Fascism is taking over Europe (1935-1940)

Models demonstrate new styles of women's hats of the late 1930s.

Models demonstrate new styles of dresses on the catwalk.

Children watch "cat boxing".

Cats fighting in a small ring.

Children watch "cat boxing".

A "knocked out" cat in the ring.

A cat in the ring (close up).

General view of a roulette table in a casino, players sitting at the table.

Players placing bets.

Panorama of part of the gambling hall.

Women at the gaming table.

Faces of roulette players.

The croupier opens the cards.

A player next to the spinning roulette wheel.

A woman collects her winning chips.

View of a section of barbed wire fences on the Franco-German border.

Soldiers of one of the fortress garrisons of France march in formation.

Soldiers walk past the fortress wall.

Soldiers enter the fortress.

View of part of a rally in Italy.

The ceremonial exit of the King of Italy Victor Emmanuel III. Italian fascists in black uniforms and with rifles on their shoulders march along the streets of Rome.

Mussolini B. speaks from the tribune.

Goering G. and Marshal Balbo I. on board a boat during a trip to Tripoli in 1939. Goering's boat approaches the pier.

Goering and Balbo climb onto the pier.

General view of the pier with an honor guard.

View of part of the square during the parade of Nazi troops in occupied Prague in 1939 (top).

German infantry marching.

A general salutes the passing troops.

German planes flying over Prague, the Nazi flag fluttering.

The German battleship Schleswig-Holstein firing at Westerplatte in Gdansk in September 1939. Shells exploding in the city.

The battleship's gunners firing from deck guns.

Panorama of the burning city.

The battleship's gunners continue firing.

View of part of the burning city block.

The bow turret of the battleship firing.

Panorama of part of the burning city blocks.

A German officer watches the results of the shooting through a stereoscopic telescope.

A column of smoke from a fire in the port of Gdansk.

French Prime Minister E. Daladier talking on the telephone, sitting at his desk in his office.

The Commander-in-Chief of the French Army, General Gamelin G., answers Daladier on the telephone.

Daladier signs the mobilization order.

Daladier's signature is under the order.

People read the mobilization order pasted on the wall of the building.

Recruits at the recruiting station are waiting for their turn.

Recruits with orders in their hands leave the recruiting station.

Recruits under the command of officers enter the territory of the military unit.

Recruits, standing on the parade ground, talk to soldiers.

The face of a French soldier.

Soldiers talk to each other, smoke.

German officers salute recruits marching in formation.

Recruits march in formation under the command of non-commissioned officers along the street of one of the cities in Germany.

Recruits come out onto the square to form up, a military orchestra comes out.

Members of the Hitler Youth beat the drums.

Panorama of the city square with recruits lined up on it (from above).

Officers walk around the line of recruits.

Recruits stand in formation.

An officer, standing in front of the formation, begins to make a speech.

Recruits listen to the officer's speech.

Faces of non-commissioned officers.

Faces of soldiers, a ribbon with an inscription in German on the cuff of the uniform of one of the soldiers.

French Prime Minister E. Daladier signs the mobilization order.

Daladier's hand signing.

Printing presses working.

Newspaper headlines about the declaration of war.

Newsboys riding bicycles.

Newspaper distribution on the streets of Paris.

People reading the mobilization order pasted on newspaper stands.

A man beating a drum.

People on the streets of the city.

A man reading the mobilization order aloud.

Recruits marching in formation along the street.

Faces of people seeing off the recruits.

Recruits under the command of officers enter the territory of the military unit.

A recruit with a suitcase gets out of a taxi.

A man mobilized into the army says goodbye to his wife at the station.

A sign on the wall of a carriage with the inscription "Strasbourg" in French.

People from the platform waving goodbye to those leaving for the army.

Faces of mobilized men in the windows of a passing carriage.

Women waving after a departing train.

Women from the pier wave goodbye to the sailors leaving for the sea.

The sailors on board the ship wave back.

A French warship leaves on a campaign.

Waving goodbye to the girls on the pier.

The face of a French infantryman.

The face of a girl.

A soldier lights a pipe.

The face of a soldier with a pipe in his teeth.

Faces of soldiers and girls talking to each other.

Soldiers run to the carriages and climb into them.

View of a heavy gun being pushed by artillerymen (bottom).

Loading artillery pieces onto railway platforms.

A military echelon with equipment leaves for the front.

A woman and a girl wave from the window to passing soldiers.

A military band marches along the street of a French town.

Women stand on the balcony of a house with the national flag of France.

Infantry marches through the town.

Children watch the soldiers pass by.

A unit of French rangers passes by.

General Gamelin G. with staff officers studies a map of military operations.

Staff officers over a map.

Soldiers of the fortress garrison take their places in one of the forts.

Soldiers move to a position in the fortress in the carriages of the underground railway.

Construction of shelters from sandbags on one of the streets of Paris.

Covering the bas-reliefs of an ancient church with sandbags.

Cyclists ride with gas mask bags over their shoulders.

A woman walks with a gas mask on her shoulder.

People with gas masks on the streets of Paris.

A woman places a baby in a special anti-chemical case with a built-in gas mask.

The face of a smiling child.

