Flashbacks of Nazi activities during World War II presented during Nuremberg Trials. Chief prosecutor from Great Britain, Hartley Shawcross, presents Count No 2, Crimes Against Peace, meaning wars of aggression in violation of international treaties and agreements. Lieutenant Colonel Schumt relates Adolf Hitler's plans to occupy Poland. View of a truck and uniformed Germans marching and agitating in Poland to advocate annexation by Germany (under Albert Forster). On August 23, 1939, Joseph Stalin and Joachim von Ribbentrop sign Russian-German non-aggression pact. Flashback view of convoy of German tanks moving near farm fields toward Poland. View of Pope Pius XII and then Franklin Delano Roosevelt appealling to Germany not to attack Poland or other sovereign nations. Raucous laughter in Reichstag as Hitler addresses German leaders and describes the appeal by Roosevelt. September 1, 1939, scenes of German troops invading Poland as Luftwaffe begins mass bombing raid. Artillery guns fire, troops in jeeps, personnel carriers, and motorcycles stream into Poland. Aerial view of Luftwaffe aircraft in formation approaching Poland and bombing Polish cities. Bombs away view as bombs fall from aircraft to ground and explosions and smoke seen on ground in Poland. City buildings in Poland seen in flames and crumbling to the ground. Line of German Wehrmacht Army forces marching on roadways into invaded territory. German Army seen invading Denmark on April 9, 1940. German sailors aboard fast moving German ship. German army soldiers aiming machine guns. Camera view of German tank as tank gun is lowered directly toward camera. German forces occupy a North Sea dock area of coastal Denmark, German tanks and vehicles drive on streets and sidewalks in Denmark as Danish citizens run and leap out of the way. Danish citizens stand quietly along sides of a road as German Army marches into a city of Denmark.
USS Virginia battleship sinks in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. A U.S. Army Air Service Martin bomber in flight and the ships being hit by the aircraft. The ship underway and smoke rises from the bombed area on the deck. USS Virginia tilts on one side. The damaged deck of the ship. The ship sinks gradually. The bombers in flight.
Invasion of Oslo, Norway by the German Army during World War II. Japanese narration. A map shows the United Kingdom, Germany and Norway. The map shows airplanes advancing from Germany to Oslo. German Kriegsmarine Navy ships at sea shelling targets in Norway. View of guns on German navy ships firing. German Luftwaffe airplanes attack Norway. German ships advance towards Norway. Cruiser Blucher enters the Oslo Fjord. German intruder fires. Colonel Birger Erichsen, the commander of Oscarsborg Fortress, works on some papers. German military airplanes fly across a sea. Fallschirmjager, German paratroopers are airborne. German paratroops seen inside the aircraft, seated and talking to each other. View out aircraft window flying low over a German seaplane base with several seaplanes parked in water outside Oslo. View from ground of low-flying German troop transport aircraft coming in for landing. German occupied fort with German flag beside Norwegian town. German military equipment convoy rolls down a road in Norway .German military trucks advance on Oslo through towns with shops and homes. German guard outside a German aviator post. The Germans march into Oslo. Military vehicles with German soldiers move ahead.
View of the treaty between Germany and Norway assuring friendly relations between the two. The treaty breached on April 9th, 1940, Germany invades Norway during World War II. German paratroopers jump from Luftwaffe aircraft into Norway. Aerial and ground views as German fighter aircraft strafe and bomb cities in Norway. Scenes of fire and destruction on streets in Norway as people run in streets seeking shelter. People flee on streets. Women and children, elderly, and various citizens quickly load into back of a truck to be driven to safety. Nazi troops march on the streets of Norway in World War 2.
View of the British aircraft carrier, Courageous, from Fairey Swordfish aircraft that has just taken off. Captain Schuhart, commander of the German submarine U-29 enters harbor with crew on deck after successfully sinking the British Aircraft Carrier, Courageous, off the coast of England, on September 17, 1939. Captain Schuhart steps from the U-29 to the shore and is immediately awarded the Iron Cross, first class. His crew members are seen wearing awards of Iron Cross, second class. German Destroyers underway in the North Sea. They maneuver guns and torpedo launchers. A boarding party from a German destroyer accosts a merchant vessel, which they board and signal as OK. The boarding party returns to the destroyer, which then steams away at high speed.
British tanks being loaded at a UK port, bound for the Soviet Union, during World War 2. A Cruiser V Covenanter tank in the foreground and several Valentine tanks lined up behind it. A trainload of tanks moving on a British railway. Convoy of Allied ships headed toward the Soviet Union. Map shows route from the UK to Murmansk. View from aboard a ship in the convoy as gunners man antiaircraft gun to defend against German bombers attacking from Norway. Black flak clouds in the air. View of the convoy proceeding through waters containing drifting pieces of ice.
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