Invasion of France by Germany during World War II. French prisoners of war use plywood on roadway of a railroad bridge to facilitate automobile and pedestrian traffic. A woman appears to be a supervisor, of sorts. She speaks to workmen and then motions for a woman with a bicycle, to follow her. French soldier and policeman wearing white armbands, appear to be monitoring the prisoners and their work. A motorcycle carrying two German soldiers drives past the work area. A man and two French women with bicycles along with some French children, pass by the work area. German tanks and trucks roll into a French town, as local citizens watch from sidewalks. German troops set up in a town square, where they clean weapons and eat lunch.
Invasion of France by Germany during World War II. German troops set up a field artillery gun at a road side. Long line of German infantry marching in groups behind horse-drawn supply wagons, fills a French road in the countryside.
Invasion of France by Germany during World War II. German Army trucks pass over a bridge near damaged canals and locks on a river. Large pieces of rubble line the side of the bridge. Families evacuate from the town during German occupation, using horse-drawn wagons, and bicycles to carry their belongings. A car being used as a powerless conveyance, with men pushing it. Inside a mother and baby can be seen. The car is filled inside and out with bedding and other articles strapped to the roof. Catholic nuns leaving along with numerous French people walking and using bicycles to help carry belongings. A mother with two girls, pushing a baby cart holding belongings. A team of four horses pulling a large wagon loaded with people and belongings. A woman in the wagon is crying. Evacuees pause at side of road, as woman drinks from a bottle.
Document showing quotes from German-Danish non agression pact, signed by Joachim von Ribbentrop for Germany on May 31, 1939. German armed forces fire machine guns during the invasion of Norway and Denmark on 9th April 1940 during World War II. German troop ship unloads in Danish harbor. Civilians run as German forces enter city, in tanks and military vehicles. German troops march into city as population watches from sidewalks.
Dead bodies lying along a road in the Aisne region of Northern France, during World War II Battle of France. German cavalry on horseback. Abandoned vehicles along a road, some destroyed. A man rolls a wheelbarrow along the road. Dead bodies and horses, some dead and some alive and standing, in the road and on the roadside. Damaged wagons along the roadside. Wreckage of vehicles, some of which are civilian vehicles and some are military. A dead man sitting in his wagon on the roadside. German troops sitting on motorcycles in a town, in front of a direction sign to Montcornet and Renneval. A car drives through the town. A German halftrack vehicle parked at side of road. Just a shell of one building is left standing. A German soldier riding in a vehicle, speaks to a black African French Priest, who is standing next to a German soldier wearing a red cross arm band. The vehicle proceeds.
U.S. officials inspect the Hadamar Prison Camp or Hadamar Euthanasia Centre in Germany after its liberation by the U.S. Army towards the end of World War II. Men dig graves to remove corpses for autopsy. U.S. officials question Nazi prison doctors, including Adolf Wahlmann with head nurse Karl Willig, about poisons used to kill the inmates.
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