Nazi Germany conquers Europe (1940-1941)

Warships of the German fleet are heading for the coast of Norway.

The Kriegsmarine flag is on the mast.

Deck gun crews prepare to open fire.

The barrel of a deck gun.

Landing forces on the deck of a transport ship.

Officers observe the coast through binoculars.

A machine gun crew.

Officers on the bridge.

The crew is lined up on the deck.

The Kriegsmarine flag is waving.

German planes are flying.

Panorama of the fortress.

A column of German tanks is moving through the city.

German transport ships are unloading.

German troops are marching through the streets of the city.

German paratroopers inside an airplane.

View of the fjord (from above).

German bombers in flight.

View of the territory of the Norwegian seaplane base (from above).

One of the seaplanes is about to take off.

Landing of a German transport plane.

A Wehrmacht unit, having disembarked from the plane, is marching along the airfield.

Radio antenna tower, German observers on the platform.

A sentry at the entrance to the airfield control tower.

Airplanes in flight.

A German anti-aircraft gun crew on alert, a panorama of part of the port (top).

Aerial bombing of enemy positions.

German troops march through the streets of Oslo on April 9, 1940. German troops fight during the invasion of Belgium and the Netherlands on May 10, 1940. Soldiers drop barbed wire into the water.

German troops cross the border.

German infantry fights.

Military transport planes take off.

One of the engines of a transport plane.

Views of the area (top).

Paratroopers drop near Rotterdam.

Parachutes with cargo land.

German infantry fights in the Netherlands.

Negotiating officers go to negotiate with the German command.

Views of burning city blocks, German troops enter the city.

Views of a burning building.

People flee the danger zone.

The memorial carriage in Compiègne on June 22, 1940. Hitler and his entourage inspect the honor guard before the signing ceremony of the French surrender.

French General Charles Hützinger approaches the carriage and climbs the steps inside.

Hützinger is seen at the carriage window.

Representatives of the German and French sides during the signing of the French surrender.

Hützinger signs his name.

Keitel hands Hitler a copy of the French surrender document on the street, and Hitler countersigns it.

General Hützinger exits the carriage after the signing of the surrender.

Hitler among the soldiers.

Destroyed railway lines and structures.

Berliners read their morning newspapers on June 22, 1941. German troops enter a city on the western border of the USSR. German troops conduct combat operations on the western border of the USSR. A German field gun crew provides cover for infantry in battle.

Marshal Pétain exits his car during his arrival for a meeting with Hitler on October 21, 1941, at the station in Montois and greets Ribbentrop.

Faces of soldiers of the Wehrmacht honor guard company.

Pétain approaches Hitler and greets him.

Hitler converses with Göring and the officers present in the staff car of the train.

A small stop on the Franco-Spanish border.

A sign in Spanish.

Hitler at the station awaiting Franco's arrival on October 23, 1941. The train approaches the platform and stops.

Franco exits the car, greets Hitler, and shakes his hand.

Hitler greets Spanish diplomats and military personnel who arrived with Franco on the platform.

Franco, Hitler, and their military entourage inspect the honor guard.

Franco and Hitler enter the train car.

The curtain closes behind Franco.

Himmler speaks with SS officers before inspecting a prisoner-of-war camp near Minsk, August 14-16, 1941. Himmler's car departs for the camp.

Himmler and his entourage speak with an elderly woman.

Himmler speaks with local residents.

Himmler inspects a Stalinets tractor and the grounds of a local collective farm.

A panorama of one of the destroyed suburbs of Minsk.

Hitler inspects the honor guard in Berlin in front of the Reichstag on December 11, 1941.