Not Rated | 41min | Documentary, Short, War | 1943 (USA)
The official World War II US government account of Nazi international aggression leading up to the British and French declarations of war.
Directors: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Writers: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Adolf Hitler, Eric Knight, Anthony Veiller
Stars: Eduard Benes, Neville Chamberlain, Clementine Churchill
The official World War II US government account of Nazi international aggression leading up to the British and French declarations of war.
Directors: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Writers: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Adolf Hitler, Eric Knight, Anthony Veiller
Stars: Eduard Benes, Neville Chamberlain, Clementine Churchill
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02:34In the last 75 years, this madness has cost the world
02:38more than 20 million killed, more than 60 million wounded,
02:42more than 200 million made homeless.
02:45This does not include the untold millions
02:48that died of disease resulting from war.
02:51Or the billions upon billions of dollars worth of property
02:54destroyed, nor does this include the grief, the anguish,
03:01the misery, the terror that the world has suffered
03:05due to the Germans' insane passion to enforce their rule
03:09upon their neighbors.
03:11This passion for conquest reached its hysterical climax
03:15when Adolf Hitler enthroned himself as God
03:18and the German Fuhrer.
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03:25What fantastic dreams was this humorless man dreaming
03:29as he stood at Nuremberg and looked down
03:31his fanatic followers?
03:33In the Middle Ages, a plague of slavery descended on the world.
03:37Out of the wilds of Mongolia came a mighty army
03:41of fierce horsemen led by Genghis Khan.
03:45Burning, looting, pillaging, a barbarian horde swept
03:51across Asia and Eastern Europe.
03:54Genghis Khan conquered most of the world of the 13th century.
03:59Adolf Hitler was determined to outdo him
04:02and conquer all of the world of the 20th.
04:06Set up at Munich was an institute devoted
04:09to the little-known science of geopolitics.
04:12Vaguely defined as the military control of space.
04:17Germany's leading geopolitician, a former general,
04:21Karl Haushofer, was head man.
04:25Here was gathered together more information
04:27about your hometown than you yourself know.
04:31To the German geopolitician, the world is not made up
04:35of men and women and children who live and love
04:39and dream of better things.
04:41It is made up of only two elements,
04:44labor and raw materials.
04:47The geopolitician's job was to transform Hitler's ambition
04:52to control these elements into cold, hard reality.
04:59On their map, our planet is neatly divided
05:02into land and water.
05:04Water forms 3 quarters of the Earth's surface.
05:08Land, only one quarter.
05:11And in that one quarter of the Earth's surface
05:14lies the world's wealth, all its natural resources.
05:39And the world's manpower.
05:50Control the land and you control the world.
05:54That was Hitler's theory.
05:57This all-important land, the geopoliticians
06:00now break up into two areas.
06:03One, the Western Hemisphere,
06:06which together with Australia and all the islands of the world,
06:09including Japan, comprises one-third of the land area.
06:14The other area, which consists of Europe, Asia, and Africa,
06:19makes up the other two-thirds.
06:22This supercontinent, which they call the World Island,
06:26is not only twice as large as the rest of the land area,
06:31but also includes seven areas.
06:34But also includes seven-eighths of the world's population.
06:40The heart of this world island comprises Eastern Europe
06:44and most of Asia.
06:46This they call the Heartland, which just about coincides
06:50with the old empire of Genghis Khan.
06:54Hitler's step-by-step plan for world conquest
06:57can be summarized this way.
07:00Conquer Eastern Europe.
07:04And you dominate the Heartland.
07:08Conquer the Heartland.
07:11And you dominate the World Island.
07:14Conquer the World Island.
07:18And you dominate the world.
07:21That was the dream in Hitler's mind as he stood at Nuremberg.
07:26Hitler, Sieg Heil!
07:29Sieg Heil!
07:31Sieg Heil!
07:34With pagan pageantry, the district leaders from all over Germany
07:38swore personal allegiance to him,
07:41hypnotized with the belief that they were members of a master race.
07:50This film will deal with Act I of the Nazi bid for world power,
07:54the most fantastic play in all recorded history.
08:00Hitler had seen Hirohito grab off Manchuria
08:03and other territory from the Chinese.
