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.
Views of the British battleship Royal Oak, in Scapa Flow, Scotland, and underway at sea. . The German submarine, U-47, commanded by Captain Gunter Prien, underway and saluting as they are greeted as they return to base at Kiel, Germany, on October 23, 1939, after successfully penetrating Scapa Flow and torpedoing the British battleship, Royal Oak (and also, the British battle cruiser, Repulse, they believed), on October 14, 1939.
Captain Gunter Prien and crew of German U-boat, U-47, being greeted in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Crew members of U-47 submarine exit aircraft at Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, and are greeted by officers and cheered by crowd. Motorcade of crew member pass on a street cheered by crowd. Next scene, unrelated, shows Jozef Tiso, President of the Slovak State (Slovakia) greeting victorious Slovak 1st Infantry Division soldiers of the Field Army Bernolák following their participation with Nazi Germany in the invasion of Poland. Axis Slovak soldiers in Holíč M32 helmets (style of Czechoslovakia) seen marching and receiving awards from Slovak commander and Minister of Defense, Ferdinand Čatloš. View of a visiting German General greeting a non-uniformed official. Then same General poses with Ferdinand Čatloš seen behind his right shoulder.
German troops battle French during World War II Battle of France. German troops advance into areas abandoned by retreating French forces. They probe abandoned trenches and fortifications. German troops rush to prepare their blimp airship for launch. Troops handle airship lines. Crew members prepare to board the airship. The airship in flight, above.
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