Tonwoche №480 (1939)

1. A propaganda sketch about selecting books for front-line libraries.

A young friend helps Ludwig collect books that will go to front-line libraries.

After looking through them, he notices that Ludwig has selected uninteresting books that he does not need and suggests that it would be better to give away a chess set.

He admonishes that everyone should give the soldiers the best, and not what is not needed. 2. Introduction of the new Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan Kishisaburo Nomura, he descends the stairs of the palace, sits down at a table on the lawn, makes a speech about a joint pact with Germany and Italy, about considering new relations with the East, about neutrality with the USA. Military actions in China. 3. Strengthening the security of the Panama Canal.

American troops are marching with horses loaded with weapons and provisions.

Installation of a cannon on the summit, shooting.

Battle on the coast. 4. USA. The influence of militaristic sentiments on women's fashion.

Models demonstrate hats in the form of a shell, a cannon, a warship, an airplane.

A fur hat with a tiny sabre stuck into it instead of a feather. 5. India. 15 million Indians realize the need to resist the English colonialists during the war.

Demonstrations against the English colonialists in India.

Indian and English police disperse the demonstrators. 6. Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister Chamberlain conduct a sanitary inspection of the army; they arrive at the station to inspect a hospital train for the wounded.

The Queen enters the carriage and talks to her sisters. 7. France.

German troops are preparing for war with England, fulfilling the Fuhrer’s call, expressed in his Munich speech, that it is necessary to cut off the paths of unification of England and France.

German tanks and troops are driving along the streets of a French town.

Residents are watching the maneuvers of the Germans.

Trucks with guns are driving along the road.

German soldiers in trenches abandoned by the French.

They are passing a trench with a sculpture of a boy and a toy horse at the edge.

Soldiers are checking trenches and dugouts. 8. The use of pigeons and dogs in German communications.

Soldiers are marching with dogs, they are on maneuvers, a soldier sends a dog with a message.

A dovecote, a flock of pigeons in the sky.

A soldier takes a pigeon out of a cage, fastens a couple of pigeons in special covers and ties it to the dog.

The dog runs to the unit, delivers the pigeons and the message.

A reply message is attached to the pigeon's leg and sent back. 9. German women replace men during the war.

They work at the post office, sort letters.

Women put on uniform caps, ride bicycles with mail.

A female conductor on a tram. 10. Reich Minister Dr.

Frick arrives in Katowice for an inspection of the restored ironworks in Upper Silesia.

He passes diggers filling wagons.

Workers raise their arms in a fascist salute.

Steelworkers at work.

1. The next anniversary of the putsch in Munich is celebrated on November 9, 1939, on the Royal Square.

A tombstone with the names of the fallen fascists, a fire burns in the bowl near the pantheon.

Reich Minister Rudolf Hess greets the veterans of the movement, walks along the line of fascists with wreaths, adjusts the ribbons.

A wreath from Hitler.

Hess and Streicher at the Eternal Flame.

Rows of soldiers stand with a lowered banner, the anthem plays.

Widows stand in black dresses.

An arch with garlands and dates: 1923-1939. 2. The failed assassination attempt on Hitler in November 1939 in the famous Bürgerbräukeller hall, where the traditional rally of veterans of the Nazi movement was held.

The aftermath of the explosion of a homemade time bomb that occurred shortly after the Fuhrer's departure.

A detailed display of the ruins.

Experts conduct an investigation at the site of the explosion, holding the remains of an explosive device.

Clearing away the debris.

Wounded soldiers in the hospital, visited by their comrades.

Wounded soldiers recall the circumstances of what happened.

The funeral of eight fascists killed during the assassination attempt on Hitler in Munich.

Coffins covered with banners.

Residents walk past the coffins.

Hitler and Hess at the funeral.

The wounded in formation.

Wreaths are laid at the coffins, Hitler adjusts ribbons, shakes hands with widows and relatives.

The funeral ceremony moves along the street, Crowds of people.