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Dutch troops fire guns and march forward to stop a Nazi German invasion in Holland (WW2)

The first image is the Rijksmuseum (Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam, Netherlands) in Amsterdam, Netherlands. A uniformed armed Dutch soldier stands guard in front of a building, in World War II. Uniformed Dutch troops carrying luggage and belongings, fill the platform at a train station. Next several, smoking cigarettes, are seen looking out a train window. An open truck transports several troops carrying rifles, along a street. Military vehicles carry troops and equipment across a bridge. A single stack working commercial ship leaves a port. Another ship named "Sumatra" (with two funnels) is tied up at a dock. View from below of two sailors installing a heavy machine deck gun. Sailors raising a torpedo from a barge. Dutch soldiers in battle gear occupy a sand-bagged coastal position, manning a tripod-mounted gun. A coastal artillery gun is seen in a rotating turret. Soldier manning a large searchlight. More coastal defense guns. A soldier with a machine gun in front of a windmill. Soldiers moving along a heavily sand-bagged trench. Lone soldier, with a rifle, occupying a trench.

Date: 1940, April 15
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Dutch
Clip: 65675033952
England and France declare war on Germany; German troops conquer Denmark and Norway during World War II

World War 2. Britain (United Kingdom) and France declare war on Germany. German infantry carrying Panzerschreck antitank weapons. British troops mobilizing for war. Sign reads "A Call to Arms." Groups of new recruit British soldiers marching in large columns, including soldiers from Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa. British Queen Elizabeth class battleship with other warships. Animated map showing units of British fleet blockading Germany at Suez, Malta, Gibralter, the English Channel,and the North Sea. Adolf Hitler and German General staff make war plans. Animated map shows European countries around Germany. Ice skaters near Windmills in Holland. Farmers harvest grain. Bicyclists in Netherlands. Radio towers broadcast Nazi propaganda. Joseph Goebbels. Hitler denying intent to harm other countries. German military planners identify Norway as a target. Map shows German U-boats using Norwegian fjords. Map shows British fleet at Scapa Flow, and blockading ships in range from Norway. April 9, 1940, German army enters Copenhagen as Danes watch. German freighters in Norwegian ports smuggle troops and war materiel. German warships proceeding up Norwegian fjords, carrying troops and equipment. German Ju-87 and Ju-88 bombers and Me 109 aircraft in flight. Ju-88 over treetops. Junkers Ju-52 trimotor aircraft carrying German soldiers. Quislings seize power in Norway. View of Vidkun Quisling. Nazi posting up rules for citizen residents of Oslo Norway.

Date: 1939
Duration: 7 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038485
Export Cheese and tulip bulbs are loaded into crates in the Netherlands.

Dutch export products packed in the Netherlands. Edam cheese coated in paraffin wax from Edam-Volendam region inside crates. 'New York' and 'Holland Edam Cheese' written on the crates. Man removes Edam cheese from the crate. A label for “Holland Edam Cheese”. Farm-made cheese wheels from Holland on display. A man cutting a slice of Edam cheese with a knife. Tulips growing on a farm. A man digs out mud from the farm and takes the tulip bulbs out. The tulip bulbs being packaged and loaded in a crate. 'Product of Holland' written on the packs.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063270
Dutch people walk wearing native costumes and wooden shoes in the Netherlands.

A documentary film on the life style of people in the Netherlands. A woman wearing the native costume seated inside a house. The woman stitches a dress. Heavy clothing being worn by the people to keep away from winter. Girls wearing heavy dress walking on a ground. Houses in the background. A girl cheers and dances. A few people standing outside a house. A man holding the hands of a girl. The man smokes cigar. A man stands outside a house. The man wears his wooden shoes and walks outside the house. A woman walking towards the house. The woman takes her shoes out and walks inside the house.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063273
German airplanes attack a French convoy and troops carry an injured on a stretcher in Netherlands.

Nazi airplanes attack a French convoy in Netherlands during World War II. French troops on deck of a ship. A flag flutters on a mast. German airplanes in flight over the convoy. The airplanes drop bombs. The French ships being attacked. Ships burn due to bombing. Smoke rises in the background. The enemy airplanes in flight. A French ship underway as it burns. A French soldier fires an anti aircraft gun. A damaged French ship. The troops on a street. The troops carry an injured on a stretcher. The soldiers walk in a line at a port. They carry guns on their shoulder. A wrecked German airplane. The soldiers stand near the airplane.

Date: 1940, May 22
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069452
Dutch people in The Netherlands in the traditional costumes of Volendam and Marken.

Dutch people from two small fishing villages at the IJsselmeer, Volendam and Marken, wear traditional costumes. Dutch woman in traditional costume stitches a cloth in The Netherlands. She poses for the camera. Two native children in the costumes at a dock area. Children pose for the camera. Docked boats in the background. Native children play outside their houses. Dutch man holds hand of a small girl. Old native smokes pipe. A small girl in a floral dress. Natives wear wooden shoes. Three old man dressed in traditional outfit converse near a dock. Scenes of native children. A windmill near a water canal.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029906