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1935-1945WORLD WAR II
A series of B&W sensational news slates and live footage taken right before World War II began regarding Hitler's demands and the response from other countries especially Poland, France and Great Britain.
Europe gets ready for war. Political meetings to avert the war. Live footage of the war and battles in Europe and around the world.

A headline introduces the live footage clips that follows reflecting the headline.

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News slate reads: August 1939 Hitler demands Danzig! World unrest grows!
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B&W grainy wide shot of the European city of Danzig along the Vistula River. Through the Treaty of Versailles, Danzig was a free city administered by Poland. Apparently Hitler wanted control of it. Another shot of a policeman standing in the city, a tall landmark historic tower in the bkgd.

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Next headline reads: "Oppressed minorities" flee to Germany!
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Footage and CU's of women looking scared and sad holding their children in their arms. Dozens of families ("oppressed minorities") leaving their country carrying their children and all of their belongings in boxes on their shoulders.
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News slate: Poland refusing German demands, mobilizes!
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Large group of Polish marching soldiers, carrying rifles, a horse drawn buggy with supplies . The leaders salute as they walk by the camera.
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Headline: Polish - German border closed as war tension increases!
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Polish soldiers seen placing a wooden guard rail at the border. Soldiers looking out and standing guard.
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News slate: Great Britain and France, pledged to assist Poland, summon reserves!
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Huge crowd gathered in most likely, London - men hovering over a counter, doing paperwork, signing up! Three civilian men wearing suits with ties, smiling, looking at their papers.
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Headline: In London, civilians grimly answer the call for war service!
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CUs British women soldiers march in unison, followed by the Red Cross nurses and military men. Heading to War!
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Poster written in giant letters - "BRITONS TOLD TO LEAVE GERMANY // EVENING STANDARD"
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Great Britain gets ready for War. London - A cannon and some men standing in front of Big Ben (the Great Clock of Westminster), a double decker bus, and a man crossing the street wearing a suit and hat in the fgd.
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A "Police Notice": sign hanging on a building reads: AIR RAID WARNINGS
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Sand bags stacked up high against a building (most likely in London)
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Soldiers wearing gas masks on the streets of London
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WS sand bags neatly piled up against a building at least one story high. And in the air a line up of dirigibles or blimps floating
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Soldiers prep a cannon right in front of Big Ben in downtown London
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Next news slate: "Americans flee Europe"
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A man hidden by a large poster he's holding on the sidewalk. Poster reads: Americans Told to Leave Britain - Evening Standard.
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Footage as hundreds of Americans flood the train or ship station leaving Great Britain. Well dressed men and women in 1930's style clothing - a woman wears a wide brimmed hat and fur collar coat, all the men wear suits and hats. A large sign at the station reads "New - York Par (through) Cherbourg (Northwestern France).
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A ticket man at the departure station checks a family's tickets and or passports then hands them back - a young child looks on.
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A well dressed young woman holding a newspaper, her husband or boyfriend who wears a feather in his hat, pass by the ticket taker.
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Three stylish young 1930's women look out from a deck (maybe on a ship) station smiling and waving goodbye
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Hundreds of Americans leaving Europe wait at the boat dock (or train depot) for transport home.
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News slate: "Von Ribbentrop flies to Moscow to conclude Soviet-German anti-aggression pact!
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Footage (dark) of the German politician, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, as he boards a plane. Dozens of people gathered by the plane before take off, camera bulbs flash. Ribbentrop on the plane.
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Russian Dictator, Josef Stalin, his right hand raised. 1939
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Josef Stalin with Russian Prime Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov. 1939
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News slate: War Imminent! Chamberlain and Daladier strive for peaceful settlement
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London's Big Ben (the clock at the top) against a cloudy sky. Pan down Big Ben to crowds gathered outside the Houses of Parliament in London's Westminster.
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British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain wearing a top hat, getting out of a limo, and entering Parliament.
