Victory In The West - Sieg Im Westen Reel-2

Shot List:

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.