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Go to HomepageReel Number: 250007-02
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1940
Country: England,France,Germany,Italy,Jersey,United Kingdom
Location: channel islands,dover,Hamburg,jersey,menton,mont blanc,Rhine River
TC Begins: 13:08:14
TC Ends: 13:16:04
Duration: 00:07:50
WWII - 1940, Autobahn Suspension Bridge Construction; Hamburg Hospital; Alps Fighting; Channel Islands Occupied; Stuka & Heinkel Bombing England German worker on platform hanging from cable working on suspension bridge construction across Rhine River for autobahn. CUs. Workers high above river in harnesses. Stringing cables. 13:08:48 German city street scenes; rooftop views. 13:09:07 Children’s hospital damage in Hamburg where 22 children killed in British bombing, inspected; German & foreign press view damage, take notes. 13:09:32 AVs Hamburg from tower of Church of St. Michael, city as yet unscarred by bombing. 13:10:05 Italian troops w/ mule packtrain in Alps mountains advance on rocky slopes; run to set up guns. Firing rifles from among rocks on ridge, against French positions on Mont Blanc. LS troops on snowy slopes seen gunned down from above. 13:11:01 French border crossing on rocky ridge. 13:11:14 Italian graffiti on wall; Italian troops approach Menton; LS high angle & MS of deserted streets w/ POV thru streets w/ bomb-damaged buildings & bridge. 13:12:01 MCU sign: English crest w/ Etats de Jersey 1937; German soldier outside Royal Air Force / RAF HQ; English police, Bobby, driving German officers to building, they enter past Sign: Der Deutsche Kommandant der Britischen Kanalinseln & driver leaves. Street scene w/ double-decker bus thru streets. Bobby directing traffic. German soldiers posing w/ smiling policeman / Bobby. Coastal scenics; German gun emplacements. 13:13:25 Pilot into German Stuka , handcranked; & Heinkel bombers prepared, take off. 13:14:11 AVs planes fly over ships in the Channel, one listing; planes over white cliffs of Dover; dive steeply, drop bombs on storage tanks and industrial plant; heavy smoke clouds. WW2; Occupation of the Channel Islands; French Invasion; NOTE: In our experience German Nazi material is considered in the public domain throughout the world. If users feel any further clearances are necessary they are to be their own responsibility.