The Great Exploit
The Great Exploit
"Neville Chamberlain tells the world he has sealed the peace at Munich. But the bombs soon fell on London, the Nazis advanced as they chose, and soon nearly all of Europe was lost. Then they attacked the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941--backed by 190 divisions and 5,500,000 men. This film covers the defense of Moscow; victory at Stalingrad; the 900 day siege of Leningrad; decisive tank battles at the Kursk bulge; the movement East to liberate Romania and Yugoslavia and to free Poland. Then the Normandy invasion of 1944, last victories in Berlin, and V-Day in Moscow, London, Paris, and New York." Victory, V-E Day. World War Two. Shot by 236 Soviet cameramen.
The Great Exploit
Excellent montage of the Nazi Germany armed forces marching, gathering strength (Fascist war machine).
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CUs of French schoolchildren talking about who and what Hitler historically means (good material, excellent answers).
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British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain exiting plane, returning from Munich after signing the peace treaty, talking to the amassed people about how peace has come to Europe (real audio). another talk with the German Chancellor Heir Hitler and here is the paper which bears his name upon it as well as mine. (Cheers) We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval agreement as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again.
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Montage of English people sifting through rubble of bombed out villages, cities (aftermath of London Blitz).
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Montage of French military "security", soldiers marching underground and into bases lining the Eastern borders, then going about daily duties in kitchens, the Maginot Line.
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Excellent montage of German occupied territories (starting with France, then Prague, Poland, and Norway): MSs border gates being opened; LSs Nazi German Army soldiers marching through streets, sometimes with POWs (prisoners of war); MSs occupied peoples weeping, sometimes forced to offer Nazi salute (includes famous shot of balding middle aged Frenchman wearing striped suit, openly weeping, crying while reviewing the invading forces); MSs French men being stopped and searched by German Army soldiers, sometimes carried off at gunpoint.
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LS/MSs Nazi German war machine (foreign factories captured by the Nazis and forced to produce mass amounts of tanks, shells, ammunition, etc.; good shots of smelting, a white-hot cannon coming out of a foundry; shell ammunition, aerial of tanks in factory). Great high angle traveling shot of Nazi German Army soldiers standing at attention.