The German advance and air raids in Norway, 1940
German guns and columns move through snow and forest, aircraft dive and drop bombs, civilians look up or crowd into doorways, and wooden towns burn.
A soldier waves a car through a crowded street and a gun moves up a snowy road; guns fire among fir trees, aircraft pass over the forest, men crouch in the snow and look up, and German columns lead horses along woodland tracks. Two women gaze at the sky as aircraft dive and a bomber releases its load; people crowd into a doorway in an apparently re-enacted scene. Houses and a hotel burn in the snow, German gunners turn a raised gun, and a dead person lies among the charred boards of a burned house.
The Norwegian army, mobilising only after the invasion had begun, fought delaying actions in the valleys north of Oslo, supported from mid-April by British and French troops. German aircraft bombed towns and villages, among them Elverum, Namsos, Molde and Kristiansund. By early May southern and central Norway were in German hands.
Film Two women look up as aircraft dive and bombs fall
Film Traffic control and a gun on a snowy road
Film A gun fires in a snowy forest
Film Aircraft over the forest and two men on a snowy path
Film An explosion, an aircraft overhead and men in the snow
Film German troops with horses and aircraft over snowy country
Film Smoke in the forest and people running across a street
Film People crowd into a doorway during an air raid
Film Burning houses in a snowy town
Film Troops in a field and gunners at a raised gun
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