Tonwoche №490 (1940)

A propaganda skit performed by actors, directed against people who listen to English radio broadcasts and read foreign newspapers.

An elderly man named Ludwig is visited by his young friend, who asks about the news.

Ludwig reports that a brand new submarine has been created in England, against which German ships have no chance.

The friend asks where Ludwig got this information, and he shows him a foreign newspaper.

The friend tears it into pieces, puts the scraps together, and assures Ludwig that it is in the format of a comic book, to which this news item can also be attributed.

Japan.

The Soviet ship Indigirka has run aground off the coast of Wakanai Island.

A view of the ship's saloon, listing.

Rescue work at the ship by a Japanese ship, carrying things ashore by rope.

A Japanese steamship, passengers of the Indigirka on board.

Arrival ashore, the wounded are carried out on stretchers, led by the arms.

Venice, movement along the canal.

The Italian Minister Count Ciano and the Hungarian Minister Csaki arrive by boat at the government residence.

Those meeting them greet the ministers.

The ministers converse in the conference room, leave the residence, board the boat and sail away.

An exhibition dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of the German sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow /born 27.1.1850/ is being held in the House of German Art in Berlin.

Bust of the sculptor.

Author's works: quadriga on the Brandenburg Gate, bronze statue of General von Zitten on Wilhelm Square in Berlin, Prince Leopold von Dessau.

Monuments on the Hercules Bridge, paired sculptures of the princesses Frederica and Louise in the royal palace in Berlin.

Technical training of teenagers, members of the Hitler Youth organization.

Technical club in Berlin, boys assembling motors.

Boys near a model of a town, an instructor explains the rules of the road to them.

Working on a lathe.

A workshop for the production of naval torpedoes and torpedo tubes.

A view of a huge number of torpedoes.

Workers put stabilizers on torpedoes.

Assembling a four-barreled gun.

The finished gun is aimed at the target.

Transporting guns.

Austrian soldiers on vacation in the Ruhr region of Germany.

They are on an excursion to the Oberhausen mine.

Descent into the adit to a depth of 609 meters, soldiers watch the miners at work.

Filling a mine car with coal, lifting it up.

Loading railway cars.

Germany.

A German Wehrmacht prisoner-of-war camp.

Captured Englishmen from captured British submarines run out of the building and line up.

They smile and walk around the yard.

The western rampart.

View of the German fortifications.

Soldiers are bringing tables into the bunker and fixing shelves for things.

A washbasin and a cabinet for toiletries.

One soldier is hanging a portrait of Hitler on a nail, another is turning on the radio.

In their free time, the soldiers play cards, chess, and read books.

An artist is painting the wall of a bunker and drawing a dog from life.

A Nazi song is playing.

The Western Front.

One of the forward observation posts.

A panorama of the snow-covered area.

A French outpost is clearly visible from here.

A sentry is in the background.

Rows of barbed wire.

A reconnaissance detachment is moving along the abandoned French fortifications; it is in “no man’s land.” A sign with French inscriptions.

German soldiers from a reconnaissance detachment carefully walk through the city, advancing along the streets past houses.

A soldier drinks water from a pump as he walks.

View of the square in front of the church.

Providing German troops with ammunition and food.

View of the railway station.

Approaching a reinforcement train.

Trains rush along the rails.

Unloading wagons: baskets of potatoes, barrels, boxes of food, bottles of wine, carcasses.

In the warehouse: view of various boxes, sacks.

Canned goods are packed in boxes.

View of a train of fuel tanks.

A small warehouse of tanks.

Refueling canisters is underway.

Soldiers roll barrels of fuel along the ground.

Tanks drive onto railway platforms.

The Western rampart, view of planes at the airfield.

Pilots in the cockpits.

Warehouses: view of various work tools.

Spools of wire and cable for sappers.

Unloading boxes of ammunition in the forest.

Soldiers loading heavy artillery shells.

View of boxes of grenades.

Panning of guns, racks of rifles.

Guns on the Western Wall, gun barrels protruding from embrasures.

View of the bunker.