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German perspective on Allied attack and German defensive actions during the Allied invasion of Normandy, France.

German newsreel about the D-Day Invasion of Normandy. English narration overlaid by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services. German people read bulletin boards and newspapers describing the invasion. A map shows location of England and Germany. Information of assault broadcast in Germany by German radio stations. Announcers shown relaying information at switchboards. Alarm bells ring and German troops in bunkers grab rifles and stand ready to proceed. German antiaircraft guns and artillery fired at incoming Allied aircraft and and explosions seen at night. Allied Airborne troops incoming, according to narration, as nighttime artillery barrage continues. Naval units near mined waters. Germans soldiers in Atlantic Wall fortifications fire artillery and machine guns. Closeup views of German soldier faces, looking determined. Heavy artillery are fired at Allied troop units. Allied naval ships as seen from German perspective on shore in early morning light on D-Day. Shells are loaded into artillery and railroad guns and fired on the Allied warships from German gun emplacements and fortifications on the coast of France. British troops land on shore near the River Orne at the Normandy village of Ouistreham. Heavy bombardment from both sides. Germans examine Allied Landing Craft on the beach. Commentator says the British troops in them were annihilated or taken prisoner. Camouflaged German tanks move into position and fire on invading Allied ground troops. German forces pass wrecked gliders and an Allied parachute hung up in a tree. Allied Airborne troops are shown taken as prisoners by German forces and marched. Pan view of many Allied gliders, some crashed in a large field. British gliders seen. Close views of crashed gliders. German forces roll an intact Allied jeep out of a crashed glider and drive it away. Captured prisoner Canadian troops seen. Shoulder patch of one reads "North Nova Scotia Highlanders", and on another reads "1 Canadian Parachute Battalion Airborne". Interrogation of captured Canadian troops is seen. German holds a prisoner's "Soldier's Pay book". (World War II period).

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 9 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046324
German troops enter Normandy and Avranches in France during World War II.

German troops in occupied France. Map of the French Invasion Front. German troops in camouflaged trucks. A sign on a tree. German soldiers on bicycles collect newspapers from another soldier. Newspaper headline reads "Eisenhower has not surprised us." Trucks and jeeps filled with German soldiers in Normandy. Overturned vehicles and damaged artillery on the roadside. Soldier with camouflaged helmet looks up to the sky. Aircraft in flight overhead. Artillery fire. German Soldiers load and fire anti aircraft guns. A charred aircraft in a field. German soldiers arrive in Avranches, France. A sign for Avranches. German Soldiers ride a bike among the commune ruins. Soldier seated on a wrecked car. Buildings in the area. A soldiers keep vigil by a damaged cathedral. Stained glass windows. A German soldier plays the organ keyboard in the cathedral. Interior of the French cathedral.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675031305
Allied invasion crafts loaded with vehicles underway as they head for Normandy, France during World War II.

Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. A number of Allied invasion crafts underway at the sea including destroyers, Landing Ship Tanks, Landing Craft Tanks, Landing Crafts Infantry, rocket ships. Invasion crafts at sea with barrage balloons flying overhead. Invasion crafts head towards Normandy, France to launch an Allied invasion . Allied sailors aboard a craft as they look towards the shoreline. Landing Craft Tanks loaded with vehicles underway in the Atlantic Ocean as it heads towards Normandy prior to Allied invasion.

Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 2 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051428
Views of France during Allied bombings showing Normandy, French civilians and American prisoners of War (WW2)

French cities and ports are shown in a campaign map of Northern France during World War II. Normandy peasants drive sheep and cows. German mechanized forces move forward to combat the Allied invasion. Allied planes bomb a French city. View of wrecked French city. French civilians dig through debris and remove the dead. Roads are filled with refugees. American prisoners of war are marched through Paris. French civilians kick and strike at some in the marching POW line.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039043
United States Landing Craft Infantry on shore and troops wade through surf to reach shore on D-Day in Normandy, France (WW2)

Landing Crafts Infantry reach a beach in Normandy, France on D-Day in World War II . Slate indicates time is "H" hour plus 15. Landing Craft Infantry nearing the beach. The troops exit boat's ramp. Smoke in the background. The troops wade through surf to reach the shore. Bullets hitting the water around the men as they go ashore. They attend to the wounded on the deck.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046329
United States Landing Crafts Infantry troops climb down a cargo net to reach a shore in Normandy, France on D-Day (WW2)

Landing Crafts Infantry reach a beach in Normandy, France, during World War II D-Day operations at "H" hour + 60. The troops transfer the wounded from the Landing Craft Unit. Smoke rises from a burning Landing Craft tank and it sinks. Troops exit cargo hatch by cargo net.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046330