Die Deutsche Wochenschau №514 (1940)

France, Compiegne.

The carriage in which the French Marshal Foch signed the armistice in 1918 is being transported to Berlin from the Crepy-en-Valois station.

June 25, 1940. General Karl Heinrich von Stülpnagel, chairman of the German-French commission for the cessation of hostilities, arrives in Wiesbaden to sign the final document.

The French delegation, headed by Army Group Commander Charles Huntziger.

The signing ceremony.

A huge oval table in the conference room, a commission meeting.

Trophies captured in France.

A panorama of captured British aircraft on the airfield.

A view of artillery pieces, tanks, and shells in stacks.

A gun on a railway platform.

France.

Burnt oil storage facilities in Brest.

A burning oil storage facility, a black cloud of smoke above it.

A ship on the water, the name on board: "Sarre" (Saar).

Oil spilled into the water is burning.

France.

Sending French refugees to their permanent places of residence.

Refugees at the station, they are sitting and sleeping on things.

Women are washing themselves at the fountain, a man is washing a child.

The Wehrmacht and the NSV service are helping the population with food supplies.

A German soldier is cutting bread, distributing food to refugees in pots.

Boarding the carriages.

Refugees are receiving papers.

German soldiers are pouring gasoline into canisters, distributing it to the French.

Refueling French cars with fuel.

A caravan of French cars heading north.

German soldiers on the Franco-Swiss border.

Checking documents.

The barrier is opened, cars are driving by.

German troops on the Spanish-French border.

Spanish General Jose Lopez Pinto sends warm greetings to the Germans from Caudillo Francisco Franco.

Paris.

Pictures of everyday life.

Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering inspects the city in his car.

The Ritz Hotel.

Goering gets out of the car and enters the hotel building.

View of the radio tower.

Radio Paris 2 under German control, broadcasting a military concert.

A German military orchestra gives a concert on the street in front of the city hall.

The French and Germans listen to music.

Holland.

Opening of the swimming season in Scheveningen.

German soldiers stroll along the embankment with a crowd of locals.

Open-air cafes, people sitting at tables under umbrellas.

The sea beach, children and adults splashing in the water.

In contrast, reports on the consequences of British bombing, extinguishing fires.

Ruins of a sanatorium building.

England.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill speaks to the sailors on a military ship, Foreign Minister Anthony Eden is present.

Churchill delivers a speech in his office in front of a microphone.

France.

Hitler greets the victorious troops in the old territory of the Reich of Alsace-Lorraine.

The motorcade of cars passes a crowd of soldiers who greet the Fuhrer.

On the road through the Vosges, a car on a mountain road.

Hitler walks along the road with the officers, feeding an old war horse with cheese.

The Fuhrer is surrounded by a crowd of soldiers.

The Fuhrer leaves for Strasbourg.

The car crosses the bridge.

Hitler inspects the blown up bridge.

There are bunkers on the outskirts of the city.

The streets of Strasbourg, half-timbered houses, the cathedral.

Hitler inspects the cathedral and its interiors.

Hitler drives through the streets.

Soldiers on the streets joyfully greet him.

Hitler on the Maginot Line.

Damaged bunkers and fortifications.

Monument to War Minister Andre Maginot, the initiator of the creation of armed fortifications on the border with Germany.

A panorama of the fortifications, view from an airplane.

Individual fortifications.

Historical footage /old newsreel/: French soldiers in the fortifications of the Maginot Line.

Guns.

The interior of a bunker.

Power station, telephone station.

Transportation of ammunition inside the fortifications.

French guns firing.

Germany.

Views of the Rhine.

Pontoon bridge, Germans greet the Fuhrer returning from the former Franco-German front.

Girls hand the Fuhrer a gift through the train window.

Hitler shakes hands with a boy.

The Fuhrer is in the train, he is greeted by passengers of an oncoming train.

The train with the Fuhrer passes Marbach am Neckar.

Hitler at the train window, he is greeted by railway workers and city residents.

A girl presents flowers.

The Fuhrer signs autographs, shakes hands.

The train with the Fuhrer is on the way.

Continuation.

Meeting the Fuhrer in Berlin.

Fascist flags and banners are hanging.

Flowers scattered on the pavement near the Anthalia Station and near the Reich Chancellery by girls from the youth organization.

Huge crowds of people.

Police and soldiers hold back the onslaught of people.

The station.

Buglers, trumpeters with instruments.

A special train arrives.

Hitler at the Anthalia Station, he greets the generals and officials.

The procession heads for the exit.

The Fuhrer, Goering, Hess, Keitel, Admiral Raeder and others leave the station building.

Jubilant crowds.

Hitler walks down the street, he greets the people, gets into the car.

The car drives along the streets past screaming crowds.

The street decorated with garlands, crowds of people.

The car drives along a carpet of fresh flowers.

The Fuhrer in the car, jubilant Berliners.

A boy climbing onto a lamppost.

Hitler in the car.

Soldiers and SS men hold back the crowd.

Hitler on the balcony of the Reich Chancellery, Goering nearby.

The crowd is going crazy.

Goering points at something with his marshal's baton.

The Germans shout "Heil".

Hitler leaves the balcony.

The propaganda film "Denunciation".

About the harm of empty denunciations.

A certain fat man writes a letter "to the authorities", in which he denounces one of his neighbors who has failed to hang out the national flag several times.

A young man comes and, having read the denunciation, explains to the fat man that the neighbor did not hang out the flag because he was on a long business trip.

The young man says that there is no need to burden institutions with empty reports and unverified information.