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Two British diplomats (unknown)walk together (outside of the Houses of Parliament before big pre-war meeting.
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Three diplomats wearing top hats, carrying canes or umbrellas, strolling outside Parliament buildings. Looks like Chamberlain with two other unknown diplomats.
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Prime Minister of France, Edouard Daladier, talks with another diplomat outside Parliament building before the pre-war meetings.
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News slate: In London and Paris children are hastily evacuated from danger zones.
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British Bobbies stand watching and guarding as hundreds of kids are seen lined up to be evacuated. Children with name tags carrying backpacks walk by as their parents look on.
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Amazing CUs of an infant in a gas mask apparatus. Shots of the baby asleep and looking out from the mask and sucking its thumb. The mask is a huge helmet with a large filter attached. A hand is seen pushing the filter up and down allowing air to filter through it.
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Hundreds of folk with their children at the crowded train station as the kids get on the train to be evacuated before the war. Dozens of children are seen waving from the windows of the train as it pulls away from the station.
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CU a man demonstrates how to put a gas mask on a child. The gas mask covers the child's entire face with two holes for the eyes and a breathing tube. 1930's style.
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A little girl maybe 1 years old cries and fussses as someone attempts to put the large and uncomfortable gas mask over her head.
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Dozens of mothers crowd the train station as their children get on board. Various shots at the train station as the children board. CU a mother kisses her child goodbye. A sad pensive looking woman standing at the station amid the chaos. Mother's wave goodbye to their children.
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Headline: Sept. 1, 1939 - 9 AM Germany invades Poland!
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Map reflecting Germany and Berlin as well as Poland and Warsaw with surrounding countries proximities such as U.S.S.R, Hungary. Large white arrows point to Poland.
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Heading to war - Footage of soldiers riding horses and horse drawn carts on a country road, dozens of military tanks, fighter planes in the air.
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Live footage of the planes dropping bombs on cities. Explosions over a bridge and cities.
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Sept. 3, 1939 - 11:15 A.M. Great Britain declares war on Germany.
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CU Prime Minister Chamberlain as he publicly declares war on Germany, September 9, 1939. Chamberlain with other political dignitaries, leaving Parliament, getting into a waiting car.
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A man (obscured by the poster) out on the street holds up a poster written in large black letters, "Warsaw Bombed - Evening News"
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News slate: On the same day at 5 p.. France declares war on Germany
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The nose of a cannon looking straight into the camera, then pulls away headed down the street. Tilt down on a crowd on the street presumably in Paris, they all look up and wave at the camera.
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Men in France headed to war. Couples walk down the street together, the men holding suitcases. A couple kisses goodbye, the woman cries, and their infant child held by someone looks on.
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Dozens of tanks driving down the street in Paris, onlookers in bkgd.
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News slate: Canada-bound S.S. Athenia first passenger liner torpedoed by U-boat, according to Allies.
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A submarine at sea, partially seen above water, its telescope points toward a huge ship in the distance. WS of the S.S. Athenia passenger liner out on the ocean, torpedo headed its way. The ship explodes!
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Military men in Poland open a barricade to let troops on horseback and on foot march through
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Three wheel vehicles with armed service men are seen plowing through a field toward battle. Tilt down on a procession of Red Cross tanks making their way across the land. WS of the various military vehicles, truck, tanks, etc.Soldiers in the field prepare for battle.
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News slate: Heroic Poles stubbornly resist Germany's land and sky attack!
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POV a moving vehicle passes by a field of prop fighter planes on the ground
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Military men wearing shorts and no shirts in a field, pick up heavy bombs one by one, and throw them over their shoulders and head toward planes. CU a bomb on the underbelly of a plane.
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WWII propeller fighter planes take off and in the sky. POV from a plane looking down on the terrain.
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Clouds of gray dust from an explosion fills the frame. A collapsed bridge caused by the bombings. POV from a plane flying overhead the damages to a rail yard and bridge, a demolished train.
