May 15, 1940. French Newsreel. French translation graciously provided by Olivenstein: Part of the poster: "BELGIANS! The French Army has come here to your rescue...is to protect you against an enemy...which has no respect for...and to save your...penetrate on your soil of...seriously observe....your Ardennes border section is not...PLISSEMANGE, LA CHAPELLE, MONT ST-MARTIN...you will be welcomed in FRANCE like brothers...measures will be taken so that...as much as possible so that you do not suffer from evacuation.Since the morning of 10 May, starting in Luxembourg and Belgium, the painful exodus, fleeing the air bombing menace. All night long in Belgium and in France, all too frequently evacuees were set ablaze and massacred, even more tragedies cannot still be verified." Last sequence shows a gend'arme checking a Luxemburg passport and pinpointing the bullet holes on the Luxemburgers' front wheelwell near the "LUX" licence plate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vGSaYeNd6Y&hl=en
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