Tonwoche № 677 (1944)

1. The President of the Slovak Republic, Dr.

Tiso, is present at the first graduation of the Grinkovo Youth High School.

Tiso bypasses the ranks of youth organizations, awards individual leaders with orders and medals.

Graduates of the school approach the banner, then Tiso, who shakes their hands.

2. In San Lorenzo del Escorial, in the presence of Caudillo, the 2nd great meeting of the female phalanx of youth was held.

Girls march past the stands with the audience.

The meeting is attended by more than 15 thousand young phalangists.

Franco is presented with flowers.

Caudillo handed the silver badges to the phalanx.

As a symbolic gift, Franco was given a sword, laurels and a rose.

Franco walks through the crowd, cheering.

Caudillo visits an exhibition of falangist art.

Exhibits: embroidery, dolls, furniture, dishes.

The phalangists demonstrated their athletic skills on special bars, mass gymnastic exercises on the stadium field.

3. Numerous students from Bulgaria, Romania, Norway, together with their German comrades, listen to lectures at the Higher Technical School in Dresden.

Students in the classroom at the practical classes of the chemist Professor Binder.

It shows experience.

4. In Antwerp, a new detachment of Flemish SS volunteers was sent off to the Eastern front.

On the square, the troops are lined up, and a huge SS standard hangs.

A soldier near the banner.

Women give flowers to soldiers.

The military appeals to the volunteers to take part in the struggle for a free Europe to complete victory, shoulder to shoulder with the German army.

Volunteers march through the city, the population stretches their hands, the girls walk next to the soldiers.

Buses with volunteers are on their way.

5. The start of the German bombers from the airfield.

Lieutenant General Seidemann, the commander of one of the aviation corps, discusses a combat mission with a pilot, Major Rudel, who was awarded the Iron Cross with Diamonds.

Yu-87 aircraft in flight, they attack Soviet tanks.

Rudel is flying the plane.

Shooting at ground targets from low-level flight.

All along the front from the Carpathians to the Gulf of Finland, with the exception of a few limited areas where the enemy's pressure is still continuing, the German army has stopped the enemy's movement.

German infantry and artillery counterattack.

Soldiers lead the wounded man past the house to the dressing station, where doctors provide first aid.

One of the stubbornly defended bridgehead fortifications was destroyed by German tanks and infantry.

The soldiers run in the smoke.

German tanks drive past burning houses.

Fighting on the streets of the city.

Soldiers at the gate, soldiers look in the window of the house.

Soldiers ride a tank through the village.

A burning city in the dark.

6. Normandy-Brittany.

German SS General Sepp Dietrich awards the Iron Cross to the soldiers of the SS formations who distinguished themselves in battle.

Fragment of the battle with the British.

In the distance, an English strike force can be seen advancing along the road.

The German guard posts spotted the British in time.

At any moment, fire can start on the enemy.

Suddenly, all kinds of weapons were fired at the strike force.

German soldiers shoot from machine guns.

The squad was completely destroyed.

At the battle position of one of the German heavy artillery units.

The commander looks into the stereo tube, the signalman transmits the order to open fire.

The gunners load the gun, shoot.

The air alarm sounds, the gunners mask the gun with branches, the teams go into hiding.

American bombers are flying, bombing German positions.

Heavy anti-aircraft guns fire at attacking bombers.

The downed burning plane falls to the ground.

The gunners release the gun from disguise, shoot.