Tonwoche №476 (1939)

Germany.

A propaganda scene directed against people who hoard excess food.

An elderly man, Ludwig, buys a lot of goods in a grocery store; his young friend laughs at his thriftiness and advises him not to buy what he doesn’t need.

Spain.

Official celebrations in Spain dedicated to the anniversary of Franco’s appointment as head of state.

A reception at a palace in Burgos; cars drive up to the building.

Franco’s car is accompanied by Moroccan guards on horseback.

Franco gets out, followed by diplomats, priests, and generals.

Germany.

A meeting at the Sports Palace in Berlin dedicated to the beginning of the Winter Aid campaign of 1939-40. Hitler and his comrades walk down the aisle.

A panorama of the hall.

Fundraising on the streets of the city.

Girls in national costumes hand out coffee in cups, collect money in mugs.

A crowd of people on Unter den Linden street.

People watch blacksmiths at work demonstrating their skills and collecting funds.

Residents examine military weapons displayed in the street.

Boys twist the handles of a cannon.

Berliners visit military barracks.

Germany.

Soldiers on leave from the front on an excursion to famous places in Berlin.

They visit the huge Olympic stadium.

Poland.

Destruction in Warsaw after the fighting, debris from barricades in the streets, trams lying on their sides.

Residents of the city and German soldiers clearing the streets of debris, Jews at work.

Rebuilding houses and roads.

Polish prisoners of war working.

Poland.

Agricultural work in the occupied areas of Poland.

A herd of cows grazing.

Polish prisoners of war helping farmers harvest vegetables.

Poland.

Rebuilding railways in Poland, the task is to build a railway line on the Warsaw-Breslau section.

A train is coming.

Germany.

German soldiers helping farmers in western Germany harvest grapes.

Girls and soldiers on a plantation.

Austria.

Opening of the international industrial fair in Vienna.

Reich Minister Funk opens the fair, examines the exhibits: agricultural machinery, tractors.

Photo exhibition at the fair.

Various machines.

Czechoslovakia.

Banners about the opening of the international technical exhibition hang on the streets of Prague.

Exhibits of the exhibition, an electric saw cutting a log.

Reich Protector Neurath visits the exhibition.

Germany.

Lufthansa carries out international passenger transportation to various countries.

Airport operations, baggage check-in, customs control.

Germany.

Construction of the Berlin metro, work processes at the construction site.

Metro map from Stettin station, via Friedrichstrasse, Potsdam to Anhalter station.

Reichsminister of Railways Dorpmüller is present at the opening of the new station.

An electric train underground on the surface.

Germany.

The English battleship Royal Oak, sunk by a German submarine on October 14 in Scapa Flow, has been towed to port.

The submarine crew stands in formation on the deck.

The North Sea.

The German squadron is at sea.

Battle alarm, the sailors scatter to their places.

A Norwegian steamship stops, a German officer and his sailors head to the steamship in a boat, climb on board, check documents and the ship's log, and say goodbye.

The squadron moves on.

On the way, the Estonian merchant ship "Aarne" appears, documents are checked.

The German squadron's voyage continues.