Die Deutsche Wochenschau №525 (1940)

1. Norway.

Women volunteers of the Reich Labor Service (RAD) in a camp.

Morning formation.

They are at various jobs: clearing forests, removing stones, making hay, transporting it. 2. Transylvania (Romania).

The entry of Hungarian troops into Transylvania, which was transferred to Hungary, 5.9.1940. Soldiers, cavalrymen.

Admiral Horthy with a group of soldiers.

Crowds of local Hungarian residents welcome the entering Hungarian troops. 3. Germany, Berlin.

The Fuehrer receives the Spanish Minister Ramon Serrano Suner (26-29.09.1940); in the new Reich Chancellery.

Serrano Suner and Himmler in the Hitler Division, inspecting brand new Volkswagen cars.

Speech by Ramon Serrano Suner. 4. Germany.

Munich.

Italian Minister of Colonies General Ferozzi inspects the guard of honour.

His arrival in Berlin, visit to the Italian division.

Laying wreaths at the pantheon of fallen soldiers.

Ferozzi is received by the Fuehrer.

Continued.

Germany.

Italian Minister of Colonies Attilio Teruzzi inspects battle sites in France, bunkers of the Atlantic Wall.

Germany.

Machine-building plant, production processes.

Workers at machine tools.

Manufacturing agricultural machinery.

Finished agricultural machinery.

Germany.

Assembly of a powerful electric generator at one of the enterprises.

Installation of a rotor.

View of a finished electric generator.

Germany.

Military museum.

View of the first mine filled with black powder.

It was designed by Werner Siemens and Professor Gimli.

At present, the mine has become the most important weapon of modern naval warfare.

The heavy mining of English ports during the blockade is the best confirmation of this.

The plant museum shows the development of this weapon up to the most modern explosive devices.

A glass ampoule filled with a special liquid is inserted into a cap, which breaks upon contact with the bottom of the ship, and the leaking liquid triggers the explosive mechanism.

Military plant.

Workers making caps for mines.

Installing charges and elements.

Destroyers at sea.

Bringing mines to combat readiness.

Mine with the inscription "To the First Lord of the Admiralty".

Germany.

Shoe factory.

Sewing military field boots.

Various operations.

Leather is prepared for processing.

Cutting out soles.

Cutting shop, where the parts are sewn together.

Sewing on soles, which are equipped with spikes.

10. France.

Occupied area.

Everyday life of a German military unit.

Cleaning guns.

Tankers wash tanks, touch them up. 11. Atlantic coast of France.

Ascent of a balloon in one of the military units.

Observers transmit observation results by telephone.

Airplanes fly around the balloon. 12. North Africa.

Italian bombers take off from the airfield.

Airplane flies over the sea and the desert.

Bombing of an English camp, bombs fly towards the target. 13. Bethel.

Consequences of the English bombing of civilian objects and a shelter in the city, traces of destruction.

Representatives of the foreign press in the ruins.

Destroyed cemetery.

Victims of the bombing. 14. Northern France.

Goering and officers of his staff inspect Luftwaffe units.

Goering talks with pilots, presents Iron Crosses to distinguished pilots.

Goering announces a "revenge flight" against England.

Airplanes in the air over the English Channel.

View of the English coast.

Airplane over English territory.

Pilots in the cockpit.

Repelling an attack by English fighters.

Bombs flying towards an English airfield, explosions.

Airplanes in combat.

Bombs falling on London.