Women in gas masks hold babies in anti-chemical suits in their arms.

A policeman stops a car at an intersection during a gas alarm training session.

Policemen show a taxi passenger the entrance to the nearest shelter.

Cars abandoned after the alarm training session.

View of an empty street.

German bombers flying.

A navigator in the cockpit of a German plane.

Falling bombs.

Fires after the bombing.

A wounded girl with a bandaged eye is crying.

A building destroyed by a bomb.

Part of a destroyed church.

Keys of a smashed organ.

A portrait of a woman on the rubble of a building, thrown out by the blast wave.

A crucifix on the wall of a smashed church.

Evacuation of church relics.

Evacuation of one of the libraries.

A woman is carrying things in a baby carriage.

Women and children are walking to railway carriages.

A soldier is carrying a child in his arms.

Women and children are sitting on bundles and suitcases.

A line of people being evacuated on the street near the station.

Women and children are boarding carriages.

The faces of women and children in the windows of a passing carriage.

A cityscape from a carriage window.

Hitler's motorcade moves along the streets of Vienna in 1938. Officers pick up children with bouquets of flowers and present them to Hitler, Hitler accepts the flowers and drives on.

Faces of German soldiers holding rifles "on guard".

Hitler walks along the line of the guard of honor, stops, raises his hand in a Nazi salute.

Views of the streets of Berlin filled with people (above).

Salute in the sky of Berlin in honor of the Anschluss of Austria.

German armored cars drive along the street of Klaipeda (Memel) during the entry of German troops into the city on March 23, 1939. Representatives of local Nazi organizations greet the German troops.

Soldiers wave flowers from the back of a truck.

Planes fly by, people in the streets greet the Germans.

Planes in the sky.

Faces of policemen watching the flight of planes.

People in the square greet the German troops.

View of part of the aft deck of a German warship.

Hitler strolls along the deck of the ship.

View of part of the deck.

Hitler stands on the bridge, raising his arm in a Nazi salute.

A German warship sails.

Hitler walks along the gangway to the deck of a torpedo boat.

Panorama of part of the Klaipeda port.

Hitler speaks to the residents of Klaipeda.

People in the square greet Hitler.

Map of the capture of European territories by Germany in 1938-1939 (animation).

King of Italy Victor Emmanuel III and Mussolini, accompanied by his retinue, walk along the gallery of the palace in Rome.

The military and courtiers stand on the balcony of the hall, waiting for the king to come out.

The king enters the hall and sits on the throne.

Those present in the hall greet the king.

The king reads the text of the speech, sitting on the throne.

The deputies applaud the king.

The king finishes his speech, stands up.

The deputies in the hall stand up and raise their right hands.

Mussolini B. goes to the rostrum before the start of the fascist rally in Rome.

View of part of the rally (from above).

Mussolini approaches the rostrum and greets his comrades.

Mussolini greets the rally participants on the rostrum.

The rally participants greet Mussolini.

Mussolini on the rostrum before his speech.

Panorama of part of the rally.

Mussolini speaks from the rostrum.

View of one of the castles in Czechoslovakia.

German armoured car on a city street in the Sudetenland in October 1938. Putting out a fire.

German post near a damaged building.

View of the damaged building.

Hitler A.'s motorcade drives up to one of the administrative buildings.

Hitler gets out of the car and heads towards the entrance to the building.

View of the assembly hall where Hitler is giving a speech.

German troops move along the city streets, people greet them.

A column of anti-aircraft artillery drives by.

Soldiers sitting in the back of an artillery tractor respond to the people's greetings.

German warships on the march.

View of part of the ship and the mast on which a flag with a swastika flutters.

View of part of the ship's bow deck (from above).

The duty artillery crew at the deck gun.

Officers look through binoculars.

The crew of the deck machine gun.

Officers on the commander's bridge.

View of a section of a ship's deck and side.

The Nazi naval ensign flies.

Airplanes fly over the port.

German soldiers unfurl a swastika flag in a city square.

A column of German armored vehicles moves along a city street.

An airplane in flight.

Hitler during a diplomatic reception in Berlin with representatives of Germany's allies.

Hitler steps out onto the balcony of a building in Berlin.

People on the square salute Hitler.

Hitler on the balcony.

People salute Hitler.

Hitler returns salutes from the balcony.

Stormtroopers march through the streets of Berlin in the early 1930s.

A brass band plays.

Stormtroopers march with banners.

Faces of stormtroopers during a Nazi event.

Stormtroopers march along the street.

British Prime Minister N. Chamberlain steps out of an airplane.

The entrance to a palace in Munich, decorated with the British and French flags.

Sentries and footmen at the entrance to the main hall.

The signing of the Munich Agreement by Chamberlain, Daladier E., Mussolini B. German soldiers marching.

View of a square in Prague, along which German troops are marching in 1938. Faces of elderly women greeting the Germans.

German infantry marching along a Prague street.

Women raise their hands in a Nazi salute.

German soldiers walk past burning houses after the invasion of the USSR. View of a burning village.

Corpses of murdered children.

Prisoners of a concentration camp behind barbed wire.

Hitler speaking from the rostrum.

Participants in the rally raise their hands in a Nazi salute.