""Ideas should be neutral..." ""...but man animates them with his passions and folly" ""Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality" ""The passage from logic is consummated" ""Thus are born ideologies, doctrines and bloody farce"" "DUNKIRK HOLDS OUT" "AIR COVER SAVES DUNKIRK ARMY" "MINISTER REYNAUD RESIGNS" "PETAIN FORMS NEW GOVERNMENT" "I put my trust in our army fighting with great heroism against an enemy superior in size and arms" "I put my trust in our people and I give myself to France to relieve her pain" "It breaks my heart to say we must cease the combat" "I have spoken to the enemy" "I asked if they would help me find an honourable way to end hostilities" "PARLIAMENT MEET IN VICHY" "FRANCE'S DESTINY IN PETAIN'S HANDS" "PARLIAMENT AND SENATE DISSOLVED" "This film shows France, not as it was between 1940 and 1944 but as Pétain and the Collaborators wanted it to be seen" "The retreating British army set fire to Lorient's oil tanks thus harming their former allies" "It was on thanks to German firemen that the blaze was extinguished and the fuel saved" "In the occupied zone the Germans are mustering every able-bodied man to erase all traces of war" "Most of the French rail network is in service again" "Side by side, German employees and their French colleagues ensure an efficient service" "The ladies of the German Red Cross help everywhere" "German ad organisations bring relief to refugees returning to their homes in the occupied zone" "Food distribution in Montmartre" "BRITISH FLEET BOMBARDS DAKAR" "CRIMINAL DE GAULLE ON BOARD" "FRENCH DEFENDERS FORCE BRITISH BACK AT DAKAR" "MONTOIRE-SUR-LE-LOIR 22nd October 1940" "Last Thursday I met the Chancellor of the Reich" "Our meeting both raised hopes and provoked concern" "I owe you an explanation on the matter" "M. Scapini. the French Ambassador" "Almost two million men who represent the élite and flower of French youth are POWs" "France can only recover with their help" "For her part, Germany can only consider returning these prisoners if a Franco-German common interest is clearly apparent" "That general principle was set out at Montoire" "It is in the interest of our two countries to collaborate in this effort of reconstruction" "We must show our commitment by backing Maréchal Pétain to the hilt" "France gives unanimous support to Pétain its symbol and leader" "And French youth chooses the finest oak in the forest and names it after Pétain" "Toulouse is the starting point of Pétain's tour which will bind the country even closer to its leader" "He spends the day between the préfecture and the Assézat, home to the floral games and the municipal authorities" "The Head of State talked to local representatives" "Before leaving Toulouse he visited the Agricultural School" "Here a new generation of peasant is acquiring not only training but professional pride" ""France is her soil and her sons," as Pétain once said" "After Toulouse and Montauban it was Lyons' honour to welcome Pétain" "Lyons which calls itself France's most industrious city backs Pétain whole-heartedly" "The cheering populace offers its trust to the leader who said, "l give myself to France..." ""...to relieve her pain"" "MARSEILLES December You said our duty was to obey" "To your call... we answer "present"" "Aix-en-Provence" "City of fountains" "City of Provencal peace now wakes to the clarion call of St-Cyr and St-Maixent" "Early each morning the two schools are out exercising" "In the pool and lecture theatre are trainee officers" "Students but soldiers too" "In Toulon harbour a moving ceremony on board the Strasbourg" "Admiral Darlan decorates the heroes who upheld our great naval tradition at Mers el Kebir" "Let us remember the 1,300 dead who sacrificed their lives for the French flag" "I have taken a decision I deem to be in the country's interest" "M. Pierre Laval will leave the government" "M. Pierre-Etienne Flandin will succeed him" "I shall stay at the helm and the National Revolution will continue" "At all times, use new Lavor" "The best soap powder" "Let's wash with new Lavor" "Paris, 15th December 1940." "Hitler gives back to France the body of Napoleon II" "It's midnight." "The sarcophagus leaves the train bringing it from Vienna and is transported... on a gun-carriage to Les Invalides" "At this precise hour, a century ago Napoleon's body arrived in Paris from St Helena" "Now the Germans place his son's coffin outside Les Invalides" "Today all Frenchmen will feel great emotion at this spontaneous act of German homage" "The unemployed can find work in Germany" "Unemployed skilled workers can register... for jobs in Germany..." "About 50,000 French workers are at present in Germany where they receive high wages" "This reduces payments of French unemployment benefit and also allows workers to appreciate German National Socialist values" "The train is off to Germany" "In the first German station food is distributed" "Factories provide every hygiene facility" "Workers returning to France will certainly remember the high standard of living and good working conditions but above all the friendship of German workers" "To tackle the scourge of unemployment the representatives of labour have been meeting under the banner of National Revolution and European collaboration" "Mesnard's address" "I'm speaking to men who hoped for peace because the aim of trade unionism was peace" "France, even in her present situation is not abandoning that mission and tradition but she must in with Europe to make revolution and peace" "Frehel now takes the floor" "The French, to their honour, will continue to think as Frenchmen" "They will remain rooted to the soil" "Dumoulin's speech" "We mustn't just express resentment" "We must sound the alarm if it's not already too late to try and safeguard at least the dignity of France" "Admiral Darlan, Commander in Chief of the French navy has been appointed Pétain's Vice-Prime Minister" "For 8 months they've been working together for French recovery" "Darlan will continue negotiations to give the Montoire policy a new lease of life" "He and Pétain will lead France to recovery within a European framework" "Mutual aid in Paris" "The local