Tonwoche №473 (1939)

Newsreel №54944, 2 parts, Duration: 0:17:41
Studio UFA

Reel №1

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A propaganda story about a strategic food reserve.

A mouse nibbles grain.

A woman with bags at a store.

A warehouse with food.

Poland.

A German airfield, the commander receives an assignment, the pilots run to their vehicles, take off.

A squadron flies by, a bridge is bombed, fires, explosions on the ground.

Burning houses in the city.

German soldiers walk among the ruins of houses.

Horse artillery rides, vehicles move along a pontoon bridge across a river.

Trucks with soldiers.

A motorized column moves along the road.

Fallen trees, mud.

Tanks move through hilly terrain.

Soldiers cross shallow water.

Columns of soldiers march along the road.

Artillerymen doze in carts.

Rest on the way, soldiers sleep on the ground.

Tankers clean tank parts.

Soldiers shave, wash.

Two soldiers carry geese, pluck them, prepare a pig for roasting, eat.

A procession of soldiers with mess tins.

Soldiers sing and dance to musical instruments.

Field post office, sorting out letters and parcels.

Keywords

Everyday life of German soldiers

Calendar:

1939

Shooting locations:

Poland

Reel №2

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Unpacking mail bags.

Soldiers unpack bags and go to their units.

A soldier distributes a front-line newspaper to troops passing along the road.

Broken Polish trains on the railroad, a broken armored train, weapons of the Polish army, gas masks.

Broken cars, guns, convoys, guns by the river.

A Polish city, Polish Volksdeutsche leaving for Germany.

Women and children in cars.

General Brauchitsch walks along a line of soldiers, shaking their hands.

The city of Brest-Litovsk, a meeting with representatives of the Soviet army.

A Soviet officer reads a German leaflet in Russian.

German and Soviet officers shake hands.

A meeting in a room at a table with a representative of the Soviet administration.

Soviet officers leave the building and leave in a car.

German troops enter the city, a parade of troops.

Soviet soldiers watch.

German tanks on the road.

Soviet officers salute.

Soviet tanks are driving.

General Brauchitsch is taking the parade.

German artillery is destroying Polish ships.

The city of Danzig (Gdansk) is decorated to welcome German troops.

Hitler is driving in an open car through the streets of Danzig, people are greeting the Fuhrer.

Keywords

Refugees

Persons:

Hitler A.

Calendar:

1939

Shooting locations:

Poland

Chronicle Subjects:

World War IIHistory

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