Camera focuses on destroyed buildings in aftermath of German bombing during the Battle of France in World war 2. School boys rummage through a stack of debris. Smoke rises from a smashed automobile at a roadside. Local people beginning to evacuate, hauling their belongings in horse-drawn wagon. Closeup of a damaged trolley track, in center of city street. Smoke rising at end of street and towers of a church or Government building seen in background. Firemen direct water from a hose at a burning building. Camera pans over smoke rising from rubble and shows fire burning the interior of a building. More views of destroyed and burning buildings
Refugees flee from advancing German forces during Battle of France in World War 2. Refugees fill a street transporting their belongings on bicycles and in horse-drawn wagons. A British Expeditionary Force soldier walks past them on the sidewalk. Camera pans to destroyed and burning buildings in the city. View from behind refugees as they move away. An automobile follows behind them. closeup of smoldering debris. Broken manequins beside destroyed clothing shop. A man stamps out some smoldering material, with his feet. Fire raging in a building. Cobblestones missing from street in front of burning building. Smoke from fires obscures view of street. Uniformed French soldiers remove some furniture from a burning building. More views of burning buildings, including one showing flames and heavy smoke billowing from top of a building.
Wounded soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.) being carried aboard a British ship for evacuation from Boulogne during the Battle of France in World War 2. Ship in the background. Ambulances stand on the port. Wounded soldiers are carried on stretchers. Other soldiers carry belongings of the wounded.
Opening scene shows ambulatory wounded of the British Expeditionary Force being processed as they board a ship for evacuation from the port of Boulogne, during the Battle of France in World War 2. As ambulatory soldiers board, they are tagged. View of some boarding who are not necessarily wounded, including two women in uniform wearing steel helmets. Wounded on stretcher being carried along a gangplank. Closeup of some who are bandaged. Ambulances park beside the ship, and troops help carry wounded aboard. Soldiers wearing white armbands remove identification tags from wounded soldiers as they are carried or walk aboard.
Soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) marching informally, on the cobblestone streets of a town on the Belgian—French border during the so-called "Phoney War," at start of World War 2, in 1939. Some local residents watch and wave to the troops. Some children are seen, including a small girl held in her mother's arms. Soldier on bicycle and a canvas-covered utility vehicle are seen along with the marching infantry. The atmosphere is relaxed with no hint of hostilities.
Director of Alsace Ecclesiastical Matters looks into the matter of the removal of the religious objects from churches in evacuated villages in Alsace, France, early in World War 2. A Catholic church in a village. A French catholic priest removes religious objects from the church to protect them from theft and war. He is accompanied by men of Garde Mobile and a civilian from the Office of Worship, Marcel Schneider. They spread a sheet on which various objects like altar cloths are kept. Relics, goblets, and other objects are loaded in a truck. The priest stands at the hood of the truck, examining a map together with Marcel Schneider (who assisted in safe removal of objects from regional synagogues and churches), a Jewish Rabbi named Chaplain Justin Schuhl (wearing glasses), and an unidentified chaplain.
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