Bicycle riders participate in the 2800-mile Tour de France cycle classic event (bicycle race) in Le Vesinet, France. Large crowd gather along sides of the streets. Racers drive by city streets, country roads and bridges. City street decorated with decorative flag strings.
June 10, 1940, American man, in San Francisco barbershop, reads newspaper report that Italy enters World War 2 as part of Axis and against France and Britain. Barber cuts the mans hair. They both look over at a portable radio on a counter and listen as President Roosevelt denounces Italy's action. American family with a husband, wife, and boy sit in a living room and listen to the radio while William L. Shirer broadcasts from Compiègne as France signs an armistice with Hitler. Views of railroad carriage in clearing surrounded by German troops in formation. Hitler strides with Hermann Goering, Admiral Erich Raeder, and others. Statue of Marshal Foch. French General Huntzinger, and his delegation escorted by German officers. Hitler and his delegation rise as the French delegation enters the rail car. Germans drape Nazi flag over the Glade of the Armistice monument (French: Clairière de l'Armistice). View of the Eiffel Tower. German troops marching through the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs Elysee in Paris. Hitler's railroad train entering Paris station. Hitler taking an early morning tour of Paris in an open car. Hitler and party admiring the Eiffel Tower during German invasion of France and occupation of France. View from Eiffel Tower of German troops marching along street. German rail guns in new positions on coast of France, pointed toward the English Channel and England. The German rail guns moving on tracks and firing. Animated map showing Allies overseas possessions. German residents in Brazil in largely German communities, with German schools, German school children, Nazi textbooks, and Nazi German newspapers in a town in Brazil. A Hermann Goering glider club operating in Brazil, as a glider is prepared for flight. View of Japanese residents in Brazil on behalf of Imperial Japan. SEDTA German airline planes with bomb racks operating in Ecuador, South America. Germans exercising at exclusive German clubs in Argentina, modeled after Hitler Youth. Narrator indicates these operations represented a "Fifth Column" ready to take over.
A military documentary on German 19th Army Panzer Tank Corps and Von Kleist group offensive against France during World War II Battle of France. A map of France shows the Nazi advance into the country. Disrupted life in Calais and Boulonge in France. Wrecked cars and vehicles. View of port with smoke rising from an area in distance. Prisoners of war march to the rear. German 19th Army Tank Corp advances further into France. Close up views of German Panzer tank treads in motion.
Sir Ernest Shackleton's last expedition to Antarctica. Ship Quest underway at sea after stopping at Lisbon, Portugal. The Quest underway in the Atlantic Ocean. View from Quest as it passes the five masted sailing ship "France II" (stated as"La France" in the film slates), the largest sailing ship in the world, as it approaches St. Paul Rocks off the coast of Brazil. (France II was built by Chantiers et Ateliers de la Gironde in Bordeaux, and was launched November 9, 1911.)
Shows an electric power plant set up in France to supply electricity using the country's water resources, during build-out of post-war industry in France. Trams running on the streets in French city. A train on railway tracks. French men work on assembly line of Renault 4CV cars at a Renault automobile production plant. View of various sater falls, rivers, streams and lakes in France. A map shows the 58 proposed dams, which have been planned to be built all over France.
United States Army soldiers fire from a trench dug out in France. They put on protective mask and fire. Snow covered field. A soldier affected by gas comes out of the dug out. Another soldier puts a protective mask over his face. Soldiers help the affected soldier. Stretcher bearers carry gassed man into gas proof dug outs in France. Soldiers clear the trench with Ayrton fans in France. Soldiers fire from the trench in France. They remove the masks from their faces. After testing they put on the masks again. They clean their rifles.
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