Tonwoche № 470-1 (1939)

In Finland the preparations for the Olympic games 1940, the year in an isolated and quiet environment.

Views of Helsinki from the Bay, the bridge, on which people go.

Ships in port.

The city market, the vendor pours the package of berries.

Buyers near the trays and drawers with vegetables and fruit.

Woman weighing on the scales of the eel.

City street, flower stalls, tram rides.

Sculptural group of naked blacksmiths.

Fountain with figures of seals on the edge, in the centre the figure of a naked woman.

A jet of water gushes from the mouth of the seal.

A traffic COP waving a stick around.

The post office building.

The monument to Alexander II, below the sculptural group "the Law", "World", "Light" and "Work", the date is 1863, when Alexander II Finland was granted extensive rights of autonomy.

The famous Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi opens in the capital store of his name with goods for men.

Architects at the model with sports facilities for the Olympic games in Helsinki 1940.

A new stadium in the layout and in kind.

Workers paint the benches in the stands.

Poster: "Olympic games in Helsinki 20.07-4.08.1940.

People's day in the Berlin zoo.

For adults and children is the most attractive place.

At the entrance of the woman with the shopping cart, where are the bananas, packets of nuts.

A woman buys a bag girl.

Monkeys in an open cage, they climb on the bars, jump from branch to branch, spinning.

Adults and children near the cage.

The acolyte rings the bell, goes to the pool with walruses, throws fish from a bucket.

Close-up of a walrus, he makes cries.

From pool out seals in a hurry to Minister with food.

Indian dancer Anita Degive demonstrates his art in front of an English audience as part of a tour through Europe.

National orchestra accompanies the dancer.

The musicians play drums.

In Rome is swim swimmers from Italy and Germany on the river.

Swimmers are accompanied by many boats.

The Germans win.

Italian mountain brigade preparing to climb a glacier in the Alps in full ammunition.

The group goes through the snow, holding a common rope.

Uphill, jumping over crevices.

On top of the arrow set the firing point, lie down with rifles in their hands.

The Danzig corridor.

The German attack on the stronghold of Gdansk - Westerplatte, the fortress view.

The gunfire from the German cruiser "Schleswig-Holstein" at the fortress on the Bank see the fires.

The captain looks through binoculars.

The ship has antiaircraft gun, heard the guns.

From the window of the broken house hung a white flag.

The name on the Bank: "Westerplatte" are German soldiers. pnrm. with movement along the shore, a ruined wall of the fortress.

Taken prisoner by the poles, the Germans speak with the prisoners.

German soldiers treated the poles with cigarettes.

Polish sailor with a cigarette in his mouth.

German troops moving on the road to Warsaw.

Horse artillery passes through the town.

Fight night in the dark flashing lights of explosions and fires.

Morning the cannonade of guns.

Soldiers in combat are at the roadside.

Infantry attack.

Go German convoys.

In the city are of Polish prisoners of war, people look at the columns.

A pow camp under the open sky.

The prisoners stand and sit with the bowls in hand, lying wounded.

Barefoot soldier with a bandaged leg.

Refugees return to their homes.

German soldiers distribute the Polish children and the elderly bread, canned meat.

Square poles for German military band plays.

Turn residents from the field kitchens, soldiers handing them the bread, pour the soup into a variety of vessels.

A woman feeding a child, eating the old woman.

Tables children and adults.

Residents joyfully greeted the German soldiers who are marching through the city with flowers in his hands.