Die Deutsche Wochenschau №537 (1940)

Poland.

General Government.

Rest home for German soldiers in the High Tatras, where they can improve their health before returning to the front.

Games, physical exercise in the open air.

Soldiers on a walk.

View of the Tatra Mountains.

Physical exercise, tug-of-war competition.

Eastern Front.

Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch inspects the Wehrmacht winter quarters on the Eastern Front.

He and the officers tour the positions.

A gun crew at a gun, aiming the gun.

The general inspects the barracks, which have been improved to keep out the cold.

He talks to the soldiers and officers.

Romania.

Bucharest.

Military parade in honor of Romania's accession to the Axis powers, hosted by King Mihai I of Romania and General Ion Antonescu.

Passing columns.

Distinguished guests.

Air parade.

Motorized infantry, artillery, tanks.

Norway.

Building roads with German help.

Opening ceremony of the Oslo-Bergen road.

Flags of Norway and Germany in Geilo.

A band plays.

Cars move along the road.

In the north of Norway.

Arrival of a ship with food.

Unloading of vegetables and fruit for the army for the long winter.

Soldiers walk in a local town, talk to locals, shop at the market.

A soldier with a girl in his arms.

A soldier milks a cow, it bucks, local women laugh.

German soldiers clean horses, horse-drawn convoys ride through the snow.

Ceremony of new German recruits in Oslo.

A military band walks, soldiers march.

Ranks on the field, taking the oath.

Awarding of Iron Crosses to soldiers who distinguished themselves in the battles for Norway.

France.

Reconstruction of the Paris-Strasbourg railway line.

Drawing of a railway bridge, finished bridge.

Military engineers inspect the bridge, help to start railway traffic.

A train is coming.

In the carriages are German officers and civilians.

France.

A meeting of deputies in Paris in the Chamber of Deputies.

A scene of inflammatory speeches against Germany.

Alfred Rosenberg, head of the NSDAP foreign policy department, arrives for a special session and delivers a speech about the liberation of France by Germany.

France.

Collection of winter clothes in Paris for the population of the former border regions at the call of Marshal Petain.

Young people accept things, put them on carts.

Germany.

Wounded German soldiers make toys for children on Christmas Eve.

Wooden clowns, moving cockerels, boats.

The National Socialist Women's Organization with children visits the wounded in the hospital.

Children sing Christmas carols.

A soldier talks to a girl.

Germany.

German shipyard.

Construction of warships.

Submarine hull in scaffolding.

Welding, riveting, painting.

Launching the submarine.