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Go to HomepageReel Number: 300252
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL and SD
Year / Date: 1940s,1940,1945
Country: Denmark,France,Germany,Norway
Location: Compeigne,Copenhagen,Oslo
TC Begins: 01:00:19
TC Ends: 01:08:13
Duration: 00:07:54
WWII - 1940, Germany: Invasion of Denmark, Norway & 2nd Signing at Compiegne Intertitle: Invasion of Denmark And Norway. 09Apr40. Montage: Line of small German ships, tilt down from Nazi ensign flag to soldiers, ship’s guns, troops ready for landing, others behind small machine guns w/ binoculars, shore line, CU flag in wind. 01:01:06 Twin-engine Heinkel 111 bombers overhead; pan harbor buildings; tanks thru street w/ kids running on sidewalk alongside. Dock w/ troops, vehicles unloading. 01:01:35 Troops march thru city street as people watch quietly from sidewalks. 01:01:50 Troops in Junkers tri-motor Ju 52 transport aircraft over Norway; view of bays & low over harbor w/ light amphibious float-planes. Ju 52 landing, parked & troops march off field. 01:02:31 Tilt down large radio antenna, German soldiers guarding; stand guard outside building w/ sign: Fliegerhorst-Kdtr. Oslo Rornebu. Formation of fighter planes (brief). Troops on hilltop above Oslo buildings & harbor. Bombers overhead; explosions across harbor. 01:03:10 German troops marching in wide street as civilians watch. 01:03:28 Intertitle: Invasion of Belgium and the Netherlands 10May40. Montage: German soldiers running across stone bridge, overturn street barrier / roadblock; military vehicles advancing; soldiers firing machine guns, invade thru farms; German tri-motor planes take off overhead, in flight, paratroops w/ opening parachutes out of aircraft, landing & fighting, tanks firing. 01:04:58 Man waving surrender flag crossing Rotterdam bridge past camera; other officers. Bombers overhead & smoke rising from explosions. Smoke rising from harbor. 01:06:04 POV toward & past fires, burning buildings. Refugees fleeing w/ bundles. POV across bridge. 01:06:31 Intertitle: Compiegne 22Jun40. Hitler reviewing rows of troops. French General Huntziger & Admiral Maurice Leluc arriving & entering railroad car for signing ceremony. Int. w/ officials around table talking, Huntziger signing for France. 01:07:23 Ext. Hitler in uniform walking w/ Wilhelm Keitel & pointing at signed document for Hitler to sign; others look over their shoulders. Keitel hands pen to Hitler but they drop it (good scramble). 01:07:45 Huntziger & ?? exits railcar; Hitler does dance step & shakes hands w/ Nazi officers. Post WWII War Crimes Trial Evidence; Nazi Spectacle; Military Propaganda; WW2; Historical Film; German Politics; Political Party; 1940s; Surrenders; Invasions;