Victory In The West - Sieg Im Westen

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r1:00:00:32:09

German troops take oath of allegiance to Hitler. Scenic shots of Alpine landscapes, the Rhine, River and workers in vineyard and harvesting grain. Low aerial view of bridge over the Rhine River at Cologne, Germany in 1940 with view of the city of Cologne in BG. CU external view of the Cologne Cathedral.

r1:00:02:01:06

Animated map of German frontiers in Bismark's time. Scenes of Danzig Harbor. Montage, interior and exterior scenes, Ruhr industrial area; shots of underground mine; low aerial view of Hamburg Harbor. Two German soldiers in pre-WWI uniforms on honor duty as sentries. German Pre-WWI 1914 Naval vessels. Animated map, extent of World War I fighting beyond Germans's borders and ending with presentation of situation on November 9th, 1918.

r1:00:02:49:19

Series of scenes of WWI fighting. Animated map, 4 1/2 years of WW I fighting. CU, Hindenburg and Ludendorff at headquarters. CU, signatures in Versailles Treaty. Animation, creation of Polish Corridor. Germany disarmed after WWI. Demilitarization and disarmament of Germany. Large artillery guns cut-up for scrap metal, ships sunk, hundreds of WWI-type German fighter planes destroyed and metal salvaged.

r1:00:04:37:18

Scenes of post WWI Germany. Striking workers and communist street fights in front of Brandenburg Gate. Closed gates blocking railroad tracks and armed sentries shows French occupation of Ruhr area of Germany after WWI. Scenes depicting massive inflation in post WWI Germany. Montage, all types of German inflation money. Various scenes of very large crowds of people rioting. CU early image of Hitler.

r1:00:05:23:13

Various scenes of Storm Troops Brown Shirts in parade formations. CU, General Von Seeckt reviews parade of Reichswehr German military organization as allowed by the Versailles Treaty. SEQ, Guard regiments, infantry and artillery in Potsdam. Hindenburg reviews Reichswehr parade. Scenes of goose-stepping German soldiers. German Army uses weapons made of cardboard in maneuvers. Medium CU, Laval. Promulgation of new German Constitution in the Garrison Church of Potsdam with Hindenburg, Hitler, Papen, in March of 1933. Also parade scenes of same day.

r1:00:07:05:25

Germany creates Nazi Labor Corps. Adolf Hitler shoveling dirt. Scenes of industrialization of Germany. Scenes of plants and factories. Concrete finishing machine on lane of Autobahn.

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r2:00:07:45:23

Brief shot of the famous German autobahn highway. British royal guards on parade, British recruits and German recruits being drafted. Walther Brauchitsch, Hitler giving Nazi Salute and Wilhelm Keitel review parade in Berlin. German soldiers goose-step march. Germany re-arming under Hitler. German factories producing manufacturing artillery guns, tanks and aircraft.

r2:00:08:45:11

German troops enter Rhineland, Vienna, Austria and Sudentenland. CU, Hitler stands up in car and salutes. Animated map of how Germans looked at Czechoslovakia as the possible jumping off place for an attack against the Reich. CU of Dr. Todt, German Engineer and founder of Nazi Todt Organization, looking at plans for German West Wall with another German officer. The West Wall was a series of fortifications constructed between 1938 and 1940 along the western frontier of Germany between the Netherlands and Switzerland. In WWII the Allies called the West Wall the Siegfried Line. Workmen building the German West Wall. Shows Ferro concrete tank traps dragon's teeth in German West Wall.

r2:00:10:03:01

CU, Dr. Emil Hacha, the third President of Czechoslovakia from 1938 to 1939, and Baron Von Neurath, the Third Reich's foreign minister from 1932 until 1938, in Prague. Animated map, situation in Polish Corridor. SEQ, Polish Terror. Animation, Polish Corridor situation embodying ideas of connecting highways between East Prussia and the main part of Germany across the Corridor. The Polish Corridor also known as Danzig Corridor, was a territory which provided the Second Republic of Poland 1920–1939 with access to the Baltic Sea.

r2:00:11:11:18

Polish military parade in Warsaw. Shots of Lord Halifax, Anthony Eden, Edward Smigly-Rydz and Winston Churchill. Beginning of Polish campaign on September 1, 1939. Animated map, progress of Polish campaign up to the beginning siege of Warsaw and the reaching of the preliminary demarcation line between Russia and German military interests. German Dictator Adolf Hitler looking through a scope to watch action on the siege of Warsaw. Air shots of combat areas shows many columns of smoke rising. Animation, capitulation of Warsaw. Shows German troops, artillery, and equipment on railroad cars on way back to Germany from the finished Polish campaign. Inserts, German newspapers record Post Mortem for the eighteen day campaign.

