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FRONT REPORTS OF THE PROPAGANDA COMPANIES
Aircraft ready for action against Dunkirk!
The powerful battles in the West in 1940 are coming to an end.
Stukas and other planes are to bomb the demoralized enemy on the ground and at the same time block attempts to flee over the Channel.
Under us are damaged and de- stroyed bridges and hard fought- for towns.
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Attention! The target in the area of Dunkirk is reached!
Everyone is ready for the attack.
The bombs drop to the ground thickly.
One hit follows another!
The squadron returns to the target. The enemy will not be allowed to rest.
A squadron of Stukas has arrived.
The machines turn and dive ... and attack!
With absolute precision, the Stuka aims at its target.
Bombs away! The machine is immediately pulled up from the dive.
And now a second attack!
The next target is Fort Louis.
A third attack is supposed to smash the traffic routes of the enemy.
Another Stuka squadron has been given the mission of attacking English transport ships.
An attack on the harbor install- ations at Dunkirk.
An English boat has been detected.
Wreck after wreck!
And this ship will not get away!
Fighter bombers attack using machine guns.
Heavily hit!
An observation post on the beach observes the enemy fleet. English destroyers attempt to cover the fleeing ships.
German Flak is quick to go into action.
Everywhere, men respond rapidly and cause confusion among the enemy.
Our S-Boote rushes forward to take part in the sea battle.
Uncountable are the attacks which take place on this small strip of Flemish coast.
English fliers counterattack!
Without delay, the barrels of our Flak guns point into the skies.
Hit!
The pilot parachuted out of the plane.
Now the Flak has another Englishman in its sights.
He, too, is soon taken care of.
Number Three! The machines on the right must believe their next.
They were all sacrifices of the German Stukas.
After the battle: these British planes were supposed to guard the retreat against the scorn of the Luftwaffe.
An anti-tank gun acts as the first watch over the beach.
Along with other troops, the Panzerspahwagen search the beaches of Dunkirk.
The ring around these last units on the Flemish coast pulls tighter and tighter.
French divisions stubbornly defend every meter of the beach to cover the retreat of their English allies.
The Anglo-French plutocracy sacri- fices the blood of the French popu- lation for the interests of the English lords.
Now it's only 15km to Dunkirk!
A black cloud sits like a wall over the burning city.
That is the street into Dunkirk.
In a wild panic, the English let everything sit where it was and ran as fast as possible to the Channel coast
The British Expeditionary Corps and the French Army have been thoroughly destroyed.
On the edge of the city.
The city offers a view of unbe- lievable destruction.
What can not be overlooked is the amount of matériel left behind by the enemy.
The ships, which were supposed to evacuate the British, lay, for the most part, sunk in the harbor.
On the beach near Dunkirk.
An English Flak battery.
Here, the English attempted to build --- and reach --- a bridge of vehicles to reach the ocean.
It was the final attempt of an almost wiped-out British force which was trying anything possible to save its life.
This contradicts the lying English reports, that their troops were evacuated in an orderly fashion with almost no losses.
These cannons, standing as if on parade, never went into action. Just more booty for us.
During this campaign, 75 to 80 divisions' worth of matériel either fell into our hands or was destroyed.
And vet, a representative of one of the press agencies exclaimed grotesquely, "A miracle has happ- ened: near defeat has turned into a glorious victory!”
The prisoners are collected into large groups. Their numbers grow from day to day: up to 88,000.
And that just alone in the area of Dunkirk.
In endlessly long lines, they go off to be transported into the POW camps.
Three divisions of the elite Grand Nation march off in the direction of Germany.
Here again we see the faces of the many different peoples who were to sacrifice their skins for the war instigators in Paris and London.
The end result of this war-loving British and French policy was supposed to look entirely different though.
Now the English have the oppor- tunity to think back on the words of their Lord Derby, who said to them as they left for France, "Boys! You're going to experience an exciting war!!I”
The largest battle in world history has come to an end.
After the battle, all care is given to the wounded soldiers.
42,350 German soldiers were wounded in the great May battle.
To these man belong the thanks of the entire German people. They spent their blood to hold the enemy away from the Reich's borders and to spare the homeland immeasurable misery and suffering.
The most severe cases must be transported by the quickest means possible to take care of their wounds.
Further transport into Germany.
Wounded soldiers listen to the Wehrmacht report in a field hospital.
While the battle for Dunkirk was still raging, the Fuhrer left his headquarters for the front to be with his soldiers.
He visited the battlefields, which he himself knew well as a soldier during the World War.
A drive through Ypres.
Generaloberst von Reichenau reports the details of the battle to the Fuhrer, in the place where the historic battles for Flanders raged in 1914.
Accompanying the Fuhrer are Generaloberst Keitel, General- oberst von Kluge, General of the Air Force Grauert and General Bodenschatz.
The Fuhrer joins his generals at the field kitchen.
They continue on again.
A Flak commando accompanying the Fuhrer follows closely behind.
The next goal is Langemark
The soldiers greet their Fuhrer and army commanders with jubilation.
At the heroes' cemetery at Langemark.
The Fuhrer pays his respects to the volunteers of 1914 who stormed against the enemy with the Deutschlandlied on their lips and gave their lives for the Fatherland
The soldiers of 1940 have taken the flag of these 1914 heroes, which was laid low in 1918, and brought it forward to the final victory. The Fuhrer pays his respects to the volunteers of 1914 who stormed against the enemy with the Deutschlandlied on their lips and gave their lives for the Fatherland
The soldiers of 1940 have taken the flag of these 1914 heroes, which was laid low in 1918, and brought it forward to the final victory.
In all the newspapers of Italy can be read the news about the west- ern pirates.
The Italian Empire will no longer be the prisoner of the Mediterr- anean.
In Florence spoke the old fascist fighter, Marinacci.
The Italian Crown Prince.
On 10 June, Mussolini declared war on the western powers.
Fascist Italy will fight on the side of Germany to gain its f reedom.
On the evening of this historic ann- ouncement, spontaneous demon- strations took place at the Italian embassy in Berlin, which congrat- ulated Il Duce and the Italians for this decision.
The ambassador to Germany thanks the crowd in the name of the Italian people.
German operational plans know no pause. As our troops were mopping up in Dunkirk, the Luft- waffe wasted no time in attack- ing the important military in- stallations in Paris.