Occupation of European countries by Nazi Germany (1940-1941)

A meeting of the French cabinet.

German officers in cars drive out onto the Champs-Elysees in Paris past the Arc de Triomphe in June 1940. Views of buildings on the Trocadero.

Signs in German on a street in Paris.

Parisians and German soldiers walk past the Arc de Triomphe on the Place de l'Etoile during the German occupation of Paris.

German sentries at the entrance to the commandant's office.

A cab passes the Arc de Triomphe.

Cyclists and bicycle taxis on the streets of Paris.

Passengers enter the station.

Women in the window of a passenger carriage.

Faces of those seeing them off.

Passengers wave goodbye from the carriage window.

French children at a summer camp learn the Nazi salute during morning exercises.

Meeting of Hitler A. and Goering G. in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin.

Hitler at the Berghof residence.

German soldiers on the deck of a landing ship.

Staff officers of one of the Wehrmacht tank units are developing an operation plan while sitting at a table near a tank.

A German military convoy on the street of an occupied city.

Firing from a heavy German artillery gun.

Surrendering Yugoslav Army units follow roads to prisoner of war collection points.

A German reconnaissance armored car moves along a railway track in April 1941. German motorcyclists ride along sleepers.

A motorcycle descends onto the surviving section of a blown-up bridge.

German troops enter a Croatian town.

Residents of the town greet German soldiers.

Map of Yugoslavia.

The Croatian national flag is attached to the cornice of a house with a damaged roof.

Croatian youth and local residents greet German troops as they pass through a populated area.

Residents of the town raise their arms in a Nazi salute.

Croats greet German soldiers as they drive through the streets of the town in cars.

Residents of the town surround the cars and shake hands with the German soldiers, faces of Croats raising their hands in a Nazi salute (panorama).

Children greet German soldiers from the window.

Croatian Ustashe guard an honor guard at a portrait of Hitler.

A German armored personnel carrier moves through washed-out mud.

Panorama of the summer residence of the Yugoslav king.

A car with a radio moves in reverse.

German soldiers at tables in the backyard of the royal residence.

A column of captured Yugoslav army officers moves through the streets of the city.

Cars by the sidewalk.

German soldiers examine things from the travel chest of a Yugoslav officer.

Faces of captured Yugoslav officers.

A German driver examines one of the cars from the royal garage.

Panorama of central Zagreb (top).

A German soldier gives money to street vendors for their purchase.

Panorama of Zagreb (top).

Envoy of the Third Reich Kaše Z. in the airplane cabin before landing.

Meeting Kaše at the Zagreb airfield.

Minister Lorković and General Perčević meet the German ambassador.

Croatian soldiers in formation.

Kaše and his entourage inspect the guard of honour.

The guard of honour on one of the squares in Zagreb, lined up to meet the German ambassador (top).

The faces of the soldiers.

Kaše and Minister Lorković inspect the guard of honour (top).

The head of Croatia Ante Pavelić among the ministers (panorama).

Kaše enters the hall, raises his hand in a Nazi salute.

Kaše presents his credentials, Pavelić’s face.

Pavelić and Kaše shake hands.

The Croatian Minister of War, General Slavko Kvaternik, accompanied by a German general, walks to a car.

A flag with the Croatian coat of arms is on the wing of the car.

Kvaternik receives the officer’s report.

Kvaternik and his entourage inspect the troops lined up on the main square in Zagreb, the soldiers in formation.

Kvaternik reviews the parade of the Zagreb garrison troops.

German soldiers on a motorcycle ride through a square in a Dalmatian town.

A flag with a swastika is in the window of a house, and townspeople greet the German troops from their windows.

A detachment of German soldiers, accompanied by representatives of a Croatian youth radical organization, walks down a town street.

Faces of townspeople raising their hands in a Nazi salute (panorama).

A German general responds to greetings while driving through the town streets in a car.

A girl treats German soldiers to wine.

A soldier drinks wine from a glass, faces of Croats.

Locals treat German soldiers to wine and drink with them.

A man reads an order from the commandant in German and Croatian, pasted onto the wall of a building.

A German motorcade moves along a town street.

Townspeople greet the German troops.

View of one of the town streets.

A Croatian traffic controller on the street, German soldiers pass by.

German troops walk through the town streets, and townspeople greet them.

German bombers fly towards the city of Nis.

Mountain landscape (top).

German anti-aircraft gunners observe air targets.

A tank and an armored personnel carrier with an anti-aircraft gun overcome a water obstacle.

Panorama of the position of German soldiers at the railway embankment next to the bridge.

Tanks move forward.

Faces of German field gendarmes. movement of German tanks on the roads to Nis.

Map of Italy, Yugoslavia and Northern Greece.

German motorcyclists on the streets of the city.

Locals with swastikas on their sleeves welcome German troops entering the Greek city.

A German machine gunner fires.

A German machine gunner fires during combat operations in Greece in April 1941. German infantrymen change positions during a battle for a populated area.

German armored vehicles move along the roads of Greece.

Views from the cockpit of an air gunner.

A German machine gunner fires.

A German reconnaissance patrol on the road.

Greek soldiers surrendering.

A motorcycle crossing a river on a raft.

Faces of German soldiers.

A motorcycle crossing a river on a raft.

Faces of German soldiers.

Soldiers roll an anti-tank gun ashore.

German soldiers take pictures against the backdrop of ancient Greek temples in Athens.

Cleaning boots.

A column of German troops passes along the Place de l'Etoile past the Arc de Triomphe during the Wehrmacht's entry into Paris on June 22, 1940. A panoramic view of part of one of the supports of the Eiffel Tower.

Faces of German soldiers planting a flag on the Eiffel Tower.

German soldiers drink wine from a bottle, passing it to each other.

British troops board a ship during the evacuation from France.

British soldiers on the deck of a ship.

A German dive bomber approaches its target.

Bombing of British ships leaving Dunkirk.

Ships sinking at sea (panorama, from above).

Bombing of British warships leaving Dunkirk in 1940. Ships sinking in the sea (panorama, top).

View of part of a city block from the cockpit of an airplane (top).

German troops advance along a street in a suburb of Zagreb in April 1941. Troops crossing a bridge.

German soldiers search a man on the street.

A German general on a street in Zagreb.

The face of a man being searched on the street.

Columns of German troops march along the streets of Zagreb.

Residents of Zagreb greet German troops on Ban Jelačić Square.

Girls in the windows of houses greet German troops.

Faces of soldiers marching in formation.

View of Ban Jelačić Square filled with jubilant people.

Removal of one of the Yugoslav signs.

Residents of Zagreb trample the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia thrown to the ground.

Croatian Ustaše in the back of a truck driving along the street.

A meeting of the Yugoslav government in Belgrade on April 12, 1941. German tanks drive along a street in Belgrade.

The face of a German general greeting tankers.

German troops in front of the palace building.