World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
Educational film showing the events leading up to World War Two, and their effects on the U.S.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
Adolf Hitler talking with Hermann Goering in wooded area.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
Hitler addressing the Reichstag - when he gets to "Palestina" the room explodes with laughter. Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. Balcony packed with high-ranking military officers. Reichstag President Hermann Goering nodding. Reichstag deputies standing up, giving Nazi salute.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
Joachim Von Ribbentrop with Benito Mussolini and Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
Italy invades Albania. Italian ship, Italian troops disembarking. Small tanks on road with troops beside it. Italian armored vehicles and trucks full of soldiers, troops advancing on foot.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
Hitler with General Walther Von Brauchitsch (C in C of Army) and Luftwaffe General Karl Heinrich Bodenschatz. Brauchitsch starts to lay out a large map.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
Newspaper posted on a wall. Nazi-Soviet pact.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
Headlines Nazi-Soviet pact.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
Soviet Prime Minister Vyacheslav Molotov meeting von Ribbentrop.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
German bombers and fighter bombers taxiing, taking off. Panning German Army troops on motorcycles, entering village. Germany invades Poland.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
Britain and France declare war on Germany after invasion of Poland. Neville Chamberlain at desk.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
Blitzkrieg. Sky filled with German aircraft flying overhead. Air to air shot of Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 H-3 bomber planes. Polish civilians running for shelter. Luftwaffe aircraft including Junkers Ju 87B-1 fighter bombers in flight. Bombs being dropped.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
German artillery firing, explosion. Polish cavalry. German soldier throwing potato masher grenade. Civilian men laying corpses in a row. Polish civilians looking at something posted in store window.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
DO NOT USE Map shows how Poland is divided by Germany and USSR shows Baltic states, forced into pro-Soviet treaties shows Leningrad in vulnerable location, Finland which refuses Russian demands for concessions.