Tonwoche №489 (1940)

Newsreel №63967, 2 parts, Duration: 0:20:47 B/W
Studio UFA

Reel №1

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Germany.

A propaganda sketch about "Winter Aid".

Men are drinking beer at a table in a pub.

A young man comes in the door with a mug for donations.

An elderly fat man immediately hides in the toilet.

The young man decides to teach him a lesson, sits down at the table and waits.

The elderly man comes out, calmly sits down at the table, the young man asks him for a coin, and then throws it into the mug in front of his eyes.

Germany.

Extraordinary measures were taken to deliver brown coal to consumers.

Passenger transportation was reduced, and the freed up locomotives were given over to freight transportation.

Transportation of coal and bricks on the railway.

Trains are running.

Work on loading brown coal briquettes.

A train with coal is running.

Trucks with coal are leaving the car.

Members of the National Socialist Party and soldiers help the railway workers during unloading; they fill sacks with coal for the population.

A man carries a sack of coal.

Germany.

An exhibition and sale was organized in the city of Enershau to help artists and sculptors not to go through hardship during the war.

Bust of a soldier in a helmet.

Portraits of soldiers, female portraits, landscapes.

Germany.

Skiing in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

The largest ski lift in Germany takes 200 people an hour to the top at a height of 600 meters.

Young people go up the mountain in a cable car.

Skiing.

Germany.

Landscapes of the Tyrolean mountains.

Hunting with a movie camera can be no less interesting.

Mountain goats jump on snow-covered rocks, looking for food under the snow.

Germany.

The 2nd German-Japanese rally of graduates of higher educational institutions took place in Germany.

Along with scientific work, sports events take an important place at the rally.

Cadets at morning roll call, raising flags.

The Japanese go skiing, learn slalom.

Germany.

German engineers were given a difficult task: to build a 3 km long highway in the Lechtal Alps that would connect Innsbruck with Vorarlberg.

The highway is almost ready.

Snow removal machines are clearing it.

Germany.

Severe frost has frozen the rivers.

Hamburg harbor, icebreakers are sailing on the water.

Icebreaker captain Ludtke is on the bridge looking through binoculars.

He receives a telegram from the ship "Stettin" and hurries to help.

Ice drift on the Danube near Budapest.

Ships are sailing behind the icebreaker on clear water.

Keywords

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Reel №2

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Germany.

The Navy Prize Court decides the fate of neutral merchant ships captured by German warships on suspicion of carrying cargo for the enemy.

A Prize Court session in Hamburg.

Among the audience are representatives of foreign countries who were able to see with their own eyes that the German military had acted correctly.

The captain of a German ship gives evidence about the capture of an American ship.

He shows goods that can be used as components for military production.

The court rules in favor of the Germans.

Loading confiscated timber onto a ship.

A warehouse with goods, the rolls bearing the inscription – Manchester.

Germany.

A friendly meeting of reservists of the propaganda company in Berlin.

Buglers play.

Reich Minister Goebbels and Dr.

Ley are present at the meeting.

An actress rides a horse along the aisle to the stage in the hall, giving a performance.

Guests are at tables, Goebbels with his wife.

A soldier announces a new number at the curtain.

On the stage, caricaturists transform written words into humorous drawings.

The West Wall.

Signalmen are installing poles and carrying cable.

A radio operator is at the radio station.

With the help of technology, the place where the communication break is found, an alarm sounds.

Soldiers run out of the house, go by car to the pole knocked down by the explosion, and repair the cable.

At the sound of bombing, they run to the side of the road and hide.

A field radio is working.

Delivery of goods and weapons in the area of the Western Wall.

An artillery battery, delivering shells.

Horse artillery gallops through the snow.

An artillery crew in the forest.

Headquarters, receiving intelligence data by telephone.

Soldiers run out of the bunker, load the gun, and fire.

Germany.

Soldiers from Ostmark, transferred to the area of the Western Wall by ship, were given a short-term leave in the Ruhr region.

The German Labor Front and the party organized a trip for them to the Ruhr arms factories.

Soldiers on an excursion to the metallurgical plant, a friendly conversation with the workers.

Keywords

Germany, 1940, Navy, confiscation, Germany, 1940, Goebbels, personalities, statesmen, meetings, stage, Western rampart, 1940, soldiers, bombing, Horse artillery, bunker, hostilities, connection, repair work, Germany, 1940, soldiers, excursions, military factories

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