German newsreel with Portuguese narration and periodic English overlay translation. Beginning of the battle for Europe, in World War 2. German Panzer IV tanks moving across a field in Normandy and firing against invading Allied Forces. German infantry following, some carrying Panzerschreck (bazooka) antitank weapons. Views of fires burning and knocked out tanks and armored vehicles. A German soldier guards two American tank crew members who are carrying a wounded, fellow U.S. Army soldier. German armor ascending a hill overlooking battlefield. Heavy fighting in coastal towns and the Bayeux area. German troops firing heavy machine guns. German soldier throwing a hand grenade. More destroyed armor. German soldier ordering battery of rocket launchers to fire. Explosions, fire and destruction.
The German campaign in Russia during World War II. Nazi tanks loaded on flat cars being brought to counter the Soviet forces. The tanks roll across an area. Soldiers prepare as they gather on a field and look at a map. The soldiers build trenches and advance. They walk in a trench. The soldiers climb up an observation tower. Nazi officers at a map.
The German campaign in Russia, Soviet Union, during World War II. Mortars, artillery and machine guns being fired by the Germans. Under heavy fire cover armored German troops carry counter attack. Tiger tanks of SS.Pz.Reg.2 'Das Reich' and s.Pz.Abt.503 firing. Heavy firing takes place as smoke rises.
German newsreel opens with a map of France. French peasants drive their cattle to a safer place from Normandy after the Allied invasion of the area. German Mechanized Forces and German armor move forward to combat the Allied invasion as they pass amidst a herd of cattle. Allied airplanes bomb a French city as smoke rises due to bombing. People dig through debris and remove dead bodies. French civilians leave the city. Damaged buildings in the city. Women move away with their belongings. American prisoners march in Paris as French civilians kick and strike the U.S. soldier prisoners of war following the Allied bombings in France. Narrator explains the belief that it is clever film cutting propaganda and that this kind of reaction by the French was rare.
The German invasion of France during World War II. A map of France. Nazi fighter aircraft take off and in flight to strike Allied supply lines. The aircraft in flight as they fire at Allied positions. A bomb drops and impacts. A German soldier looks through binoculars. Camouflaged German tanks advance on a field. Bombs explode and smoke rises. German soldiers fire artillery and guns. Wrecked American tanks. Soldiers fight against the Allies in a town.
German troops in the Soviet Union during World War II. German infantrymen advance in Latvia's Kurland sector. German StuG III G tank destroyers charge across a field followed by German soldiers carrying panzerfausts. Variety of destroyed Russian armored vehicles including Lend-Lease tank. Soldiers at a machine gun.
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