Die Deutsche Wochenschau №520 (1940)

Germany.

Hameln.

International cycling competitions of Germany, Yugoslavia and Hungary.

Cyclists on the course.

Spectators.

Presentation of honorary wreaths to the winners.

Germany.

Canoe competition.

Boats on the lake.

Spectators.

Germany.

Koenigsberg.

Opening of the 28th Eastern Technical Exhibition, in which more than 2,000 representatives took part.

German Minister of the Interior Walter Funk at the opening.

Individual pavilions and exhibits.

Modern railway carriages, machines and mechanisms are displayed outdoors.

Manchukuo pavilion, model of the construction site, Italian pavilion.

Germany.

One of the chemical plants producing mineral fertilizers.

Workers in the workshops, machines and mechanisms.

Packing fertilizers into sacks.

A train with a load of fertilizers.

France.

Collection of captured vehicles.

Dismantling and dismantling damaged vehicles.

Workers wield sledgehammers, cut parts using electric welding.

A pile of damaged car bodies at a scrap metal collection point, wheel tires are stored.

Germany.

Workers from one of the defense industry enterprises hand over new mechanized guns to servicemen of an air defense military unit.

A new anti-aircraft gun handed over to anti-aircraft gunners.

An officer explains to the workers' representatives how the gun works.

A gun crew at an anti-aircraft gun.

The heavy gun fires.

Occupied France.

German soldiers on vacation.

They clean their weapons, wash their clothes, and darn their socks.

An anti-aircraft crew on the shore of a bay.

Soldiers in their shorts run to the sandy shore.

Physical exercises in the open air.

One of the soldiers demonstrates a cascade of several somersaults.

At the sound of the whistle, the company sets off on a playful march to swim in the sea.

The soldiers splash in the water, row inflatable boats.

Germany.

Field Marshal von Brauchitsch, commander of the ground forces, visits the wounded in the hospital, he talks to the wounded, shakes their hands.

Germany.

Berlin.

July 19, 1940. The Fuhrer presents marshals' batons to new marshals who distinguished themselves in battles in Poland, Norway, and France in the Reich Chancellery.

Marshal Hermann Goering's baton.

Hitler and Goering approach the line of generals.

The batons are received by Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces Walther von Brauchitsch;

Commander of Army Group A Gerd von Rundstedt, Commander of Army Group B Fedor von Bock, Commander of Army Group C Wilhelm von Leeb;

Chief of Staff of the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht Wilhelm Keitel;

Commander of the 12th Army General Wilhelm List, Commander of the 4th Army General Hans Günther von Kluge, Commander of the 1st Army General Erwin von Witzleben, and Commander of the 6th Army General Walther von Reichenau.

A panorama of the batons.

The Fuhrer salutes the marshals and leaves.

Italy.

The German military delegation inspects the sapper mechanisms and devices of the Italian army.

Demonstration of mechanisms, devices for establishing a crossing over small rivers, self-propelled devices, amphibians.

Italy.

An Italian submarine returns from a military campaign.

Sailors on the shore, they are greeted by colleagues.

Africa, British Somalia.

The offensive of Italian troops.

An airport, shells with inscriptions are lying.

Italian pilots head to their vehicles.

Planes take off into the air.

Fragments of an air battle.

Italian seaplanes on the water and in the air.

Italian planes bomb enemy ships and positions.

Germany.

The transition of a German artillery unit to new positions.

Heavy guns are transported on platforms.

Soldiers build fortifications.

Assembly of a heavy long-range gun.

It fires.

Continued.

Delivery of shells.

Aiming the gun, it fires.

A heavy gun on a railway platform moves along the rails.

Loading the gun, aiming, firing.

Occupied France.

German pilots prepare for the "flight of retaliation" against England.

Planes take off, they are in flight.

Pilots in the cockpit.

The English coast.

Ships at sea.

A burnt-out oil storage facility.

View of objects from an airplane.

The target of the bombing is the cities of Southampton and Newcastle.

Dropping bombs that fly towards the target, explosions.

Planes in flight.