Italian Prime Minister and Il Duce Benito Mussolini welcomes German Chancellor and Führer Adolf Hitler upon his arrival in the Brenner railway station (39041 Brenner, South Tyrol, Italy), the border station of Italy and Austria. Adolf Hitler gives the Nazi salute while Benito Mussolini extends the Roman Salute to honor guards while it snows outside the Brenner station. Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and Nazi German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop follow behind their leaders. Hitler shakes hands with Mussolini and Count Ciano, greet each other with the Nazi and Roman salutes, before boarding train back to Germany. Joachim von Ribbentrop greets the Nazi salute to Mussolini before the latter shake hands with him. Hitler speaks to Mussolini while leaning on train window before departure. Hitler’s train departs from Brenner station. Mussolini gives a final Roman salute to Hitler as his train departs for Germany. Mussolini, Count Ciano and other Italian fascist officials leave the platform. “Brennero” (Italian for Brenner) station sign in heavy snow. Italian fascist officials salute to Mussolini’s snowy train departing Brenner station after Hitler's visit to Italy during World War II.
Dunkirk during World War II. British destroyer underway at full steam. German plane flying near barrage balloons. Smoke can be seen on shore due to bombing by Germans. Dozens of rescue boats containing crewmen and soldiers sail out to safety. Destroyer passes ship that has sunk. British soldiers wading in water towards ship. British soldiers climb onboard a ship. Exhausted British navy personnel rest on deck of ship. British navy personnel, some inadequately dressed, pose for the camera. Some soldiers are even barefoot. Ship blows out dark smoke as it sails near the Dunkirk harbor. British soldiers onboard a ship prepare ammunition and ropes to fight the Germans. British soldier grabs a rifle. A soldier throws a rope over the side of a ship. British soldiers on board ship are wearing life jackets. British ships sail near Dunkirk.
German Nazi soldiers ride underground railroad small gauge train cars inside bunker tunnel in the Siegfried Line in western Germany before World War II. Other German soldiers march alongside soldiers in rail cars. Soldiers enter an elevator while others take stairs alongside. Elevator door closes and soldiers seen rising to upper bunker areas. POV inside bunker elevator as it passes German troops on stairs. Bunker door sign reads “Unterk. Räume," which is German for "sub spaces," German soldiers smoke cigarettes and socialize together inside a dormitory room in the bunker.
German civilians rush towards a road to catch a glimpse of the arrival of German chancellor Adolf Hitler in western Germany. Germans give the Nazi salute upon the arrival of Adolf Hitler’s car. Hitler gives a Nazi salute and a military salute while standing in his Mercedes-Benz W31 type G4 staff/command car with the plate number “WH 32291”. Hitler meets Nazi military officials. Hitler and Nazi military officials leaning on fence together while civilian Germans look on. Hitler inspects a bunker, which is located in the Siegfried Line defense fortification. Artillery shell is lifted by a crane. Front page of the Volkischer Beobachter newspaper announcing the visit of Adolf Hitler in the Siegfried Line (known as the “Westwall” in Germany) with headline, "Mein Führer! Der Weftwall fteht und wird baltern, fomme, was da wolle!" Rough translation, "My Leader! The WestWall is standing and will remain, come what may!"
Captured German soldiers raise their hands in defeat during the Allied Invasion of Normandy in World War II. Free French Forces Commando grins with missing teeth. Surrendered German soldiers are led away as prisoners of war (POW). German soldiers, both young and middle-aged, sitting on the beach. A balding German soldier wearing round eyeglasses. Allied soldiers frisk captured German soldiers for weapons. An injured German soldier rests on bed of hay. A German officer with a Nazi pin captured by Allied soldiers. Captured German soldiers with tired faces after capture from D-Day. German soldier chewing on weed stem. Injured German soldier lies down. Captured German soldiers, holding their hands up, are herded back to the beach to await their transport to camps. Sign on building reads, "BERNIERES," possibly for Bernières-sur-Mer. German soldiers sit on the beach behind barbed wire. German soldiers, all except one, duck down as something nearby explodes, and then rise again together. Captured German soldiers stand with their hands behind their heads on the beach during D-Day. Injured German soldier with bandage covering his left eye. Captured German soldiers being herded on beach, a barrage balloon flies to protect Allied supplies from overhead attacks.
United States turnover of former US destroyer-escort warship to the Republic of China (ROC) under a lend-lease arrangement after World War II in 1946. Sailor hoists the Republic of China flag onboard ship. Decommissioned United States Navy destroyer-escort with Republic of China flag docked in San Diego, California. Republic of China Navy Commander Lin and United States Navy Commander Herbrandt salute to sailors. Commander Lin and Commander Herbrandt shakes hands onboard. Republic of China Navy seamen stand in formation, wearing the standard navy uniform. ROC seaman training to aim using artillery. An ROC sailor demonstrates rope knotting. Republic of China and United States sailors play Chinese Checkers and dice onboard as destroyer sails to Republic of China. The decommissioned USS Magnet (AM-260), acquired by the Republic of China as ROCS Yung Ning, sailing the Pacific Ocean.
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