Mix of actual footage and scenes with actors. Professor in laboratory extolling virtues of international research and researchers, in science and medicine. Voice-over with German accent speaks about inferior peoples and the scenes darken. Images of Nazi, Fascist, Japanese leaders and their followers including Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, Pierre Laval, Oswald Moseley, Fritz Kuhn, Japanese Emperor Hirohito, Rudolf Hess (or Heß), Julius Streicher, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler and Benito Mussolini. Footage from World War I era shows rubble from bombing in French cities and towns, and French citizen refugees leaving homes with hand pulled wagon carts. German Kaiser Wilhelm II descends steps and reviews cheering German Army forces in 1914. French poster calls for military mobilization. Mobilized French soldiers march in France as citizens cheer them off to war. Explosions of shells on World War 1 battlefield. French "taxicab army" of French military vehicle line leaving Paris. Battles of Verdun and Chemin des Dames showing French artillery and French soldiers. David Lloyd George confers with Clemenceau. Close ups of General Foch and then of General Joffre. Armament factory in France manufacturing arms in World War 1. British battle scenes at Passchendale and Ypres. Scenes of U.S. battles at Chateau Thierry, the Argonne. U.S. Marines battling at Balleau Wood and Cantigny. Lloyd George greets citizens in England. Close up of British General Haig. American General John J Pershing greets French Generals in World War I. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson is shown. World War II era events: Adolf Hitler addressing a crowd. Brownshirt SA soldiers and other German Army soldiers march and goosestep. Remilitarized Germany invades Poland in 1939, and then France in 1940. Hermann Goering reviews marching troops. Elevated, overhead view of German troops marching with hands raised in Nazi salute, and shadows of their salutes are cast on the ground in front of them as they march. Close up side view of Hitler giving Nazi salute to cheering troops. German artillery and railroad guns fired and tanks advance during invasion of France. French Army soldiers fighting the invading German soldiers; French soldiers fire artillery. French civilian women and children refugees flee in carts as Luftwaffe aircraft fire guns and strafe their path.
Robert Kronfeld Austria's glider pilot crosses the English Channel in round trip glide. He is congratulated at by the people at St. Inglevert airfield near Calais, France, after winning the Annual Glider Meet. He handled a motor less aircraft from France to England and back again the same day. A French aircraft crashes while landing during the competition. 20 June 1931.
Events during the Paris Peace Conference. The French troops march and take positions. Arrival of dignitaries in motor cars at Trianon Palace Hotel (1 Bd de la Reine, 78000 Versailles, France) in Versailles, France. The event marks the handling of Peace Treaty to the German delegates. Guards assist delegates upon their arrival. French Marshal Ferdinand Foch arrives. Marshal Foch inspects the French Guard of Honor.
One of 12 rockets named "Bérénice" being launched from a French island Île du Levant (Le Levant) on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Distant views of people sunbathing, some are topless or in the nude, on rock outcroppings near the beach. Engineers and scientists work in a French national study and research center for aeronautics on the other side of the island (O.N.E.R.A. (Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales). Missile 'Berenice' being prepared for launch. It will be used to measure kinetic heat upon its reentry into the atmosphere. Men work on panels in mission control center and look through a telescope. Missile being launched. A woman in bikini walks with a dog.
A unit of the "Legion of French Volunteers" gathered at the Velodrom d'Hiver in Paris, German occupied France, under the Vichy government. Banners hung at various places. Officers and soldiers seated. Official at podium gives Nazi salute. A band plays at the ceremony. French politician Jacques Doriot takes to the podium and addresses the troops. (World War II period).
Dover, United Kingdom: The town of Dover in Kent. Men, women and children move to underground shelters. Women play cards and knit. German artillery fired. British soldiers amid ruins. Scene changes to Calais, France: Calais under the liberating Canadian soldiers. Man cleans a room. Destroyed bridges. Canadian soldiers evacuate French civilians across the Calais Canal. Men, women, children, and wounded civilians helped across the canal by soldiers. Wounded lifted into military ambulances. A woman holds her wounded child. Allied airplanes drop bombs over enemy territory. Explosion and smoke due to bombardment. British and Canadian Army soldiers examine German artillery and coastal guns. A white flag put up at a surrendered German post.
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