Die Deutsche Wochenschau №538 (1940)

China, the Sino-Japanese War.

Japanese bombers fly over China, bombing strategic roads and bridges.

Spain.

Orphans who suffered during the civil war are transported from Madrid to a boarding school in the province.

Nurses put the children on a bus, they arrive at the place.

The children are washed, changed, cut, and given medical care.

Children have lunch at tables.

Poland.

Destroyed Warsaw, a view of the city in the smoke of fires.

Trucks with German soldiers enter the city, drive past barricades of trams.

Residents of the city on the street.

Soldiers dismantle the barricades.

A view of a tram at a depot.

Poles work on the restored railway.

Streets of Warsaw, trams go.

People are standing at the stop.

The sign on the tram car in German and Polish: "Only for Jews".

Slovakia, the border in the Tatra Mountains.

A German patrol passes by.

View of snow-capped mountains.

German soldiers mountaineering.

View of the city from the valley.

Skiers downhill.

Norway.

Construction of an airfield for the Luftwaffe.

Excavation work, laying of the surface, pouring of cement.

The airport building in scaffolding.

German planes take off from the new airfield, fly over the sea.

Germany.

Berlin, Hitler receives Wehrmacht officers, figures from the military industry, technology, chemistry and other industries in the Reich Chancellery.

He talks to them, shakes hands.

Germany.

A military factory is operating, production processes for the manufacture of rifles.

Processing of wooden butts on machines.

Workers at machines in the workshop.

Checking rifles, transportation.

Norway.

German warships in Sonja Fjord.

View of the oil depot, guarded by German machine gun posts.

Soldiers disembark near a settlement.

A local youth gives a German soldier a light for his cigarette.

Landing of mountain infantry units and ammunition.

German units are heading inland, they are traveling in trucks along a mountain road.

A wrecked bus, which was used in an attack by Norwegian soldiers on the Germans, lies on the road.

The Norwegians surrender and are disarmed.

Prisoners are being transported in trucks.

German tanks on the streets of the city.

The North Sea, German warships on the march.

Sailors and soldiers on the deck of a cruiser.

A raid is underway in a stormy sea.

Denmark.

A parade of Wehrmacht troops is taking place in Copenhagen to mark the 51st anniversary of Hitler's birthday.

A military orchestra is marching in front.

Residents are watching the parade.

Troops pass through the gates of the citadel and line up on the square.

The commander of the German troops in Denmark, Air Force General Leonhard Kaupisch, and General Röppi walk around the formation.

Röppi addresses the soldiers.

Germany.

Celebrations on the occasion of the Fuhrer's birthday.

A jubilant crowd in front of the Reich Chancellery.

Hitler is on the balcony, greeting the people.

Germany.

Sculptor Professor Thorak works in his studio on a model for the monument for Nuremberg.

Individual figures of the monument.

Processing the marble monumental parts of the monument in the studio: horses, male and female torsos.

Poland.

Warthegau. /The territory of Poland annexed to Germany in 1939/.

Celebrating Christmas.

Santa Claus with a sack, giving presents to children.

A German soldier cuts down a Christmas tree in the forest, it is carried on a sleigh.

Soldiers decorate the Christmas tree in the house, gifts for the soldiers, the festive table.

Norway.

Celebrating Christmas.

Delivering presents to troops in the Far North.

Ships at anchor.

A German ship arrives in Oslo harbor.

Sailors with a Christmas tree.

Christmas on a German ambulance ship in Norway.

Nurses decorate the Christmas tree.

The wounded celebrate Christmas.

Sisters hand out presents.

A soldier sniffs a sausage.

Northern France.

Celebrating Christmas.

Soldiers carrying a Christmas tree on a motorcycle.

Soldiers carry geese and mess tins under their arms.

Celebrating at the table.

Father Frost distributing presents to soldiers.

France.

Pilots celebrating Christmas.

Father Frost arriving by plane.

Distribution of presents.

A pilot takes off for a flight, a small Christmas tree is placed in the cockpit.

A pilot with a Christmas tree.

Distribution of presents.

Soldiers by the Christmas tree.

Festive dinner.

Singing Christmas carols.

Patrols on duty.

Sentries on duty.

A soldier in front of a gun.

France.

Presentation of the third Iron Cross to non-commissioned officer Moder, who distinguished himself in combat against enemy tanks.

Germany.

German stud farm, horses standing.

German cavalrymen during exercises.

Fragments of the exercises.

Overcoming various obstacles, pursuing a simulated enemy on horses.

Germany.

An English submarine, captured by German troops, in one of the German ports.

The former English boat, after repairs, goes to sea under the German flag.

France.

Atlantic coast.

Raging sea, waves rushing onto the shore.

German soldiers board the ship, go down to the deck along the chute, a dog rolls down after the soldier.

Soldiers on the deck.

The ship moors to the shore of the island, here the garrison is changed.

Sentries on duty.

Unloading food, searchlights and anti-aircraft gun upon the arrival of the boat.

Combat alert.

Anti-aircraft guns are firing.