08:06He had watched Mussolini get away with the rape of Ethiopia.
08:11He had seen the democratic world look the other way
08:14while these illegal aggressions were going on.
08:18And he smiled.
08:20For collective action to enforce peace,
08:23the only weapon he had to fear had broken down.
08:27It was time now for the Nazis to start crossing borders.
08:32It was time for Hitler to put his plan into action.
08:36And what was he waiting for?
08:39He was waiting to soften up his victims, keep them from uniting.
08:53For the softening up process, he sent his agents all over the world
08:57disguised as tourists, students,
09:01and commercial travelers.
09:03Payoff men like Ribbentrop came, too,
09:06to bribe, threaten, and form local fascist parties
09:10such as de Grelle and his rexist party in Belgium,
09:13Henlein in Czechoslovakia,
09:17Zeiss Inquart and his National Socialists in Austria.
09:22In Britain, Sir Oswald Moseley offered himself to the people
09:26as a Hitler with a Moxford accent.
09:29In other words, I'm told that Hitler is mad.
09:34Well, I've got another view myself.
09:38Until the day when they would make easy Hitler's actual invasion,
09:42these subversive fascist organizations
09:45provoked riots and rebellions,
09:48creating scenes like these in France...
09:55and scenes like these in Belgium.
10:00And where do you think this is?
10:04Right in Madison Square Garden, USA.
10:11And this is Fritz Kuhn, leader of a German-American Bund
10:15hiding behind the American flag
10:18but taking his orders from Berlin
10:21and copying the methods of Berlin.
10:25That was the softening-up process outside Germany.
10:30But inside Germany, it was a different story.
10:34Here, in utmost secrecy, the hardening-up process,
10:38building up Hitler's army and his industry.
10:46Tell the world we have no raw materials
10:49and never let them see what goes on.
10:52Day after day, night after night,
10:55month after month, year after year,
10:59we must have the world's most powerful club.
11:03Forget hours, forget working conditions,
11:07forget how to think.
11:09Forge the club of blood and iron.
11:12Let the democracies talk about freedom.
11:15No freedom here.
11:17No labor here.
11:19No freedom here.
11:21No labor unions.
11:23No overtime.
11:25The Fuhrer tells you where to work,
11:27when to work, how long to work,
11:30how much your work is worth.
11:32Forge the club of blood and iron.
11:35We have a sacred mission.
11:37Today, we rule Germany.
11:39Tomorrow, the world.
11:42We want it! We want it!
11:45We want it! We want it!
11:48And for those who don't like it, you don't eat.
11:53Or you disappear into a concentration camp.
11:59Or you get this.
12:03And this is the man who gives it to you.
12:13And what of the army?
12:17Before Hitler came into power,
12:19the German army by treaty was limited to 100,000 men.
12:23But treaties to the Germans
12:25have always been something to ignore.
12:28These 100,000 men were, in reality,
12:31100,000 highly trained officers,
12:34the men who lead the Nazi regiments today.
12:38But Hitler didn't merely ignore the treaty.
12:41He tore it up, and in 1935,
12:44ordered national conscription.
12:48Simultaneously, he ordered German youth
12:51to become air-minded.
12:53Toy gliders filled the air.
12:55But as the boys grew bigger, so did the gliders.
13:00Soon, these same youths were trained pilots,
13:03flying the new planes the factories were producing.
13:06The Luftwaffe was being assembled.
13:12The only thing old about this new army
13:15was the goose step.
13:17And even Hitler couldn't improve
13:19on that ancient German form of torture,
13:22designed to make man stop thinking and blindly obey.
13:26Goose step them until they become as insensible as weapons.
13:35Everything else was new.
13:38Tanks, motorized equipment,
13:41and one of our own inventions, a dive bomber.
13:48All this rearmament was strictly illegal,
13:51according to the Versailles Treaty.
13:53And the next illegal step Hitler took
13:55was to march his troops into the Rhineland,
13:58a strip of land between Germany and France,
14:01demilitarized after the last war
14:03as a precaution against future German aggression.
14:06But Hitler's plan of eastern conquest
14:08demanded a barrier against democratic action in the West.
14:11So Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland
14:14and began building the formidable Siegfried Line,
14:17a chain of forts and defenses 450 miles long
14:21and, in some places, 30 miles wide.