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Footage of military men on horseback making their way across what's left of a bombed out bridge.
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A fleet of fighter prop planes in the gray sky. POV inside a plane - bombs dropping. Several Explosions.
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News slate: Day after day Warsaw is bombed!
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Explosions all over the city of Warsaw. Fighter planes overhead. People wearing gas masks heading down a stairwell evacuating a building, people trying to escape.
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Slate: First Films ever made of Battleship fire demolishing a city! The Schleswig-Holstein Bombards Danzig Fort!
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Live footage of the Schleswig-Holstein Battleship firing at a Polish fort in Danzig. Bombs explode everywhere, thick dark clouds of smoke fill the sky. Officers and Sailors on board the ship are seen looking through binoculars and telescopes.
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Slate: British land, sea and air forces in the North Sea approach the coast of Norway!
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Battleships at sea are seen on the horizon, fighter planes in the gray skies.
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Map of Norway with a large circle indicating Vaacso Maaloy
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Silhouette of a sailor on board ship looking out over rough seas. Waves crash overboard.
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Various shots of British Navymen below deck preparing for battle. Wearing helmets they climb up from below deck cautiously, CU's of their pensive faces. A soldier waits by a wall phone, looks at his watch and talks on the phone.
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Bombs exploding in the dark skies, explosions.
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Live footage of the commandos as they advance in the night on the island against smokey dark skies and burning fires. Silhouettes of the commandos advancing in the night, quietly climbing hills and taking position.
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Live footage - Higgins type boats advance to shore, soldiers hiding behind snowy hills take their positions. CU a soldier aims his rifle.
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Commandos disembark from the boats (Higgins), climb the hills on the island during the night and quietly take their positions , snow on the ground, bombs exploding, burning buildings, soldiers in action on the battlefield
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Dark gray smoke and flames rise from bombed buildings. Commandos hiding and steathily run through streets. Action shots of the combat, live footage of a building exploding and collapsing, debris flies through the air.
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Slate: A captured German gun!
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Dozens of soldiers push a huge cannon that was captured from the Germans.
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WS Giant oil tanks in explode into flames, black smoke rises into the air. Billowing smoke engulfs the air as the commandos watch nearby. They are seen smashing smaller oil tanks with axes. Their mission has been accomplished.
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Pan the bombed out island, smoke and flames smoldering. A dead solder lies in the snow,.
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A large ship going by in a canal.
Various Slates 16,000 tons of shipping slated for the Russian front is blasted! A German Airplane is Brought Down! The Nazi Commander falls!
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Commandos carry prisoner laid out on a flat board - maybe the Nazi Commander.
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Pan the bombed out island of rubble and burning buildings.
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Slate: A masterfully coordinated exampl;e of action between Commandos, British Navy and R.A.F.
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German prisoners with their hands overheads are led to the waterfront by the Commandos. A wounded prisoner is helped along by two Commandos. The Navy soldiers and Commandos climb back onto the waiting boats (Higgins).
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"Hundreds of Norwegians eagerly join the British!" They cram into the waiting boats. WS and footage of the harbor where the boats are being loaded and taking off.
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Slate: Tell-tale fires ashore blaze the victory message!
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Black smoke rises into the sky from the island. Commandos and Navy men watching from the boats as they take off.
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A Navy man on board ship with bagpipes. Commandos and Navy guys celebrate - they are seen dancing, playing cards , sleeping, getting their hair cut.
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Group of Navy men hold up a Nazi flag.?
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A large group of smiling, victorious Commandos pose for a group shot on board the ship. They give thumbs up! One man wearing a faded sweatshirt that reads "England for Ever"...
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Slate: Siege of Tobruk! British guns repel year-long Axis attack!
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Large group of British soldiers wearing shorts and no shirts gather around a guy in a bathtub (outside), they all look up into the sky at once and spot three fighter planes hovering above. Suddenly they all they all take off leaving the man in the tub who sinks down into the tub for cover.
