Allied prisoners of war (POWs) in Paris during World War 2. Columns of prisoners marched by German guards through the streets of Paris. German guards and soldiers. Civilians look on. German officers lead the prisoners. Prisoners cross buildings. Some German-sympathizer Parisian men and women strike and lash out at the Allied POWs. People click photographs and record films. A line of trucks on the road. Faces of the Allied prisoners. Soldiers walk over tram tracks on the road. Some Parisian men and women shout, jeer at and spit on Allied prisoners. The prisoners massed in a square.
Allied prisoners of war (POWs) in Paris during World War II. German officers and soldiers around the prisoners. Parisians watch as the prisoners are marched by German guards through the city streets. Allied prisoners marched past buildings. Vehicles cross the prisoners on the streets. The prisoners marched through the civilian crowd and past shops and restaurants. A man watches from a convertible. Civilians come closer to view the prisoners, and some civilians who are German-sympathizers lash out at and strike Allied POWs. Faces of Allied prisoners. Civilians take photographs and record films.
War ruins in Rouen, the capital city of Normandy in France, during World War II. A German General survey the city. Smoke from burning buildings. German soldiers fire guns and battle the enemy across the canal. Soldiers take cover behind sandbag barricades. Pillars of a damaged bridge. Soldiers use binoculars to survey the area. They load and fire artillery. Smoke from explosions on either side of a canal. Smoke from burning buildings. Jets of water put out fire in damaged Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen (Pl. de la Cathédrale, 76000 Rouen, France). Ruins and rubble on the streets. Soldiers clear debris from the streets. They use water hoses to put out the cathedral fire. The damaged structure of the cathedral. Bomb damaged buildings. French prisoners marched on the streets. Military vehicles enter a gate. A sign for Paris beside the gate. The smoke shrouded skyline.
German soldiers and French civilians in occupied France during World War II. German officers and soldiers with French civilians in a French town. German soldiers distribute food to French civilians. People stand in line for food. Elderly men, women and children take food. Food distributed from trucks and vans. French civilians in tents. Soldiers serve bread loaves over a counter. Bread on the counters. Relief workers serve distribute food. Civilians including children in lines. French POWs (Prisoners of War) at work. They drill, break stones and do construction work. German troops gathered to welcome German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler. Hitler arrives, gives a Nazi salute and greets the troops. The soldiers cheer as he waves to them.
The German advance into France and fall of Paris during the Battle of France in World War II. Smoke clouds mushroom up into the air following explosions near a river. Burning structures. German horse cavalry and soldiers with war equipment in carts. The cavalry crosses a bridge. German troops at the captured Palace of Versailles near Paris. An inscription at the entrance reads 'In all glories of France'. Soldiers raise the Nazi Swastika flag atop the Palace. The soldiers in the Palace courtyard. June 1940, Paris: Germans occupy Paris. Soldiers and civilians around the Obelisk at the Place de la Concorde. A German aircraft in flight overhead. German officers greeted as they get off a German aircraft. The Eiffel Tower in the background. German soldiers with artillery. Soldiers climb up the Eiffel Tower. They unfurl the Nazi Swastika flag atop the Tower.
The French 2nd Armored Division and British troops advance through Alencon in France during World War II. Tanks and vehicles move through Alencon. Soldiers in tanks pass damaged and wrecked war equipment. Tanks and vehicles pass wreckage and damaged equipment near railway tracks. Soldiers on motorcycles. They pass a sign that reads 'Ecouchee'. Vehicles advance past an abandoned German rocket gun. Soldiers walk past the gun.
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