Tonwoche № 503 (1940)

Newsreel №56591, 2 parts, duration: 0:13:32
Production: UFA

Reel №1

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The offensive of the German troops in Norway.

View of the German naval squadron, which is heading to Denmark and Norway in the North Sea.

Some ships, transport boats, submarines.

Dropping bombs deep in the sea there was an explosion.

German ships in the port of Oslo.

View deck tank unit prepares for landing.

In the hold of the horse's face.

Numerous units in the Navy pier, here are the people.

Panorama of the moored vessels.

The soldiers go down the ladder.

The German command is in talks with the Port Authority.

On the hill near the port is located the German anti-aircraft battery.

Panorama of the city and the port from the position of the battery.

German sentries guarding the broadcasting tower.

Evacuees returned home by truck.

Living on the streets of Oslo.

Military convoys in the streets.

Riding horse artillery.

German advance further north.

German aircraft in the sky, a view of the ground from the cabin of the aircraft.

Landing aircraft on water skis.

German seaplanes at the former Norwegian airfield.

Soldiers unload ammunition and food.

Technicians rolled barrels of fuel to aircrafts.

German soldiers visiting the Norwegian anti-aircraft gun.

Shooting from the anti-aircraft guns.

Rise of German patrol aircraft to guard the coast.

View of the coast from the air.

Landing on the water of the German reconnaissance plane, a small accident victim.

Coast Guard cutter to the rescue.

British air raid, the alarm on the ship.

Sailors take place at the guns.

Locations: Norway [165]

Reel №2

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Construction teams of the Wehrmacht on the construction of a temporary airfield for the Luftwaffe in Norway.

Marching soldiers with shovels.

Soldiers carry logs, lay them for flooring on the muddy ground.

There is a stack of shells, a soldier writes with chalk on the shell: "To Narvik".

German planes take off.

On the map-the scheme of the German military operation under the conditional name "Buffalo".

Three mountain batteries under the command of Ritter von Hengl are to neutralize the Norwegian coastal batteries at Narvik.

To do this, they set out from Serfall to Narvik by land in the high Alpine terrain.

Due to the difficulty of the trek, it is divided into eight stages with four stops in temporary camps.

The ski team goes over the suspension bridge over the mountain river.

View of a large waterfall, mountain streams, streams of water on the rocks.

Soldiers make their way along the rocks with the help of ropes, make their way through the rivers, climb the mountain with skis.

the German squadron.

View of Narvik.

The German squadron is heading for Narvik.

The captain on the bridge is looking through binoculars.

Launch torpedoes at enemy ships.

The ship is on fire, with the stern turned up, going to the bottom.

A jet ski plane takes off from the deck of a German ship.

The guns of the ship hit the enemy ships, they burn.

Newspaper headlines about the war in Norway.

Street traffic in the city, view of the Britannia Hotel.

Wehrmacht soldiers on a hike, a detachment with backpacks lines up on the Norwegian coast, raising the fascist flag.

Paratroopers in the ranks.

Locations: Norway [165]

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