Bilder aus der großen Schlacht im Westen 5. Teil (1918)

Production company
Bild- und Filmamt (BUFA) (Berlin), Reichsfilmstelle (Berlin)
Source
Bundesarchiv

The battle at Armentières. Mortars and artillery bombarding English positions on 9th April 1918; shell impacts on the horizon (barrages), mortar explosions; BUFA film crew advances into battle area, passing by fallen soldiers; from under cover the film reporter photographs advancing infantrymen; English positions destroyed by artillery bombardment, with fallen soldiers; shot-up English tanks on the battlefield; infantry column on the march; wooden walkways for traversing marshy battleground; ravaged town; destroyed Armentières railway station, soldiers pass through the destroyed city; wrecked English aeroplane; (Richthofen's 75th kill); burning houses and desolation in Estaires; soldiers storm through an opened street barricade; dead civilians and English soldiers lie on the streets; destruction in the Merville railway station; pan across a group of Portuguese prisoners (close-up).