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Item title reads - With acknowledgements to the Ministry of Information Pathe Gazette presents .... German propaganda films. Further pictures originally intended to spread the nazi creed abroad. Various shots of Germans firing antitank guns, with explosions everywhere, a tank catches fire. Various shots as nazis slide on a wire across a destroyed bridge at Brest-Litovsk. Various shots as nazis fire and run through rubble of wrecked buildings. C/U of ’in memorium’ notices in German newspaper, Hitler has stated one in every family should die for the cause. M/S of Heinkel bombers taking off on a raid. The navigator looks out. Aerial shot of bombs falling. Various shots of aerial bombardment. M/S of ’in memorium’ page with C/U of one name. L/S of German tanks and guns firing, various shots of Russian tanks on fire. We return to the ’in memorium’ page again. A German transport column moves forward with buildings on fire in the background. Various shots of the Russians firing back. Various shots of ’in memorium’ page again. Various shots of Russian women crying as bodies of Russian men are carried out and laid on the streets. Women kneel by the bodies and sob. M/S of them in a row on the street. L/S of gun fire, nazi tanks move off. Various shots of Germans firing and moving forward. End Title - Pathe Gazette the voice of Britain. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.
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