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German invasion of Belgium, Holland, and France. Fall of Fort Eben Emae during World War II
Animated map depicts German Westward military thrusts into Holland and Belgium and toward France in World War 2. German armor units passing dragons teeth defenses, from behind. German troops riding atop tanks and trucks towing artillery.German Stuka dive bombers. Map showing Albert Canal, Meuse River, and details of Fort Eben Emae. Paratroops dropping from Ju-52 aircraft. Closeup of Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber. German troops using flame thrower. German armed engineer troops cross a road near a bridge and cross Meuse River in inflated boats, as Stukas drop bombs. German troops advance behind battery of flame throwers. German soldier places demolition charge. Huge explosion as it destroys the Fort blockhouse. Allied troops cross French-Belgian border to confront German forces. French Lorraine 37L armored vehicles. Roads filled by Belgian refugees with their belongings. Animated cartoon of German planes bombing Belgian villages, strafing refugees, so they would clog roads and block Allied advance. Views of clogged roads and German bombings. He-111 dropping bombs. Me-109s strafing refugees who take cover in ditches. views from inside German bombers. Montage of destruction by German planes. Wounded child cries out, traumatized, in a hospital bed. Another wounded and bandaged child is seen in a hospital bed. A nun nurse sits by the bed of a wounded child. Montage of refugee children leaving war zones atop piles of belongings in trucks, and children in prams and carts, and in strollers and horsecarts evacuating battle areas. Map shows German plan to attack through Ardennes Forest. German engineers sliding down steep hills, fording rivers, and laying wire for demolitions. German troops setting up machine gun and artillery placements and firing at opposing troops. German tanks and troops going through the Ardennes to the Meuse River, where Stukas dive bomb French positions. German artillery barrage across the Meuse. German troops cross the river with inflated boats. German engineers building pontoon bridges. Shelling by Allies causing explosions beside German troops building bridges. German Armor crossing the bridges and entering France.
German invasion of Belgium and battle of Rotterdam in World War II
Film opens with animated map showing Fort Eben-Emael in Northeastern Belgium, during World War 2. It higlights the Albert and the Willem Canals nearby. German troops are shown hunkered down near a path by a canal. Their commander orders one squad to advance. They cross the path and go down the canal embankment. A destroyed bridge seen in background. Next, the squad of four is seen in a small boat, passing the destroyed bridge as gunfire sounds.They reach the other shore and scramble up the embankment. A Panzer IV tank firing point blank to the rear, at a building. View from German held bank of a Canal as German shells strike the opposite shore. A Panzer IV tank moving past the camera and onto a bridge crossing a canal.(Narrator notes that the The 18th Army under Generalfeldmarschall Georg von Küchler and the 6th Army under General Walther von Reichenau, are participating in this campaign.) High ranking German officers riding in an open staff car carrying a gunner with a machine gun. German troops marching alongside a road as others in trucks drive past. German towed artillery moving along a road past local refugees carrying their belongings in horse-drawn wagons. Map highlights waterways and Dutch city of Moerdijk, which it reflects as German territory, along with other places as illustrates areas falling under control of the German armies advancing toward Rotterdam in "Fortress Holland." German soldiers fighting in urban Holland. Two hunkered down by a gas station. The sky illuminated by fires raging from German bombardment. German Commanders consulting with their officers. German soldiers climbing over house roofs and entering therefrom. Army trucks and armor advancing into a city. Two Dutch defenders surrendering. A Dutch officer accompanied by a soldier with a white flag, being escorted by a German officer. A Dutch vehicle with a white flag, leading several past a windmill. Dutch Commander,Colonel Pieter Wilhelmus Scharroo, enters a building with several staff, and sits at a table opposite Generalleutnant Rudolf Schmidt and other high ranking officers, to negotiate terms of surrender. The German officers are seen reviewing maps of the area. Numerous Dutch prisoners of war are seen marching along a road.
German mechanized infantry and troops attack Belgium.
The German troops attack as light, medium and heavy German tanks advance in Belgium. A map points places. Tanks on the field. Soldiers on jeep pass the street. Soldiers on tanks at a field. German Panzer formations assembled in attack groups at their concentration areas behind the lines. Crews resting, eating and digging slit trenches. German anti-tank gun and field communications set up in operation. A soldier watches through binoculars. Airplanes in the sky drop bombs on the tanks in the field. Dead soldier on the field. German mechanized infantry with personnel carriers in attack under fire. Medium tanks attack. Street fighting in Belgian towns and villages. Burning Allied tanks. Wounded soldiers cured by the medics. Dead soldiers in the field. Houses in the field. Soldiers on motorcycles, tanks and trucks in the street. (World War II period).
