Sequences from inside France: shot of Cross of Lorraine flag, people, including soldiers, dancing in streets, collaborating women getting heads shaved. Sequence on French soldiers in field, moving up with mules, motorized vehicles. Sequence on General Charles De Gaulle being acclaimed by citizens. Shot of man leaving hotel and getting into car. Shot of Château "L'Hermitage", Philippe Pétain taking a walk. Shots of Château de Chambord, seen from another château, of other "Château", noblemen going on fox hunt. Sequence on workmen having banquet outside.

[Journal de la Resistance, 1944] LS French Resistance workers pushing a captured, camouflaged, German, gasoline truck down the road. MS men painting a car. VS of suspected collaborators being loaded into police trucks. LS Stephane Lausanne walking with police. MS Lausanne, a journalist who had collaborated with the Germans for four years. VS of older man, city official, on a stretcher. MLS of prison camp entrance" Fort De Romainville". VS of men and women lying dead on the prison grounds. LS of the Seine, smoke rising from a fire somewhere in BG. VS Red Cross workers aided the wounded on the sidewalk. VS fighting in the street, Red Cross workers running with white flags tending to the wounded.

Suspected French women collaborators have hair cut

Battle for France, concluded from DN B 238

Allies Advance, Aug 44; German forces surrendering to Allied Forces near Falaise; Allies approach borders; Canadian or British troops Russian laborers freed women collaborators get heads shaved in Chartres; Sniper footage in Paris. ""BRITISH ARMY ADVANCING IN FIELDS WOW BRITISH TANK PASSING, EXPLOSION, BRITISH SOLDIERS BEING SHOT AT SOLDIER RUNNING, BULLETS RICOCHET OFF WALL AS HE GOES BOMBED TOWN WOW ALLIED TANKS ATTACKING GERMAN FORTIFICATION MORTER FIRE OUTSIDE CHURCH AT FALAISE GERMANS SURRENDERING GERMAN SOLDIER SURRENDERING TO BRITISH TROOPS TANK ROLLS THRU BOMBED SHELL OF A TOWN ALLIED ADVANCING THROUGH FRENCH TOWNS RUINS CAT CLEANING IT'S FACE IN RUBBLE RUSSIAN WOMEN SLAVE LABOR IN WESTERN EUROPE LIBERATED YANKS GREETED BY RUSSIAN WOMEN SIGN: CHARTRES TAKING COVER FROM SNIPER FIRE FROM CATHEDRAL TOWER WOW US SOLDIERS AND FRENCH CIVILIANS TAKING COVER FROM ENEMY SMALL ARMS; US SOLIDER RETURNS FIRE SNIPERS BUSTED MARCHED THRU TOWN GERMAN SOLDIERS SURRENDER TO US ARMY WOMAN'S HAIR CUT OFF FRENCH WOMAN COLLABORATOR PUBLICLY HUMILIATED IN PUBLIC WITH AIR CUT OFF FRENCH WOMEN COLLABORATORS TAKING OF ST MALO WOW ARTILLERY FIRE WOW BATTLE; US SOLDIER RUNNING IN RUINED FRENCH TOWN WOW US SOLDIERS FIRE FIGHT IN FRENCH CITY ST. LO DEAD BODY: GERMAN SOLDIER? WOW ALLIED AIRSTRIKE; GROUND EXPLOSIONS COASTAL CARPET BOMBING GERMAN SOLDIERS SURRENDERING TO US SOLDIERS CAPTURED GERMANS GERMAN POWS HUNDREDS OF GERMAN POWs PACIFIC THEATER HOME FRONT"". WWII in HD

A group of male resistance fighters hold the head and pull the hair of a blonde woman, apparently a Nazi or French Nazi collaborator, and mock her, shaking her head back and forth. Other female Nazi collaborators, women surrender with their arms up in the air. French who collaborated with the Nazis face the mobs of angry Parisians as they try and leave the city. Female Nazi collaborator with her head forcibly shaved bald, humiliated, forced to walk through streets, shamed. Men forcibly pulled to trucks by armed French police. Nazis or French Nazi collaborators. Crowds in the streets of Paris celebrate the liberation of France from the Nazis at end of WWII.

