Tonwoche №439 (1939)

Liberation of Barcelona by Franco's government nationalist troops, 26.1.1939. Troops in position, artillery firing.

Troops enter the city, tanks drive by.

The national flag is hung on a balcony.

A panorama of the ruins of the city.

Government soldiers hand out food to residents from a truck.

Women, children, and old people are eating, close-ups of their faces.

Captured Republicans walk past the soldiers.

Refugees return to the city.

Air defense exercises in Paris.

Fire crews arrive at dusk.

A siren sounds.

A crowd of residents watches the actions of the air defense fighters and firefighters.

The fighters rescue the "wounded" who are lying on the pavement, they are placed on stretchers, and carried to a car.

A motorcycle with two cameramen dressed in protective suits and gas masks drives up, they are filming.

A fighter in camouflage and a gas mask breaks a cobblestone road with a pick.

International light aircraft competitions.

Spectators in the stands on the airfield, flags of the participating countries hang.

An airplane performs aerobatics.

Three airplanes simultaneously perform aerobatics, make a loop-the-loop, and make a turn; traces of released gas are visible in the sky.

Puerto Rico.

An American squadron goes out into the Atlantic Ocean for exercises.

Sailors walk along the pier with bags on their backs, board the ship.

Guns on the deck of the ship.

The US flag is on the stern.

In the Berlin Sports Palace, there are demonstration performances of the WHW (German police) organization, which is raising funds for the needs of the Wehrmacht.

Athletes perform mass gymnastics exercises, lie down on the floor in the form of the letters of the organization.

Soldiers in the hall.

Sports performances on the horizontal bar and parallel bars.

Soldiers perform somersaults over three live horses.

International Winter Sports Week in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

View of the Olympic ski jump.

Ski jumping competitions underway.

A German athlete jumping, rapid shooting.

An unsuccessful jump by one of the athletes.

Fans on the track.

Berlin celebrates the 6th anniversary of the National Socialist Party coming to power (Hitler became Chancellor of Germany on 30.1.1933).

Evening Berlin, swastika banners everywhere.

A motorcade of cars drives past a building decorated with flags and illuminated by floodlights.

View of the car in which Hitler is riding.

The motorcade drives along Unter den Linden, through the Brandenburg Gate to the Kronoper building.

A car with a cameraman drives in front of the motorcade.

The police hold back the crowd.

Hitler, Himmler and the generals walk past the lined-up troops.

Hitler is in the hall, he walks down the aisle, behind him Goering, Hess, they go up to the presidium.

Panorama of the hall.

Hitler makes a speech.

Goering chairs the ceremonial meeting dedicated to Hitler's 6th anniversary in power.

Hitler finishes his speech, shakes hands with his comrades, Goering.

Evening, a jubilant crowd of citizens in front of the Reich Chancellery.

On the balcony are Hitler, Goering, Hess, Goebbels, Admiral Raeder.

A torchlight procession past the Reich Chancellery.

After the soldiers pass, residents run up to the balcony, shouting joyfully, waving their hands.