r2:00:13:51:12

Animated map, execution of the Norwegian campaign. German destroyers, torpedo boats, German soldiers in landing barges ready for invasion of Norway. German parachute troops descend to Norway's soil. German parachute troops descend to Norway's soil. Animated map, closed front against the west after finish of Norwegian campaign from Narvick down to the spot where the West Wall touches the North Sea. CU, German sentries in front of barbed wire entanglements use binoculars. CU, Reichs-Chancellory door. CU, Adolf Hitler returns salutes of storm troopers in Wilhelm Strasse.

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r3:00:15:20:23

Der Feldzug, The Campaign of May 10, 1940 when Germany launched an invasion of France and the Low Countries of Western Europe. Montage, German troops in parade formations listen attentively while the sound part of reel repeats Hitler's Order of the Day to the Army in the West Wall. Animated map, situation of the Maginot Line in regard to German ideas of impending attack. It purports to show the necessity of warding off any possible attack against the Ruhr area.

Shows French motorcyclists, French tanks, trucks and field artillery on the march; Belgium, English troops, motorcycles, French troop on a troop train. Shows British tanks WWI type and British Bren carriers on the move. French infantry soldiers on march through villages. Scene, special equipped Maginot line troops march to their positions.

Brief scene of Black French infantry troops. Historic Note: In 1940, the French army included more than 100,000 black French soldiers from France’s African colonies, mainly Senegal, Mauritania,and Niger. More than 75,000 of them served in France in WWII before and during the German invasion of France on May 10, 1940.

r3:00:18:49:17

CU, General John Gort, Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force in Western Europe, and his aide. British light tanks and infantry advance. MCU, heavy French long range self-propelled artillery battery. French demolish bridges and roads in order to impede the German attack. Sand table with animation, fortifications system of Allies in Holland, Belgium and France.

r3:00:19:44:24

Adolf Hitler, Field Marshall von Brauchitsch, and Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel in headquarters looking at map. Animation map shows a group of German armies in concentration area behind West Wall poised to attack Belgium and the Neverlands. CU, German types of radio, telephone and other communication for High Command. German Armored Troops, German motorcyclists, half-tracks, personnel carriers, all prime moving medium and heavy guns starting. German Chief of Staff Wilhelm Keitel enters his car.

r3:00:20:53:08

CU, image of Herman Goering, Commander of the German Luftwaffe. German Luftwaffe planes taking off and in action supporting the German invasion of Belgium. Shows German Junker troop transport aircraft in flight, German paratroopers Fallschirmjaeger onboard, and German paratroopers jumping from several planes. German infantry smash border defenses; German heavy tanks remove road obstacles. German infantry in deployed advance, no fire, patrol takes cover. German heavy machine gun fire. German infantry advance across road under fire. Empty street of a Belgium village. German patrol advances through empty street of a Belgium village. German tend wounded.

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r4:00:24:09:05

Sand table animation, plan of attack on Liege Luttich, Belgium, point of initial attack being Fort Eben Emael in Belgium. The River Meuse and the Albert Canal with their fortifications. Also shown are the six Allied lines or defense. First Line - The Ijssel Position. Second Line - The Grebbe Position. Third Line - The Meuse Position. Fourth Line - The Peel Position. Fifth Line - The Willem Canal Fortifications. Sixth Line - The Albert Canal Fortifications.

r4:00:25:04:27

German assault and shock troops use rubber boats with ladders to cross River Meuse under fire. Mechanized German infantry and German infantry on bicycle cross River Meuse over bridges not destroyed. German soldiers fight street-by-street.

