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The Battle of Netherlands and the invasion of Belgium by the Germans during World War II.

The first phase of German assault on France and the Low Countries during World War II. An animated map depicts the German campaign to capture Liege (Luttich) and Fort Eben-Amael in Belgium. German troops invade Holland. Soldiers in trucks. Germans cross the Meuse (Maas) in boats. A collapsed bridge over the river. Armed German soldiers on bicycles cycle through a village. Soldiers drag a boat on the road. The Germans capture Fort Eben-Amael using flamethrowers. Soldiers fire guns during street fights. A soldier wades through shallow water while others cross a field amidst explosions. Bomb explosions and bomb damaged buildings. Soldiers take cover in a field. German troops cross the Albert Canal in Belgium. Troops in boats make their way across. They advance with tanks. Soldiers dig fox holes and eat. Soldiers man tanks and fire artillery. German aircraft bomb Allied positions. Bomb damaged buildings and ruins. Black smoke arises due to explosions. German soldiers march Belgian and Dutch prisoners of war on a street.

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021738
English and French Armies move towards the Ruhr Area to meet the German advance during World War II.

The first phase of German assault on France and the Low Countries during World War II. The main part of the Battle of France campaign beginning 10 May 1940. Massed German troops lined up in Berlin. Hundreds of young soldiers in uniform. Close-ups of some soldiers' faces. An animated map depicts the movement of the English and French Armies across the French city of Lille towards the Ruhr Area in Germany. Allied vehicles move to meet the German advance. British Expeditionary Force troops, French, Belgian, Dutch, and colonial troops move to the front in railroad train cars, trucks, and on foot. Allied soldiers on motorbikes on a street. Soldiers stand guard at a check post. Tanks, military trucks and motorbikes cross the check post. The convoy moves along. Troops in a train. Tanks on the streets. Soldiers on tanks. Hundreds of Allied French and British soldiers march ahead in France. Soldiers man artillery and guns. Soldiers use detonators to set off explosions.

Date: 1940, May 10
Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021741
German tanks, horses and troops cross the Rhine on barges and rafts during their advance towards France in WWII.

The German assault on France during the Battle of France in World War II. An animated map depicts the German attacks on the Maginot Line and city of Paris. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (Desert Fox) confers with a German officer. German soldiers in a fields, pull an armored vehicle with ropes. Smoke from bomb explosions. Bomb damaged buildings. German tanks advance. The Germans cross the Rhine. Soldiers cross over a bridge and in boats, load and fire artillery. Explosions on either side of the river. Soldiers and civilians lay planks to build a bridge. Soldiers in amphibious vehicles cross the river. Tanks, horses and troops cross the Rhine on barges and rafts. Camouflaged German tanks. German officers review the advance. Soldiers eat rations, drink water and take rest. The horses are fed. Soldiers on motorbikes and in tanks on a street.

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021744
French POWs taken by Germans forces as they close in on Dunkirk during the Battle of France in World War II.

The German assault on France during the Battle of France in World War II. An animated map depicts the German attacks on the Maginot Line and city of Paris. An animated map depicts the positioning and movement of the English and French Armies on one side and the Germans on the other side of the Maginot Line (defensive line) on the French border towards Germany. Germans forces fight through a city as they close in on Dunkirk. German troops load and fire artillery. Black smoke arises due to explosions in the battlefield. A gun barrel as the gun is fired. A German officer gives orders to fire. Soldiers cover their ears with their hands as the guns are fired. French soldiers seen firing artillery at night, in defense. Blazing ruins of city at night, consumed in fire and flames. German tanks advance. Soldiers fight at night. Officers give orders to load and fire artillery. Smoke due to the explosions. Machine guns fired. Burning buildings and wrecked vehicles. German soldiers search French POWs (Prisoners of War). The prisoners seated behind a barbed wire fence at the prison camp. A French General gets off a German aircraft. He is greeted by German officers.

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021745
German troops transport war material, build bridges, prepare for battle and sort mail during the Battle of France.

The German assault on France during the Battle of France in World War II. German war material hauled into France. Trucks are loaded at docks. Soldiers load material. German trucks haul the war material into France. A road sign gives directions for 'Mecheln, Brussel, Antwerp, Mons, Bayern'. The convoy advances. Soldiers and horses in trucks. German soldiers sort and load cans, ammunition and other war equipment into trucks. German engineers and technicians build and repair war material. Engineers repair a bridge. Huge equipment used for the repair. Smoke emitted from a locomotive engine as it crosses the bridge. Soldiers seated cleaning ammunition. German civilians manufacture war material. Workers manufacture ammunition, rifles, guns, shells and artillery pieces. German officers confer over a map on a table. Soldiers ready artillery. Trucks transport German war supplies. German soldiers eat, drink and rest. Some wash clothes, bathe, get hair cuts, get dresses, and read. A soldier bathes a dog in a tub, another washes clothes in a tub. A soldier uses a hand pump, another dries clothes on a line. The men clean ammunition, clean and shoe horses. Soldiers lined up before an officer in a field. German officers and soldiers sated at tables. Officers confer over a map. Soldiers sort mail while others write letters. A sign reads 'Deutsche Feldpost' (German Army Postal Service). A soldier with a mail bag at the entrance. He gets into a mail van and leaves. Soldiers sort mails and parcels.

Date: 1940
Duration: 5 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021749
The invasion of Poland, Dunkirk evacuation, Second Armistice, and London Blitz during World War II.

'50 Years of Cinematography' depicts the role of military and news cameramen during World War II. Germany starts the War. Invasion of Poland in 1939: German Nazi Luftwaffe bombers in flight over Warsaw. Explosions due to the bombardment. Burning and damaged buildings in the war torn city. Civilians amidst rubble and ruins. Soldiers and civilians look at corpses on a sidewalk. A woman with her child cries. A man walks on a street. Dunkirk Evacuation in 1940: Allied troops evacuated from the Dunkirk coast. Allied troops on ships. Smoke rises from a ship under German attack. Soldiers wade through the water towards waiting ships. Burning ships. The Second Armistice at Compiegne after the German victory in the Battle of France, 1940: German troops stand at attention. German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, President of the Reichstag Hermann Goering, German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and other German officers arrive at the venue. The leaders and officers walk past the soldiers at attention. Hitler gives the Nazi salute. The Blitz, London in 1940-1941: Bomb damaged buildings. Cars and pedestrians amidst ruins and rubble on the streets. A train over a collapsed wall. Civilians in a horse cart. A wrecked bus in a damaged building. Rescue workers among the rubble. Clouds over the city.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021762