CHAPTER 1 - Divide and Conquer

• starts with the invasion of Denmark, Norway
• 1st American soldier killed - Robert Lovack
• Quisling and 5th column
• Scapa Flow Brit naval base in northern England
• Narvik in northern Norway, but Nazi air superiority
• map - encircle England and conquer world
• map - strike at France
• WWI scenes, Maginot Line, Phony War
• map - what invasion route? - 1870 thru Alsace or 1914 thru Low contries
• map of French divisions allocated to different fronts, Ardennes forest May 9

CHAPTER 2 - Hitler speech

• "May 10, 1940" - German armies launched coordinated simultaneous attack
• "First, let's see what happened in Holland"
• "the main attack was to come from the air" especially the bombing of Rotterdam: "one of the most ruthless exhibitions of savagery the world has ever seen. Over 30,000 men, women and children were killed in the space of 90 minutes. Only 6 months before Hitler had said 'The new Reich has endeavored to continue the traditional friendship with Holland.' The Dutch will not forget."
• map - strike at Belgium, Albert Canal, Fort Eben Emael
• detailed scenes of Nazi attack on the fort, Stuka dive bombers, flamethrowers, round blockhouses, was a carefully planned attack, fort fell in 2 days

CHAPTER 3 - Troops on the Move

• refugees
• map - animation of bombing of towns, on purpose to block roads used by advancing allied amies. "Refugees used as a weapon of war, a new low in inhumanity"
• scenes of injured children - "no school today, these children are otherwise occupied."
• "The Belgiums will not forget."
• map - attack thru Ardennes at the hinge
• special German columns cleared pathways for the tanks
• dive bombers and heavy fire acrose Meuse river,

CHAPTER 4 - Armored Battle

• German troops broke thru the Sedan - "there went the ballgame for the allies"
• map - American officer detailed the breakthrough starting May 13 - illustrated the blitzkrieg technique - May 17 DeGaulle attack from south but unsuccessful - British slow-moving tanks from north - May 21 Nazis reached port of Abbeville and spread out - Dunkirk
• "One of the greatest disasters in history seemed in the making. An entire British army faced annihilation. But out of the fog and the mist [strobbing the channel] came a strange armada."
• "High overhead British planes fought the Luftwaffe to a standstill, while below small allied suicide units held the Germans back long enough for the Miracle of Dunkirk to take place. 211,500 British troops plus 112, 500 French and Belgians were rescued."
• Churchill comes to power
• map - last thin French line defends Paris
• Map - again, American officer narrated map and the fall of France - "What about the famous Maginot Line?"
• Mussolini sent division across the border
• FDR speech - "the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor"
• armistice signed in the famous railroad coach where Foch met the defeated Germans in the last war
• Hitler drove thru Paris - no crowds
• DeGaulle "in the great tradition of Foch" - to North Africa along side the Americans and British flag
• French music end - "utter defeat"
• Marshall quote - utter defeat
• V- sign ends the film