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GERMAN OFFICER RAISES SEMAPHORE AT BORDER &
OFFICERS RIDING ON HORSEBACK LEAD GERMAN GROUND FORCES ACROSS THE BORDER. SCOUTS ON HORSEBACK CHARGE ACROSS FRONTIER FOLLOWED BY FAST MOVING 3-MAN MOTORCYCLE UNITS WHO SET UP ADVANCED MACHINE GUN AND ARTILLERY POSITIONS FOR THE BLITZKREIG

GERMAN MOTORCYCLE UNITS SPEED THROUGH POLISH FARM VILLAGE, WAVING GERMAN MINORITIES GREET THEM.

MONTAGE GERMAN MINORITIES, IN POLISH TOWNS, CHEER AS GERMAN UNITS SPEED BY. GERMAN SOLDIER PULLS POLISH EAGLE EMBLEM OFF WALL AND THROWS IT TO GROUND. VILLAGER WITH HANDLEBAR MUSTACHE, CHOPS POLISH STREET MARKER OFF WALL WITH HAMMER. YOUNG POLISH GIRLS, FEED MARCHING GERMAN TROOPS DRINKS AND SANDWICHES

SEA ATTACK ON WESTERPLATTE. GERMAN WARSHIP CRUISER SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN SHOOTING BROADSIDE, PAN TO NEARBY SHORE & THE INCURRING EXPLOSIONS. GERMAN NAVAL OFFICER PEERS THROUGH BINOCULARS. CU GERMAN SAILOR PEERS THROUGH GUNSIGHT, TURNING WHEELS TO FINE TUNE SIGHT. HEAVY SMOKE. EXPLOSIONS ON SHORE.

HITLER TO SOLDIERS WAVES FROM INSIDE PLANE WINDOW.
AERIAL BOMB CRATERS ON POLISH AIRFIELD AS SEEN BY HITLER. EXAMINES DAMAGE DONE TO POLAND BY GERMAN TROOPS. HITLER BENDS OVER TO LOOK OUTSIDE PLANE WINDOW. HITLER EXITS PLANE AND JOINS TROOPS TO OUTSIDE MEAL AS HE SEEKS TO IDENTIFY WITH THEM. HE EATS STANDING UP.

ENGLAND SPEEDS TROOPS TO FRONT (OCTOBER 1939)
IN BRITAIN, KING & QUEEN BID FAREWELL TO SCOTTISH TROOPS BOUND FOR FRANCE. INSPECT LONG LINES OF SCOTTISH SOLDIERS IN KILTS. THE TROOPS WAVE THEIR HATS IN CHEER.

BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE EMBARK AT CHANNEL PORT FOR THE FRONT LINES OF FRANCE. COLUMNS OF BRITISH TROOPS MARCH TO PIER & BOARD TRANSPORT SHIP TO FRANCE. TROOPS EAT AS THEY LAND AT FRENCH PIER.

CHANCELLOR HITLER MOTORCADE IS CHEERED WILDLY BY PEOPLE OF DANZIG, PROBABLY ITS GERMAN POPULATION.

CHANCELLOR HITLER VISITS TROOPS ON OUTSKIRTS OF WARSAW. PEERS THROUGH BINOCULARS AT BURNING CITY.
POLISH GENERAL MEETS WITH GERMAN GENERAL BLASKOWITZ, SIGNS SURRENDER OF WARSAW IN A BUS.
HISTORIC WARSAW CATHEDRAL OVERSHADOWS MARCHING INVADERS.

PRESIDENT FDR SIGNS NEUTRALITY LAW LIFTING EMBARGO (NOVEMBER 1939)
SECRETARY OF STATE CORDELL HULL & MEMBERS OF CONGRESS (CONGRESSMAN BLOOM, THE BILL'S SPONSOR;
SENATOR PITMAN; SPEAKER BANKHEAD; VICE PRESIDENT GARNER; SENATOR BARKLEY) LOOK ON AS FDR SIGNS HISTORIC DOCUMENT WHICH REPEALS THE ARMS EMBARGO &
PUTS SALES ON A CASH-AND-CARRY BASIS.