prefect opens Pétain's first restaurant for people of slender means" "Here, those who have fallen on hard times can eat well and cheaply" "Pétain's portrait is being sold in aid of the fight against poverty" "Packets are being sent by the thousand from Paris" "The postman sells Pétain's portrait door to door" "His picture is close to all our hearts and should be in every home" "In France we have a habit that's more damaging today than ever before" "We reduce the totality of the French problem to the single issue of Franco-German difficulties" "But French interests, just like all national interests today need much wider solutions" "So, at this very moment a huge design for continental unity is being mapped out" "A vast geographic mass with common political and economic interests" "It will stretch from the China Sea, across the vast Asian plains held together by Japan and Russia now part of the new economic and political order" "It will continue across the Balkans and Germany to the extremity of Europe, France" "No wonder then, if today they say to France..." ""Agree whole-heartedly to be a bastion of this new world order" ""Then the Atlantic defence role...." ""...will be entrusted to French forces..." ""...and France will run her own affairs"" "Greeted by a crowd rejoicing in renewed hope Pétain salutes the arrival of the Caudillo returning from a meeting with Mussolini" "Near a POW camp outside Berlin" "Before going home, recently freed French officers lay a wreath at the German World War One war memorial" "Homage of war veterans who understand our two nations were destined to esteem one another, not to hate" "At Chalon-sur-Saône Ambassador Scapini welcomes sick prisoners repatriated from Germany" "A few days later in Chalon-sur-Marne Scapini welcomes a contingent of freed POWs" "In this war, many things have been new" "Many things will continue to be new" "It's unusual to free prisoners.... ...in wartime" "I spoke to the German authorities" "I asked the Führer to be so good as to consider the situation of families and particularly of children deprived of their fathers" "And so you are free" "He has it all back" "Country, family, work." "The page is turned" "The earth awaits tomorrow's toil" "The women of France have worked valiantly" "Lamirand, Minster for Youth" "Pétain has asked the French people to fight for what he calls the National Revolution" "That means a real revolution breaking deliberately once and for all with everything that led France into its present situation" "To achieve that, we need the enthusiasm and the purity of the young" "In the main, it is the young who will create the National Revolution" "This revolution will happen on a social level" "It will happen on a European scale" "In the building of the new Europe, the young will give France the place her genius and renewed power deserve" "Our young people are determined to furnish every effort by showing love for their work and united determination and by acts of renunciation and sacrifice" "The will carry through this revolution with enthusiasm and joy" "An Institute for Jewish Research has been set up in Pars" "The Institute will not be subject to any political party" "It will be a central bureau of co-ordination and information dealing with the Jewish issue scientifically and studying the problem at a European level" ""The Jewish Peril" (1941) The Jew is like a rat" "Like rats the Jew is a coward he's sly and cruel" "He feels the irresistible need to destroy" "The Jews' power lies in their superior numbers and, like proliferating rats, they are a danger to human health" "Talking of salubrious places let's visit the dark and repulsive pigsty where this Jewish family lives" "Vermin swarms there" "Maréchal Pétain speaks to France" "On 17th June 1940, a year ago today I made my first appeal to France" "Today my voice is firmer because France is recovering" "But many Frenchmen won't admit it" "Do they really believe their lot is more tragic than last year?" "You have short memories" "Believe me, this is no time to indulge in bitterness or give way to despair" "You have not been sold, betrayed or abandoned" "Those who say so are lying and are throwing you into the arms of Communism" "You will suffer for a long time still for we have not atoned yet for all our faults I need your trust, the trust of your hearts and minds" "I need your wisdom and patience" "These attributes you will only acquire under my discipline" "None but those who forget our history or enemies of our unity will seek to escape" "Remember you are men" "Men of an old and glorious nation" "Pull yourselves together, forget your fears" "Give me your trust" "Together we shall emerge from the night of this terrible blunder" "GERMANY" "Dawn on 22nd June 1941" "Propaganda Minister Goebbels broadcasts Hitler's proclamation which condemns Russian Bolshevism for machinating for 20 years to destroy Europe" "Germany and Finland are now brothers in arms" "Day and night troops roll east" "Leningrad is threatened" "Poverty there, intrigue here..." "Crime everywhere" "For 15 years in central Paris the GPU, Russia's Secret Police, has had a base where evil is perpetrated" "This house with barred windows is more like a prison than an embassy" "What were these sinister peepholes for?" "What kind of diplomacy needed such devices?" "Ovens which look very much like those in a crematorium cast a glaring light on the GPU's activities" "France no longer wants Red crime on its soil" "France calls for the liquidation of Bolshevism and the birth of a new Europe free from Moscow's influence" "French Volunteers Against Bolshevism hold their first meeting at the Winter Velodrome" "It wasn't France or the French who were beaten" "It was those vile Jews and Capitalists who led us" "Jacques Doriot, French Popular Party ...and be worthy of Europe we must fight Bolshevism alongside Europe." "There's no other way" "In Versailles, the first anti- Bolshevik contingent is constituted" "Young French men enroll with Pétain's approval to take part in Europe's crusade against Bolshevism" "What's happening?" "Someone has fired on Laval" "LAVAL was not in office at the time" "While German is engaged