3-023-661 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

Charles de Gaulle Inspecting Soldiers, 1941. Britain during the Second World War. '...only with total control of Europe, could Hitler prove to those refugee governments in Britain, that their cause was hopeless. That General De Gaulle with his so-called "Free French"...and the Dutch navy under their Queen Wilhelmina. Conclude Barbarossa, and all such resistance to the new order would be proved pointless'. From "Time To Remember - Operation Barbarossa", 1941 (Reel 1); documentary film about events of 1941, on the Eastern Front and at Pearl Harbour.