high bluff of the German Westwall (Ziegfried or Siegfried Line) early in World War 2. German soldiers entering fortifications of the Westwall. Fortification or bunker doorway entrance decorated with relief carvings of German soldiers. Camouflaged German heavy artillery guns being elevated on the Westwall (Ziegfried Line) at German standardized bunker Regelbau 35 (R35). Field artillery being fired. French and Germans exchange gunfire on Franco-German border. View of damaged houses in Herbitzheim, Germany, 10 kilometers from the border. View of damaged house where Moroccans lived. German troops using secret types of explosive charges inside buildings, and making their way through French village where they encounter a booby trapped wagon. French prisoners being escorted and processed by German soldiers, and then driven away in trucks.
Germans employ psychological warfare by broadcasting music and news to French troops, via loudspeakers and banners, during World War II. German troops set up huge loudspeakers and German band plays at a river separating German and French forces. German officers look towards other side of water. A banner being set up on field. German soldiers send propaganda balloons, carrying messages to French troops.
German Air Force maintains sharp lookout on German-French border during World War II. German soldiers look through binoculars. German aircraft parked under camouflage. (A small dog stands by aircraft.). German gun crew rotates a camouflaged antiaircraft gun and elevates its barrel. Views of downed French aircraft in woods. Germans spraying water on the wreckage.
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