against the USSR the RAF, thinking the occupied territories would be underdefended attempts a Channel sortie" "CODED RADIO MESSAGES" "The postman was asleep" "The elephant has broken a tusk" "Once more, France is wounded by her former ally" "Victorious Britain?" "Half its merchant marine is sunk" "And a third of its navy" "Britain has lost Europe" "It's losing the little influence it had on the Soviet continent" "It will soon lose its influence in India." "Britain is beaten" "Her only way out is to negotiate peace" "But I'd rather she didn't." "It might be at France's expense" "It's France's future, her recovery and, as Pétain said, the possibility of keeping her place as a great European and colonial power" "It's being able to look our children in the eye and say..." ""Despite the contempt and hostility of others." "We've worked hard so you'll have a much better life than us" ""We've worked hard for your happiness"" "That should be our legacy" "Pétain is a guest of the Limousin" "He has come to visit the youth organisations" "He wants the young healthy in mind and body ready for the edifying tasks before them" "M. Lamirand, Minster for Youth" "Repeat after me." "Long live France" "And long live the Maréchal" "Out of 100 people of old French stock at least 90 are pure-bred whites." "It's different with the Jews" "They're the result of thousands of years of interbreeding between Aryans, Mongols and Negroes" "HOW TO TELL A JEW FROM A FRENCHMAN" "France has been the victim of its generosity and traditional hospitality" "Since 1936, she has been overrun by Jews" "Jews held all France's top posts" "After plunging a peace-loving country into war they led France to its worst ever defeat" "Such was the destructive work of the Jews" "Paris." "World News has managed to film.... ...part of the trial of the Jew, Tanenzat, alias Bernard Nathan" "Our presence embarrasses the accused who would like more privacy" "The preliminaries are over and the Court proceeds to delve into Nathan's many swindles" "France eagerly awaits its judgement" "But other Jews are still on the run with forged papers" "In their new promised land, the Côte d'Azur they continue speculating despite the poverty of the people" "They flaunt their stolen wealth" "Why should they care about the misery of a country which isn't theirs?" "Cocksure and cynical, they invade casinos and bet millions." "People's misery doesn't bother them" "They speculate on it." "They're the kings of the black market" "But they'll be stopped" "Pleasure has prevailed over the spirit of sacrifice" "People have made demands instead of making efforts and the result is misery" ""I hate the lies that did us so much harm," Pétain said" "The people who corrupted us and still spread lies are always the Jews" "They'll e expelled from our society no matter what tricks they try" "They held all the key roles in the economy" "Now our youth can have those jobs" "From now on, we shall not seek pleasure without effort" "Conscious of their national responsibility, our children will create a new life and a new civilisation purged of all destructive and anti-social elements" "Let us put the past behind us" "Let us trust Pétain who has made the first move to free us by proclaiming the Jewish Statute" "This is the dawn of a new era with unlimited possibilities" "On your feet, Europe!" "People of France, answer "present"!" "This isn't what you think" "These film stars were admired by the whole world" "But fame is transitory" "Old films are now torn up and their pictures chemically erased" "Your favourite star will now be used to varnish your nails" "Old films are now used to make nail varnish" "The residue is then melted down to make shoe-polish" "With a little imagination, you'll see reflected in your shoes a smile you once dreamt of" "A year ago Pétain accompanied by Laval arrived in Montoire where they met Hitler" "It was the dawn of a new era for a beaten, isolated France" "But this gleam of hope unleashed enormous hatred beyond our frontiers" "Shots were fired at officers of the occupying army" "Two died." "Fifty Frenchmen have already paid for this crime with their lives" "Another fifty will be shot tomorrow if the culprits aren't found" "Your duty is clear" "These killings must be stopped" "You must aid justice" "One culprit found means 100 French lives saved" "Don't let France suffer" "1st December 1941" "By special train Pétain goes to the occupied zone to meet Goering" "...to establish a sold relationship between our two peoples" "Ambassador Scapini has touching words for prisoners' children attending a regular film show organised for them by a Paris weekly" "Dear children" "Your lives have begun inauspiciously" "But you will be brave" "Your dads and brothers in the prison camps are thinking of you" "Give them the satisfaction, when they come home of seeing children who have borne separation bravely" "Children prepared to be leaders of the French recovery" "M. Lamirand inaugurates an exhibition of drawings sent to Pétain by French children" "All our children responded to the appeal" "They wanted to show Pétain their towns and villages" "To tell him about their daily life through their pictures" "One of the youngest delivered her lovingly-written letter in person" "From Portalet to Riom, the road of justice" "Near Burgos, on the Spanish border, is the fort of Portalet... where the men responsible for our defeat are detained" "In Riom, judges prepare their trial" "In Paris, at the Winter Velodrome, 25,000 people attend the anti-Bolshevik meeting presided over by Marcel Déat" "On behalf of France and, even though she may not yet have agreed and may not yet have fully understood the Légion is taking out in her name a fabulous mortgage on the future" "Abel Bonnard's speech" "We want to create a noble and true order for everyone and we'll succeed because we'll use our intelligence, will and love" "The Führer welcomes Lieutenant Marseille who has just shot down his 100th British plane" "On the night of 3rd March in a massive attack the RAF dropped hundreds of bombs on Paris" ""After these days of misery and hunger," Pétain said..." ""...our patriotism has been tragically