Germany and German occupied France during World War II. Germany: German engineers repair a railway bridge. The men weld and assemble parts. German officers inspect the bridge. A train crosses the bridge. The German officers watch. In Paris: Trucks are assembled at the Citroen automobile plant. Men assemble truck engines. A woman works on a truck. Trucks on the assembly line.
German military officers early in World War 2. Field marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, Supreme Commander of the German Army, greets group of military officers, individually. Each steps forward, salutes, and shakes his hand. Afterwards he is seen chatting with the officers, smiling and laughing. Scene changes to German officers discussing battle plans in a field. German military officers watch demonstration of a large German artillery gun. Scene changes to France, where German military officers inspect ruined docks. They exit a large heavily damaged coastal bunker. They tour the battle damaged French facilities on foot and in cars. Wrecked British Expeditionary Force military vehicles (Lloyd Carriers) line the destroyed dockside.
Fuhrer Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Hitler returns to Germany after conquering France. In a Wehrmacht victory parade, crowds cheer as Hitler is driven through the streets of Berlin. Hitler in a convertible. He waves to the crowd gathered on either side of the streets. Nazi German soldiers salute Hitler while civilians cheer for the dictator. Other Nazi officers follow in several cars. Hitler waves, salutes and acknowledges the crowd. A huge crowd gathered outside a building. The Fuhrer arrives and greets the troops. Men, women and children wave to Hitler. The Swastika flag is raised on the building roof. SS troops control the unmanageable crowds. Hitler, Luftwaffe commander Genral Hermann Goring and other Nazi officers survey the huge crowds from the building balcony. Hitler and Goring salute the crowds. Shouting and cheering women and children greet Hitler.
Vincent Jules Auriol, President of France, is ceremonially escorted into a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, where he is about to speak. He is followed by Vice President Alben W. Barkley and House Speaker, Sam Rayburn (who later take their places as presiding officers). The audience gives Auriol a standing ovation, with applause. continuing, as he ascends the podium. Barkley and Rayburn are seated behind him. President Auriol's remarks, as reported in the press (not heard in this clip, which has no sound) focus on the need to reject isolationism in the postwar world. Among other things, he reportedly tells the joint session of Congress the French people have learned from bitter experience that "isolation is death" and that "right without might is powerless." The Congress applauds him after his address.
German troops overrun Belgium and Northern France. Massive column of German soldiers advancing. Battle scenes with trench warfare, explosions, and heavy railway artillery being fired. A French soldier is killed by an exploding shell. A French 320mm Railway Gun fires. A soldier climbs up trench wall as an explosion occurs. Soldiers leap into trench as the exploded earth showers, one of them injured or killed. German soldiers in trench fire a rifle and another throws a grenade. Tanks maneuver in the battlefield. Trenches are fenced with barbed wire. Belgian soldier lifts his head from a trench and throws a hand grenade, then quickly ducks back down. An explosion occurs over a trench. German soldiers firing machine gun from trench; machine gun operator is hit and collapses. Soldiers crossing battlefield amidst barbed wire. Line of soldiers atop vehicles firing howitzers during battle. A French Spad airplane is shot down in flames and smoke and dives toward the ground, out of control.
Visitors walking about the grounds of the Chicago World's Fair of 1933-34.. A dirigible flies in sky in background. View of a garden and buildings far off. Trees at the side of the path. 'PARIS' written on a building of the exhibit of France, with smoke stacks imitative of the funnels on a ship of the French Line.. People enter the building.
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