Victory In The West - Sieg Im Westen Reel-11

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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.