14:24Germany had fought one two-front war
14:27and didn't want another.
14:30As many as half a million men
14:32worked as much as 20 hours a day
14:35to build 22,000 fortified positions on land,
14:39where, by treaty,
14:41no German soldier was supposed to set foot.
14:44Gunfire
14:47The German army was in a state of panic.
14:50The German army was in a state of panic.
14:53The German army was in a state of panic.
14:56Gunfire
15:02Gunfire
15:27Gunfire
15:45Hitler had his Siegfried Line.
15:47He had his equipment.
15:51He had his army.
15:54Now to unveil the German might
15:56and terrorize his intended victims into submission,
16:00general staffs all over the world
16:02anxiously awaited the report of their military attaches.
16:06A would-be peaceful world
16:09learned that a vast military power
16:12had materialized out of nowhere,
16:15a power controlled by one man who tore up treaties
16:19as we tear up ticker tape.
16:23Gunfire
16:31Satisfied they had created the right sense of fear in the world,
16:35the Nazi leaders were now ready to strike.
16:38The hour had come.
16:40It was time to start conquering Eastern Europe
16:43according to the plan of Hitler's new politicians.
16:46It was time to win the domination of the heartland.
16:50Who would the first victim be?
16:53Naturally, the softest, Austria,
16:56bite off just enough not to set the world against you.
17:00On March the 12th, 1938, without warning,
17:04the German armies marched over the Austrian border.
17:12It was really only a full-scale invasion test
17:15and Hitler rode in triumph into Vienna.
17:19Even the very name of Austria disappeared from the map.
17:23Though Hitler had promised earlier to the world,
17:26the assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich
17:31to coerce the Austrian state is absurd.
17:35Why was Austria important to Hitler?
17:38It put him on the southern flank of Czechoslovakia,
17:42and Czechoslovakia was the key to the control of Eastern Europe.
17:46The German Chancellor Bismarck explained that years ago
17:50when he said EU would conquer Europe
17:53and was first told of bastions of Bohemia.
17:57And Bohemia was now part of Czechoslovakia.
18:00But Czechoslovakia was tough.
18:03It had a good army.
18:05It had good equipment.
18:07It had one of the finest munition plants in the world,
18:10the Skoda Works, which Hitler wanted very badly.
18:15It had incorruptible President Danish.
18:19It had a military alliance with France,
18:22and France had a military alliance with Britain.
18:26Hitler had to move carefully,
18:29find excuses to take Czechoslovakia one piece at a time.
18:34He found his excuse in the Sudetenland,
18:38a portion of Czechoslovakia bordering Germany.
18:42Here lived some people of German origin,
18:44although they had never been a part of Germany itself.
18:48That was Hitler's cue.
18:53Completely ignoring the fact that most people who left Germany
18:56had done so to get away from things like Hitler,
18:59he sprang his pet theory
19:02that every person of German blood, no matter where he lived,
19:06belonged to the Nazi Reich.
19:09Germans were descendants of Germans,
19:11often with no more than a drop of German blood in their veins,
19:15suddenly learned that they were godlike,
19:18not subject to the laws of the land in which they lived
19:21and to which they owe their allegiance,
19:23whether it be Czechoslovakia,
19:26Norway,
19:29Sweden,
19:32China,
19:35the United States, or Timbuktu.
19:39According to the Nazis, the German was a special creature
19:42who remained forever German to the 6th and 7th generation
19:47and must take his orders from Berlin.
19:50Some people we know of German descent
19:53think this is a lot of hogwash.
20:10Including 15% of any group like this.
20:23But in the Sudetenland, he found some stooges
20:26who fell for this bunk.
20:28Conrad Henlein was their Bush League Führer.
20:32The people of the Sudetenland were told they should be liberated.
20:36They were told Hitler was their liberator.
20:40The Nazis smuggled over their standard softening-up equipment,
20:44blackjacks.
20:47And when the Czechs were beaten up
20:50trying to combat his 5th columnist,
20:53Hitler screamed the Germans were being persecuted
20:56and threatened war unless he got the Sudetenland.
21:02It has been a long time since Hitler
21:05It is the last territorial claim I have to make in Europe.
