1. The Western Front
German offensive on Luxembourg and Belgium. May 10, German motorized units on the western border.
– Tanks drive along the paving stones past the fortifications.
– Infantry on the attack, crossing the border.
– The soldiers dropped from the bridge barbed wire fence, dismantle rubble.
– The sign of the Luxembourg Customs, on the wall of the emblem of the country.
– German soldiers break border fences.
– Luxembourg border guards disarm and take away.
– Soldiers torch cut the lock with the gate.
– The first German motorcyclists and motorized units in the city.
– Tankman standing in the open hatch of the tank, which rode on the street of the city.
– Residents watch the movement of troops.
– Wartime proclamations hang on the wall of the building.
– On the streets moving tanks, motorcyclists, mechanized artillery.
– There is a concrete barricade with barbed wire on the way of a tank column, the tanks force the barrier.
Railway station, the view of the travelling train with an open platform in front on which there are guns.
– A small vanguard unit on the train passes on the rails.
– Followed by an echelon of soldiers and guns on the platforms.
German soldiers marching through the streets.
– Woman gives them sandwiches.
– Man pours the passing convoy of water from a hose because of the heat.
– A soldier on the move scoops up water from a resident’s bucket with a mug.
The beginning of the offensive in Belgium.
– Removed the border fence, are soldiers and vehicles.
– German soldiers marching down the road.
– Horse carts in the woods.
– Dismantling the road blockage with the help of the tank.
– The troops are in the region of Malmedy, where the vast majority of Germans in the country.
– Residents welcomed the soldiers, waving their hands out the windows, shaking hands with them.
– The soldiers are pulling a cannon down the street.
– A military airfield, the soldiers are paratroopers headed for the plane. "Stukas take off.
– Marines sit in the cabin of a plane and sing a friendly military song.
– Technicians at the airfield hanging bombs to the bombers.
The German offensive on Belgium and Holland.
– German bombers in the sky, the view from the plane on the ground.
– On the ground near a huge bomb crater stand German soldiers.
– View of the mangled after the bombing of the railroad tracks, destroyed houses near the station.
– The German town of Freiburg in Breskau, bombed by enemy planes.
– The school with broken windows, the ruins on the site of orphanages, hospitals.
– Broken window of the building, a sign: “House of Mercy”.
– View of the devastation inside the building, among the bricks and debris lay children's toys.
– The wall of the school with traces of shrapnel and broken windows.
– Crossing the Dutch border.
– Reconstruction of the bridge over the Julian Canal by German sappers.
– Soldiers and equipment are crossing the ferry.
– The bridge goes tanks, armoured vehicles, motorcycles.
– Close-up of the border sign.
– Entrance to the town of German motorcyclists, tanks.
– On the wall of the house hangs a proclamation of the new administration in two languages.
– Vehicles on the streets.
– Residents waving their hands in greeting.
– German tank pushes back the concrete barrier on the road.
– Capture one of the bridges across the channel, the fight near the bridge.
– Are killed by the Dutch, by the side of the road stand the surrendered Dutch soldiers.
The invasion of Belgium began with the capture of the Albert Channel.
– German sappers remove explosives planted by the Belgians from the piers of the bridge.
– Soldiers cross the river in rubber boats.
– The first Belgian prisoners are on the road.
– Continuation of the German offensive.
– Tank breaks the bushes, moves to the barbed wire fence.
– Soldiers riding bicycles.
– Infantry sneaking across a broken bridge.
– Forcing the canals under enemy fire in inflatable boats.
The surrender of the town of Maastricht.
– On the city wall a man waving a white flag.
– German tanks in the city.
– The muddy road traveling horse-drawn carts, overcome the rivers in shallow water.
– Crossing the canals.
– The wounded German soldiers are on stretchers, they are given medical attention.
– The city opens fire from heavy artillery.
– View of the ruins of houses.
– In the sky, Stuka dive bomber airplanes.
– The panorama of the smoking area.
– Dive bombers on the objects.
– Showing the power of German arms.
– The barrels of heavy guns go up, self-propelled guns on the platform.
– Tanks overcome the rugged terrain.
– Infantry on the offensive, firing flamethrowers.
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