tested" ""This bloody attack on civilians...." ""...will arouse general anger..." ""...and be viewed s a national catastrophe"" "The French renaissance" "In Vichy, Pétain gathered France's prefects to receive their oaths of loyalty" "M. Carle swears on behalf of all 114 prefects" ""I swear loyalty to you..." ""...and promise to fulfill my task with honour and integrity..." ""...for the good of the state"" "This sober ceremony is a sign of the new times" "At this grave moment, France has a new government" "At Pétain's request, Prime Minister Laval has created a new ministry for foreign policy needs" "Paris, M. Heydrich arrives" "SS General, Head of Security, Reich representative in Prague he has been appointed by Himmler to install M. Oberg as chief of the German police force in the occupied zone" "While in Paris, General Heydrich received M. Bousquet" "M. Darquier de Pellepoix will supervise Jewish affairs" "A yellow star is to be worn by Jews in the occupied zone" "There'd be no problem if Jews had blue skins but they don't so we need a way to recognise them" "Holiday time" "Last year, thanks to you and National Aid, a million city children passed a month in the country" "We must do better this year" "Only by work shall we make a recovery" "Here a new industry is being created out of the fuel crisis" "Gas generation" "After 18 hours, the wood becomes charcoal" "Then it's cooled for 24 hours" "Thirteen kgs of charcoal give you the equivalent of 10 litres of petrol" "Sign of the times" "Your hair, ladies and gentlemen, will be used to make your clothes" "The hair is washed and dried" "The filaments are then mixed with a little fibre" "This is carded into strands and then twisted to make all sizes of thread" "Now all that remains to be done is the weaving" "Ladies, your gloves and slippers will be made of hair" "Your sweater, sir, may be made from your beloved's hair" "Wood will resole your shoes" "Cut planed and polished" "Then formed into soles which can be lined and grooved for elasticity" "Until better times arrive your cobbler will abandon leather and rubber for wood as used in the olden days" "At the Winter Velodrome, a charity gala in aid of policemen firemen and the security forces" "The athletes approach" "Miss, you're wearing your girdle." "You swim in it?" "Of course." "It's my Scandale girdle" "Pétain, touring France is welcomed in Châteauroux and the Berry" "In both unoccupied and occupied zones the exchange of POWs begins" "In Marseille, the 2,000th volunteer worker leaves for Germany" "The young of Paris have also responded to Pétain's appeal" "They're off to Germany to do their apprenticeship" "Many have responded to Pétain's and Laval's call" "I'm here on behalf of France and her leader" "I bring you Maréchal Pétain's greetings" "Men, you are going to Germany of your free will" "clandestine RADIO Don't go to Germany" "There are still 1,200,000 POWs in the camps" "France is waiting with impatience for her POWs to return" "The path we must follow is long" "We will meet obstacles" "To overcome them, we must take inspiration from the great soldier who presides over our destiny" "Long live France" "Long live Pétain" "Long live Laval" "Are they right or wrong?" "Sunday in Paris" "The cafés are full" "This well-dressed man has no tie" "Is he right or wrong?" "He's right." "What's the use of a tie today?" "We've so few clothes coupons" "For smokers, tobacco is a real problem." "The butt end was once a poor man's right but today charity begins at home" "This should be enough for a pipe" "Is he right or wrong?" "Right because tobacco is in short supply" "Wrong because butt-ends re ad for your health" "So are they right or wrong?" "The world's eyes are turned on Dieppe" "British, American and Canadian troops attempt a landing" "A division comes ashore" "At sea, 26 transports await the result of the battle" "The next day Britain reports..." ""Our troops were met by a curtain of fire"" "The attackers could not silence the German defence" "It's 4pm." "The operation has failed totally" "The English have left behind 3,500 dead, wounded and prisoners" "The German government recognises the bravery of these young men who were sacrificed by their High Command with amazing nonchalance" "The people of Dieppe fought fires and helped the defenders" "To reward their bravery Hiter has released all POWs from the Dieppe area" "At Dieppe station, the first khaki uniforms appear" "Everyone looks for his loved ones" "Unforgettable moments, reflecting the hope in our hearts" "Mothers, wives, children are living their finest hour" "Was this not a generous gesture?" "Today hatred is no more." "We must all work to make our country great and to build peace between our peoples" "30th August" "From tribune decked in purple, the country's saviour reviews an impressive parade" "Pétain goes to Jaude Square where Légionnaires renew their oath of loyalty" "Before a fervent crowd, he addresses the whole country" "Too many French people look back" "They still believe in a return to an easy life under the old regime" "Politicians who have lost their privileges..." "Bourgeois businessmen blinded by selfishness..." "Trusts eager to restore domination..." "Public officials, passively if not actively hostile" "I will not accept doubts or complaints whatever their source" "Pétain then leaves to meet Laval" "THE SCHOOLS OF THE STATE POLICE" "At this school founded in 1942 policemen receive 5 weeks's training" "Five weeks of active, disciplined life give men who have the delicate and often dangerous job of ensuring law and order a sense of duty dedication and national pride" "It was said 1942 would be the year of the Middle East" "Rommel has reinforced his position in the west..." "Von Bock has reached the Caucasus" "German troops have pierced Stalingrad's defences" "On the Don the last Russian units have been wiped out in fierce fighting" "Through Kalmuck country, German troops advance towards the Caspian Sea" "Near the Turkish and Iranian borders the men face a range of climates" "Prisoner exchanges continue" "ALL FOR ONE..." "ONE FOR ALL..." "The second and third trains of freed POWs arrive in Compiègne" "M. De Brinon and