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Nazis invade Norway and Denmark. A German naval officer reading instructions to German troops before they embarked to take part in the invasion of Norway and Dennmark. Some of the men are seen to be wwearing peaked caps of mountain regiments of the type reported to be in use in Norway.

Nazis invade Norway and Denmark. M. Erik Andrea Colban, the Norwegian Minister, leaving the Foreign Office in London today.

Youthful Nazis captured on beachhead. His mess pot tucked securely under his arm, a captured German soldier tells British military policemen he is 21 years old at a prisoner-of-war camp in England. He was one of a group Nazi youths captured during the fury of the initial Allied assaults on Hitler-held France.

Looted art recovered from Nazis. Three valuable paintings are brought down the steps of the castle Neuschwanstein by American soldiers under supervisiion of Lieutenant James J. Rorimer (second from left in back), curator of fine arts at the Metropolitan Mueseum in New York. The paintings are, from left to right: Cat and mirror by Chardin, painted in 1749; a small picture by Brouver belonging to the ...

French nuns negotiate surrender of Nazis. American troops advancing on Avranches enter the grounds of a French convent where a group of German soldiers are hiding. Two nuns can be seen coming forward to meet the Americans to negotiat the surrender of the Nazis. A few minutes later, the Germans came out, hands over their heads.

Wild scenes at meeting of New York Nazis. A heaving mass of anti-Nazis outside Madison Square Garden. Three who tried to crash into the meeting are seen tumbling down under a police onslaught.

French nuns negotiate surrender of Nazis. A French nun, negotiating the surrender of German troops hidden in a convent, talks with Captain Alfred J. Owen of Haugen, Montana, a member of a U.S. armored force driving on Ayranches. The German troops came out, hand over their heads, a few minutes later.

Dutch curch leveled by retreating Nazis. Only a small portion of this church in Helden, Holland, is still standing after the Nazis blew up the building before the town was freed by the Ninth U.S. Army March 14, 1945. Even altars of churches have been booby-trapped and mined by the Germans retreating along the Western Front.

French mother and baby flee Nazis----1940. This French mother tramped the road, mile after mile, barefooted and carrying het little boy in the face of boms and machine gun bullets which the Nazis scattered among French refugees driven from their homes in 1940.

Heroine of loos escapes Nazis in France. Emilienne Moreau, famous in the last war as the Heroine of Loos and decorated with the British Military Medal, the Red Cross Medal, the Croix de Guerre and te Legion of Honor, is pictured on her arrival in Londen after escaping from the Nazis in France. she is a delegate of the resistance movement. La France au Combat, to the Consultative Assembly.

Armed Nazis occupy Chancellery in Vienna. Storm Troopers armed with rifles and led by two men carrying ammunition entering the Chancellery in Vienna watched by two interested - but passive - military guards. The Storm Troopers did not wait to don uniforms, but wore Swastika armbands with their ordinary clothes.

Nazis wire own dead with explosives. A dead Nazi soldier who was wired with explosives by Germans retreating from Jungersdorf lies in a cellar in the Reich town, captured November 29, 1944. The enemy attempt to turn one of their dead men into a booby trap weapon was discovered by first U.S. Army soldiers before the body was removed for burial. Some of the explosives can be seen close to the body.