German infantry fords stream; German infantry mortar crew fire. German Engineers Assault Party of 17 men cross the Canal to enter the fore-field of outside fortification No. 4 of Fort Eben Emael. German Engineer mounts the concrete cupola of fortification No. 4 and places heavy TNT. charge with time fuse in ventilation slot of the giant pill-box. Five seconds later the explosion. Sand table animation, importance of fortification No. 4. Flame throwers in operation against the auxiliary out-forts of Fort. No. 4. Belgium soldier with white flag in front of entrance of Fort Eben Emael.

r4:00:17:00

Several scenes, Belgium prisoners walk to rear. Sand table animation, scheme of attack to cross Albert Canal in broad front. German shock troops in rubber boats cross the River Rhine. German heavy tanks fire across river, explosion hit can be seen on other side. Shows German tanks crossing bridge. Several scenes show German combat contingents on the move. Sand table animation, scheme of how parachute troops attack and hold the Moerdijk Bridge until arrival of other troops.

r4:00:30:44:10

Dutch Military Commander of the City of Rotterdam accompanied by one Dutch soldier carry white flag and one German Parlamentari translator walks past camera and crosses undamaged Moerdijk Bridge. Interior of Armistice negotiations, Dutch officers seated at a table with German Colonel Gen. Von Bock. Several scenes, Dutch soldiers led back to rear as prisoners.

r4:00:31:49:08

Animation, favorable tactical situation of fact that River Rhine Estuary is in German hands. Short scenes, light, medium and heavy German tanks advance. Pan shot, German Panzer formations assembled in attack groups in their concentration areas behind the lines. Crews resting, eating, digging slit trenches. German anti-tank gun and field communications set in operation. Zero hour and tanks on the move. German mechanized infantry with personnel carriers in attack under fire. Medium tank attacks. Scenes, street fighting in Belgium towns and villages. Shows burning allied tank.

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r5:00:34:19:23

German tank formations advance in regimental columns; cut to scenes of Allied tanks attacking. MCU, two Allied tanks seen through driver's slit. Shot of Allied tank advancing, firing, one getting hit and exploding. MS, three German Junker Ju 87 or Stuka dive bombers peel off in dive; bombs hit the ground. MS, Allied tank on fire. LS, Allied tank regiment in attack formation. CU, French passenger car on fire, pan to Allied heavy tank being inspected by German soldiers. CU, German tank passes camera, one wounded soldier on tank. CU, German wounded being placed into motorcycle sidecar. CU, wooden sign First Aid. CU, German wounded being tended.

r5:00:35:59:28

Individual CUs, several wrecked Allied tanks; German soldiers talk to French tank crew; face of wounded French tank driver. CU, wrecked French tanks. CU, fallen French tank crew. CU of shell hole in Allied tank. CUs, wrecked British tanks in village street. CU wrecked Allied tank with bodies of tank crew. German motorcycles with side cars passing camera. German Mercedes-Benz personnel carriers towing 88mm dual purpose gun, and another other towing an anti-tank gun.

r5:00:37:10:26

Animation map of the Maginot Line extension. Scenes of anti-tank defenses using angled steel piles as anti-tank fortification which the press christened Asparagus Beds.

Scenes of the French Maginot Line. Sand table animation. Scenes of the underground interior of the Maginot Line. MS, air conditioning, machinery of communication center of Maginot Line. MS Ext, French Maginot Line troops in company formation move out of barracks in double quick step, walk past giant pill box. Operation of underground small Gauge Railroad inside the Maginot Line; munitions transport and storage, kitchen and soldiers making merry. Montage with superimposed legend Nous Vaincrons Parce Que Nous Sommes Les Plus Forts - We shall gain Victory because we are the stronger ones.

r5:00:39:25:25

Animation portrays that more than six hundred million human beings are on the French side. Montage of French colored troops and posters. Animation, German Colonel General V. Rundstedt's idea of surprise attack west of Namur and Brussels. CU, German Colonel Rundstedt with aide in front of large map. Animation, position of German armies of General V. Kluge, General List and General Busch and their break-throughs between Maubeuge France and Sedan crossing the Meuse River; rapid advance to the channel coast to reach Abbeville, France. German engineer troops build bridges across Meuse River under fire. German infantry moves rubber assault boats towards Meuse River; rubber boats cross River; German Signal Corps men lay wire; all under fire. German cavalry and infantry cross Meuse River. German tank crosses bridge.

