Die Deutsche Wochenschau №539 (1941)

Germany.

A comic performance for the soldiers of the Reich.

A comedian dressed as a cleaner sweeps the floor, sees a bottle of wine on the table and starts making funny passes to get hold of it.

The soldiers in the hall are laughing.

Germany.

Hitler receives the new USSR ambassador Vladimir Dekanozov with his credentials.

Dekanozov is a close associate of the USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs Molotov.

An honor guard at the Reich Chancellery, a car pulls up.

Dekanozov is met by generals, they enter the building.

Meeting with the Fuhrer.

France.

Marshal Petain arrives in Lyon during a trip to the unoccupied territory of France.

The motorcade of cars moves through the city, the population waves French flags.

Petain approaches veterans of the First World War, shakes their hands, and goes up the stairs to the city hall.

Petain goes out onto the balcony.

The square is filled with people, they greet the marshal.

Spain.

An exhibition of German books in Madrid.

Building with poster about exposition, banners with swastika.

Visitors at the exhibition look at books about Spain, Franco.

Japan.

Mass rally in Tokyo on the occasion of signing in Berlin of the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy on September 27, 1940. Japanese in the square with flags and slogans.

German statesmen on the tribune, a rally is taking place.

A ceremonial procession passes through the ancient gates.

Young drummers, girls in kimonos with flags with swastikas.

Japanese soldiers with banners.

Japanese bow.

Italy (Italian language).

Visit of statesmen to a multifunctional school for girls who are being prepared to work on farms in occupied countries.

Girls at agricultural work in the field, weeding seedlings.

Laboratory, experimental field.

Girl feeding chickens.

Practical veterinary skills.

Girls combing wool from rabbits.

Girls milking cows.

Learning to cook in the kitchen.

Sports activities.

Roller skaters.

Fencing girls training.

Girls performing a ballroom dance.

Poland.

Work begins near Wawel to strengthen the banks of the Vistula River, commissioned by the Governor-General of Poland, Hans Frank.

Earthworks are underway near the river, workers are digging, hauling earth in wheelbarrows, and dumping rocks and earth near the bank.

The work is being supervised by German soldiers.

Workers are filling a mine cart with earth, and it is moving along a track to the construction site.

Rebuilding a bridge over the river.

A worker hits a beam with a sledgehammer.

View of the completed bridge.

France.

As a surprise for the soldiers, Hitler arrives on the coast of the English Channel to celebrate Christmas.

He inspects the captured French defensive structures.

The Fuhrer enters the bunker and walks through the tunnel.

The soldiers greet him.

A platform with a heavy gun moves along the railway track.

The barrel of the gun is raised.

Hitler greets the artillerymen.

Meeting with a Dutch general, talking with him.

Surrounded by soldiers, Hitler walks through the position, looks into the dugout.

A crowd of soldiers joyfully greets the Fuhrer as he walks around the formation.

France.

Christmas at the front.

German soldiers unload a truck with Christmas presents.

View of the table set for the holiday, apples, sweets, cookies on it.

Soldiers at the table pour beer.

Celebrating Christmas in the hall, where there are long tables for soldiers.

Hitler sits among the soldiers at the table, talks to them, he says a toast, everyone stands up, raises their hands.

A military orchestra can be seen outside the window, playing in the yard.

Hitler sits surrounded by pilots, Adolf Galand is next to him.

There is a lively conversation at the table.

Hitler eats, drinks tea.

The Fuhrer leaves the building, the soldiers joyfully greet him.

Photographers take pictures of the Fuhrer, he gets into a car.

France.

German construction detachment TODT at the construction of an airfield for the Luftwaffe.

Soldiers march along the road to the construction site.

A line of soldiers in front of the commander, their helmets and greatcoats lie in a row on the ground.

Soldiers dismantle sledgehammers, which they use to break rocks into gravel.

Excavation work is underway.

Logs are being laid out to form a flooring, leveled with sledgehammers.

An airplane lands not far from the working soldiers.

Reichsarbeitführer Konstantin Gierl arrives at the construction site, he is surrounded by soldiers, inspecting the work front.

Poland.

View of the snow-covered city of Zakopane.

Classes are underway at a German boarding school for children evacuated from bombed areas.

In the classroom, children in uniform are sitting at tables, a boy is answering at the blackboard.

Lunch break, the children approach a table with large cauldrons, a woman pours them soup.

The children go out for a walk on skis, walking in a chain through the snow.

They climb hills and slide down.