21:09I have assured Mr. Chamberlain, and I repeat it here,
21:13that when this problem is solved,
21:16there is for Germany no further territorial problem in Europe.
21:20We want no Czechs.
21:27To the League of Nations, Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov
21:30announced that Russia stood ready to back concerted action
21:34against Germany, but once again,
21:37there was to be no concerted action.
21:44The Czechs mobilized and closed their borders.
21:48The leaders of France and Britain,
21:51desperately striving to avoid war,
21:54flew to meet the jubilant Axis leaders at Munich.
21:57On September 29th, in return for Hitler's guarantee
22:01of world peace, Chamberlain and Deladier
22:04prevailed upon Czechoslovakia
22:07to give up the Sudetenland without a fight.
22:10In Czechoslovakia, the Munich pact was greeted
22:13by riots of protest.
22:19But Deladier returned to France to be greeted by cheers
22:22from a relieved French people.
22:25And in Britain, a happy Chamberlain came back
22:28declaring he had achieved peace.
22:31Peace in our time.
22:34One of the most tragic and ironic scenes in all history.
22:38This morning, I had another talk
22:43with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler.
22:47And here is the paper
22:50which bears his name upon it as well as mine.
22:56We regard the agreement signed last night
23:00and the Anglo-German naval agreement
23:03as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples
23:07never to go to war with one another again.
23:16Peace. It wasn't peace.
23:19The Nazis hadn't merely got 3 million more souls
23:22under the German flag.
23:25By taking the Sudetenland,
23:28they had made Czechoslovakia defenseless.
23:31For in this territory lay the natural defenses,
23:34the mountain ranges,
23:37and a defensive line of forts
23:40considered even stronger than the Maginot Line.
23:43Without these fortifications, Czechoslovakia was disarmed,
23:46a ripe plum ready to fall into Hitler's lap.
23:53Within six months of declaring
23:55that he wanted no more territory anywhere,
23:58he violated the Munich Agreement,
24:01marched in, and took the whole of the Czech state.
24:05Though he had specifically promised,
24:08I have no further interest in the Czechoslovakian state,
24:12that is guaranteed.
24:15We want no Czechs.
24:19Austria and Czechoslovakia were gone without a fight,
24:23and Hitler was getting his control of Eastern Europe.
24:27Poland was next on the map.
24:30The tired old man of Munich now knew
24:33that there could be no peace in our time.
24:38If an attempt were made
24:42to change the situation by force
24:46in such a way as to threaten Polish independence,
24:50by then that would inevitably start
24:54a general conflagration
24:57in which this country would be involved.
25:00But after his success at Munich,
25:03Hitler was sure that France and Britain would not fight.
25:07Here's what one of his spokesmen said.
25:10Democracy has no convictions
25:13for which people would be willing to stake their lives.
25:17But what about the Russians?
25:20The lights began to burn all night in Moscow.
25:24British and French military missions arrived
25:27to confer with the Soviet government.
25:30So did German representatives.
25:33And on August 21, 1939,
25:36the world was set on its heels by the announcement
25:39of a treaty between the Russians and the Germans
25:42in which they agreed not to fight each other.
25:45Here were the admitted arch enemies
25:48in a state of apparent friendship.
25:51It was too fantastic to make any sense.
25:54It didn't.
25:56The Germans hoped they could lull Russia
25:59into a false sense of security,
26:01and the Russians needed time to prepare
26:04for the fight they knew was coming.
26:06They'd read Hitler's book Mein Kampf II
26:09and knew he had his eyes on the rich Russian land.
26:17Confident that Russia was safely pigeonholed
26:20and that the democracies would not fight,
26:23the Nazis started singing their favorite theme song,
26:27that all people of German blood belonged to them,
26:31and picked Danzig as their excuse
26:34for the gobbling up of Poland.
26:36Danzig, a free city,
26:38self-governing under the League of Nations,
26:41was an important seaport at the head of the Polish Corridor,
26:45Poland's access to the sea.
26:48The same old softening-up process had gone on here.
26:53Local stooges, armed by Germany,
26:56began to terrorize the city.
26:59Hitler demanded Danzig and the Polish Corridor, or else.
