Other titles:UFA AUSLANDSTONWOCHE NR ? - part [Alternative Title]
Summary: German newsreel (for audiences outside Germany) records occupation by German Army of Dunkirk and the capture of many French prisoners of war in early June 1940.
Description: I. Concluding frames of item on Italian Navy shows two Italian battleships in line ahead (without commentary).
II. Over animation map implying that the great German encirclement campaign in Flanders and Artois ("the greatest battle in history") was a response to Britain's threat to the Ruhr, film covers conclusion to German attack on and capture of Dunkirk. Heinkel He 111 bombers and Junkers Ju 87B Stukas if formation respectively drop bombs and peel away to dive against clearly visible Channel port area below. Bombs explode on ground and near wake of ship (presumably British) off coast. 8.8cm Flak opens fire against land and air targets; Lysander (?) crashes in sea, while two destroyed RAF Hurricane fighters on beach and in field, and one Spitfire, are shown. Tracking shot moves along road littered with abandoned British Army bren carriers. French road sign "Dunkerque N16". Inside the captured town (4 June 1940) swastika flag flies over tower, and "indescribable devastation" is shown: abandoned British armoured cars, trucks and rifles, oil burning in the port, ship hulk ablaze, large freighter stern submerged in port, sunken Royal Navy destroyers and beached freighter. German soldiers walk across beach, past corpses of British dead. Line of British anti-aircraft guns stand abandoned on beach, barrels still elevated. Camera pans across sign Patinoire (skating rink) to show British vehicles abandoned on beach. A pontoon bridge formed over vehicles and stretching out to sea shows how British tried to evacuate their forces. Large numbers of French prisoners pass below camera, some gesticulating facetiously.
III. Opening frames of item showing Hitler in car on tour of military front (5 June 1940) near Ypres.
Alternative Title:UFA AUSLANDSTONWOCHE NR ? - part [Alternative Title]
