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Deutsche Wochenschau #511 R1, Pt. 1 of 2

Reel Number: 221554-12

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1940

Country: France,Germany

Location: Le Havre

TC Begins: 00:47:34

TC Ends: 00:58:22

Duration: 00:10:48

Main Title: Die Deutsche Wochenschau - Front-Beichte Der Propaganda-Kompanien R1, Pt. 1 of 2 00:47:49 Heavy bombers in flight over France, pilots, fires & explosions (intercut day & night). Over water dive-bombing ships; dive-bombing land targets. 00:50:02 Map of Belgium & France & animated arrows towards Le Havre & Seine River. 00:50:11 Destroyed buildings around standing cathedral; destroyed railroad station & German military vehicles; along country road, POV. Soldiers walking in town, pst burning oil storage tanks, houses. Cattle on farm & German soldiers milking. Giving milk to calves. 00:52:18 Horses pulling artillery; firing from trees along road & explosions in field. Machine guns, troops in grass. Push small artillery along road. Fighting, firing, loading shells Destroyed French (?) & British tanks. Captured prisoners along road. 00:54:33 German vehicles cross bridge. Sign: Le Canal de la Somme. Captured French POWs look up at plane & barrage balloon. Marching along road MCU. Black French West African soldiers. Soldiers marching past many POWs sitting in town square. Tanks & vehicles, POV, past burning village. Artillery & trucks of troops thru. Troops crossing farm fields, down hill into town. 00:56:44 German looking from hilltop building w/ binoculars. Firing into destroyed village & soldiers thru burning buildings, burning trucks. Parked vehicles & Germans overlooking English Channel; firing on ships. German & French Generals talk on dock, smoke behind buildings in rear. Many prisoners in field. WWII German Invasions - France & Belgium; 1940; WW2; NOTE: Nazis massacred French West African soldiers during invasion. GOOD reel. NOTE: In our experience German Nazi era 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.

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