27:07The people of Poland prepared for the inevitable.
27:11Although they knew Britain and France
27:13had guaranteed their borders,
27:15they also knew those countries were a long way off.
27:25Germany's theft of Czechoslovakia
27:28had made Poland's strategic position even worse.
27:32Except for the Carpathian Mountains,
27:35Poland is relatively flat and low-lying.
27:38The Vistula is the Mississippi of Poland.
27:41It is broad, muddy, and un-fordable
27:44for most of its length.
27:46Its tributaries are formidable streams
27:48during certain seasons.
27:50But there was a drought,
27:52and the streams were so low during the campaign
27:55that they could be forded at almost any point
27:58by men, trucks, and tanks.
28:01Militarily, the Vistula offered the best line of defense.
28:05However, making a stand here would have meant
28:08surrendering Warsaw, the richest part of the country.
28:11The alternative was to accept battle on the border.
28:14That was the Polish decision.
28:17The Nazi plan was an enormous pincer movement
28:20aimed at encircling the mass of the Polish army.
28:24Secondary pincer movements were to encircle
28:26any Polish groups which escaped the main track.
28:30During the last two weeks in August,
28:32the German armies moved toward the Polish border,
28:35where they assembled 70 divisions,
28:37many of them armored.
28:39From a military standpoint,
28:41the Poles were hopelessly outclassed
28:43by their predatory neighbor.
28:45They managed to mobilize barely 30 divisions
28:48made up of infantry or horse cavalry.
28:52In two important respects, the difference was staggering.
28:56The Nazis, 5,000 modern tanks.
28:59Poland, 600 nondescript tanks.
29:03The German Luftwaffe, 6,000 modern planes.
29:07The Polish Air Force, less than 1,000 of inferior types.
29:12The German army secretly made ready.
29:15The way of living for the next 1,000 years
29:18was to be decided.
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29:27The fire that had begun in Manchuria
29:30and spread through China and Ethiopia and Spain
29:35would now blaze around the world.
29:39This man made that decision.
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29:46War.
29:48Precisely at dawn on September 1st,
29:51without warning, the German Wehrmacht
29:54rolled over the Polish border.
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29:59Before the invasion was 30 minutes old,
30:02the planes of the Luftwaffe were over Poland,
30:05wiping out the Polish Air Force.
30:07Most of it caught flat-footed on the ground.
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30:33Those planes that did get off faced overwhelming odds
30:37and were shot out of the sky.
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31:26Far-flying Nazi squadrons ranged deep into Poland,
31:30destroying communications, radio stations,
31:34power plants, highways, bridges, railroads.
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32:36The Polish Army was disorganized by the loss of its Air Force
32:40and the disruption of communications.
32:43The mass ground units of the Nazi Army
32:46continued their advance.
32:48Occasionally, they unveiled a new technique
32:50or item of equipment.
32:52For example, advanced units of the German 4th Army
32:56crossed the Vistula in a new type of stormboat.
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33:03The 5th, the Polish retreat developed alarming tendencies.
33:08The powerful German 10th Army,
33:10which was to form the southern claw
33:12of the great Nazi pincers,
33:14was advancing with its five armored divisions
33:17on either flank.
33:19On September 6th,
33:21the opposing Poles began splitting into two groups,
33:24the southern one falling back toward the Vistula.
33:28The armored divisions on the German right
33:31raced ahead, circling Radom
33:34and cutting off this group, which finally surrendered.
33:38Meanwhile, further north,
33:40the main Polish mass began drifting toward Lodz.
33:44The German command,
33:46perceiving that this opened the gate toward Warsaw,
33:49sent the northern Nazi armored units
33:51racing through the gap to the Polish capital.
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33:57The infantry advanced in forced marches
34:00of 35 miles a day
34:02and two days later relieved the panzers about Warsaw.
34:06The city was now cut off.
34:09West of Warsaw,
34:11the main Polish armies were encircled.
34:14Under terrific pressure on the ground
34:16and pounded ceaselessly from the air,
34:19they began to disintegrate.
34:21They fought on with high personal courage,
34:24but without airplanes, without communications,
34:27cut off from their general staff,
34:29the isolated Polish groups
34:32were forced to surrender one by one.
