Tonwoche №473-1 (1939)

Abyssinia.

The previously waterless desert could only be crossed by caravan in a few days.

A caravan of camels with cargo goes through the desert.

Abyssinian soldiers make their way through the rocks.

Buffaloes walk through a stream in the rocks.

Children collect water from the stream in their skins.

Kites sit on the rocks.

A dying camel lies.

Currently, a 650 km road runs through the desert.

A sign in Italian: 250 km to Assab Sandro, 485 km to Dessie, 860 km to Addis Ababa.

A truck drives along a mountain road.

Germany.

The use of wild animals in agriculture.

In a field near Hamburg, elephants from the Hagenbeck Zoo are plowing, and a camel is harrowing.

Gliding competitions are taking place in Budapest.

Glider flight, aerial view of the earth.

Another glider takes off from a hill, hovers in the sky.

Tourists can watch the gliders from afar.

Bicycle races in Berlin, a relay race of cyclists of different ages takes place here.

Cyclists rush along the streets of the city, residents watch from the sidewalks, from balconies.

Boy fans.

The finish.

The Protectorate.

In the most fertile region of Moravia, an annual fair is held.

Girls in folk costumes with a straw effigy in their hands walk past the church, children with flowers pass by.

Men ride horses, carts with smartly dressed residents go.

Couples dance in a round dance on the square.

Individual men, girls in smart suits.

The 2nd trip of the German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop to Moscow (27-28.9.1939).

Farewell at the airport.

The German delegation headed by Ribbentrop boards the plane, he is accompanied by the Soviet plenipotentiary representative of the USSR in Germany Shkvartsev.

A German plane with a delegation on board takes off.

A car with the Turkish ambassador, who has arrived to present his credentials to the Fuhrer, drives into the courtyard of the Reich Chancellery.

Excellency Hüsrev Gerede leaves the building.

The funeral of Colonel General Werner von Fritsch in Berlin.

The funeral hall with the coffin.

The Pantheon on Unter den Linden, troops and horse artillery stand by.

The Fritsch medals are on cushions held by soldiers.

A farewell salute.

Field Marshal General Mackensen lays a wreath.

A temporary camp for Polish prisoners of war.

The prisoners pass by the table and receive stewed meat.

English pilots who were forced to land their plane stand by the building on the camp grounds.

The crew commander speaks in front of the microphone and states that he and his comrades were treated correctly in captivity.

A demonstration of the power of German weapons.

German warships at sea, the ship's guns fire.

German artillery fires from the shore, port warehouses are burning.

German armored vehicles, tanks, and trucks drive through the mud.

Soldiers march.

A German plane flies.

Headquarters receives a message.

The pilots run to the engine rooms, German bombers take off, a view of the ground, traces of shell explosions.

A wrecked armored train stands on the tracks.

An aerial view of wrecked railroad tracks, a train, a wrecked bridge over a river in Poland.

Captured weapons from the Polish army, gas masks, supply trains, and dead horses lie in the forest.

The city of Brest-Litovsk, a meeting of German soldiers with representatives of the Soviet army.

A Soviet officer holds a leaflet in Russian: "The German army greets the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army!

We, soldiers, wish to establish good soldierly relations with the soldiers of the Red Army...".

German and Soviet officers shake hands.

The German and Soviet commands accept a joint parade of troops.