Die Deutsche Wochenschau №527 (1940)

USA. September 14, 1940. President Roosevelt signs the decree on conscription into the army.

Roosevelt in his office.

Young Americans stand in line at the recruiting station.

Medical examination of conscripts.

Issuance of uniforms, recruits change clothes, laugh.

China.

Sino-Japanese War.

Japanese bombers raid the province of Chungking.

Explosions on the ground and on the water.

Firefighters try to extinguish the flames.

A panorama of the ruins.

Denmark.

King Christian X celebrates his 70th birthday.

The king, in a military uniform, rides a horse through the crowd, the residents greet him and give him a bouquet of flowers.

The king and queen on the balcony greet the people gathered in the square.

Italy.

Meeting of Hitler and Mussolini in Brenner /10/4/1940/.

Hitler arrives by train.

A crowd gathers at the station, soldiers hold back the onslaught, soldier buglers play.

The train passes a jubilant crowd.

Hitler at the carriage window, met by Mussolini.

Walking around the guard of honor.

Negotiations in the salon of the Duce's carriage.

The main topic is France, which the Fuhrer wanted to somehow mobilize against England.

Germany.

Italian Minister Roberto Farinacci arrives in Berlin by train, met by Reichsleiter Otto Dietrich.

They leave the station building, the population greets the guest, he walks around the guard of honor.

Visit to an art gallery, an exhibition of Italian genre painting.

Among the visitors is the head of the SA, Viktor Lutze.

Visit to the university, where Farinacci is presented with a certificate of membership of the academy.

Farinacci and Goebbels on the streets of Berlin, passing by a line of soldiers, a detachment of the Hitler Youth, a ride in a car.

Germany.

Exercises of an artillery battery at the artillery school of Jüterbog.

Spanish officers attend the exercises.

Motorized artillery passing through a forest area, gunnery training.

Officers watching through a telescope.

Germany.

Demonstration of the remains of downed British planes in Berlin, people examining combat vehicles, the bomb bay, the gunner's place.

View of holes in the hull and cockpit glass.

British bombs.

Germany.

Exhibition of German aircraft models.

Klemm's seaplane, Arado and Adler airplanes.

Spectators watching the making of models.

Aviation school in Schwanau.

Hangar, Hitler Youth take out a glider, a cadet in flight.

Germany.

Berlin.

A Lufthansa seaplane on the water.

Pilot Yachtman takes off from the water and lands.

Luxembourg.

A parade of local National Socialists in white shirts.

Residents watch the procession of fascists.

The parade is received by Gauleiter Gustav Simon and German generals.

They inspect the troops, detachments of fascists and youth.

Girls at the flag.

The orchestra plays the anthem.

Luxembourg.

One of the metallurgical plants, Poland, a train with coal goes through the territory of the plant.

Production processes at the plant.

Red-hot metal goes, is poured into a mold.

A steelmaker at the furnace.

The finished beam moves along the conveyor.

Rolled products.

Western Front.

Brauchitsch accepts congratulations from officers on being promoted to the rank of Field Marshal, shakes hands and talks to them.

Soldiers at an artillery battery position, discussing issues near a map hanging on a pole.

Officers walk towards captured enemy bunkers, traces of exploding shells are visible on the walls.

Then they walk to the shore past the blown-up structures.

View of the port, cranes, construction scaffolding.

Captured tanks are standing.

Norway.

Oslo during the occupation.

Unloading work is underway at the port.

A German ship at the pier.

A warehouse, women are peeling huge heads of cheese, soldiers are watching.

A German soldier is writing down the number of sausages, they are hung on racks.

There are boxes, sacks and cans in the warehouse.

Officers checking food supplies.

France.

The city of Bordeaux occupied by the Germans.

A point where residents receive food coupons.

A woman with a child is waiting in line.

Distribution of books and cards to the population.

Africa.

Italian motorcycle units are riding through the desert.

Airplanes are flying, a view of a column of cars on the road.

A column of trucks with Italian soldiers is heading to combat positions, mechanized artillery is driving, motorcyclists are overtaking them.

German bombers over Sidi Barrani, the city is being bombed, explosions are heard among the houses, debris is flying, houses are burning.

The capture of the city by Italian units.

A view of the ruins of the city.

Algeria.

Attack of the British Navy under the command of Admiral Sommerville on the French Navy in Oran and Mers-el-Kebir on July 3, 1940. French ships at sea.

A boat approaches the cruiser, an officer comes on board.

A sailor signals with a searchlight.

The officers are conferring in the wardroom, the admiral reads a telegram about the British fleet's demand to leave these waters.

The sailors run along the pier, take their places on the ship.

Explosions in the harbor.

A sailor battens down the hatch.

The ship is hit, the sailors put out the flames.

French ships are on fire.

The guns of the British ships are firing.

Debris is floating on the water, the sailors are saving themselves in lifeboats.

Fires are being extinguished on the ships.

View of the damaged and burnt ship.

The English Channel.

German torpedo bombers at sea.

The engine room of a ship.

Sailors are throwing a torpedo on a rope from the deck, the winch is spinning.

Boats and torpedo bombers are racing across the water.

An airplane is flying.

A view from an airplane of a German squadron.

A Nazi flag on the deck near a gun.

England.

An attack by German aircraft on the west coast of England, the city of Liverpool.

Planes are flying in the clouds, the pilot is looking at a map.

A view from one plane of a squadron.

Night bombing of Liverpool, lights from fires below.