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WWII - 1940, Germany: Panzer tanks advancing and firing; Hitler & staff; Mussolini

Reel Number: 221247-08

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1940s

Country: Germany

Location: Munich

TC Begins: 05:03:34

TC Ends: 05:12:51

Duration: 00:09:17

WWII - 1940, Germany: Panzer tanks advancing and firing; Hitler & staff; Mussolini POV from Panzers thru countryside & parked in fields, farmhouses visible. Troops crouched behind tanks. Explosions in background. Germans firing artillery. Tanks move forward towards & past camera. Multiple views. Past destroyed French artillery. Destroyed tanks & dead. 05:06:16 Searching French prisoners & marching along road. Burning tank. Tank out of field; crews talking & drinking, smoking, laughing, eating. German troops marching. Hitler with officers inc. Jodl, von Brauchitsch, Keitl inside Fuehrerhauptquartier Fuehrer HQ. 05:08:40 Hitler & Goering in garden of the Fuehrer HQ; walking thru trees, talking. Happy Hitler w/ other officers. Hitler signs invitation for Mussolini to come to Munich & does little dance before shaking hands & walking off. Hitler greets wounded. Troops listen to announcement about Petain and the French capitulation & Mussolini. Troops cheer. 05:10:46 POV from train thru Munich & view from window. Shots from Hitler's train (another) as he salutes, arriving Munich & greeted. Mussolini arrives. WW2 Invasion; Fighting; Diplomacy; Nazis;

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