M. Lagardelle meet them" "The Germans say there'll be another 3 trains this month" "I'm very happy" "The others hope to return soon" " You had a good trip?" " Yes 48 hours is nothing after two years" "You're 300 from the free zone?" "About 230" "The Battle of Stalingrad" "Day and night, German squadrons support the infantry's pincer movement from the north, west and south" "They bombard Soviet fortifications and dive-bomb troop concentrations" "German troops have infiltrated the suburbs" "There is no mechanised support" "There is hand-to-hand fighting in the streets" "German troops advance house by house, meeting desperate resistance" "In the Velodrome in Paris, Marcel Cerdan and Spaniard José Ferrer dispute the European middle-weight championship" "Cerdan is the new European champion" "Touring French Africa Admiral Darlan arrives in Dakar where he's met by Governor Boisson who has held West Africa for France" "Stalingrad is in ruins" "Fighting is hand-to-hand" "All eyes are on Africa where Rommel's German and Italian troops struggle to contain the British advance" "At the Winter Garden in Berlin, French trapeze artists are a great success" "Frenchmen, some officers in the service of a foreign power... have refused to obey my orders" "Generals, officers and soldiers of the African Army do not obey these unworthy leaders" "I order you to resist Anglo-Saxon aggression" "Your only duty is to obey" "Your only government is the one to which I gave power" "On the Eastern front" "Near Leningrad in the hard Russian winter troops are learning to adapt" "The new camouflage" "It's very cold" "The blizzard blows" "The men's lives are a daily fight against the winter as well as the enemy" "Thanks to them, Europe is spared the nightmare of Bolshevism" "PETAIN'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE" "I am not giving you my good wishes for the future tonight because I've no more idea than you what the future holds" "Misery or a better life?" "Providence works in mysterious ways" "But I tell you this." "You should meditate on your misfortunes" "Far from making you dejected, meditation will lift you up" "Try to understand what you were, what you are, what you must become" "YOUR MEMORY IS SHORT" "School children are Vichy's guests of honour" "Pétain is meeting 1,200 of the most industrious who will hand him donations collected all over France" "More than four million francs for POWs' children" "French solidarity is no empty word" "Pétain had gifts for his visitors" "A HISTORIC DATE FOR EUROPE" "Ten years ago, Hitler took power" "Tonight, SS and SA columns parade before the Führer" "The great task undertaken by the Reich is little known in France" "First, unemployment was reduced 5 million were unemployed in 1932" "In ten years, the number has been reduced to 335,000" "In heroic times, nations create new architecture" "Inspired by the Führer ...hundreds of pure, noble monuments have appeared in Germany" "A whole fleet has been launched... so workers can go on free cruises" "From 1934 to 1939, thanks to the organisation 'Strength through Joy'... ..35 million workers and peasants went on holiday" "Ten years of social effort to create a strong, healthy people" "The Hitler Youth gives physical, spiritual and moral education" "Hitler is our Saviour and hero" "The noblest creature in the world" "For Hitler we live" "For Hitler we die" "Hitler is our Lord" "He reigns over a new world" "Assembled at Versailles French Volunteers against Bolshevism prepare for the Eastern front" "In a few days they'll join others fighting in the harsh Russian winter to protect Europe from Bolshevism" "On the Eastern Front, pulling back under enemy pressure" "The harsh wind slows down the operation" "Behind the frontline" "The smallest thing is difficult" "The bread is frozen" "German troops manage to keep control of this village" "European forces prepare a counter-attack" "The airforce backs the infantry by bombing communication lines" "The policy of collaboration with Germany followed by Laval since Montoire is again successful" "The demarcation line set up at the armistice will no longer hinder travellers" "50,000 POWs are released" "250,000 POWs become free workers in Germany with the same wages and holidays as workers from France" "France is rewarded for its collaboration against Bolshevism and is recognised by the Reich" "In Berlin Propaganda Minister Goebbels contends that if Germans give their blood for Europe  it is only right that Europe should work for the Reich" "Are you prepared to follow the Führer in the fight for victory?" "Are you prepared for the greatest personal sacrifice?" "At 2 pm... 748 ...Rennes suddenly has 262 dead" "75 of them women, 43 children" "And 500 wounded" "The city organises funerals for the victims of the American airforce" "A few moments ago Archbishop Roque declared, "Faced by so many coffins..." ""...it's impossible for us..." ""...to contain our pain and anger" ""The monsters have rained down death and destruction on us"" "Lorient suffered the worst damage" "CODED MESSAGES I don't like crépes suzette" "'Le Cid' is playing at the Opéra" "At Aincourt M. Bousquet, Police Secretary General ...reviews 1,200 security police" "They will be sent to Paris, Lille, Rennes and Nancy" "M. Bousquet hands the standard to those about to take up their posts" "The Atlantic defences are finished." "For 3 years, thousands of workers from the TODT organisation have toiled in its construction" "Cement mixers worked day and night" "This long-range cannon is installed" "From the North Cape to the Pyrenees, the Germans are on guard" "From earliest childhood man creates and builds" "People aren't selected or oriented on intellectual grounds alone" "This adolescent, when tested shows an excellent memory" "He'll be advised to take up weaving" "Precise movements and correct estimation of weight reveal a balance that makes good sculptors" "This youngster is a good judge of shapes." "He should take up pottery" "Yet many have never had the benefit of advice or been directed in their efforts" "And many have wanted to follow in their father's footsteps" "Their work is just as precious, their efforts just as