Die Deutsche Wochenschau №542 (1941)

Japan.

Celebration of the 2600th anniversary of the Japanese monarchy.

Japanese soldiers marching.

German delegation.

Thousands of Japanese greet Emperor Hirohito and the Empress, who stand on a decorated dais.

Four Japanese perform a ritual dance.

Evening festivities, fireworks.

USSR. Moscow.

Molotov and Schulenburg signing an agreement on the resettlement of Germans from the Baltic republics to Germany on 10.1.1941. Molotov and the German ambassador to Russia Schulenburg sign the document and put their seals.

They shake hands.

Snowfall in Europe.

Germany.

Berlin.

Snowdrifts near the Brandenburg Gate.

A snow-covered train, clearing the tracks.

Roofs and houses covered in snow.

A skier rides on a roof.

Prague: Charles Bridge in the snow, streets covered in snow.

Machines clear the snow.

The road to Bremen in snowdrifts, a car is driving.

Krakow: snow removal at the train station.

Rome: snow, children playing snowballs.

Northern Norway.

Fishing boats at sea.

Off the island of Lofoten, views of the island.

Fishing has been carried out here for about a thousand years, during the period when schools of Arctic cod come here from the Barents Sea from January to April.

Fishermen with their catch, they pull huge fish out of the net into boats, then transfer them to a launch.

Fishing is carried out under the protection of the German Wehrmacht.

Holland.

Dutch fascists in formation on the city square, a general inspects the formation.

A mass rally of Dutch Nazis in Utrecht in the hall on the occasion of the 9th anniversary of the founding of the fascist party.

Their leader Anton Mussert speaks to his comrades, talks about a joint fight with the Germans against the British in Africa.

East Prussia.

Construction of a new bridge on the Berlin-Königsberg highway.

The 1,000-meter span of the bridge is in place.

Gauleiter Erich Koch cuts the ribbon, cars drive across the new bridge.

Poland.

General Province /former territory of Poland, incorporated into the Reich/.

The building of the city theater in Poznan, restored by order of Goebbels.

The head of the restoration, the architect from Munich Litman.

General view.

Interiors.

Costume shop.

Helmet collection.

Wig shop.

Sketches of stage decorations, model.

Germany.

Berlin. 54th Exhibition of the German Union of Fine Arts /KVDBC/.

Individual paintings: landscapes, construction sites, work in the fields.

Portrait of Georg Siebach "My Son", a painting by Eddecke depicting a ballerina.

Female busts, a bust of Goering.

Germany.

The 48th anniversary of Hermann Goering.

Goering in front of the camera at a table in the uniform of a field marshal.

A peasant with a basket on his back sends the Reichsmarschall greetings from Westphalia.

Gifts for Goering: crystal, an inlaid gun, a sword with an elegant hilt.

Goering and his wife Emma examine the gifts.

There are flowers and a portrait of Hitler.

Goebbels, Viktor Lutze, the Italian ambassador Alfieri, Dr.

Ley and others congratulate the marshal.

Luftwaffe generals visiting Goering, Field Marshal Milch, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring.

Germany.

Assembly of searchlights at one of the factories.

Working moments, installation.

Checking the finished product.

A battery of searchlight operators on the English Channel, they carry searchlights on carts, install them on site.

Occupied southern France.

German troops on maneuvers.

Soldiers ride motorcycles along a forest road.

Soldiers carry improvised materials, build a crossing over a river.

Forcing a river.

Repelling an attack by the "enemy".

Maneuvers on the territory of an abandoned French town.

France.

German pilots on the shore of the English Channel.

They are on vacation.

A game of tag, a player hits a comrade on the butt, the latter tries to guess who hit him.

An alarm with a signal flare.

Enemy planes appear.

German pilots run to the planes, get into their cars.

Cavalier of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Galland gets into the cockpit with a cigarette in his teeth.

The mechanic marks his latest victory with a stripe on the tail of the plane.

The planes take off into the air.

Fragments of an air battle.