Die Deutsche Wochenschau №540 (1941)

Canada.

Hurricane in Winnigan.

A strong wind blows, trees bend by the river.

A suspension bridge sways, the supports bend.

A man walks across the shaky bridge.

The bridge collapses, the supports fall into the river.

France.

Funeral of the prefect of police Jean Chiappe in Paris.

Jean Chiappe was a right-wing politician.

He was shot down in the Middle East during a flight to Syria, where he was appointed High Commissioner by Pétain.

Bust and memorial plaque of Jean Chiappe, dates: 1878-1940. Funeral hall, speeches.

France.

Awarding of French sailors who took part in the battle for Oran on July 3, 1940. The ceremony takes place on board a warship.

The awarding ceremony is carried out by Admiral François Darlan.

Austria.

Transportation of the sarcophagus with the remains of the Duke of Reichstadt, son of Napoleon, from Vienna to Paris, on Hitler's orders.

The procession moves along the streets of Vienna, the coffin on a smart hearse.

At the station, the sarcophagus is transferred to a carriage.

Generals are standing.

Arrival in Paris at night.

The procession, led by priests, goes along the street.

The sarcophagus is carried by French gendarmes.

Admiral François Darlan is among those accompanying.

The sarcophagus is delivered to the House of Invalids.

Poland.

Views of the city of Lublin, a technical exhibition arranged in vans.

A flag with a swastika hangs.

German soldiers walk, looking at the exhibits of the exhibition.

Warthegau (Poland).

Studying in the first Nazi political and educational home for German children.

Morning, the children run to wash, get dressed, run out of the building.

Sports activities, running through a snowy forest.

Training with running with high hurdles at the stadium.

Classroom lessons.

Children at the board with a battle diagram.

Practical lessons with a model of an artillery gun.

Sports activities in the hall, exercises on the horizontal bar, rope, somersault jumps.

Germany.

Celebration of the 50th birthday of the Chief of Staff of the SA (storm troopers) Viktor Lutze.

Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch presents him with a richly decorated dagger in a case.

The hero of the day is congratulated in turn by staff officers, Reich Minister Richard-Walther Darré, Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg.

Women approach with flowers.

Lutze is congratulated by Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, who shakes his hand.

Viktor Lutze is received by Hitler, who shakes his hand first, then his sons and wife.

Norway.

Winter in Norway, a herd of reindeer walking through the snow.

German soldiers approach on skis, negotiate with the Laplanders about catching the reindeer with a lasso.

The soldiers talk to two Laplanders and laugh.

The soldiers make a trade deal, pay money for the killed reindeer, and take the carcasses to the unit.

Their comrades meet them at the barracks.

The English Channel.

A German minesweeper flotilla in the port.

The commander of the minesweeper forces of the German fleet, Captain 1st Rank, Commodore Friedrich Ruge, gets out of his car and walks around the line of sailors.

The captain presents the best sailors with chest badges.

The flotilla is at sea.

A signalman waves flags.

Sailors on combat watch, dropping mines into the sea.

The ships are painted for camouflage purposes.

Identification buoys fly into the water.

Sailors on deck eat from mess tins.

English Channel.

Defusing mines, firing them from guns.

Sailors from the engine room look out of the hatch.

Torpedo boats in a storm, hunting English ships.

France.

A German airfield on the English Channel in northern France.

Pilots at the command post in front of a map, reconnaissance targets are indicated on it.

They disperse to their vehicles.

The course is for England.

A movie camera is attached to the plane.

The pilot's cockpit.

Flight over the English Channel.

English ships in the strait, an aerial view.

View from the plane of the city of Dover, then Rochester, Lyme.

Aerial photography is underway.

The planes return to base.

The apparatus is taken to headquarters, the film is developed, dried on a drum, and viewed.

The locations of future bombing raids are marked on the map.

Takeoff of German Junkers, planes in flight, they dive on the English harbour of Southampton.

France.

Maneuvers of the Grenadier Regiment "Deutschland".

Soldiers are going to maneuvers in trucks.

The "enemy" artillery is firing.

Soldiers jump off the trucks, lie down by the side of the road.

An officer transmits an order.

Soldiers are attacking, a soldier with a grenade in his hand, machine gunners are firing.

Soldiers are in the ruins of a house in an abandoned town, practicing combat.

A soldier throws a grenade through the window.

Houses are collapsing, flames are blazing.