<pi> ***This pkg contains photos from Getty Images that are only cleared for use within the pkg. Affiliates may not cut these photos out of the pkg for individual use.*** </pi>\n\n --SUPERS--\nTuesday\n\nInès de La Fressange\nSupermodel\n\nGetty Images\n\nFebruary 19, 2019\n\n --LEAD IN--\nONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED FASHION DESIGNERS OF OUR TIME -- HAS DIED.\nKARL LAGERFELD WAS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS WORK AS CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF THE LEGENDARY FASHION HOUSE CHANEL.\nTHE ICONIC GERMAN DESIGNER WAS ALSO THE CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF FENDI AND HIS OWN NAMESAKE LABEL.\nHIS PERSONAL STYLE-- MADE HIM ONE OF THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE MEN IN THE FASHION WORLD.\nMODEL, INES DE LA FRESSANGE WAS A LONGTIME MUSE TO LAGERFELD WHILE AT CHANEL.\nSHE SAYS HE DIDN'T WANT HIS DESIGNS TO BE CONSIDERED WORKS OF ART.\n --SOT--\nInes de la Fressange, Model: "He was always saying the clothes were not made for museums but to be worn. He hated the idea of nostalgia and about thinking that fashion could be art. 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Rumors had swirled about his health after he was absent from his Chanel show in late January, due to what the fashion house described as tiredness. \n Lagerfeld, who transformed Chanel into a global powerhouse after becoming creative director in 1983, was rarely seen without his dark glasses, a silver ponytail and fingerless gloves -- gaining him the reputation as the most recognizable man in fashion, and one of its most outspoken.\n "My job is not to do what she did, but what she would have done," he said of the brand's founder, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel. "The good thing about Chanel is it is an idea you can adapt to many things."\n "Today the world lost a giant among men," Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of Vogue, said in a statement. "His creative genius was breathtaking and to be his friend was an exceptional gift. Karl was brilliant, he was wicked, he was funny, he was generous beyond measure, and he was deeply kind. 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We were always learning from you."\n The editor-in-chief of British Vogue, Edward Enninful, called Lagerfeld "one of the greatest designers in the history of fashion." \n "He has exerted an incredible influence over the fashion industry over the past six decades," Enninful said in a statement. \n "Karl was a genius and always so kind and generous to me both personally and professionally," Victoria Beckham wrote. \n "I came to France to see you this week and introduce you to my daughter ... I'm heartbroken I was too late," wrote actress Diane Kruger.\n\n\n --KEYWORD TAGS--\nKARL LAGERFELD FASHION FRANCE PARIS COUTURE\n\n

Heads of French women collaborators are shaved in France. The collaborators stand before a large jeering crowd. The women collaborators with shaved heads stand in a group. The women collaborators are marched on a street. The civilians jeer. Location: France. Date: August 31, 1944.

B&W film, 1944. World War II: Battle for the French coastal city of Cherbourg

Unused / unissued material - dates and locations unclear or unknown. <br/> <br/>France. <br/> <br/>Various C/Us weeping French women embracing German prisoners. It appears the German soldiers are their lovers, the French girls carry cases suggesting they want to accompany their boyfriends back to Germany. An American soldier intervenes: he seems to be explaining to them the women cannot go whilst also reassuring them. One woman collapses with grief - heart wrenching stuff! <br/> <br/>Various shots of wounded prisoners being helped to walk or being carried off on stretchers. C/U defiant looking German officer. Various shots scruffy French resistance fighters laughing and exchanging cigarettes. <br/> <br/>More shots German prisoners, some look relieved. Various shots civilian woman wearing red cross armband bandaging prisoners. She shakes hands with some German medics as they leave. <br/> <br/>Note: good item for showing collaborators / collaboration.

