Apokalypse: Hitlers Westfeldzug
Letzte Schlachten

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  ECPAD1 / 12

  June 21, 1940 - Hitler arrives in the forest of Compiègne where the armistice of November 11, 1918 was signed. (ECPAD)

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  Gaumont Pathé Archives2 / 12

  The 4th french armored division was ordered to protect Paris. (Gaumont Pathé Archives)

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  Bundesarchiv3 / 12

  On July 6, 1940, the Berliners cheered their victorious leader. (Bundesarchiv)

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  Bundesarchiv4 / 12

  Hitler and Goering, leader of the Luftwaffe, greeting the German crowd. (Bundesarchiv)

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  Bundesarchiv5 / 12

  Hitler and his troops during a parade. (Bundesarchiv)

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  National Archive and Record Administration6 / 12

  Hitler youth. (National Archive and Record Administration)

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  Sherman Grinberg7 / 12

  Surrounded by the Germans, the French, British and Belgian armies are waiting for their evacuation on the beaches of Dunkirk. (Sherman Grinberg)

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  Agentur Karl Hoffkes8 / 12

  The brutal stopping of pervitine, a drug that suppresses fear and doubt, provokes in the German soldiers a descent that nails them to the ground. (Agentur Karl Hoffkes)

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  Bundesarchiv9 / 12

  June 1, 1940 - Hitler goes to Belgium because it is in Flanders that the Germans fought in the trenches from 1914 to 1918. For propaganda purposes, Hitler wants to evoke the soldiers of the Great War to those of 1940 to whom he promises victory. (Bundesarchiv)

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  Bundesarchiv10 / 12

  Hitler goes to the Landmark cemetery, where 3,000 German students, volunteers of the 1914 war have been laid to rest with this epitaph: Germany must live even if we must die, which is also the motto of the Hitler Youth. For Hitler, this is the symbolic place of the birth of Nazism and its criminal ideology. (Bundesarchiv)

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  Bundesarchiv11 / 12

  In his screening room, Hitler watches the German news of June 1940 (Die Detsche Wochenschau), showing footage of a parade on Floch Avenue. (Bundesarchiv)

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  Bundesarchiv12 / 12

  Hitler decides to attack the Soviets because if they join forces with the Allies, this might potentially bring about their victory. (Bundesarchiv)

Apokalypse: Hitlers Westfeldzug