Liberation of Paris at the end of World War II. Army soldiers transported in a military truck. General Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle, General Marie Pierre Koenig and General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque are acclaimed by French civilians. Army troops stand in uniform as the Generals meet the civilians. French civilians sit on tree tops to get a better view. Civilians shout praises and applaud. French Generals salute the gathered crowd. The crowd interacts with French Generals. Children climb over one another with the United States flag in hand.
Film opens with map showing lower France and Mediterranean areas. However, it shows images covering primarily the French Riviera (or Côte d'Azur) under German occupation during World War II, in 1943 or 1944. German infantry march along a road. A flight of German FW-190 Fighter airplanes flies inland from the Mediterranean Sea and crosses low above a harbor. Change of scene shows a single fighter plane buzzing the Marseille Port. (It looks like a P-47 with invasion stripes. But It does not draw any anti-aircraft fire.) Camera tracks it from vantage point at the Marseille Basilica, high above the harbor. Brief view of the Basilica as the aircraft passes. A glimpse of the Marseille Port below from the Basilica. View of the Marseille Transporter Bridge designed by Ferdinand Arnodin and built in 1905. (It was destroyed after these films were made, in 1944.) A German soldier peering through binoculars in front of a 2 cm Flak 30/38/Flakvierling, quad anti-aircraft gun position. Another one is seen in the background. Several more views of German anti-aircraft and other gun emplacements protecting the Marseille Port, including 88mm guns, heavy machine guns, and Atlantic Wall coastal defense guns. Scene shifts to German soldiers marching near the French Riviera beach and palm trees. Italian cavalry are seen riding in formation, ostensibly from Nice. Italian soldiers in trucks are being transported along the Riviera waterfront. A road sign points toward Toulon at 6.3 kilometers away. (So this location is probably near Sanary-sur-Mer.) View of the Toulon harbor, where the French battleship Provence, scuttled in 1942, is seen settled low in the water at a pier.
A torpedo factory in Germany during World War II. A crane moves a container at the torpedo factory. Men at work in the factory. A submarine is constructed. Men work on the constructed submarine. Submarines lined up together for launching. Men at a harbor wave hands. A submarine is launched into the sea.
An airplane manufacturing unit in Germany during World War II. Material for manufacturing the airplanes lined up. Partly constructed airplanes lined up in the factory. Men at work on the airplanes. A Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka airplane moved out of the factory by men. The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka is a two-seat German ground-attack aircraft.
German prisoners in Paris, France during liberation of Paris in World War II. A board reads 'Paris'. Two military trucks loaded with German prisoners captured by French civilians moves along. Faces of prisoners in the trucks. The military trucks with the German prisoners move ahead. French civilians watch as the trucks move. Civilians cheer and applaud.
Wooded forest area, site of Nazi atrocities in World War 2: U.S. Army soldiers walk in woods and examine bodies of Jewish concentration camp victims near Landsberg Germany. The bodies lie on the ground close together. Some victims are wearing prison uniform pieces.
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