Women and children take their belongings and flee in carts, prams and by cars from a city in Belgium.
Civilians flee from their city due to German bombing on Belgium. A damaged house. People collect their belongings from the ruins of the houses. Wreckage on a floor. Broken door of a shop. A ditch in the ground due to a bomb explosion. A wounded woman packs her luggage. Military trucks enter the city, artillery are brought. Women take out luggage from a car. A woman sits with children on a bench. Women sit sobbing. Two children in a pram. People flee in carts. Women take children in prams. (World War II period).
German forces invade Belgium as British and French retreat during the battle of France in World War II
Film begins showing formation of German bombers in flight. Next, British and French troops are seen retreating under fire across a river using inflatable dinghys. British artillery fires guns from sparse tree line. German troops crossing a river, in small inflatable boats, under heavy Allied artillery fire. German soldiers launch boats next to a destroyed bridge over a river. British artillery firing from tree line. Shells striking near the German forces by the river. German soldiers in Einheits-Pkw field cars ford a shallow river. German troops unroll a spool of communications wire upon the ground using a rolling dispenser. Sd.Kfz.11 German half-track pulling a 15 cm schwere Feldhaubitze 18 (heavy field howitzer) up a muddy hill. Soldiers moving in a river aboard a Sd.Kfz. 251/1 Ausf. A armored car. A Panzer tank being offloaded from a barge. Various German artillery firing, including a siege mortar, with their shells exploding on targets. German soldier holds his ears as heavy gun is fired. German troops, with shells bursting near them in water, carry timber to repair bridge. Line of Panzer tanks advancing. German heavy gun firing. Silhouette of tank treads moving through fire. A rocket sails through the air and strikes ground. Many rounds of machine gun tracer bullets seen in night. Fires consuming numerous buildings in Louvain (Leuven), Belgium. A dead horse on the street. Inhabitants fleeing the city on foot, bicycles, and in cars. View from distance of heavy black smoke over the city. Closeups of burning buildings. Police help an injured woman lying in grass beside a path. Glimpse of another woman lying on a stretcher. More scenes of fires. In Louvain, the tower of St. Peter's Church crashes in flames. More views of refugees in countryside, continuing to walk away from the city. One is a young girl with a wooden leg using a cane. German troops entering the city. German troops, without helmets, manually moving an artillery piece along a path. A soldier seated, sleeping, at side of path. Two soldiers asleep on a motorcycle and sidecar. Many views of German soldiers sleeping beside the path. Scene shifts to black smoke billowing from burning oil storage facility at Antwerp, torched by Allied forces in retreat. Aerial views from German Henschel He 126A-1 reconnaissance airplane, of Brussels, which was spared from destruction. German forces seen moving in the city. Shadow of reconnaissance airplane seen on ground as it flies over the city. Street level view of German forces in various vehicles driving on city street and others in countryside. Some troops on horseback and on bicycles. White smoke rising from industrial facility. A sign identifies the city of Sedan, Ardennes, France. A building smoking after being shelled. huge fires burning in Sedan. View from Meuse River of fires burning in Sedan. (Allied forces retreated to Dunkirk, from where many were safely evacuated to Britain.)
Buildings burn, dead bodies on street and civilians leave the city due to German air raid in Belgium during World War II.
Damage caused due to air raid by German Luftwaffe airplanes in Belgium during World War 2. Buildings on a street burn. A Belgian civilian woman with her children on the street. A building burns and smoke and flames pour from the building. The civilians on the street racing for safety. A building burns. Civilians and soldiers take refuge in an air raid shelter. The ruins of the bombed buildings. A dead civilian in the ruins. A dead horse lying on the street. The civilians walk in between the ruins. A wrecked car. British troops inspect the car. A truck carrying troops drive on a road. A truck tows an artillery piece. Old people seated on the side of the road. Civilian Belgian refugees on a trailer. Traffic on streets. A man and a woman refugee with their children ride a bicycle. The people evacuating the city. Vehicles move on a road. British troops advance in single file line toward the front as civilian refugees flee going the opposite direction on roads out of the city. People seated on grasses talk. The British soldiers carrying rifles advance.
