us-005578-irn1000931
type: RecordSet
has beginning date: 1940-01-01
has end date: 1940-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 2
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had subject: 986
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn1000931
note: Duplicate footage on Film ID 934, Story 1126. Produced in Germany Acquired by US Army Signal Corps
scope and content: Reel 2: Vehicles move on an autobahn. British troops parade and drill. British recruits join up. Hitler reviews German troops. War material rolls from a German factory. Hitler rides through Vienna and across the Czech border. German troops and tanks parade. German refugees flee Polish oppression. Hitler speaks in the Reichstag. Panzer units invade Poland. Hitler looks through an artillery periscope. German railroads transport war material. Newspaper headlines proclaim the war. German naval units cruise off Norway, paratroops land in Norway. German planes fly over Norwegian mountains. Hitler salutes crowds in Berlin. Crowds cheer German troops as they enter the Rhineland, Austria, and the Sudetenland. Animated maps illustrate Czechoslovakia's and Poland's aggression against Germany. German engineers plan, railroads supply material, Hitler Youth work on the Siegfried line. Maps of the conquest of Poland and Norway. Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, Winston Churchill, Leon Blum and others. German troops load and fire artillery.
title: German victories in East before invasion of W. Europe