Divide And Conquer Reel-3

Shot List:

01:00:12;10

French troops marching into the Maginot Line of fortresses in 1939. Barrel of large artillery gun on the Maginot Line slowly lowering. German Dictator Hitler and German planners looking at a map on a table planning the invasion of France, not against the Maginot Line, but an end run around the Maginot Line through Belgium. Vintage war planes and tanks of the French Army in 1939.

01:01:00;11

German Dictator Hitler took advantage of the fact France had become a cynical and disillusioned nation. Wite crosses of military cemetery depicting loss of 6 million men in WWI, newspaper headlines reads “League Fails To Impose Sanction” on Germany, and corruption such as the Stavisky Scandal reaching into high places in the French government.

01:01:59;02

Animation is used to analysis the weakness of French morale and national unity and a dramatization of the effects of German propaganda that lead to sabotage, strikes, and riots. Scenes of sabotage and ceaseless German propaganda directed at the French soldiers manning the Maginot Line.

01:03:33;01

Animated map shows location of the British and French armies facing the might of the German Armies in early 1940. In Germany Adolf Hitler gives an stirring speech followed by speeches by other German leaders as the Germans shouted “Sieg Heil” (Hail Victory).

01:06:59;07

At dawn on May 10, 1949 without declaring war Germany launched coordinated attacks (invasion) on Luxemburg, Belgium, and Holland by German infantry, tanks and air attacks by the German Luftwaffe.

Shows the German Fallschirmjager, the paratrooper branch of the German Luftwaffe in WWII, jumping from Junkers JU-52 aircraft over Rotterdam, Holland capturing the airport and outlaying areas of Rotterdam. On the fourth day of the invasion of Holland the Dutch was given an ultimatum, cease all resistance or Rotterdam will be bombed out of existence.