Die Deutsche Wochenschau №529 (1940)

Burma.

The strategically important Burma Road was the main source of supplies between Burma and China.

Under pressure from Germany, Great Britain gave in to Japanese demands and closed the road to military cargo.

Thus, China was isolated from Allied supplies.

Japanese soldiers on the offensive.

Overcrowded warehouses with food and weapons.

Bulgaria.

German units occupy the province of Craiova, transferred to Bulgaria.

Bulgarian peasants ride horses to meet the German cavalry.

A welcoming banner hangs.

The unit commander cuts the symbolic ribbon at the border.

The Germans are warmly welcomed by the population; the soldiers are given flowers and ribbons.

German cavalry units in the Bulgarian town of Dobrudja /21.9.1940/.

Infantry marches, self-propelled artillery and tanks drive by.

A banner is raised in the crowd: "Long live the Tsar-Liberator Boris III." Romania.

General Ion Antonescu arrives in a car at the legionnaires' parade in Bucharest.

Ceremonial formation.

Antonescu on the platform.

Procession of people in national costumes.

Leaders of the fascist legion founded by the leader of the fascist movement Corneliu Codreanu.

Legionnaires march.

Italy.

Il Duce in Padua at the parade of fascist activists.

Mussolini arrives in a car, he is greeted by young men and women.

Flags of the states that sent their delegations to the congress of fascist youth in Padua.

Ceremonial march of young fascists from Spain.

Italian fascists march.

Germany.

Motocross of motorized units of the German Wehrmacht.

The leader of German youth Arthur Axmann is present at the competition.

Soldiers on motorcycles race across rough terrain, one of the motorcyclists falls.

The motorcyclists finish the stage of the competition, take up a firing position, shoot at targets.

Someone has to change a wheel.

Then the motorcycles continue along the ditch filled with water, along the muddy road.

Germany.

Berlin.

Sending the children of workers on vacation.

Soldiers help the children, carry the suitcases.

Parents say goodbye to their children.

Boarding the carriages.

The train departs.

Germany.

Goebbels receiving leading peasants in the Propaganda Ministry.

Peasants at a ceremonial dinner at the tables, next to them are Reich Minister of Labor Richard-Walther Darré and Goebbels.

Reception of the delegation of peasants by the Fuhrer in the premises of the new Reich Chancellery.

Peasants in the courtyard of the Chancellery, close-ups of the heroes of labor from different places in Germany.

They are in the Chancellery building.

An officer carries a ball with ribbons decorated with flower garlands in his hands.

Hitler is greeted by a peasant woman with a bouquet of flowers.

The Fuhrer is presented with a gift from the peasants.

Hitler and Darré go around the peasants.

Germany.

Harvesting.

Peasants harvesting.

Speaker about food resources.

The structure of grain /on the diagram/, its nutritional content.

Bakery.

Mechanized kneading of dough, shaping, loading into the oven.

Finished bread.

Bags of flour, trademark.

Germany.

Munich.

Art exhibition of 1940 in the House of German Art.

Exhibits: sculpture of a naked youth with a torch in his hand, youth with a spear, rowers in a boat.

Hartmann sculptures: figure of a worker, steelmaker.

Mother and child, head of a child.

Kremenitsa sculpture "Adagio": figurine of a girl dancing.

Painting painted by Hitler.

Genre paintings, portraits of soldiers.

Germany.

Munich.

Training sessions /verkunterricht/ with the wounded.

They perform various simple jobs /making ceramics, etc./.

The wounded learn to write with their left hands.

Germany.

German wounded on an excursion organized for them by the KDF /Strength through Joy/ organization.

The wounded in the palace park.

They examine the sculptures.

The wounded at tables in a cafe.

The wounded buy photographs, write letters home.

Norway.

Oslo.

Flower Festival.

A national dance group performs for the military.

France.

Occupied territory.

A prisoner of war camp.

The prisoners are given underwear, robes, and socks.

Prisoners at work moving a barracks.

They are at road work.

France.

Paris.

A view from above of a square with a market, carts and bicycles.

In front of the gates of a Parisian market.

Traders carry vegetables in carts.

People with carts, carrying things, a refrigerator, and bicycles.

A street, a signboard saying "Maxim".

A rickshaw taxi on a bicycle.

A parking lot for rented bicycles.

Clients get into a cart.

France.

German sappers repairing bridges and other engineering structures.

Repairing a railway bridge.

North Africa, Sudan.

After the declaration of war on Great Britain and France, the Italian army is forced to go on the defensive in all of its African colonies.

Marshal Ettore Bastico's Italian troops advance in the desert on camels.

Tanks and vehicles with trailers are moving.

A fragment of a battle with the British.

The Italian cavalry is attacking, riding camels and horses.

The British fort in Kassala captured by the Italians.

Strengthening the Italian flag.

The cavalrymen shout joyfully and wave their sabres.