Die Deutsche Wochenschau №531 (1940)

Germany.

Vegetable harvest in Germany.

Cabbage harvesting from the fields.

Women collect potatoes in baskets after a potato digger has passed.

Austria.

The Reichsautobahn is building the Munich-Linz-Vienna road.

Work in a quarry, rock is being blasted, broken stones are loaded into mine carts.

Construction site in Salzburg, work in progress.

The 24-meter piers will support the 188-meter span of the viaduct.

Camp for road builders.

Good living conditions have been created for the moral support of the workers.

The workers take a shower, shave, get their hair cut, play chess, read newspapers, and receive mail.

Lunch for the workers.

A concert in the camp.

A ballet troupe dances on stage.

Austria.

Spitzenberg near Hainburg on the Lower Danube.

Gauleiter Hugo Juri opens a training airfield for the Hitler Youth organization; airplanes bearing the names of pilots who died in combat are parked.

The pilot removes a sticker from the side of the car, on it are the names - Klaus von Bohlen, Emmerich Sikora and others.

Young people pull the glider with ropes, the pilot gets into the cockpit, take off from a hill.

Poland.

A trip to the eastern regions for the Chief of Staff of the SA Viktor Lutze includes a visit to the Marienburg Castle.

Together with his entourage, he walks through the courtyard of the castle.

Visiting the military cemetery and the grave of a former comrade in arms, SA Obergruppenführer and Chief of Police in Kiel, the leader of the SA assault group "Nordmark" (Kiel), who died in Poland in the first days of the war, Joachim Meyer-Quaid.

Close-up of the cross and plaque.

In the city of Litzmannstadt (Lodz), Lutze gets acquainted with a new unit that is celebrating Freedom Day.

A ceremonial parade in front of Lutze and SA General Hasso von Manteuffel.

Poland.

Krakow salutes the first Polish Governor-General, Dr.

Hans Frank, who delivers a speech.

The new flag of independent Poland is installed in the Governor-General's residence.

Frank near the bust of Hitler.

Germany.

Police and SS parade on Adolf Hitler Square in Berlin.

Cavalry rides, orchestra musicians on horseback.

On the platform among the highest ranks of the police and military is Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler.

Residents greet them.

France.

Occupied territory.

Telephone exchange in occupied Paris.

Signalers at work, they connect subscribers with the front and Germany, receive telegrams.

France.

Warehouse of military uniforms /clothing and linen/, captured from the French.

Sorting and sending clothes by French workers under the supervision of German soldiers.

Loading into trucks and sending to Germany.

France.

Sending captured French heavy military equipment and tanks to Germany.

A broken tank is dragged by chains onto a platform.

The train departs.

France.

Maneuvers of German signal troops in occupied territory.

Soldiers in inflatable boats force a water obstacle.

They disembark, deploy equipment.

Dash across the terrain.

Signalers at work, they pull a communication line.

Fragments of a simulated battle.

A machine gun fires at the enemy.

Soldiers dashing.

Explosions.

Signalers establish communication, check it.

Italy.

The German orchestra of the Reich Labor Service under the direction of Herms Niel gives a concert for wounded Italian soldiers in Rome.

Orchestra, musicians.

North Africa.

After the capture of Sollum and Sidi Barrani, Italian construction teams build roads in the desert.

They unload stone for the construction of the road.

The finished road.

A truck drives along the road.

A signpost made of stones.

Pacific theater of military operations.

Japanese airfield, pilots in formation.

Japanese planes take off.

Japanese squadron in the air, heading for Burma, planes bomb the Burma Road.

Germany.

German submarines return to port after combat operations.

Lieutenant Commander Joachim Schepke looks on from the bridge of the boat.

The submarine's emblem is an otter.

Its last account was 40 thousand gross tons.

The submarine of Lieutenant Commander Günther Prien, who sank 200 thousand gross tons.

The Führer awarded him the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves.

The sailors are greeted on the shore with an orchestra.

The submarine of Lieutenant Commander Otto Kretschmer, who also reported the destruction of ships worth 200 thousand gross tons.

He was awarded the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves.

The submarine sets out to carry out a new combat mission.

Germany.

Goering inspects an air force unit in the English Channel that distinguished itself in air battles against England.

Major Helmut Wieck, one of the aces of Richthofen's squadron, reports to the Reichsmarschall.

Goering walks around the formation of pilots, talks to them.

Then he visits the Horst Wessel Division, walks around the formation of pilots, shakes hands.

Germany.

Footage from an old newsreel: Captain Oswald Boelcke, an inventive air combat tactician, near an airplane.

He crashed 24 years ago after his fortieth victory.

Members of the Boelcke Squadron visit the grave of a First World War ace in Dessau together with the hero's mother and lay a wreath.

France.

One of the units of the German Air Force.

The commander of the Boelcke Squadron reports on his readiness to begin operations against England.

The pilots secure the bombs.

The Heinkel-111 planes take off, heading towards England.

Pilots open hatches, bombs fall on English territory.

Camera operator films from the cockpit.

Fires on English territory.