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Battle scenes in the desert of Tobruk - German Italian military forces against the British Eighth Army (Britain, India, So Africa and other allies) in the desert of Libya. Canons being fired from a ship and on land, explosions and dark gray smoke billowing.
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Slate: Balkan Crisis! Nazis overwhelm heroic Greeks!
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Footage of a war torn village in the Balkans, Greece (or Yugoslavia). Footage of people of the village, a little girl and her mom or sister sitting on rubble, a man being carried away by stretcher. WS of hundreds of soldiers and other folk gathered dockside waiting to get on a boat to be evacuate. A line of folk carrying belongings including military walking on a dock toward a partially seen docked ship.
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Slate: France's Tragic Fate1. Once proud republic crushed under conquerer's heel!
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Soldiers walkby a train over packed with people at a station in France. An emotional man looking out a window of the train wipes his face with a cloth, soldiers marching, emotional onlookers clapping and crying. A woman holding an infant child cries, a little girl drinks from a cup, pan a long table of children eating together.
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Slate: Britain Avenges "Hood"! "Bismarck sunk in historic sea and sky offensive!
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Footage from the battle at sea. Bi-planes fly over the German Bismarck ship, bombs fly back and forth from one ship to another exploding in the sea.
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Slate: Roosevelt - Churchill Meet! Atlantic charter agreed upon at dramatic sea conference!
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Navy men on board a ship lined up in formation. Winston Churchill climbs on board, salutes and shakes hands with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Shots of the men sitting beside each other and talking. Navy men in uniform lined up on board. Some of the men wave as a small boat filled with other navy men and most likely FDR takes off.
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Shot from behind, Winston Churchill standing looking out as the ship takes off to sea.
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News Slate: U.S. in Iceland! American land and sea forces guard Britain's Atlantic life-line!
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WS Several U.S. ships arrive in Iceland. A large dinghy filled with American soldiers arrives, men climb up the harbor wall. Ships docked and a large group of people are gathered on the dock. Armed soldiers run, one by one, out of a barrack, trucks with soldiers drive down a rutted dirt road leaving the barracks. Marching army men with rifles.
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Slate: Nazi Torpedo cripples U.S.Kearny! Eleven American seamen perish!
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Sailors looking overboard at the crippled ship, the U.S.S. Kearney
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Tilt down on the American warship, USS Kearny. Footage of damages to the ship after being torpedoed by a German U-boat.
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News slate: Canadians Smash Spitzbergen! Arctic island rendered useless for Germany!
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Dozens of Canadian soldiers seen climbing up a hill with their backpacks on the Arctic island of Spitzbergen. They are seen attaching wires to wooden poles. Big explosions as a tower collapses. A lone soldier blows up a coal mine with dynamite and falls to the ground from the explosion - a shaft collapses.
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People carrying their belongings evacuating. A forlorn little girl wearing a hat and coat looks at the camera.
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Folks from the island of Spitzbergen climb on to small boats and take off .
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Explosion of billowing black smoke and flames.
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News slate: Battle for Russia! Hitler's invasion of Soviet incites most gigantic struggle of all time!
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Tanks and fighter planes invade Russia. Explosions, soldiers loading cannons, carrying wounded men, canons exploding.
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Wounded Nazi prisoners climbing out of a truck.
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Battle in the Baltic Sea. Explosions in the Sea, bombs fly close to ships and explode. A dingy crowded with servicemen, sinking ships at sea.
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News slate: In hundreds of barges United Nations commandos head for German occupied France. Live footage of the commandos at sea. A navigator behind the wheel shot through a porthole. Pan the dozens of boats and barges.
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Their objective - the city of Dieppe.
POV aerials of the seaport city Dieppe from a plane.
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Live footage of a Nazi plane being shot down and landing in the ocean.
