Allied forces liberate Greece from German occupation and civilians cheer for them, during World War II. British convoy of warships and boats reach the harbor of Athens. Commanders look at the harbor. British Army with Polish and Greek regular army soldiers march on roads towards Athens. Civilians cheer, hail, welcome them, raise posters and banners- including a photo of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Greek and British soldiers visit ancient Greek monuments such as the Parthenon. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou reviews honor guard of combined British, Greek and Polish forces. Greek civilians on roads and buildings hail Prime Minister Papandreou who pays homage to Greek soldiers and salutes them. Greek girls carry national flag to a monument and Papandreou and others follow them.
Nazi Germans start armament and intensify their preparations for war under leadership of Adolf Hitler in Germany. Interior view of the Nazi headquarters, destroyed by explosion of the anti-Hitler bomb plot in Germany, during World War II, known as the 20 July Plot to assassinate Hitler. Adolf Hitler at a railroad station awaits Italian leader Benito Mussolini. Mussolini's train arrives; he descends and shakes hand with Adolf Hitler. The two leaders talk while other leaders stand by them. Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering with Schutzstaffe and Vice Minister Heinrich Himmler bid goodbye to Mussolini as he departs by train.
Nazi Germans start armament and intensify their preparations for war under leadership of Adolf Hitler in Germany. Adolf Hitler's Vice Minister Albert Speer decorates German engineers at a meeting and addresses the meeting in Germany, during World War II. Speer escorts Adolf Hitler and other German officials through a steel plant. Speer presses a lever and workers inside the plant operate controls. German Panzer tank and U.S. M3 Lee tank are compared side by side and tested by German forces evaluating them. German Panther tank is seen achieving obstacle tests that the American tank cannot. German army soldiers practice firing of antiaircraft weapons 'Panzerfaust' and 'Panzer-schredk' at a firing range.
German Army retreats from the Eastern Front and destroy railroads and villages in their way, during World War II. A map shows German expansion on the eastern front in Estonian LIthuanian border in Europe, during World War II. German soldiers retreat from the eastern front towards a new line of defense. German soldiers dynamite railroad tracks and retreat from a burning village. Natives of the village evacuate it with their luggage and livestock. Soviet tanks and trucks damaged by German small arms and artillery fired.
German Army retreats from the Eastern Front and destroy railroads and villages in their way, during World War II. German airmen talk to their commander and take off for a bombing mission on Soviet positions. Planes in formations drop bombs on Russian positions. Explosion and smoke arises.
German Army fights with the Allied infantry and tanks on the Western Front in France and England, during the summer of 1944 in World War 2. Animated maps show English and French invasion coastlines. During Battle of Caen, German soldiers load ammunition on a camouflaged truck. The truck driven on roads. A German soldier on truck observes American bombers in sky overhead. Truck parks to the side and German antiaircraft guns fired. Night view from ground of bombs being dropped and buildings burning in the distance in Caen, France. German military trucks move at night on roads passing by burning fires. View from inside cabs of moving German vehicles. Daytime view of heavily bombed and destroyed city of Caen with ruins of houses and shops; German infantry walk through the streets of the destroyed and empty city. German soldiers fully loaded with their weapons ready for a battle. Close views of their faces with determined expressions. German tanks, armored vehicles, and infantry move on roads. Among them are two Borgward IV remote-controlled demolition vehicles (Schwerer Ladungsträger Borgward B IV, or heavy explosive carrier Borgward B IV) each driven by one man. Soldiers of German Army observe approach of U.S. Army forces. A German soldier arranges shells for artillery to fire as they fire on Allied positions. Wehrmacht infantry soldiers advance cautiously along roads. German soldiers take cover and prepare to attack as American tanks pass through a village. German soldiers fire on U.S. Army tanks. German soldiers direct an unmanned, remote-controlled small armored vehicle laden with explosives across a field and detonate it near U.S. Army vehicles (it is known as a Goliath Tracked Mine, or Leichter Ladungsträger Goliath (Sd.Kfz. 302/303a/303b); also known as a "beetle tank" to Allied forces, or a German robot tank). Large explosion as the remote-controlled demolition vehicle is detonated. Dead U.S. Army soldier along a road side, and injured German soldiers are aided by other German soldier
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