Fighting in Western Europe at the beginning of World War II (1940)

One of the units of the garrison on the Maginot Line runs out of the barracks gates on alarm.

Soldiers move to defensive structures, pillboxes.

The garrison of one of the pillboxes goes to combat posts on an underground train.

Soldiers travel through an underground tunnel.

Streets and squares of Paris after war was declared on Germany in 1939. Deck artillery turret of a French warship.

View from the stern of a warship going out to sea.

Marching German soldiers.

A burning settlement.

The mechanisms for raising anchors on the deck of a German warship rotate.

German soldiers and local residents on the street of one of the cities in France.

Moving heavy artillery to firing positions.

German soldiers cross a river in inflatable boats.

Landing on the shore from inflatable boats.

Fighting on the streets of the city.

Attacking German tanks.

German bombers approaching their target, bombs exploding.

German artillery fires at the enemy.

Tank battle.

German tanks and infantry on the offensive.

Military operations in Denmark and the Netherlands.

Fires in one of the cities.

A German envoy with a white flag walks down a city street.

Surrender of Danish troops.

German troops force a water obstacle in inflatable boats.

Artillery fires.

German sappers build a crossing under enemy fire.

Movement of a German tank column.

French artillerymen in a pillbox fire.

Military operations in France against British and French troops.

Fires in the city.

Burning houses on the streets of the city.

Civilians flee from the advancing German troops, people walk, ride bicycles and cars.

Views of a burning farm, pigs running away from the fire.

Burning houses.

Refugees with baby carriages walk along the road.

Children in a baby carriage.

Adult children walk along the side of the road.

German soldiers march past destroyed houses.

A Wehrmacht unit on the march.

German soldiers sleep on military vehicles and motorcycles during a rest stop.

German infantrymen sleep in a roadside ditch (panorama).

Sleeping German soldiers, a cavalryman sleeps standing, leaning against the side of his horse.

Views of burning oil storage tanks (top).

German soldiers on bicycles ride down the street.

A fire on one of the streets of Dunkirk in the summer of 1940. Abandoned convoy wagons among the ruins at the entrance to Dunkirk.

Panorama of part of the burning port.

A German reconnaissance aircraft makes a combat turn.

British fighters are flying.

Air battles between British and German pilots.

German planes bomb British ships.

Evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk.

British soldiers are evacuated in a lifeboat.

Abandoned by the British during the evacuation from Dunkirk firing positions with anti-aircraft guns, automobile equipment (panorama).

German soldiers inspect trucks abandoned by the British.

German heavy gun crews fire, shells explode on the target.

Street fighting in Valenciennes.

Panorama of destruction in Valenciennes.

Direction sign to Reims.

German bomber approaches the target.

German tanks on the offensive, sign at the entrance to the town of Chateau-Porcien in the Ardennes.

Tanks advance at high speed, road direction signs with the names of French cities.

German aviation bombs French and British troops.

Views of a rally in honor of the victories of German weapons.

Direction sign to Paris.

German troops entering Paris pass by the Arc de Triomphe on the Place de l'Etoile on June 14, 1940. View of the Eiffel Tower (bottom up).

Swastika flag on the Eiffel Tower.

German troops marching through the streets of Paris.

Heavy guns being transported on a railway transporter.

German heavy guns firing.

Military action in France.

The participants in the signing of the armistice walk to the carriage.

Hitler and his entourage stand at the entrance to the carriage of the French representatives.

The carriage on the platform in Compiegne.

Hitler gets out of the carriage, puts on gloves, Goering approaches him.

Hitler, Goering and their entourage walk along the guard of honor after signing the armistice with France, panorama of the carriage windows.

The carriage for signing the armistice, erected in Compiegne.

Monument to Marshal Foch.

Guard of honor to meet Hitler.

Hitler, Goering and their entourage inspect the guard of honor before signing the capitulation of France in Compiegne on June 22, 1940. The French memorial is covered with a banner with a swastika.