FREIGHTER "CITY OF FLINT" RELEASED IN NORWAY.
SAILS INTO NEW YORK HARBOR AFTER BEING SEIZED BY GERMAN POCKET BATTLESHIP AND RELEASED TO NORWAY.
U.S. MINISTER TO NORWAY, MRS. J. BORDEN HARRIMAN POSES WITH HER SHEPPARD DOG AS SHE TELLS OF RELEASE

GENEVA: LEAGUE OF NATIONS DELEGATES MEET TO CONSIDER FATE OF FINLAND. WITH WORLD-WIDE SYMPATHY FOR FINLAND, NEWSPAPER REPORTERS FROM ALL OVER WORLD GATHER AT MEETING PLACE. SOVIETS ARE EXPELLED FROM LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

AS ONE WORKER HOLDS CHISEL ANOTHER POUNDS IT WITH HEAVY SLEDGEHAMMER. DYNAMITE IS PLACED IN RESULTING HOLE. THE ROCK IS BLASTED.

BRITISH PT BOATS SPEED BY CHINESE JUNKS IN HARBOR.
TORPEDO IS FIRED BY PT BOAT IN TRAINING RUN.
SUBMARINE NETS, SMALL TORPEDO BOATS ON GUARD.
CANNONS ARE FIRED FROM BUILT-IN MOUNTAIN FORTIFICATION.

FINLAND. FINNISH SOLDIERS GUARD OVER CAPTURED SOVIET VEHICLES LAYING ON SNOW BOUND ROADSIDE.
WOMAN WALKS DOWN SNOWY ROAD WITH 3 CHILDREN, ONE CHILD IS BUNDLED UP IN CARRIAGE. LIMPING SOLDIER IS HELPED WALK BY 2 COMRADES

FOREIGN MINISTER TANNER EXPLAINS TERMS OF "SEVERE"
PEACE AGREEMENT.

FINLAND (APRIL 1940)
EXODUS OF THE NORTH. LONG COLUMN OF REFUGEES ARE AMONG TO 400,000 FINNS WHO ABANDONED THEIR HOMES AFTER SOVIETS SEIZED THEIR HOMES & LAND. REFUGEES ALL BUNDLED UP RIDE IN HORSE-DRAWN SLEDS, CARRYING WORLDLY POSSESSIONS, INCLUDING 2 COWS

BATTLE FOR NORWAY (MAY 1940)
SUDDEN INVASION BY GERMANY. GERMAN SOLDIERS LOUNGE ON CONVOYED TROOP WARSHIP SPEEDING ACROSS THE SKAGERRAK TOWARDS OSLO, NORWAY.
AERIAL BRITISH AIRLPANES ATTACK GERMAN WARSHIPS.
WARSHIPS STEAM INTO FJORD OF OSLO. NAZI VINTAGE SEAPLANE TAKES OFF FROM PICTURESQUE OSLO HARBOR, PAN. GERMAN TROOPS WALK DOWN GANGPLANK AT OSLO PIER. TANK IS LOWERED ONTO PIER. UNLOADING SOLDIERS SUPPLIES, TANKS & BIG GUNS.

LONG LINE OF NAZI SHIPS RIDE THE SKAGERRAK IN NORTH SEA ON WAY TO NORWAY. WAVES FLOW OVER HULL OF WARSHIPS AS THEY RIDE ALONG ON ROUGH SEAS.

GOOD SHOT OF GERMAN BOMBER FLYING JUST ABOVE TREE TOPS TOWARDS CAMERA AS IT COMES IN FOR LANDING NAZI 3-PROP TRANSPORT PLANES LAND AT AIRPORT IN NORWAY. THOUSANDS OF GERMAN TROOPS, JUST FLOWN IN, MARCH OFF FIELD.

MONTAGE BRITISH DESTROYER SHIP DARINGLY ENTER HARBOR OF NARVIK, NORWAY & BLAST NAZI WARSHIPS &
MERCHANT CRAFT LEAVING LITTER OF SINKING SHIPS.