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r6:00:44:44:13

MS, two heavy German tanks is ferried across River on pontoon ferry. MS, German heavy tank fords shallow river. CU, German General Kluge greets officer. German soldiers eat and rest. MCU, armored force park. CU, German Staff Officers in front of maps on table under shade tree. CU, artillery fire direction plans for light, medium and heavy fire as preparation for attack. Animation shows plan of attack on fortified Hill No. 505 near Sedan. Actual covering of Hill No. 505 by all calibers of artillery. CU, heavy artillery fire.

r6:00:48:00:21

Wire obstacles called Spanish riders. Advance after cessation of artillery fire engineer shock troops and a Panzer division with assault guns l05mm Howitzers, self-propelled artillery moves in for attack. French defenders of Hill No. 505 fire their guns. German tanks attack; tracer ammunition fires, burning buildings and wrecks. German soldiers frisk French prisoners, long pan to French prisoner of war POW camp.

r6:00:49:55:26

French General Henri Giraud leaves a Junkers Transport plane salutes the German Officers and surrenders. Animation, Rommel's breakthrough to Abbeville, France. Rommel's Armored Force and fast troops followed by Cavalry and Infantry on their way to the channel coast at Abbeville, France. German infantry moves through destroyed French towns and villages. German field artillery in street fights in Abbeville, France. CU, German Colonel General Von Bock walks into lens, salutes.

r6:00:53:50:00

MCU, assembly of German tanks on high cliffs and pan to coast of the English Channel. Animation, Allied attempt to avoid the Dunkirk evacuation by counterattacking Arras. British and French artillery in action. CU, French heavy tank pulls a disabled Bren gun carrier through a shell ditch in spectacular action. MCU, British light tanks in very fast advance. German heavy artillery action includes siege artillery. Allied tanks under fire.

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r7:00:55:10:24

CU, German heavy tanks advance in open country followed by two Panzer grenadiers soldiers. German infantry advance under fire. MCU, German medium and heavy tanks fire. MCU, French tank men taken prisoners. Scenes, German soldiers eat their Iron Rations. MS, British and French tanks retreat through streets of Dunkirk. CU, MCU, Allied soldiers board the evacuation vessels at Dunkirk. LS, burning Dunkirk coast line.

r7:00:57:0910

Rear shot, car of King Leopold III of the Belgians moving through streets lined with Belgian soldiers; large white flag on car. LS, CU, King Leopold III in front of a castle talks to German officers. German General Von Reichenau and two military aides of King Leopold enter a car in front of castle entrance.

Several scenes of Belgian prisoners. Animation map, preparatory tactical moves to be executed near Hazebrouk and Ypres for Dunkirk. CU, British soldier presses TNT plunger.

r7:00:58:32:09

AV, eight Junkers Ju 87 Stukas in attack formation; peel off in dive. LS, hectic dogfight in channel skies. Men on British ships watch dogfight. Six Junkers Ju 87 Stukas in individual attack formation. Junkers Ju 87 Stukas attack British war ships in English channel. CU, anti-aircraft multiple machine gun aboard a British warship in heavy action. CU, seven Stukas dive for attack. LS, British destroyer under attack. CU, Stukas dive; bomb hits water. AV, Stuka bombs hit targets on channel coast. CU, Allied war vessel fights back with anti-aircraft fire. CU, Stuka peels off, dives and attacks large Allied war vessel. MS, British light cruiser attacked. CU, bombs are released from racks of German Junkers Ju 87 Stuka. MS, burning Allied freighter.

r7:01:00:04:23

German infantry, field artillery and assault guns in street fight in French town. CU, British soldiers with hands raised surrender. British soldiers carry their wounded. Scenes of destruction of military equipment and bodies of dead British soldiers near Dunkirk. British prisoners assembly in market place of Dunkirk. Pan, wrecked Allied tanks and prisoners. CU, MCU, wrecked Allied ships in channel waters. Pan from swastika banner to the shoreline and mole pier shows Dunkirk lighthouse. High MCU, bodies of British soldiers in channel surf. CU, great port and harbor site with giant cranes and German supply trucks with trailers moving away from them. German supply trucks with trailers on Auto Roads. CU, German Quarter Master Corps activities.

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r8:01:05:50:15

VS, German combat engineering troops build and repair bridges. Train locomotive pulling train cars over one of newly built bridges. German soldiers cleaning their rifles. Scenes of workers in German ammunition and armament factories. CU, Chief of Armament Production Artillery German General Friedrich Fromm and aide at desk. CU, German Generals Walter Weiss and Hermann Balck leaders of Second and Ninth German armies. German soldiers living Bivouac life, shaving, getting haircut, bathing, reading letter, washing dog, clothes, cleaning weapons. Scenes of German soldiers taking care of horses. German soldiers at mail call.

r8:01:10:14:21

Montage of exterior and interior of French Cathedral; shows church organ, cut to scenes of German homeland towns and villages. CU, people in Germany listen to radio announcement in front of radio store. MS, German infantry advances.

