Tonwoche № 521 (1941)

Newsreel №57613, 2 parts, duration: 0:15:48
Production: UFA

Reel №1

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Spain.

Announcement of the Pamplona Festival.

A festive crowd is moving along the street, carrying huge figures made of papier-mache.

People are dancing.

The stadium is a popular bullfight, daredevils can try to fight with the bulls released on the field.

A three-sport relay race was held in Paris.

The competition begins with a run, then the athletes get on their bikes, reach the river, jump into the water from the bridges, and swim.

Athletes go ashore.

Close-up of the winner.

Spain.

Franco visits the locomotive factory, the workers greet him.

Franco delivers a speech from the podium with an appeal to the nation.

The anthem sounds.

France.

The Soviet Embassy on Rue de Grenelle 7. The embassy building abandoned by diplomats, closed windows, empty rooms.

Cabinet with portraits of Kalinin and Stalin.

Belgium.

The anti-Soviet legion is sent to fight against Bolshevism.

Soldiers march down the street, get on the train.

On the car the inscription: "New fighters against the Soviets".

Mourners on the platform, soldiers stretch their hands in the windows.

The oath of Spanish volunteer pilots in one of the German flight schools.

Spanish pilots in German Luftwaffe uniforms.

Finland.

Joint operations of German and Finnish troops in the area of Salla.

Crossing the river on motor boats under fire from Soviet artillery.

Wire fences on the shore.

Soldiers run through the hilly terrain.

Map of the operations of the German troops under the command of General von Leeb in Lithuania, Latvia and Finland.

The scheme of operations of the army of General von Bock to capture Bialystok, Minsk, Smolensk, on the southern front - Kiev.

Key words

Francisco Franco

Calendar: 1941

Locations: Spain [205] France [77] Belgium [22] Finland [76]

Reel №2

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The attack on Smolensk, view of the city, the ruins of burned houses.

Smolensky Cathedral, located in it anti-religious museum, portraits of Lenin and Stalin.

German soldiers raked debris.

The bell tower is arranged parachute.

Locals go in purified cathedral, the priest conducts the service.

Residents greeted the German soldiers with flowers.

A crowd of women, children and the elderly.

Eastern front.

The infantry moves on soldiers marching along the road and smiling at the camera.

Ukrainian field, shoot the German artillery.

On the way, riding tanks, General Guderian meets a soldier road, talking with him.

On the side of the broken Soviet equipment, tools.

German armored vehicles go to the Dnieper.

Fires Artillery.

Tanks hit the village, are burning houses.

Spoils of War - machinery and tools.

Broken train station, view from the heights on the broken carriages and platforms to the military cargo.

Repair of railway track forces of German sappers.

German troops move to Uman.

Antiaircraft guns hit the Soviet planes, the plane falls to the ground and burns.

A soldier looks through binoculars.

German tanks moving towards Uman.

Soviet soldiers surrendering.

Captured Soviet commander, soldiers are prisoners, among them a woman on the road.

The camp prisoners, they sit on the ground.

The German air force sent to bomb Moscow.

The pilot in the cockpit.

View from the plane.

Night photography.

The tracers sky.

With the aircraft flying bombs.

Explosions and fires in Moscow plane.

Frames, glorifying the power of the German army.

German soldiers marching, galloping cavalry.

They're coming tanks, close-up of a caterpillar tank, barrel guns.

Key words

Cathedral of the Assumption (Smolensk), railway, bridge, PzKpfw IV, PzKpfw III, He 111

Calendar: 1941

Locations: Smolensk [822]

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