While battle was still raging in France and Belgium, German radio journalists and cameramen brought the sights and sounds of the conflict to home audiences. Three successive newsreels accompanied the French campaign, and they doubled in length to forty minutes. Embedded in the fighting units, German cameramen had unparalleled access to the front; and also re-enacted key scenes for the camera. People marvelled at the risks reporters ran in order to bring them images of combat, gasping and shouting as they beheld the scenes of destruction. Crafted to give viewers the sense of being eyewitnesses
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