sacred" "Other jobs depend on theirs" "Foundrymen provide the bars for reinforced concrete but without the cement worker there'd be no concrete to reinforce" "For years workers' solidarity was denied by the regime" "This encouraged demagogues who turned workers' just claims into political agitation" "The Workers' Charter, tool of social harmony helps men understand, trust and love one another" "As its base, Factory Social Committees promoting collaboration between management and labour" "Trade unions remain grouping those in different trades" "Trade unions meet in conjunction with the local Social Committee" "The Social Committee deals with wages and collective bargaining" "Professional associations are tied in with the trade unions" "Local unions are grouped into regional unions" "Regional unions are formed into a Regional Social Committee" "This Regional Committee gathers Local Committee information and sends out documentation" "It adapts rules and decisions of all kinds to regional needs" "Regional unions are grouped into federations which are grouped into a National Committee in charge of all trades and professions" "The Social Committees will manage local funds with an added government grant of FF 1,000,000,000" "...a fair, fraternal and human organisation of work in France" "The one rule for consumers is restraint" "Only turn on the gas after lighting your match." "Turn it off before removing the pan" "Boiling water can't get hotter." "Turn down the gas" "Cover your saucepans and be ingenious" "Clean your burners often" "Showers use ten times less gas than baths" "Turn pilot lights off" "The miner's efforts must be matched by the consumer's." "Watch your meter" "Ladies and gentlemen" "You will never be disappointed if you use a Wonder battery" "A Wonder battery only wears out if you use it" "Friends of the silver screen" "This season, French cinema has made great efforts to give you good quality entertainment" "'Les Visiteurs du Soir'" "'Pontcarral'" "'Monsieur La Souris'" "'Le Destin Fabuleux de Désiré Clary'" "'La Nuit Fantastique'" "'Dernier Atout'" "Say 'Mummy"" "Say it again" "It's not possible, it's not possible" "Yes, it is" "COMING SOON" "'Occult Forces'" "Parliament is corrupt, both the left and the right" "You Capitalists..." "You've led the working class into poverty" "And you Communists have been exploiting the poverty the Capitalists produced" "For the first time in history, POWs arrive home on leave" "After flowers, wine" "A taste almost forgotten" "These are the first of the 250,000 POWs to become free workers in Germany" "In France or Germany work against the enemy" "Pétain addresses all French workers" "Revolutions prompted by hatred have never benefited the people" "They destroy the common good and harm the innocent" "Discard the prestige of doctrines of disorder and death so seductive in their new guise" "Help me and you'll obtain in a France rebuilt with love a May Day no longer a day of protest by the proletariat but a celebration of work, with order, joy and freedom" "True to their word POWs on leave return to embark for Germany where they'll be free workers" "In Paris an event in honour of the Légion of French Volunteers" "Monseigneur Mayol De Luppé, Chaplain of the Légion, speaks" "M. Hebeley told many people - not just one person" "He wanted to offer up his life..." "He wanted to give his blood for the Légion to make her worthy, to make France thanks to the Légion, worthy of its past glory" "The France of St-Louis, Joan of Arc, Henry IV, Louis XIV" "France is alive in the hearts of our good French people" "That's what the Légion and Légionnaires symbolise" "Long live the Légion ideal" "Long live our dead, long live the Légion" "On his return from the Eastern Front, Ambassador De Brinon is greeted by Minister Schleier and the Préfet de Police" "At the front, he reviews the French Volunteers against Bolshevism and thanks them on behalf of Pétain and his government" "Next he visits the mass graves at Katyn where bodies continue to be exhumed - 20,000 to 40,000 of them" ""Infernal," declared M. De Brinon on his return" "But no words can express this sight" "Unite men of science workers and humble peasants" "Join your strengths and experience" "Work like craftsmen together" "Be pioneers of the new life" "It will be our tribute" "Listen to Doriot calling you to the noblest of causes" "Free yourself" "France, free yourself from your old divisions which the foreigner brings in the form of false promises" "School children are competing in The Best Letter Competition organised by the National Association for Workers in Germany" "M. Abel Bonnard" "I'm touched that, at the end of the year when Christmas brings back the ghost of happy days to our dark times France's children should be writing to show their distant fathers they love them even more than if they were here" "How can you show them you're thinking of them?" "By writing, sir" "What will you write?" "That I'll be good at home to please him" "What else?" "That I'll help Mum" "Tell them all the simple things and I'm sure you'll write the best letter" "Another new school" "The National School of Police for future commanders" "How to use a machine-gun" "In addition to practical training, the students have physical training" "General education is covered too." "They use microscopes to detect crime" "After a year's training they become police commanders" "On the Eastern front motorised divisions are sent to new positions" "At the same time, engineers do their work of destruction" "The German High Command has decided to lay waste all land left to the enemy" "For the first time, Paris was bombed by the Anglo-American airforce" "Help arrived quickly" "Minutes after the bombing, the fire brigade, National Aid civil defence services and the Red Cross are on the spot" "Bombs fell on the peaceful districts of Auteuil and Vaugirard" "Many homes are in mourning." "Over 100 dead and 225 wounded" "A Parisian shoe-maker has created the luminous shoe" "A battery in the heel" "A small bulb on the upper and you'll be seen at night" "It will save you bumping into other pedestrians on the unlit streets" "MARECHAL PETAIN DELIVERS XMAS MESSAGE