Sieg Im Westen R3 of 12 (Victory In The West)

WWII - 1940, German Invasion Of Low Countries, Operation Gelb Title: Hauptteil. Der Fedlzug. German title card introduction. 10 Mai 1940. 05:28:50 Montage, LS massed German troops, geometric patterns, in parade formations listen, ECUs young soldiers; tracking shot, CUs, sound track repeats Hitler's Order of the Day to the Army in the West Wall. 05:29:56 Map w/ Germany, Belgium, France & Maginot Line. Arrows of German ideas of impending attack. 05:30:15 Montage sequence: French motorcyclists, tanks, trucks & field artillery cross border; Belgium, English troops, motorcycles, French troop trains, British tanks (WW I type), British Bren carriers, French soldiers, infantry men march thru villages; French African / Black infantry. CU General Gort & aide. 05:31:26 British light tanks & infantry advance. MCU heavy French long range self-propelled artillery battery. 05:31:47 French demolish bridges & roads in order to impede German attack. 05:32:01 Map. Animation, fortifications system of Allies in Holland, Belgium & France over aerial photos. 05:32:20 Hitler, Brauchitsch, Keitel in headquarters in front of big General Staff map table discussion. 05:32:31 Map. Animation, German armies in concentration area behind West Wall. 05:32:57 Montage: table map, officers & soldiers communicating: radio, telephone switchboards, etc. 05:33:04 Montage: CUs German motorcycles, half-tracks, personnel carriers, medium & heavy guns starting. 05:33:17 Montage: Keitel into car; plane starting. CU Goering on airfield. German Air Force in action, heavy bombers take off, overhead. Int, Junkers troop transports, cockpit windows; parachutists, over canals & sea coast; paratroops jump. Aerial diagram of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 05:34:40 German infantry street fighting; remove Spanish Riders; / barricades & smash border defenses.German heavy tanks remove road obstacles. German infantry in deployed advance across field, woods, no fire, patrol takes cover. 05:35:48 German machine gun fire; infantry advance across country road under fire. 05:36:04 Empty Belgium village street. German patrol advances thru empty street, into doorways. German wounded removed. Machine gun fired from shoulder. Wounded treated. Infantry running along sidewalk. 10May40 Germany’s Operation Gelb; Nazis; Holland; WW2; NOTE: Sound track poor.