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Live footage of a Royal Air Force (R.A.F) plane being hit over the ocean, its pilot survives and is pulled out of the water and onto a ship by seamen.
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Tracer bullets from enemy planes are aimed at the camera plane. Live footage of enemy planes as they follow the camera plane. POV from a flying R.A.F. plane above an enemy plane.
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Ships and planes return from battle.
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Slate: Over Europe - First Films of R.A.F.Hedge-Hopping Raids.
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15 - 20 R.A.F planes in the sky fly in formation. Demonstrations of how low the planes can fly. Slate reads: Nazi fighters can't dive this low without danger of crashing.
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Ws a fighter plane flying low to the ground. And over the ocean as well. Shots from the plane demonstrate how close to the water it flies. Slate reads: At this low altitude it is almost impossible to film the bombs dropping.
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Six fighter planes flying in perfect formation. POV from a plane flying low over land
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Live footage of bombs dropping from planes over the Port of Saint Palo. Explosions - shot from the air.
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CU an American flyer or R.A.F. fighter prop plane in the air flying low over the ocean. POV from inside the plane - the backs of the heads of the pilots.
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Dozens of fighter planes in the air, flying above the clouds.
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Headline - Paris Liberated!
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Aerial the Arc de Triomphe Monument and thousands of people.
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Headlines - Aug. 23, 1944! A day of rejoicing in the lives of all free men! With 50,000 organized F.F.I. (French Forces of the Interior) Paris shakes loose from Nazi Shackles!
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Women resistance fighters. Woman places an FFI arm band around another gal.
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A middle aged man listening to his radio at home - and a woman listens intently. Another man plays his trumpet pointed out his window.
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Tilt down from a window above - people running through the streets of Paris. "Four years of enemy bondage is climaxed in four days of furious street fighting!" Resistance fighters are seen with shot guns and rifles battling in the streets.
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Tilt down on a lone resistance fighter lying wounded or dead in the street. Another fighter waving a white surrender flag runs to help.
Various shots of civilian resistance fighters running through the streets in battle. Bombed out vehicles on fire, people fighting running through the streets, aiding the wounded.
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Slate: The Nazis are out-blitzed...bewildered!
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Various Scenes of the FFI Resistance fighters in Paris taking Nazi prisoners, aiming rifles over barricades, dark smoke rising, burned out buildings, and a parade of fighters in trucks and tanks with cheering onlookers.
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Joyful Parisians crowd the streets, kiss their loved ones and others,
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Footage of Nazis surrender - they run out of a building with their arms up in the air, the leave the city and give up. Var shots around Paris, Nazis taking off, running through the streets, fires still burning, they take off in their tanks.
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A group of male resistance fighters hold the head and pull the hair of a blonde woman, apparently a Nazi or French Nazi collaborator, and mock her, shaking her head back and forth. Other female Nazi collaborators, women surrender with their arms up in the air. French who collaborated with the Nazis face the mobs of angry Parisians as they try and leave the city. Female Nazi collaborator with her head forcibly shaved bald, humiliated, forced to walk through streets, shamed. Men forcibly pulled to trucks by armed French police. Nazis or French Nazi collaborators. Crowds in the streets of Paris celebrate the liberation of France from the Nazis at end of WWII.
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The arrival of Charles De Gaulle - mobs of people try to break through a human barricade.
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Slate: General de Gaulle visits historic Notre Dame as snipers open fire amid scenes of wild confusion!
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Live footage of de Gaulle's arrival at Notre Dame, smoking gunfire out of the windows of buildings. Security forces point their rifles upward. Mob scene and chaos.
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Military tanks pass through the Arc de Triomphe., onlookers . Large sign for Avenue des Champs Elysees.
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower gets a welcome greeting from the Parisians. Te American flag flies. Thousands and thousands of soldiers march through the city. People wave exuberantly.
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The End
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End WWII Archival Reel.
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