German Army (Wehrmacht) light tank coming down a village street after the German invasion of Luxembourg in World War II. Soldiers and civilians watch from the street side and buildings. Dragon’s teeth tank barriers evidently on Maginot Line as German tanks pass by. German troops running through a bridge towards the Luxembourg border, throwing a barbed wire tank barrier off the bridge. German soldiers tearing down a stone wall. Sign reads “Douane Zoll” (Customs). Another customs sign bearing the coat of arms of Luxembourg. German soldier leading off captured Luxembourg customs officers. A German soldier smashes a wall with a sledgehammer. Another soldier welding a metal sheet as German cars cross the bridge and enter Luxembourg. Mobile artillery passing through a town in Luxembourg along with motorcycles. Civilians watch German vehicles enter Larochette (Fiels or Fels), Central Luxembourg. Trucks towing anti-tank gun and artillery through streets of town. German trucks and motorcycles pass by Grand Hotel De la Poste (11 Place Bleiche, 7610 Larochette, Luxembourg) in the center of Larochette.
German Army tanks pass through barbed wire entanglements during the German invasion of Luxembourg during World War II. Sign reads “Passage interdit Durchgang verboten” (“Entry forbidden” in English). View of a high-speed rail train in Luxembourg. German troops smiling and waving from a small trail way carriage traveling at high speed. German soldiers and supplies in train carriages. Luxembourg civilians welcome and distribute food to German troops marching down street. A Luxembourg man spraying a jet of water to cool soldiers marching through village. German troops smiling as they move through the village. Civilians watch entrance of German troops. Horse drawn cart towing anti-aircraft guns. A German soldier uses a bicycle. German soldier receives a drink from local civilian.
German Army engineers constructing road over countryside during World War II. They upturn a rock. Soldiers carry bars of steel and supplies to build road. Soldiers moves in the Ardennes toward occupation of Belgium. Trucks passing over road, countryside in the background. Truck towing anti-tank gun and artillery through countryside. German troops moving over road, some on horseback, and cutting through forest. A Panzer division clearing trees from forest as a Panzer tank moves. Civilians waving to German troops marching into street in Malmedy, Belgium. Belgian civilians greet German soldiers with Nazi salute. An elderly woman and a man wave from their window. German troops marching down street, being welcomed by civilians. A Belgian woman distributes food to soldiers. German troops dipping water from bucket.
German troops board a Junkers JU-52 transport aircraft during World War II. Interior of transport plane showing German troops seated and singing in flight. A bomb being loaded on Junkers JU-87 Stuka dive bomber. Luftwaffe pilot getting into Stuka dive bomber. The Junkers JU-87 diver bomber taxies on the tarmac. Soldiers singing is heard in the background. Large group of Stuka aircraft taking off from an airfield. Stuka dive bombers in flight. Trees and rolling hills are seen on the ground. View of a bomb crater. German troops standing on side of crater. Wreckage of bridge and a railway station in Germany. Railroad station and surrounding areas showing extensive damage. Street showing windows blown from buildings in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. View of the Städtische Volksschule (State Volksschule) in Freiburg im Breisgau. Collapsed roof of the Volksschule. Wreckage of buildings. Sign reads “Säuglingsheim St. Hedwisgshaus Kinderkrankenabteilung Pflegerinnenschule” (“Infant Clinic St. Hedwigshaus Children's infirmary Nursing school” in English). Windows and interiors blasted at the St. Hedwigshaus Infant Clinic. Children’s toys on top of a table. Sign reads “Hilda-schule”. Bullet holes found on the exterior of a school in Freiburg im Breisgau. Apparently, there are children in school.
German engineers constructing pontoon bridge over the Juliana Canal in Limburg, Netherlands during World War II. German workers unload steel from truck on foggy morning weather. Some soldiers carrying construction supplies to the bridge. Trucks are seen waiting on the bridge for the last span of bridge to be completed by soldiers. German tanks and armored cars crossing the Juliana Canal with newly built pontoon bridge. Customs sign reads “Douane Zoll” at the Dutch border. Tanks, trucks, and other German vehicles passing through a village. German soldiers and a civilian post a notice. Notice overriding gun ownership in occupied territories written in German and Dutch. German half-track towing artillery piece, passing down street of village. Dutch villagers waving at occupying German forces. Armored vehicles driving on highway. Tank barriers on highway. German troops watch a tank break down a tank barrier.
A long line of wrecked German Army vehicles seen near Chambois, France, during the Battle of Chambois in World War II. Debris and supplies are seen scattered in the forest near the abandoned vehicles. United States Army soldiers inspect items left in the vehicles. An injured German soldier is escorted by U.S. soldiers. An Allied soldier walking past burned cars on the road.
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