WS People milling around in courtyard / MS people in front of building in courtyard / MS EXT multistory dormitory / MPOV past crowd in courtyard / ZI rear view of women in crowd / MS group of three women stand talking / MPOV women and men in courtyard / Note: exact year not known; documentation incomplete

501st French Combat unit in France near the town of Ecouche, refugees, collaborationists, civilians wash German signs from buildings. FIRE IN FIELD Slate - Free French Combat Jeep driving toward camera - civilians standing in entrance way of building CIVILIANS THROUGH TOWN CU French soldier's food - French soldier eating - CU French soldier talking FRENCH SOLDIERS EATING TS man opening can of food - CU canned food - soldier putting jelly on bread Three women (Collaboration Horizontal) step out of building men laughing at them COLLABORATORS ECOUCHE Free French gathered at dining table writing and talking WS FF soldiers carrying injured soldier WOMAN AT DINNER TABLE TS injured soldier is given water - soldier getting his leg cut off - TS leg cut off TAKING CARE OF WOUNDED WOW LEG CUT OFF TS Tank fires FRENCH TANK FIRING FF in jeep - talking to civilians FRENCHMEN GETTING DIRECTIONS Fire on road SUPPLIES ON FIRE FF escorting prisoners GERMAN POWS WOW GERMAN RIDING ON JEEP WAVING NAZI FLAG Soldier standing in moving jeep holding German flag PILOT HOLDING NAZI FLAG CASUALLY Soldier showing woman German flag Woman and child washing wall men watching CIVILIANS WASHING WORDS OF WALL Sign - SEES jeeps drive past SEES FF soldier walking carrying a bucket - boy and girl walking with him (boy carrying a bucket) (girl carrying a gun) KIDS AND SOLDIER CARRY WATER BUCKETS Slate - August 15th Young girls and boy looking at a tank KIDS CURIOUS AT TANK FF soldiers climb on tank - civilians and FF Soldiers in streets - street sign MORTREE - Jeeps pass SOLDIER GETS IN TANK MORTREE Civilians climbing on tank FV tanks passing Jeeps pass - little boy runs across the street toward camera MEDAVY VIMOUTIERS SIGN Tanks roll by civilians look on US TANKS JEEPS THRU MORTREE Jeeps driving past Cannon in front of a field jeeps passing US JEEPS THRU FARM LAND AND TOWN TS cannon on side of road jeeps pass by WS people in center of town truck drives through RELIGIOUS FIGURES Priests talk to civilians Civilians in streets jeeps and tanks drive past Turned over tank - jeeps drive past CU turned over tank WS people in center of town truck drives past Men talking in horse and buggy parked in front of church FV people in front of church - jeeps pass CIVILIANS OUTSIDE CHURCH Crowd of people coming out of church. WWII in HD

