Die Deutsche Wochenschau №511 (1940)

War in France.

Massive attacks of German aviation on France.

The 2nd Air Fleet under the command of Colonel General Kesselring and the 3rd Air Fleet under the command of Colonel General Sperrle bomb the city of Le Havre.

Airplanes in the night sky.

The port area is ablaze.

German aircraft over the canal, they bomb French transport at sea, the bombs fly at the ship.

The aircraft dives on objects.

Bombing of the railway, the city.

View of French territory from the plane.

France.

Arrows on the map go from Amiens and Compiegne to Le Havre.

The city of Amiens.

View of the cathedral, ruins.

German cars on the streets of the city.

View from the open cabin of the car from the back of the driver on the passing equipment.

German self-propelled guns and artillery are driving.

German soldiers among the ruins of Amiens.

Significant bridgeheads were captured in Amiens.

Germans at one of the railway stations in Oisemont.

Sign: Oisemont.

A burning tank of gasoline, streams pouring from the holes.

Abandoned cattle wander among the burning peasant houses.

Cattle, herded into a special pen by the Germans.

German soldiers milk cows, water calves.

France.

German units move to new positions.

On June 5, the troops of Colonel General von Bock are to attack the French positions in the lower reaches of the Somme.

German horse-drawn artillery crosses a river.

Fragment of the battle in the Somme area.

The Weygand Line is under fire from German artillery, which has taken cover in a small forest.

Destroyed French tanks.

A captured bridge over the Somme.

French soldiers surrender and are sent to the rear.

Colonial units, blacks.

German soldiers pass by a column of French prisoners.

Rommel's 7th Panzer Division, having pushed back the French, is moving towards Le Havre and Pontoise.

German tanks on the streets of a French town, burning buildings.

Artillery, infantry, machine gunners.

Infantry on the offensive.

A German observer at the citadel of Fécamp, a large station on the way to Le Havre, surveys the area through binoculars.

Machine gunners at the parapet survey the town.

The destroyed French town of Fécamp, destroyed buildings.

Soldiers make their way among the ruins.

Abandoned French tanks stand.

German artillery is located on the high bank, shelling French naval transport.

View of the French town of Saint-Valéry-en-Caux captured by the Germans, sailing ships at the old harbor on the canal.

Generals Erwin Rommel and Richard Ruoff accept the surrender of a French general.

Prisoners, among them one English and five French generals.

Prisoners are sitting in a meadow.

German vehicles and infantry move along the road to Le Havre.

German sappers clear the area of mines.

France.

German troops are moving towards Paris, sign: 75 km to Paris.

German artillery is firing at French positions.

A destroyed bridge over the Seine, bridge supports in the water.

An erected pontoon bridge, German cavalry and infantry crossing.

German troops occupy Rouen.

View of the historic city with the town hall and cathedral.

Colonel General Gunther Hans von Kluge with an orderly in Rouen.

Harbor, blown up bridge.

German artillery is shelling the area occupied by French troops.

A burning city, black smoke from gasoline storage facilities blown up by the French covers the sky, ruins of buildings, fires, collapsing buildings.

A burning port.

Germans on the shore with rifles.

Guns are firing at the city from the port.

Soldiers are moving along the streets of the city, ruins are all around.

German soldiers are putting out a burning cathedral.

View of the cathedral saved from fire by the Germans.

Ruins of the city.

French prisoners, including soldiers of the colonial troops.

Night shot of the city in smoke and fires.

France.

German soldiers and members of the NSV (National Socialist Charity Society) distribute food to the French, distribution of bread.

French police help with supplies.

View of the square where the population receives food.

Soldiers of the military engineering service of General Todt at work.

They remove debris, stones, and take them away in wheelbarrows.

The arrival of the Fuhrer with his adjutant Rudolf Schmundt and General Todt on a visit to the fighters of the Todt organization, the soldiers surround the Fuhrer, rejoice.

France.

Scheme of the advance of German troops to Paris through Peronne, Noyon, Compiegne.

German heavy howitzers and mortars fire near the city of Peronne, explosions.

German soldiers enter a burning city, motorcyclists ride along the town hall square.

The Germans occupy another French city, Sacy-le-Grand.

Burning buildings.

Soldiers clear away the ruins.

Broken guns lie around.

Signpost: Pontarme 5 km, Paris 37 km.

German soldiers walk, cyclists ride.

German General Georg Stumme, commander of the 40th Army Corps with his adjutant near the barricades of sacks in Noyon.

France.

The surviving cathedral in Reims.

German soldiers occupy a small town near Paris.

German soldiers, motorcyclists advance past burning houses, barricades.

Abandoned French cars, the belongings of refugees.

The Germans run along the street, search houses.

Dead soldiers lie in a destroyed room.

German soldiers in the streets, they run across the tram lines to the river.

Forcing the Marne River.

A sign pointing to Paris and Soissons.

Troops are marching towards Paris.

French prisoners, black prisoners carry their wounded on stretchers.

German vehicles.

Columns of German soldiers.

Soldiers on a short rest, they sleep right on the ground or on supply carts.

Lieutenant General Ritter von Speck, commander of the 18th Army Corps, discusses something with an officer.

German tanks cross the Marne River on a pontoon bridge.

Captured dark-skinned soldiers trudge along the road in the rain, covering themselves with greatcoats.

A column of German tanks drives along the highway.

France.

Burning buildings in the suburbs of Paris.

German troops enter Versailles.

Supply trains enter the courtyard of the palace complex.

Soldiers raise the fascist flag over the palace.

Divisions of Georg von Küchler's 18th Army enter Paris.

The occupation of Paris on June 14, 1940. A panorama of the French capital, a view of the Place de l'Etoile, the Eiffel Tower, the column and monuments.

A light Storch aircraft lands on the Place de la Concorde.

German soldiers and officers climb the Eiffel Tower.

The German flag flutters over the Eiffel Tower.

A German column solemnly passes next to the Arc de Triomphe.

Footage from an old newsreel about parades along the Champs Elysees.

Ceremonial parade on July 14, 1939, Bastille Day.

English soldiers pass in front of Prime Minister Daladier and President Lebrun.

Zouaves and French sailors march.

France.

German tanks.

German column against the backdrop of the Arc de Triomphe.

Field Marshal Fedor von Bock and General Georg von Küchler review the parade.

German soldiers march.

View of columns from above.

Generals, soldiers.

German artillery moves.

French people on the streets of Paris.

Panorama of the Champs Elysees, Les Invalides, general view.

French police explain the route to a German soldier according to the map.

German column.

The announcer speaks of the inevitability of France's capitulation.

German columns march.