Die Deutsche Wochenschau №518 (1940)

1. Germany.

German Red Cross Festival.

Performances by artists and acrobats for vacationers at one of the resorts.

Aerial acrobats climb a pole, an aerial gymnast rolls along a rope on a wheel.

Spectators, many of them soldiers.

A comic number on a tightrope: an acrobat sits on a chair at a table with a samovar, the chair falls down.

Vacationers in kayaks watch the acrobats' performances right from the river.

Acrobats walk at a height with perches in their hands. 2. Germany, Berlin.

Carl Hagenbeck Circus, the name above the entrance.

Circus performance for wounded soldiers and vacationers.

Trained horses, elephants, tigers.

Acrobats jump upward from a board.

Grateful spectators. 3. Germany.

Boarding house for women.

Sports.

Girls jump high, do gymnastics, throw the shot, do exercises with hoops. 4. Germany.

The Great German Exhibition of 1940 in Munich.

The door opens, directly opposite the entrance is a triptych: in the center is a large portrait of Hitler, on the sides are images of two soldiers.

Exhibits: genre paintings, sculptures. 5. Germany.

One of the laboratories developing new tank models.

Drawing of a new tank.

Laboratory employees at work.

Continuation.

At the factory producing tanks.

Production of tank parts.

Workers at the machines.

Turning and processing of parts.

Demonstration of machines in action in the spirit of German cinematic expressionism.

Assembly shop, tanks being assembled.

Individual assembly operations.

Workers at work.

General view of the shop from above.

The crane lowers the tank hull, the workers accept it, assemble it, the welder works.

The tank guns are ready for assembly.

The finished tanks leave the shop and go to the testing ground.

Tanks on the road.

Testing on rough terrain.

The tank runs into the camera.

Work at the factory continues.

Workers in the shop.

During the break, the workers do a set of physical exercises.

Germany.

Hamburg district Barmbek, Street traffic, a tram is moving, passers-by are leisurely strolling along the sidewalk, there is a man with a bicycle.

Consequences of the bombing of this area of the city by the British air force.

A destroyed house, broken windows.

The press inspects Hamburg to verify the falsity of the English press's claims about the destruction of Hamburg.

A panorama of the city from the observation deck.

Journalists take notes in notebooks.

Germany.

A view of trophy medals in a huge pile, captured from French soldiers.

A close-up of several medals on the palm of a hand.

The Order "For the Capture of Hamburg".

French prisoners of war at the harvest in Germany, they stack ears of wheat in stacks.

8. Occupied territory of France.

Prisoners of war load various materials from a warehouse into train cars for shipment to Germany: metal ingots, timber, pipes, etc.

Restoring destroyed high-voltage lines.

Sappers at work.

Demolishing the ruins of buildings destroyed as a result of military action.

Loading debris and garbage onto vehicles.

Presentation of Iron Crosses to participants in the French campaign.

A general inspects a line of soldiers.

Sergeant Major Nelke receives the Iron Cross.

A line of soldiers in a forest, Non-commissioned officer Kalkow is awarded the Iron Cross for blowing up a bunker. 9. Jersey Island, coat of arms on the facade of a building.

The territory of the British base on the island of Jersey in the English Channel, captured by the Germans.

Command of the British Air Force base.

The building of the German commandant's office, a sentry stands.

Streets of a small town, an English policeman opens the door of a car, German officers get out and go to the commandant's office.

There is a flag on the car with the inscription: commandant.

City streets, double-decker buses.

German soldiers standing near an English "bobby", smiling.

German posts guarding the island and the base. 10. Germany.

A German submarine returns to base after another raid.

Boats in the harbor.

Mooring the boat.

Rear Admiral Doenitz awards the submariners with Iron Crosses.

Shaking hands. 11. German military airfield.

Continued.

Aircraft refueling.

A German pilot on holiday.

The pilots read, sunbathe, play chess and golf.

A dog at the airfield.

A combat aircraft lands.

The pilots are greeted by their friends.

Film developed from a reconnaissance aircraft.

Plans for the next operation are being developed at headquarters.

The pilots get into their cars.

An aircraft with an automatic movie camera.

The engines start and the aircraft take off.

The squadron heads towards England.

Aircraft in the air.

Ships are visible in the English Channel.

A sinking English ship.

The English coast.

Bombs fly towards their target.

Aircraft dive, explosions.

Fires on English territory. 12. Propaganda film.

A fat man arrives with a suitcase and forgets about it in a musical instrument store.

He is busy buying a piano, completely forgetting about the suitcase.

Remembering, he opens the suitcase.

The potatoes that were in it have gone bad.

Moral: you need to treat food with care and not let it spoil.