NAME: VAT WOMEN 310704N TAPE: EF04/0771 IN_TIME: 10:34:55:21 DURATION: 00:03:30:00 SOURCES: APTN DATELINE: Rome - 30 July 2004/File RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: July 30, 2004 1. Tilt up of Saint Peter Basilica Dome 2. Various of "Letter to the bishop of the Catholic Church on the collaboration of men and women in the church and in the world" signed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger 3. Headlines of Corriere della Sera - national Italian daily newspaper reading "Church: Women are not a copy of men" 4. Various of "Letter to the bishop of the Catholic Church on the collaboration of men and women in the church and in the world" signed by Ratzinger 5. Fountain in Saint Peter's Square 6. Pan of mother with child walking in Saint Peter's Square 7. Statues in Saint Peter's Square 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Claire Cocton, tourist: "My family look after my children, really, so I'm very lucky, but generally some of the mothers that I work with that do have children, they rush off and they have to pick them up by 6.30 (am). So if anything important does come up, they can't always stay, there are terrible restrictions on it, but yeah, we are pushed out to the work-place far more now than we've ever been." 9. Cocton with family close to colonnade in Saint Peter's Square 10. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Sebastiana Koepfl, German-Italian tourist: "If a woman wants to work and have a career, it's better for her to not become a mother. Because she cannot just focus on the work and leave children with a baby-sitter or at nursery school all the day." 11. Family with pushchair 12. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Nuria Jimenez, Spanish tourist in Saint Peter Square: "Yes, my husband helps me, at home we are equal and we split all the housework." 13. Tourists 14. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Nuria Jimenez, Spanish tourist in Saint Peter Square: "(Spanish culture) doesn't care very much, but little by little, we (women) are obtaining improvements. People are understanding that women need to work as well and have children at the same time. Little by little more facilities are being provided." 15. Pan of Jimenez with husband and son going towards the Vatican September 11, 2002 16. Various of Ratzinger inside Saint Peter Basilica 17. Pope John Paul II 18. Ratzinger 19. Basilica STORY LINE: The Vatican on Saturday published a document on the on the roles of men and women which criticises extreme feminism for trying to ignore the biological differences between the sexes. The document published by the Congregation for the Doctrine is titled "Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Collaboration of Men and Women in the Church and in the World". It is intended to summarise the position of the Vatican on the role of women in the modern society, and in the Church. Compiled by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the guardian of church orthodoxy as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, it attacks the "ideology of gender" and stresses that a woman "is not a copy of a man." It repeats the prohibition on women becoming priests, but suggests that women should have an important role in the church. A small 37-page booklet published in Italian, French, English, German, Spanish and Portuguese, the document, in the form of a letter to the Bishops, stresses the position of the pope and the Catholic Church on the relationship between men and women. It also calls on governments "to manage conditions so that women do not need to neglect their families if they want to pursue a job". The document talks about the involvement of women in public life which it says is a sign of modern times, and says society should adjust its structures and jobs to allow women to work in public life, while at the same time making motherhood a priority. The document also addresses homosexuality saying that "God wanted a Christian marriage, a marriage between a man and a woman," and not between people of the same gender.