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34:37But Warsaw still resisted.
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34:43The heroic strains of the Polonaise
34:46told an incredulous world
34:48that the people of Warsaw, led by Mayor Straczynski,
34:51had erected a wall of courage around their city
34:54defying Hitler to do his damnedest.
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35:09Stopped cold by the city's desperate resistance,
35:12the Nazis were forced to send for heavier artillery.
35:16The only source of such artillery
35:18was Germany's Western Front.
35:20With great secrecy,
35:22the giant 240-millimeter howitzers
35:25were towed at high speed across the highways
35:28which Hitler had built for just such purposes
35:31and set in position around Warsaw.
35:34The huge guns subjected the city
35:37to a bombardment of incredible fury.
35:40Their fire concentrated
35:42on the densely populated residential areas.
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35:57For 20 days of death and horror,
36:00every man, woman, and child fought to save his city.
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36:25But without food or water,
36:29human endurance failed.
36:31On September the 27th,
36:34the strains of the colonnades died on the Warsaw Radio
36:37and the Polish capital was forced to capitulate.
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36:51Now all Polish resistance was at an end except here,
36:55the Westerplatte forts opposite Danzig.
36:58This small island of stubborn defiance
37:01had stood up under the fire of German warships
37:04from the first day.
37:06Its guns silenced, its forts shattered,
37:09it still refused to surrender,
37:12even under point-blank fire at 800 yards range.
37:16It was an exhibition of Polish valor
37:19that will go down in history,
37:21but militarily it could not avail.
37:24On October the 1st,
37:26the garrison at last surrendered.
37:29Surrendered to face the fate of these men,
37:32Polish prisoners being marched off
37:35to Nazi prison camps
37:37and eventual extermination.
37:40For the Nazi master race theory
37:43calls for the complete wiping out
37:45of so-called inferior races.
37:50And in village after village,
37:52local Judaisms point out loyal Polish neighbors.
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38:39These things the Poles can never forget.
38:45Including another one of Hitler's famous promises.
38:49Germany has concluded
38:51a non-aggression pact with Poland.
38:54We shall adhere to it unconditionally.
38:58The world now knew
39:00that a non-aggression pact with Hitler
39:03was the kiss of death.
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39:12Poland was completely destroyed.
39:15Completely? Not quite.
39:18During the last days of the campaign,
39:20the Russian army entered eastern Poland
39:22and took up positions along the Bug River.
39:25The two strongest armies in Europe faced each other.
39:29Hitler could decide now
39:31whether to keep on heading east or call it quits.
39:34He called it quits.
39:36Why did Hitler quit here?
39:39He had to.
39:41To continue a drive to the east
39:43would leave Germany facing the threat
39:46he had always sworn to avoid.
39:48A two-front war.
39:50How he met that threat, you will see in the next film.
39:54What Hitler thought impossible was anything but.
39:58The day after Hitler crossed the Polish border,
40:01France called up her reservists.
40:04Within 24 hours,
40:06British planes had bombed German warships
40:09in the Kiel Canal.
40:11Kiel out!
40:34Britain, not merely the British government,
40:38but the British people
40:40had declared war.
40:42War on Hitler and everything he stood for.
40:45The democracies did have convictions
40:47for which people were willing to stake their lives.
40:51Unprepared? Yes.
40:53But that didn't matter,
40:55for they finally realized
40:57that what was being threatened
40:59wasn't just the integrity of Poland,
41:01but the integrity of free men
41:03everywhere in the world.
41:07What tragedies,
41:09what horrors,
41:11what crimes
41:13has Hitler
41:15and all that Hitler stands for
41:18brought upon Europe and the world?
41:22It is upon this foundation
41:26that Hitler pretends
41:29to build out of hatred
41:31a new order for Europe.
41:34But nothing is more certain
41:37than that every trace
41:39of Hitler's footsteps,
41:41every stain
41:43of his infected
41:45and corroding fingers
41:47will be sponged
41:49and purged
41:51and, if need be, blotted
41:53from the surface of the earth.
41:56Lift up your hearts.
41:58All will come right
42:00out of the depths
42:02of sorrow and of sacrifice.
42:05Will be born again
42:07the glory of mankind?