Conquest of Europe Sounds & Pictures Sounds Pictures Sounds Anthem&Wessel390901.wav Immediately following Hitler's Kroll Opera House speech that day announcing the invasion of Poland, the assembled crowd sings "Deutschland Über Alles" and "The Horst Wessel Song". German Ministry of Propaganda translators narrate. $ Purchase Last_Marseillaise_061440.wav Barely audible, Paris plays the last "Marseillaise" of free France as the open city awaits the imminent arrival of the German Army. $ Purchase RealAudio 3.0 Version. Priestley_on_Dunkirk.wav J. B. Priestley's musing editorial on Dunkirk, BBC, 6/5/40. $ Purchase RealAudio 5.0 Version. US_news_report_Compiegne_062140.wav American news reports on the armistice negotiations between France and Germany in the Compiegne Forest, where the First World War's armistice was signed. $ Purchase RealAudio 3.0 Version. wwii3r01.wav Spring 1940 German broadcast announcing the collapse of British and French forces on the Western Front. $ Purchase wwii3r01a.wav Excerpt from above, limited to the initial announcement of the Allied collapse. $ Purchase wwii3r03.wav German broadcast announcing the fall of the Maginot Line and the declaration of Paris as an Open City. $ Purchase For more Conquest of Europe media, return to The WWII Sounds & Pictures Page.