r8:01:12:30:04

Animation map, attack scheme on Somme, Oise-Aisne Canal and Weygand Line. Battered sign reads Hangest, a commune in Northern France. Street fighting in Hangest. SIG 33 Bison German self-propelled howitzer artillery destroying a building. German tanks and infantry in heavy street fighting advancing through a French town. Buildings are reduced to rubble.

r8:01:13:59:01

MS, Junkers Ju 87 Stukas in attack formation fly past captive observation balloon. LS, ten Junkers Ju 87 Stukas in attack formation above clouds. AV, French town taken from inside HE-111 with heavy anti-aircraft fire speeding towards plane. French anti-aircraft batteries in action. MS, three Heinkel HE-111 German bomber loosing sticks of bombs. AV, nine Heinkel HE-111 in flight. MS, follow shot of bombs dropping. MS, Dornier Do 17 flying into clouds. CU, int of pilot's cabin. Flight of British Spitfires attacking German bombers. MS, Messerschmitt fighter climbs away to gain altitude. A British Spitfire trailing smoke and crashing.

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r9:01:16:25:05

CU, well concealed German heavy tanks break out into open for start of attack on Somme Line, June 5, 1940. German observation plane, a Fieseler FI 156 Fieseler-Storc, on reconnaissance mission shows terrain of combat below with shells exploding, gun smokes as well as other burning objects. AV, pan, bombing of Somme Bridge. German tanks crossing the Somme River Bridge. MS, CU, same bridge receives near hit. CU, underbrush lined road, one vehicle burns, terrific explosion in background and two German medium tanks drive away from camera. High truck shot, highway with burning vehicles in ditch. German Panzer vehicles advance in distance. MS, pan, huge assembly of Panzer forces on southern slopes of Somme River.

r9:01:18:03:05

MS, Fieseler FI 156 Fieseler-Storch throws down smoke message; camera pans with missile down to ground showing German soldier running to spot and picking up message. CU, German officers and scout car in hay cover; officers study staff map. CU, tank commander on top of tank, interior shot of German tank, tank gunner and his binoculars. Scenes, very good tank shots negotiating steep hills. Tanks accompanied by infantry with light machine guns and scout cars in attack across open field. View from inside German tank.

r9:01:19:42:23

Animation map, situation of Weygand Line of defense in France in WWII and disposition of German army groups Van Bock and Van Rundstedt before breakthrough to Rouen. Germany tanks rapid advance. Scenes of heavy attack by Allied tanks. CU, German tanks stand still and fire. Tank Commander looks through binoculars. One Allied tank is hit and explodes. Various scenes of Allied and German tank battle.

r9:01:21:37:27

German Panzer formations enter city of Rouen, France. Street littered with bodies of dead horses. Scenes of the Rouen Cathedral through heavy smoke. CU, Colonel German General Von Bock. Pan, fiercely burning giant oil tanks. CU, burning oil floating on water. LS, City of Rouen, France. VS, burning and crashing city buildings, damaged traffic lights and trolley wires in foreground. MCU, Rouen Cathedral, heavy smoke rises in background. CU, German soldiers, remove debris in streets of Rouen. Interior pan, Rouen Cathedral, exterior HS, two uneven towers of Rauen Cathedral. Truck shot, animation map shows attack on Chemin Des Dames. German Regimental Commander in dugout gives attack orders. German engineers build a corduroy road through swamp. German medium field artillery fire. LS, mountain ridge called Chemin Des Dames.

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r10:01:25:19:07

German infantry, engineers and close supporting guns cover crossing of Oisne-Aisne Canal by rubber boats and foot bridge. French road sign reads: Le Chemin des Dames.

r10:01:27:02:13

Animation map, attack of army group Von Rundstedt after Rouen had been reached. It then shows the supporting attacks of the army group of General Von Witzleben against the Saar Line, the army group Von Leeb and the Dollmann Army crossing the upper Rhine. The Panzer forces of General Kleist, General Guderian, General Hoeppner and General Booth support the breakthrough operation.

r10:01:27:53:22

German medium and heavy artillery in action. German armored forces reach River Marne at Chateau Porcien in the Ardennes. CU, road sign Avancon 7km- Reims 41 km. VS, heavy tanks and artillery cross rivers, drive through streets and villages and travel highways. CU, German infantry on the march. MCU, At blocked road German soldiers search for booby traps and possible stragglers or snipers left behind. CU, River Marne and one Marne bridge. VS, infantry and street fights, crossing of Marne River, German Red Cross men tend graves of fallen soldiers. German infantry in street fighting; Germans cross Marne River. German field artillery and cavalry as well as infantry advance in close formation.

