Tonwoche №470 (1939)

Danzig in German hands.

View of Danzig from the sea.

Movement along the embankment past houses, old warehouses.

German soldiers install barbed wire fences around the city from a possible advance of Polish troops.

Poland.

Funeral of stormtrooper Josef Weichsel.

Josef Weichsel was killed while installing barbed wire fences.

View of the funeral procession: carrying a coffin, wreaths.

German soldiers and officers salute at Weichsel's grave, his wife and children throw flowers.

Close-up of the wreath, inscription on the ribbon from the Gauleiter of Danzig.

Polish Volksdeutsche refugees with their belongings walk along the road.

People near barracks, close-ups of children, women and old people.

Children sit on things, crying.

Shots illustrating their losses: burning houses devastated by the Poles, killed cattle lying in the yards, ruins in place of houses.

A sign pointing to the town of Beuthen.

A sign pointing to an unexploded shell.

A view of a brick house with a wall riddled with machine gun fire.

Another house with a hole in the roof.

A Volksdeutsche giving an interview in front of his house with a gaping hole in the wall.

A view of the destroyed rooms and kitchen with broken furniture.

The "liberation" of Danzig.

The British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax and members of the British Parliament on Downing Street, they are walking towards the building.

The police are holding back the crowd.

Residents of Danzig are reading the declaration on the liberation of the city by Adolf Hitler on the wall.

The Commissioner of the People's Union, which governed the city, Dr.

Burkhard, is leaving the administrative building.

Flags with swastikas are flying over the government offices of Danzig.

There is a shootout near one of the buildings.

German soldiers are firing a cannon at the building.

German soldiers move under the cover of an armored personnel carrier with the SS sign and the name "Sudetenland" on the armor.

A soldier throws grenades from the roof of the carrier into the yard beyond the fence.

Machine guns fire at the building.

There is a fire in the yard, the front door is smashed.

Firefighters put out the fire.

A motorcade of cars drives along the streets of Berlin on the day of a rally dedicated to the liberation of Danzig.

Hitler arrives at the Reichstag for a meeting.

View of the stage, the meeting is in progress.

The entrance of German units into liberated Danzig.

Residents enthusiastically greet the troops.

Equipment drives along streets decorated with fascist symbols.

A man distributes newspapers to German soldiers in trucks.

A newspaper seller with a stack in his hands barely manages to sell them.

The Reich is preparing for war with England.

The city of Pergamon.

Residents are laying sandbags over the walls of their houses, blocking up the openings.

Shutters are hung on the windows to darken the sky, and gas masks are distributed to residents.

Boys from the Hitler Youth in the Pergamon Cathedral, they are covering the Pergamon Altar with sandbags, installing beams, and reinforcing the windows.

View of the anti-aircraft position in Berlin.

An observation post on the river.

Anti-aircraft gunners are observing the sky.

Reservists are mobilized and leave in trucks.

Reservists are marching with suitcases to the barracks.

At a military industry plant.

Gun barrels are being turned.

Barrels are being transported by crane.

Barrels are stacked.

Anti-aircraft gun carriages are being assembled.

The warship Schleswig-Goldstein arrives in Danzig.

The ship's guns are firing at the shore.

The captain looks through binoculars.

The sailors throw empty shell casings into a pile.

A close-up of a sailor in a sailor's cap with the inscription "Schleswig-Goldstein" on it.

Anti-aircraft guns are firing at the shore.

There are explosions and fires in the city.

The entry of German troops into Danzig.

A motorcyclist is riding along the road, infantry is walking, three soldiers are at the radio.

The soldiers are passing burning houses and cattle wandering unattended.

Troops are marching along a wooden bridge, horse artillery is driving by.

Sappers are restoring the bridges.

Residents are watching the movement of troops, greeting them.

Cars and tanks are driving along the road.

Residents are making their way across the destroyed bridge to the other bank.

A destroyed railroad, toppled carriages.

A large railroad bridge, destroyed by shells, has fallen into the river.

German soldiers carry sections of rail track and install them in place.

Airplanes fly overhead.

A tank moves along a pole platform onto a bridge, trucks and mechanized artillery drive by.

A German airfield in Danzig.

A sentry walks along the airfield with aircraft.

Technicians carry shells to the aircraft and install them.

Panoramic view of the aircraft.

Pilots receive their assignment and check maps.

A squadron of bombers takes off.

View of the ground from an aircraft.

A gunner at a machine gun.

The area is being bombed.