Tonwoche № 589 (1942)

Newsreel №59860, 2 parts, duration: 0:13:37
Production: UFA

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1. Baltic.

A spokeswoman for Franco's Spain attends a frontline hospital for the Spanish soldiers of "Blue division".

Together with the doctors, it bypasses the wounded Legionnaires, gives them awards from the Caudillo.

A visitor sits at the table with the wounded, walks in the Park.

Wounded make a snowman, play in the snow.

Women are included in the game, wounded throw snowballs at them.

2. The building of the Palace of modern art in Barcelona, decorated with banners with the swastika.

There is an exhibition of German architecture.

At the entrance of the honor guard are young men from the Spanish phalanx.

Guests pass in the hall, where models of architectural structures in Germany.

3. The celebrations in Stockholm on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Church of St.

Gertrud in the Old place, founded in the early middle ages to 1642.

The facade of the Church, Church relics, gravestones Swedish kings, ancient manuscripts, printing.

At the solemn service arrives king Gustav V, the members of the Royal family and foreign guests.

4. There is a recruitment in one of the villages of Hungary.

Guys in uniform saying goodbye to the girls family.

They go through the village, sit in the cart, the residents accompany them.

The ceremony of bringing recruits sworn in at the village square.

Are the girls in national costumes.

The audience at seeing the peasants welcomed young people, going to the front.

Folk dancing in the square.

5. On the ice stadium in Berlin Friedrichshain competitions in figure skating 1942-43.

The concert of the famous German skaters Gerda Strauch and Gunter Noaca.

Among the spectators many soldiers.

Pair of Ernst Baier and Maxi Gerber showed a new dance.

6. In Berlin Variete "Wintergarten" is the performance of the French circus.

Over the dome is running a trio of trapeze artists, two men and one woman.

They climb the ladder up and perform stunts on the swinging lounge.

7. Map of the Mediterranean sea.

The advance of the German motorized units on French coastal areas.

Cars go in the direction of the French Riviera.

A view of the port of Marseille, French and German ships in port.

Installation of anti-aircraft guns in the port.

Soldiers rest, eat, smoke, one catches a fish at the bait.

Soldiers wash the pots in the sea.

Locations: Spain [205] Sweden [211] Hungary [100] Germany [84] Fran

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7. Continued.

The French gunners serving in Hitler's army.

A French officer gives explanations to the German General, shows the tower of the ancient fortress.

The passage of German troops through the city of Perpignan, ride cars, motorcycles.

The population observes the movement of troops.

German machinery and vehicles drove up to the Spanish border.

The border crossing, across the road stretched a rope, the German armored vehicles stop at an obstacle.

The view of the sea.

Exchange greetings with the Spanish guards.

The capture by the Germans of the South coast of France.

German guns on the shore of the Mediterranean sea.

German soldier-an observer on a background of mountains.

PNRM. the Pyrenees and the sea.

German artillery gun mounted on the coast.

8. Military action in Stalingrad.

German planes "Stukas" in the air, they bombed the Soviet positions in the city.

Explosions at the plant, the city, the types of the burning of Stalingrad.

German artillery fires, the calculation tools.

In the city are street battles.

Soldiers shelled the street from the bunker.

Soviet soldiers surrendering.

German soldiers at rest in the pause between battles.

On the box are the sausage sandwiches, a bottle of schnapps, cigarettes.

The soldier at the campfire Butters the bread, eats, drinks from the pot.

9. On the Black sea.

German and Romanian destroyers in the campaign.

The sailors set the fuses to land mines.

Dropping mines in the sea.

10. The Caucasus.

German reconnaissance unit on the ski area of mount Elbrus.

German climber climbs the mountain, he on the cliff.

The concern with the approach of Soviet troops.

The squad down from the mountains, it passes the message of the German combat unit.

There is a skirmish with Soviet forces, machine gun, mortar.

The Soviet squad is forced to retreat.

Key words

Eastern front

Locations: France [77] USSR

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