Tonwoche № 498 (1940)

1. On the Scheldt River in France, rescue work is underway on the half-sunken ship "Amsterdam".

People look from the shore at the damaged ship, boats come to it.

The ship is being transported to the port.

2. Reception of the German delegation in Italy (10-11. 3. 1940).

German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and Interior Minister Frick arrive at the Rome train station.

Ribbentrop and Mussolini walk around the guard of honor.

Count Ciano greets Frick and shakes his hand.

Guests get into a car and drive around the city.

The population welcomes distinguished guests.

3. International Industrial Fair in Vienna.

Flags of the participating countries.

Visitors walk around the exhibition area.

Company names: "Otto", "Renault", etc.

The exhibits are presented in open areas.

A worker demonstrates the work of a drill, two others-an electric saw.

Woodworking machines in action.

Near the pavilion of the German company "Kleckner-Humboldt" there are construction cranes.

4. Ice drift on the Danube, a pile of ice floes.

The dog stands on an ice hummock.

In Hamburg, near the river, men try to push the ice away from the shore with hooks.

A boy rides on an ice floe.

On the river there is a ship "Koenigsberg", passes under the drawbridge.

The ship "Vulture" from Stettin sails on the channel.

5. The Western wall.

General von Brauchitsch on the western front, from the train he changes into a car, driving along the road past the river.

On the way, he overtakes the baggage trains, a cavalry detachment.

General von Brauchitsch inspects the construction of the fortifications of the Western Wall.

Soldiers of the labor organization "Todt" greet the general.

Soldiers dig trenches, make flooring from planks.

Brauchitsch and the officers observe the work.

View of the finished bunker.

Brauchitsch talks with the soldiers, awards the soldiers who distinguished themselves in the construction

6. The University building in Freiburg.

On the facade is an inscription in Latin with the name of Frederick II. There are students, among them soldiers and officers from the Western front.

Classes in the classroom in chemistry.

7. Luftwaffe Medical Board.

The pilot is at the doctor's medical examination.

Future pilots are tested on a rotating chair.

In the doctor's hand is a stopwatch, the arrow moves.

The cadet goes to the pressure chamber.

The laboratory assistant looks at the readings of the devices.

The doctor gives commands, the cadet writes on a sheet.

Its records are in normal condition and under conditions that simulate overload in the cabin of the aircraft.

Centrifuge tests.

The plane in the sky performs various aerobatics.

8. The "Winter Aid" campaign in Berlin by Wehrmacht soldiers.

Children throw coins into the mug.

Entertainment for residents in order to attract them to fundraising.

Soldiers ride children on ponies.

Sports performances of Wehrmacht soldiers: jumping through a burning hoop, racing with wheelbarrows, in which soldiers sit with cast-iron balls in their hands, wheelbarrows turn over.

A soldier pins a swastika badge on the girl's costume.

Civilians at the barracks, people look at armored vehicles, anti-aircraft guns.

The soldiers demonstrate shooting from anti-aircraft guns, everyone shudders.

The Wehrmacht parade in Berlin, soldiers pass under the Brandenburg Gate, march along Unter den Linden.

Residents greet the soldiers, the band plays.

A light plane lands on the street and takes off again into the sky.

9. The Western Front.

Actions on the alert signal.

The observer looks at the sky through binoculars.

Alarm at the artillery battery.

The duty officer gives a combat alarm signal.

The guns are being prepared for night combat.

A powerful searchlight shines.

With anti-aircraft guns remove camouflage branches, shoot at the enemy aircraft.

10. The Western Front.

Heavy artillery is on the way.

A train with four huge heavy artillery guns on platforms arrives at the destination station.

German soldiers run to the train, prepare the guns for battle, bring the shells, load.

The guns raise their barrels up.