The opening of a new cabaret show at Club Lido at the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France. Entrance to Club Lido (78 Avenue des Champs-Élysées, 75008 Paris, France). The Duke of Windsor Edward VIII and his wife Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, are at the club. Michelle Morgan, Salvador Dali, Maurice Chevalier, French author Françoise Sagan, and other celebrities are also seen at Club Lido. Parisian cabaret dancers performing onstage.
French and Colonial troops march past through the Avenue de la Grande Armée during the Liberation Parade in Paris, France in World War II, one year after the city's liberation. Troops marching under the Arc de Triomphe (Pl. Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France). Military band plays. President of the French Republic Charles De Gaulle salutes at the troops. Civilians gather to cheer the troops as they march past. Aircraft flying in straight line formation leave contrails.
Germany invades France, during World War II. German troops invade French town of Marquion, in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region. Horse-drawn carriages loaded with French refugee families and belongings move along a road. Street signs on road number 15 point toward Sauchy-Lestrée 2 km away, and Avrincourt, 12 km away. A chalk drawn arrow points toward Arras. French families evacuate using bicycles, baby carriages, and wagons. German troops arrive on motorcycles. Numerous German Pz.I, Pz.II, Pz.III and Pz.IV tanks pass through the village. Smoke rises from a burning building.
Dead bodies lying along a road in the Aisne region of Northern France, during World War II Battle of France. German cavalry on horseback. Abandoned vehicles along a road, some destroyed. A man rolls a wheelbarrow along the road. Dead bodies and horses, some dead and some alive and standing, in the road and on the roadside. Damaged wagons along the roadside. Wreckage of vehicles, some of which are civilian vehicles and some are military. A dead man sitting in his wagon on the roadside. German troops sitting on motorcycles in a town, in front of a direction sign to Montcornet and Renneval. A car drives through the town. A German halftrack vehicle parked at side of road. Just a shell of one building is left standing. A German soldier riding in a vehicle, speaks to a black African French Priest, who is standing next to a German soldier wearing a red cross arm band. The vehicle proceeds.
Natzweiler-Struthof (or Natwiller-Struthof), a German concentration camp and extermination camp, in France used by the Nazis for political prisoners from Belgium and France during World War II. A U.S. soldier examines urns used for ashes of victims. A crematorium, blood stained coffins and a gas chamber at the camp. An examination or experiment procedure table with indented fluid drains, that drains into a sink below.
D-Day invasion of Normandy, France by Allied forces during World War II. Congested beach of Normandy after Allied amphibious landings. Bulldozer moves up in the foreground. Soldiers clean rifles. Dukw (six-wheel drive amphibious truck) moves along road. A soldier with ammunition belt. A soldier reads French dictionary behind AA (antiaircraft) gun. Rolls on wire matting on it in France. Soldier in control tower waves. U.S. Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolt fighters coming in to land. Plane being painted with invasion stripes. Soldiers crowd around planes. They talk to pilots. Planes are refueled. Planes taxi and take off.
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