Tonwoche №474-1 (1939)

Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

Czech President Hacha visits the International Exhibition of Industrial Designs in Prague.

Residents near the exhibition pavilions.

Hacha, accompanied by his retinue, enters the pavilion.

At a table, women are hand-rolling cigarettes.

The façade of the multi-story building where the exhibition is located.

Advertisement for Radio Ideal.

Departments with motorcycles and machine tools.

A woodworking machine in action.

A device that helps to see flickering static frames in motion.

Germany.

The coast of the North Sea.

A cameraman with a movie camera, filming the life of marine inhabitants.

By trickery, the cameramen manage to film scenes from the life of seals.

The seals quickly move across the sand to the water.

The cameramen set up the camera in the water.

The seals splash in the water.

The cameraman, lying on the sand, pretends to be a seal, imitating their movements.

A baby seal crawls towards him.

The female lets out an alarming cry, the cub quickly crawls back.

The cameramen are filming, standing in the water.

A close-up of the seal's head.

The cub with its mother, sucking milk, moving on the sand, yawning.

Hitler's youth, sent to rural areas to help with the harvest.

The boys are picking potatoes in the field.

A unique craft is thriving in the province of Catania.

Craftsmen are engaged in wood carving, turning simple carts like bullock carts into real works of art.

The cart is decorated with wooden bas-reliefs on everyday themes, and artists paint it in bright colors.

A horse is harnessed to the cart, also decorated with a beautiful blanket, a plume of feathers on its head.

Local residents are sitting in the cart.

In Karlshorst near Berlin, steeplechase races are held at the hippodrome, which holds 5,000 people.

Fans place bets at the box office.

An attendant rings a bell.

Moments of the race, a horse named "Norman" breaks ahead.

Emotions of the spectators.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy Count Ciano arrives on a visit to Berlin.

Together with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany Ribbentrop, he gets into a car.

A motorcade of cars with motorcyclists drives along the streets of Berlin, the crowd greets the distinguished guest.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces General von Brauchitsch visits a military factory.

He observes the production of guns, inspects the barrels of future cannons, anti-aircraft guns.

A warehouse of gun barrels.

A crane carries a cannon through the workshop.

The young Slovak army, created in the summer of 1939 under the command of General Jaroslav Eminger, at the site of military operations.

The commander with staff officers at a map of the area.

Slovak troops passed the shooting test in battles against Poland.

Armored vehicles and tanks are driving.

Soldiers are attacking, they are crossing a river on footbridges.

A shell hits the bridge, boards fly into the air.

After the encirclement of Warsaw, the Germans allowed diplomats and their families to leave Poland.

Cars of diplomatic missions with flags of different countries drive past German soldiers standing on both sides of the road; flags of the USA and Japan are visible.

Women with their belongings are traveling in trucks.

People are delivered to Germany through the territory of East Prussia.

Documents are checked at the border with Germany.

Diplomats write down passport details on sheets of paper.

A black diplomat stands next to a German officer, smiles, and talks to him.

German soldiers help with children.

A soldier holds a baby in a blanket in his arms and rocks it.

German positions near Warsaw.

A stereo telescope on a hill.

German soldiers lie near an embankment.

A signalman connects the wires of a field telephone station.

German artillery is firing, an officer is looking through the telescope.

Soldiers are loading a grenade launcher and firing from a trench.

Trains burn on the broken railway tracks.

Soldiers follow tanks.

Siege of Warsaw.

Aerial view of the destroyed city.

Capitulation of Warsaw on September 28, 1939. German General Blaskowitz receives Polish envoys led by General Kutrzeb.

They board a bus, sign the act of capitulation, and negotiate at a map.

Polish envoys exit the bus.

A German submarine sank the British aircraft carrier Otvazhny (a view of the aircraft carrier from an earlier chronicle).

The German submarine returns to its home port.

The boat approaches the shore, the crew lines up on the deck, and officers stand on the bridge.

Close-up of the fascist flag.

The captain disembarks, approaches Admiral Doenitz, and reports.

Doenitz walks around the line of sailors, and presents awards.