The German assault on France during the Battle of France in World War II. German soldiers enter the sandbagged Notre-Dame of Laon cathedral in Laon, France. They take a look around. Pillars and arches inside the church cathedral. A soldier plays the pipe organ in the cathedral nave. A French woman washes clothes in a stream. Little boys play by a fountain in a town. An elderly carpenter in a workshop. A woman irons clothes in a room. Civilians on a street. Pedestrians and cyclists move about. A crowd outside the 'Radiobecks' radio store on the street. Men, women and children listen to an occupation broadcast in French. Soldiers battle in fields. Machine gun fire.
The German assault on France during the Battle of France in World War II. A map depicts the German advance into the Chemin des Dames sector and across the Aisne River in France. German officers confer underground. An officer briefs others using a map on a wall. Soldiers seated in candlelight. German soldiers work in a field. Allied aircraft in flight overhead. Bombs dropped causing explosions. A wrecked aircraft on the ground. Soldiers load and fire artillery and antiaircraft guns. Officers give orders to fire the guns. A few officers observe the events. Machine guns fired.
The German assault on France during the Battle of France in World War II. German troops and cavalry advances in France. A sign for Paris, Soissons, and Aisne. German forces enter Paris. Soldiers raise a Nazi flag on the Eiffel Tower. Aerial view of Arc de Triomphe, Champs Elysses and the city of Paris. German troops march before the Arc de Triomphe at Champs Elysses. They pass various Parisian landmarks. German officers in Paris salute parading troops and award Iron Crosses. Close up views of faces of German soldiers in award ceremony. An animated map depicts the German advance towards Normandy and Brittany. soldiers work on the streets. They carry planks and other equipment and climb uphill. German cavalry and infantry cross a river. German artillery bombards the Verdun forts. Soldiers load and fire artillery. A German General reviews troops in Verdun. French troops surrender. Wrecked forts and a WWI monument. German infantry parades past the forts. French civilians and French POWs (Prisoners of War). German forces pass abandoned war material. Troops advance through French towns. German tank men study maps. German soldiers at a road block.
German propaganda newsreel depicting German perspective defending against Allied Invasion of northern France on D-Day (June 6, 1944). German citizens at newsstand reading newspaper headlines announcing the Allied invasion of France. A map of northern France. Scenes from June 6, 1944 as Allied bombers attack the French coast during D-Day operations. German sailors on ships monitoring incoming Allied invasion. German Navy sailors and German soldier radio operators communicate, listening with headphones and operating morse code transmitters and radios as the Germans sound the alarm. German soldiers take their positions at coastal fortifications of the Atlantic Wall. They pile up shells and use search lights. German coastal guns and submarines fire at the Allied fleet in the English Channel. Night fighting. Artillery and ship guns fired. Explosions as Allied crafts are hit. Soldiers fire machine guns as the enemy approaches the coast. German officers and soldiers in German pillboxes. German submarine fires torpedo and an Allied ship explodes far in the distance. A German officer looks through binoculars to survey the damage.
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.
German invasion and occupation of France and the Low Countries during World War II. German panzer infantry and tanks advance in France during Battle of France. They pass French civilians and wrecked vehicles en-route. A map depicts German movement from Sedan to Abbeville. Men transfer war material and barrels from freight cars into military trucks at a storage facility. German soldiers carry fuel cans to parked German aircraft. Soldiers nearby as the convoy of trucks leaves. A sign for places including Mecheln and Brussels in Belgium. The convoy crosses a bridge. French policemen direct traffic on the city roads. The convoy passes wrecked and abandoned French automobiles and military vehicles. French civilians return to their homes with their belongings. People on foot and in horse carts. Families seated with their belongings. Elderly men, women, children and new born babies. German volunteers distribute food to French refugees. A sign reads 'Revitaillement pour les Refugies'. Women distribute food and water to refugees. People wait in lines. A volunteer holds a child.
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