Die Deutsche Wochenschau №521 (1940)

Germany.

A propaganda story in the form of a conversation between two characters and a store clerk about the importance of collecting warm clothes and the need to make sacrifices for the army.

Germany.

In memory of Paul Nipkow, a German technician and inventor.

The disk he invented served as the basis for the emergence of mechanical television in the 1920s. (22.8.1860 – 24.8.1940).

Nipkow sitting in a chair.

Television camera.

Fragments of the first broadcasts /1935/.

Recording of a symphony orchestra, a dance number.

The door to the screening room opens, a dance is seen on the screen.

The director at the console.

The cameraman at the television camera, the dolly with the camera is pushed by two assistants.

Filming of horse races at a hippodrome.

Two men watching TV. Germany.

Aircraft factory, assembly of Junkers aircraft.

Commissioning of the workshop.

Engines are being mounted, chassis are installed.

Germany.

Installing wings, blades, propellers.

Finished aircraft are transported through the assembly shop.

A squadron of aircraft on the airfield in combat readiness.

Germany.

Aerial bomb manufacturing plant.

The manufacturing process, turning bombs, grinding, painting, lubrication.

Finished products.

Bombs are transported on a trolley.

Workers in the shop performing various operations.

Packing finished products.

Arrival of cargo at a military airfield.

Germany.

Military plant.

Casting gun barrels.

Workers in the hot shop.

Various stages of the barrel casting process.

Finished barrels.

Turning and grinding barrels.

A gun at a test site, firing.

Occupied France.

Alsace.

View of an Alsatian town, an old bridge.

Street, a German soldier riding a cart with hay.

Population.

Children walk in a line down the street, soldiers smile at them, pat them on the head.

Soldiers with motorcycles near a house.

Soldiers in formation, a corporal checks his weapon.

Soldiers engaged in peaceful activities: peeling potatoes, doing laundry.

Soldiers run to the river with inflatable boats, organize rowing competitions.

Diving from a diving board in a pool, swimming.

France.

The premises of the Masonic League.

Coats of arms, drawings of skulls and bones on the coat of arms and other Masonic paraphernalia hang on the wall.

Paintings, portraits.

An armchair in the office, behind it a large mirror and a bust.

The mirror reflects the paintings on the wall, which are being examined by German soldiers.

A soldier opens the door to a small cell, skulls and bones lie on the table, the soldier takes a bone in his hands, hits it on the table.

France.

Paris.

Beggarly neighborhoods, miserable dwellings of the poor.

Shabby buildings, the inscription "Passage Valmy" on the wall, slums.

Children play on the bare dirty street, laundry hangs among the huts, debris lies around.

Near the houses there is a population, young men with cigarettes in their teeth, adults with children, old people eat from pots.

Germany.

New houses of workers in an industrial settlement.

A sign to a children's factory.

Women push strollers, lead children.

Children run out of the house to the playground.

Children playing in the sandbox, riding on the swings.

Swimming pool.

Carousel.

Germany.

Summer camp "Hitler Youth" near Koenigsberg.

Buglers give the signal "Rise", the children run out of the tents, wash.

Breakfast is distributed.

Classes on learning to ride motorcycles on rough terrain.

Germany.

Humboldt School of Naval Officers.

A teacher conducts a lesson outdoors.

Explanation of the structure of a submarine.

Practical exercises on a submarine.

Practical exercises on a submarine.

Submarine at sea.

Trainees at their workplaces.

On the bridge, the captain gives the command to the engine room.

Submerging the submarine, view through the periscope.

Submersion depth indicator.

France.

German military camp.

Pilots on vacation, they play cards.

Tactical exercises with the help of models.

Pilots receive the order to take off.

Planes taking off.

Planes in the air.

View of the ground from the plane.

Pilots in the cockpit.

Ships at sea visible from the plane.

Bombing of English ships.

Bombs flying, explosions.

German squadron in flight.

Pilots' cabin.

Attack on the English coast.

Bombs flying towards the target.

Planes in flight.