Die Deutsche Wochenschau №535 (1940)

Italy.

View of the city of Naples and smoking Vesuvius.

Demonstration of the eruption of the volcano Vesuvius, lava flows down.

Germany.

Workshop for the production of wooden toys.

A worker at a lathe cuts out wooden blanks for toys.

The blanks are laid in a circle with indentations, an automatic machine attaches small parts to the figurine.

Women at tables paint the figurines, attach threads to make the arms move.

Finished toys: soldiers, ladies, artisans, angels, etc.

France.

Captured French people walk along the embankment, they board carriages. (the plot is not complete).

Romania.

Volksdeutsche from Romania leave for Germany.

Settlers at the station, loading into carriages.

A soldier helps a woman get into the carriage.

The train sets off.

A man attaches a fascist flag and spruce branches to the carriage window.

Arrival in Germany, welcoming slogans hang.

A German officer leads the settlers to a house with a sign hanging on it: "Resettlement Camp", they are greeted by people who arrived here earlier.

Lunch is being prepared in the kitchen, the settlers are in the dining room.

On the door is a sign: "N.S.D. Kindergarten".

Small children sit at tables, eat, then play.

Mothers feed their babies from bottles, sitting on a bench in the yard.

Settlers dance and sing among their comrades.

Japan.

Parade of Japanese troops in Tokyo.

Emperor Hirohito on a white horse inspects the troops.

Various branches of the armed forces stand.

A military parade in front of the emperor.

Airplanes fly in the sky, soldiers march, tanks drive, cavalry gallops.

The Governorate General.

Restoration of the dam on the river.

Work is underway on the bridge, machines scoop soil out of the water.

View of the power plant and the canal.

Locks on the canal.

1. Germany.

Performance of figure skaters Maxi and Ernst Bayer.

Spectators, soldiers sitting among them.

A couple on the ice. 2. Germany.

Exhibition of works by Ernst Hugo dedicated to German motorways.

Road map on a stand.

Bust of Hitler, paintings.

Reich Minister Dr.

Todt looks at photos of Hugo's works: bridges, roads, talks with Hugo. 3. Construction of a bridge in Linz across the Danube on the Munich-Vienna highway.

Workers at the construction site.

View of the bridge. 4. Occupied territory of France.

A prisoner of war camp behind barbed wire.

French prisoners walk along the embankment, they board train cars.

Distribution of food.

Prisoners clearing rubble in Rouen.

Prisoners at the construction of a temporary bridge to replace the one destroyed near Paris.

A train goes over the bridge.

Prisoners and local residents at road works.

A special machine for laying soil goes.

Prisoners repair bicycles.

5. Germany.

Wehrmacht infantry maneuvers in Germany.

Fragments of maneuvers involving tanks and aircraft.

Battle for a bunker, explosions.

Soldier with a flamethrower. 6. German airfield.

Preparing for takeoff.

Bombs are delivered to the planes, bomb reinforcement.

Bombers take off and head towards England.

Planes in the air.

Night footage.

Burning buildings in London after a German air raid (shot by British cameramen).

Buildings engulfed in flames, firefighters at work.

Ruins of buildings near Big Ben.

Panorama of the destruction.

Queen Elizabeth and George VI inspect the ruins.

Churchill and officers inspect the destroyed neighborhoods.

A burnt-out multi-story building.