TO THE FRENGH PEOPLE" "Dear friends. circumstances force me to make my Xmas wishes sound like a supreme exhortation" "Listen to a man only here for you, who loves you like a father" "Once more, I beg you to think of the fatal danger our country would face if an awful civil war broke out or if Communism and its barbarism triumphed" "But let us not end Christmas Eve with such painful visions" "I want to reaffirm my hope before you and with you" "Our POWs and workers are far from us." "They will return home" "Our towns are destroyed." "We shall rebuild them" "The storms we are enduring will pass" "The French will love each other again" "On 1st January, Pétain and Prime Minister Laval carried out their first duty of the year" "They received minsters representatives of the occupation authorities and diplomats thus affirming their harmony" "French people, remember" "Yesterday isn't that long ago" "Unemployment, the cancer of Capitalism, was rife in France" "By a cruel fate, these men and women seemed excluded from normal life." "They had no right to make a living" "They were a burden on society" "NO VACANCIES They were a burden on society" "Despite a year of war in 1940, there were still 1,074,188 unemployed" "In 1941, there were only 181,768" "This great reduction took only a year" "In 1942, the number of unemployed in France went down to 59,262" "In 1943, there were just 10,583 unemployed" "Today there are none" "Why?" "Pétain, our leader, says..." ""You may be far from home but you're still working for France" ""Yesterday's unemployed are now workers conscious of their duty" ""Working for our common country, Europe"" "You men preaching patriotism whilst sheltering behind your microphones in London and Algiers." "Where do you stand?" "We're told we're not patriots because we collaborate with Germany" "Because we believe it's essential for Europe" "We're told we're not patriots because we accept defeat" "It breaks our hearts too but we start from that point with courage using French methods and French leaders to attain a French recovery" "And you say we're not patriots?" "You who have so lost faith in your country that you count on foreigners to bring back what's lost" "In Paris, Field Marshal Rommel meets Field Marshal Von Rundstedt" "Ordered by the Führer, he visits the Atlantic fortifications with a group of experienced officers" "All along the coastline the German army is on guard" "Near Chalon-sur-Saône, 18 die in a terrorist attack" "These are not reprisals but legitimate self-defence" "They salute the bodies of three security officers killed while fighting Communist terrorists" "Anglo-American planes drop incendiary bombs on Clermont-Ferrand" "Pétain goes in person to comfort the victims" "In Paris, Labour Minister Bichelonne cedes his post to M. Déat" "The ministers introduce their assistants" "Air battle at the Nettuno bridgehead" "Afterwards, anti-aircraft guns open up" "Enemy ships re bombarded in Anzio harbour" "It is your duty to tell our French brothers about the LVF" "GENERAL EDGAR PUAUD LEGION OF FRENCH VOLUNTEERS (LVF)" "It has been dragged in the mud" "Wearing grey uniforms doesn't make us German" "These sons and fathers aren't soldiers of fortune" "They're risking their lives for an deal" "I only wish others did as much" "...a strong France which will be symbolised by a new army a young army, a dynamic army" "Just tell the French those in the East are true Frenchmen fighting for their country" "At the Winter Velodrome French Volunteers against Bolshevism cheered by 20,000 people call on the youth of France" "Pushed around and shaken by the truth among this apathetic people youth doesn't know where to turn" "It's a beautiful mystery, a chronicle in verse that our boys are writing with their bayonets and blood on this immense white page of Russia's snowy steppes" "Youth of France, will you understand the Légion's spiritual message?" "Don't our young people realise that if they don't fight European youth fighting on the Eastern front will despise them?" "To he twenty..." "To live in the greatest period of history and to behave like physical and moral hooligans how weak and degenerate!" "They gave their lives to fight banditry" "Before leaving Vichy temporarily Pétain attends the trooping of the colour a ceremony held in Issy each Sunday since the armistice" "More upright than ever despite his responsibilities he is still young in mind and above all in heart" "The great soldier is the leader around whom our threatened French unity must be consolidated" "Pétain goes to the Paris town hall with M. Bousquet and M. Bussières" "Pétain is out to sign the city's book of honour" "Afterwards he said..." ""I beg you to do nothing that might endanger Laval's and my actions..." ""...and France's future"" "Paris shows its joy at seeing the man who best incarnates France's image I have come to visit you" "I can't address each of you one by one." "It's impossible" "You're too many I think of you a lot" "As soon as I can, I will come back on an official visit I hope to see you again soon" "He drives triumphantly through Paris" "I don't work for Germany, I don't work for the enemy" "I'm not like Messieurs Grenier, Marty and Labarthe nor those Jews, Schumann, Dac, Bloch... 14th March ...and Mendès-France" "Many times it's been said Pétain wouldn't dare leave Vichy or be seen in France's true capital" "But when he came to Paris the other day million Parisians crowded the streets" "One felt it was the moment when people came to their senses and began regaining their lost unity" "Heavy guns every 300 yards" "Along 2,000 kms from the Pyrenees to the North Sea 6,000 guns in gun emplacements" "Plus 5,000 pieces of artillery and 3,000 armour-piercing guns" "Millions of mines have been laid at sea, and on the beaches there are barbed-wire fences and traps to stop advancing tanks" "There are daily drills" "The men take up action stations" "These blockhouses used 10 million tons of concrete" "The cement lorries, end to end, would have stretched round the globe" "Posts are inter-communicating" "Lifts bring up men from underground" "In minutes, everything is ready" "Here is an exceptional document" "An