This historic film "Montmarte 44" is part of the series France on the March, "La France en Marche". It features the Free French Army under General Phillippe Leclerc de Hautecloque and portrays the liberation of Paris in August 1944. It also shows the actions of the French Resistance in the Montmartre district the day before the Leclerc Division stormed Paris. The film includes some reenactment scenes, including the German Army burning down the Grand Palais exhibition hall. <p><p>Summary: It would be in the northern part of Paris - the Montmartre -- that resistance fighters set up barricades to resist the German occupation, and began to arrest Nazi collaborators. Women who consorted with the enemy were shaved and marked with the swastika. Male collaborators are interrogated before being handed over to the police. While the French Forces of the Interior chase members of the Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism or LVF from the rooftops, the Parisian people burn the remaining and now - unattended - Nazi effigies. The locals of Montmartre, gathered at the foot of the Sacré-Coeur, observe the fighting taking place at the gates of Paris through the sightseeing binoculars installed there. When the troops of General Leclerc and Patton enter Paris, French and American flags appear at the windows and the troops are greeted warmly by the crowds. Gathered at the Butte Montmartre, the soldiers and the Parisians admire the now-liberated capital. <p><p><p>0:28 General Patton's tanks and Leclerc's troops are advancing towards Paris. <p><p><p>0:32 13,6 kilometers to Le Mans – Pays de la Loire region (3 hours from Paris)<p><p><p>0:38 Tank, named in honor of the River Ourcq, in Paris.<p><p><p>0:41 Poster: "Order for the defense of the Parisian population". <p><p>0:44 "As soon as the first tank reaches the Parisian suburbs the Resistance breaks out into the open and throws up barricades" Animation: plan of the barricades <p><p><p>1:00 Parisians pulling out the cobblestones to make barricades. <p><p><p>1:15 In the b/g, Montmartre cemetery. <p><p><p>1:20 Bird's eye view of a street in Montmartre. Tobacconist and horse race betting shop (PMU). <p><p><p>1:34 Young man, holding a grenade, eating on top of a barricade. <p><p><p>1:43 Pan towards smoking streets of Paris in the midst of the battle from heights of Montmartre. <p>1:50 Group of Parisians with binoculars. <p><p><p>1:59 Pan scan of the smoking roof of Grand Palais and again – with it burning. The Nazis have started numerous fires, hoping to slow the advance of the troops<p><p><p>2:20 General Philippe Leclerc and his troops at Rambouillet , surrounded by a few residents. <p><p>2:36 Resistance posters "Parisian!", calling the people to insurgency<p><p><p>2:43 Young resistance fighters with cartridges around chest. “FFI fighters suppress the last remaining sites where the Nazi collaborationists are putting up their desperate last stand" <p><p>2:52 FFI Resistance car, traveling in the streets of Paris. <p><p><p>3:28 Newspaper :"Arpajon group, an American force marches on Paris."<p><p><p>3:31 Parisians relaxing in the Abbey square on Montmartre. <p><p><p>3:36 Newspaper headline: "Leclerc lookout troops at the gates of Paris" <p><p><p>3:45 "From the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart one can see the battle at the gates of Paris." On the steps, the crowd looks at Paris. Man looking into the distance with spyglass. Little girl looking into the distance through binoculars. <p><p><p>4:00 Young people reading a newspaper as they walk. Slow pan of the headlines : "Long live de Gaulle !", "Paris is free !", "A wind of freedom fills our chests". <p><p><p>4:24 Gen. Leclerc troops at one of the train stations<p><p><p>4:31 FFI fighters<p><p><p>4:36 German POWs<p><p><p>4:45 Headlines: "The first french troops have entered Paris." "Paris is waiting for De Gaulle this morning." "I'm finally home, says captain Dionne."<p>4:54 "Men and women have kept the flags of the victorious nations, despite the dangers, for this long-awaited day." Banner:"Welcome to the honorable armies of Liberation!", Australian, Soviet and American flags.<p><p><p>5:20 "The first cars of the Leclerc division arrive at Montmartre at last ! They're covered with the names of the places they had gloriously fought for."<p><p><p>5:55 "Guy Moquet" jeep. Guy Moquet was a teenager illegally executed by the Nazis, his name is controversial in today's France, as he wasn't a resistant, but a civilian victim. <p>6:00 Patton's troops arrive to Montmartre <p><p><p>6:54 Still on their Jeep at the Butte Montmartre, victorious soldiers admire Paris. "...the beautiful Paris, which is ever more beautiful in the morning sun, and Montmartre will become once again full of youth, grace and poetry."<p><p> <p>Cameraman: Noël Ramettre, music: Charles Seringès, narrated by E.B. Danou.<p><p>This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com

FRENCH MEN AND WOMEN COLLABORATORS ARE PARADED DOWN SQUARE WITH HANDS ON THEIR HEADS

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French women collaborators stand before a large crowd in France. Heads of women collaborators are shaved in a street. Men, women and children stand and jeer. A woman smiles as her head is shaven. Locks of hair fall on the ground. Another woman weeps hysterically. The women collaborators stand in a group. Location: France. Date: August 31, 1944.

Collaborator snipers fire on crowds in street celebrating Paris's liberation during World War II

France. <br/> <br/>Various shots of a group of women with shaved head in French village - collaborators with the enemy. <br/> <br/>Various shots of the heavily bombed village - rubble and destruction everywhere. Young girl and a baby waving at camera. More shots of the bomb damage and people clearing rubble - possibly prisoners. <br/> <br/>Woman collaborator seated on a chair, two men cutting her hair off, a group of men looking on. Some good close up shots of woman's face as the cut her hair. <br/> <br/>Brass band leading a procession through the village. They go to the cemetery with many fresh graves. <br/> <br/>French, British and American flag were hoisted in front of village hall - presumably. Name on the building 'Orlslazarett' - could be the name of the village. Officers salute, crowd looking on.

Red Ball Convoys

French women collaborators in Paris, France during World War II. French civilians on bicycles as they move down a street. Civilians on streets as women collaborators with shaved heads are driven past the crowd. A French woman walks down a street. Location: Paris France. Date: August 29, 1944.