The Curse Of The Swastika Reel 4 Of 4 (1940)

Propaganda film illustrating rise of Nazi party. Reel 4. France calls up her reserves. French army and air force mobilised. Planes flying in formation. Mock air raids staged over Berlin. Bomb damage. Soldiers wearing gas masks spread white powder on the ground from barrels on wheels. Paris: practising the blackout. Switches are pulled. Searchlights in the sky. Danzig: Nazi troops enter the city. Barbed wire fences. Battleship. Sailors. Navy. Men from the city recruited by the Nazis. Ribbentrop makes nonaggression pact with Stalin. Lord Halifax makes speech. Military manoeuvres on Polish frontier. Camouflaged troops. C/U of arm band. Sir Neville Henderson flies to Berlin. President Roosevelt speaks of neutrality of American nation. Tanks. Aircraft. Bombs. Battleships. Cannons. etc. Evacuation of children by train and bus. Mothers wave children off. British antiaircraft guns. Survivors from the Athenia. Combat in France. British army boarding ships, marching through count
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