invasion exercise by Anglo-American troops" "Footage obtained with great difficulty" "Landing craft head for the shore" "They are followed by specially designed tanks" "A beachhead is established" "But the troops are surrounded by the German defence" "If an invasion were attempted, this is how the Germans would react" "Millions of tons of steel fall on the attacker" "Hellish visions." "They are ready" "It's not their enemies the Anglo-Americans are bombing" "It's France" "This building in flames ...isn't just a house, it's a home" "Tomorrow it could be yours" "Is this modern warfare?" "Is this the new Anglo-American weapon?" "Decimating..." "Murdering defenceless French people?" "No other word for it." "This is murder" "Actors like Jean Marais and Alain Cuny murdering Racine's work would be no less sacrilegious than Britain attacking our cathedrals" "Events are dictating the news." "The Whitsun holiday" "A bloody day." "Lille, Marseille, Epinal, Nantes, Nice, Rouen 5,000 dead, over 7,000 wounded, over 100,000 bombed-out in 3 days" "The Anglo-Americans can be proud of themselves" "This is London." "The French speak to the French" "Be patient, we're coming" "Isn't this France?" "Yes, bomb them" "Mickey, is it true they have better spinach in France?" "We're coming, we're coming, we're coming" "Léonie, we'll have steak and chips again" "And coffee in the morning" "And English cigarettes" "Hot chocolate and croissants" "This is London." "French friends, our programme is over" "Pétain is in Lorraine to show his sympathy for the victims" "This is Square Stanislas in Nancy" "As in Paris, Louviers and Rouen Pétain's visit was not announced in advance" "Yet people have come out quite spontaneously" "Listen to their shouts." "This isn't joy by decree or a cheers brigade" "Don't take part in the conflict" "It would cause you and France only grief" "Accept the ordeals that are sent to us." "They are terrible" "But they'll ne less terrible if you don't take part" "Trust in France's future" "28th May Cheering in Dijon" "Tomorrow, Pétain goes back to Vichy as freely as he left it" "In Algiers or London they think they're better patriots than us" "But they can no longer say we don't see Pétain as our only legitimate leader" "Yesterday in the Commons Mr Eden talked about a landing in France" "So a landing may be attempted tomorrow" "What if only French troops are involved and they're told "You can have the honour of reconquering France"?" "And then they're massacred by Germans troops" "Meanwhile the British rub their hands in glee calculating the regiments they've saved" "Historic night of the 5th June 1944" "The Anglo-Americans land in Normandy" "The supreme battle has begun" "After so much fighting, fury and pain... comes the decisive shock" "So long awaited" "It's not only the French battle" "It's the Battle of France" "The enemy has widened its beachhead by sacrificing thousands of men" "Parachute divisions and airborne troops land behind German lines" "In fields and woods, gliders lie wrecked" "In three days, 1,300 gliders have been destroyed" "In the sky RAF and Luftwaffe squadrons fight a merciless duel" "The Caen area is bombed" "German armoured divisions continue to press forward" "The battle spreads across the Normandy countryside" "Sadly there will be no harvest here" "In a week 400 Anglo-American tanks have been put out of action" "Protected by their ships' guns, after 12 days' fighting the assailants have control of a 100 km coastal strip" "After months of terrorist attacks, France once more faces war" "War on our soil with its vile retinue of destruction desolation and death" "Behind the lines, France's martyrdom has begun" "Here is Lisieux" "After 22 minutes' bombing, it looks like the ruins of Pompei" "The town is now only a name on a map" "HOPE" "On 10th June, 1944 4 days after France's invasion the 'Maréchal Pétain' is prepared for its launch" "Image of a time of peace, a comforting image" "It lights in our hearts a glimmer of hope" "First things first." "Maintain life, and law and order" "It is vital for France's future" "At Belleville, the Choirboys of the Wooden Cross celebrate their 20th anniversary" "We remember the man who died in the service of France" "All Europe will feel his loss" "Philippe Henriot is no more but his faith and words remain in our hearts" "It's as if we could still hear his passionate voice" "Insult me, criticise me, I won't answer back" "Any split blood was your doing" "I won't honour slanderers and murderers by talking to them" "I can't hate you because I'd only be hating a name you'd stolen" "I despise you too much to say more" "Bombing Paris has no bearing on the war but it makes life difficult" "Yet artistic life goes on" "There's an open-air performance of 'Mignon'" "A good audience assembles under the trees" "It's a tradition in the capital" "Parisians know how to adapt" "There's no electricity so many theatres have removed their roofs for open-air shows" "Artists won't give in." "And, when it rains, people have umbrellas" "LAST NEWSREEL OF THE OCCUPATION Geneva's Ethnographic Museum is host to a strange exhibition" "Grotesque or frightening the diversity of these masks is amazing" "The collection offers great interest to visitors" "In 1940, there are 1,600,000 French POWs in Germany" "In 1944, there re 1,750,000 French POWs workers and deportees there" "Men and women we're here, we're home in Paris which rose to liberate herself by her own hands" "We will not hide our deep and sacred emotion" "We all feel that some moments surpass each of our paltry lives" "Paris was raped" "Paris was broken, martyrised" "But Paris was liberated." "Liberated by her own hands" "It was liberated by her people with the help of France's armies with the support and the help of the whole of France" "I mean the strong France, the only France the real France, the eternal France" "Three months ago, Pétain, dismissed by Hitler, surrendered to France" "At the Swiss order General Koenig took charge of the man who used our defeat to suppress the Republic" "Pétain, now with a rather different personal guard, has been imprisoned" "After Montoire, Montrouge" "Extraction: coloraday @ KG"