Die Deutsche Wochenschau №523 (1940)

Austria.

International Technical Autumn Fair in Vienna.

Reich Minister of the Interior Walther Funk, Gauleiter of Vienna SA-Obergruppenführer Baldur von Schirach and other officials at the opening of the fair.

General view of the fair.

Individual exhibits: machine tools, mechanisms, machines.

Siemens plant stand, close-up of a power rectifier.

Germany.

Hitler's arrival at the opening of the Winter Aid activist congress.

Hitler walks down the aisle in the Sports Palace in Berlin, followed by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, Reichsleiter Martin Bormann, and Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel.

Goebbels's speech, he reads out data on the activities of the German Winter Aid fund /against the background of a display of children's institutions/.

Fundraising on the streets of the city.

Caring for mothers and children.

Women on the veranda of a sanatorium resting in deck chairs.

Children lie in cribs in the fresh air.

An aid car leaves for remote areas, children surround the car.

Doctors examine children and young people.

Soldiers undergoing treatment in a sanatorium, a nurse distributes grapes.

The announcer talks about subsidies to the Red Cross.

A farm in the village.

Children in a crèche, they are in cribs and on potties.

Germany.

Women who have replaced men in industry and transport.

Women bake bread in a bakery.

Women care for the wounded.

Women in the workshops of a factory, in a tram car.

Lunch break, women from one of the enterprises at lunch.

The announcer talks about the activities of the German Labor Front in caring for working women.

Germany.

One of the pharmaceutical enterprises of the Bayer concern in the city of Leverkusen.

The production of medicines, in particular, aspirin.

Medicines in a centrifuge.

A conveyor belt with medicines is moving.

The process of making tablets, their packaging.

Automatic line for filling and packaging tablets and ampoules.

Finished medicines.

Women at tables put medicines into boxes.

Departure points on the boxes: Copenhagen, Budapest, Zagreb, etc.

Germany.

Specialized enterprise for the production of glasses for motorcycle helmets.

Casting glass plates, polishing, grinding.

Production of goggles for helmets.

Testing the strength of glass at a firing range.

A soldier shoots at glass, the glass cracks but does not break.

Germany.

Western regions.

Weimar, a banner hanging above the building welcoming returning Germans evacuated due to military action against France.

Returning families.

Soldiers help women with their things.

People walk along the street, they are greeted by locals.

People are transported in large carts.

At the intermediate station, women of the German Red Cross help women bathe their children and feed them.

Boarding carriages seeing off Austria.

Wounded soldiers at the mountain resort of Ehrwald in Tyrol, they are sunbathing in deck chairs on the veranda of a sanatorium built by fighters of the Todt organization.

Mountain landscapes.

Yachting.

Children bring flowers to the wounded.

A wounded man with children.

Germany.

The return of the SS division "Feldherrnhalle" from the combat zone on the Western Front.

A soldier stands with the division standard.

Lieutenant General von Dahlwig and the leader of the SA Viktor Lutze inspect the SS formation.

Ceremonial formation.

Performance of the anthem.

Officers and privates, Goebbels is present.

Germany.

Reichsführer-SS, Reichsleiter Heinrich Himmler inspects a unit of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler Division in connection with the awarding of the division an honorary standard for its participation in military operations.

The division commander, SS-Oberstgruppenführer Sepp Dietrich accepts the standard from Himmler.

A ceremonial march through the streets of Berlin.

Poland.

Warsaw, General Province.

A meeting of soldiers of the labor service /RAD/.

With shovels on their shoulders, they head to the meeting, drummers walk in front.

Ernst Niel, composer of military marches and conductor, walks with members of the military orchestra.

Arrival of senior officials: Reichsleiter, Reich Workers' Leader Konstantin Gierl, Governor-General Hans Frank.

Girls present Frank with flowers.

Opening of Adolf Hitler Square, the fabric is pulled back, the inscription is revealed.

Belgium.

Collection of abandoned British equipment and vehicles in Belgium.

A vehicle is pulled out of a river.

Captured equipment, some of it broken, is transported through the streets of Bergen.

France.

Atlantic coast.

Demining the coast, residents on the beach watching the operation.

Special naval units demining.

Soldiers roll a mine across the sand.

Housings of defused mines at a collection point.

Detonating mines that cannot be transported.

North Africa, Libya.

An Italian Air Force combat aircraft takes off.

The aircraft are in the air, flying over the desert, then over the sea.

The aircraft drop bombs on a British ship.

Map of German captures in Europe.

England under blockade.

Detailed diagram of German air force operations against England.

Coast of occupied France.

German airfield, humorous inscription above the house: "Holiday home".

German pilots are resting, sleeping, playing cards.

An assignment is received, the pilots are preparing for an operation against England.

The commander gives instructions to the pilots, they prepare for takeoff.

Loading bombs.

Preparing a movie camera for filming during a raid.

A military cameraman films the squadron taking off at the airfield.

The pilots get into their cars, the engines start.

The planes are in the air.

The pilots are in the cockpits, they communicate with each other using gestures.

The bombs are flying towards English territory.