r10:01:33:07:27

Road sign reads: Paris - straight ahead, Soissons - right turn. Germans advance in suburbs of Paris. GU, pan, Eiffel Tower. CU, German soldier hoists Swastika on top of Eiffel Tower. LS, Paris with Arc de Triomphe in center. CU, German troops march in front of the Arc and Church of St. Madeleine. CU, Generals von Bock and Kuechler review parade in Tuileries avenue. German soldiers are decorated with a medal.

r10:01:35:50:02

Animation map, impending attack on Normandy, Brittany, the Loire River and the Plateau of Langues; truck shot to CU of attack on Verdun from the rear. Also on Nancy, Epinal and Belfort. The final thrust to be crossing of the Saar River and upper Rhine and breakthrough on left bank of the Saar.

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r11:01:36:38:02

German infantry with close support weapons attack the fore-field of Verdun. Interior scenes of French bunker crew firing; good exterior shot of giant pill box dome shows gun flash. German medium field artillery fires at distant fortification hill; explosion hits can be seen on the hill. Pan, French soldiers come toward camera on country road and surrender to the artillery men. CU, French fortress crews come out and surrender. CU and pan, holes made by armor piercing ammunition. MLS, French fortress crews surrender.

r11:01:38:56:01

Pan, CU, French Verdun monument of 1914-1918. German parade before General Busch in Verdun. CUs, French prisoners POWs move past as French civilians look on. MS, German infantry on march through Verdun to Domremy, La Pucelle and Neufchateau. CU, wrecked self-propelled heavy French siege Howitzer. CU, camouflaged, self-propelled long range German siege gun. CU, German soldiers on Swiss frontier.

r11:01:40:30:28

Animation map, closed rings around three French armies in Alsace- Lorraine; attack of the German First Army across Saar and Seventh Army across upper Rhine. Heavy German siege artillery in action against fortress fortifications. Interior scenes of the French defenders of Maginot line in action. CU,disappearing giant Maginot pill box dome fires and disappears. MCU, German heavy railway railroad guns fire. CU, heavy hits on fortress hill. A railway gun arrives, is set up and fired. Germans loading and firing a railway railroad gun. CU, German siege mortar, with protective steel housing for crew, fires.

r11:01:43:22:28

CU, German General Dollmann of the Seventh Army shows Hitler his plans for action in front of large map. Scenes show crossing by German troops of upper Rhine River in motorized storm boats. Here the Rhine River is 900 feet wide and with strong current. Various scenes of the storm boats going back and forth across the Rhine River.

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r12:01:44:39:05

The German army had crossed the Rhine River under fire. Establishing shot, Vosges Mountains. MCU, follow shot, Colonel General Von Brauchitsch in command car with aides. MCU, German bicycle troops cross pontoon bridge, infantry cross Rhine. CU, German engineer and infantry shock troops advance under fire from the French in the Maginot Line fortifications. Exterior and interior shots of the of the Maginot Line in action. Shows gun withdrawn from port and gun port closed. CU, German sappers cut barbed wire entanglements. MS, fore-field of Maginot line with tank fortifications called Asparagus Beds in foreground.

r12:01:46:40:21

Flame throwers are used against hill fortification and Maginot Line. The Maginot Line falls and Germans enter Maginot Line for occupation, a French Officer acts as guide. German Nazi flag over the Maginot Line waves in the breeze.

r12:01:47:33:09

Armistice negotiations in Compiegne. French delegation arrives with General Huntziger leading. Cut to scenes of French POWs, a very large group of Black French POWs chanting and dancing. the German Nazi flag being draped over the WWI Clairiere de l'Armistice monument in the Forest of Compiègne France. Line of German soldiers present arms as Hitler, Keitel, Goering and Raeder walks past. Adolf Hitler and his delegation entering railroad car. The French delegation with General Huntziger is escorted past troops and enter railroad car. Scene of French delegation and German delegation seated in Railroad car.

r12:01:50:21:23

Animation map reads Frankreich, demarcation between occupied and unoccupied France. Exterior view of the Strasbourg Cathedral. Hitler and general staff visit Strasbourg Cathedral, interior scenes of Strasbourg Cathedral, cut to Berlin, Brandenburg Gate, Hitler arrives at Kroll Opera House; several interior scenes of Kroll Opera House and ReichStag in session. Ending with patriotic montage.