Tonwoche №491 (1940)

A propaganda game plot exposing malingerers hiding from the front.

An elderly man named Ludwig is standing in line to see a doctor, complaining to a young friend that everything hurts, that his stomach is heavy, and that the doctor will write him a certificate.

The friend asks: "Who will work and fight then, if you only want to have fun?" He promises that the doctor will take care of Ludwig's stomach in full.

Ludwig sees a nurse with a huge hose, gets scared and, not noticing that it is a vacuum cleaner hose, runs away from the doctor's office.

A harsh winter in Holland.

German soldiers and locals are skating on the ice cover of a canal.

An ice drift is working in the frozen sea, followed by a caravan of ships with cargo.

A ship is trapped in the ice.

A man writes the word "Help" on an ice floe with paint.

An airplane takes off to help.

An instructor trains skiers in slalom in the Arlberg mountains.

A panorama of the mountains and the shelter where members of the Hitler Youth from the Sudetenland stayed.

The young men wax their skis, throw snowballs from the roof of the shelter, and go skiing.

They demonstrate their slalom skills while skiing down steep slopes.

Soldiers from the Western Front in Dusseldorf watch a figure skater perform.

On the ice is a pair of champions Gerber Maxi and Ernst Bayer.

Fragments of the figure skaters' performance.

Completion of the new stage of the processing plant in northern Germany.

A view of individual industrial buildings and structures.

In one of the workshops, a view of various mechanisms and units.

Workers during assembly.

A panorama of the plant.

Workers who came to get jobs at the plant.

Exit from the plant.

USSR. One of the border regions.

A view of a train with tank cars, the locomotive has the inscription: "Lviv Railway".

The driver looks out of the cabin window.

This train with Soviet oil, according to the announcer, is the second one under the contractual deliveries.

Soviet and German railway workers exchange documentation.

Oil is being pumped into German tank cars standing on a parallel track.

A map of the border regions of Poland and Germany, the points of Przemysl, Sanok, Hrubieszow, Dorohusk, Tiraspol, Prostken, through which the Volksdeutsche return to the Reich.

Peasants ride in carts through the snow, transporting their belongings.

A view of a long convoy of settlers.

Meeting with German soldiers on a bridge.

An officer shakes hands with the settlers, greeting them.

A peasant walks next to a cart in large homemade bast shoes, put on over his boots for warmth.

Poland.

Entrance to a German town.

Settlers are resting, wagons and unharnessed horses are standing in the square.

A man is petting a dog, another is combing a horse's forelock.

A young man is throwing a sheepskin over a girl's shoulders.

Soldiers are feeding settlers from a field kitchen.

Children are in front of a camera, eating soup, drinking milk.

A child is hugging a huge St.

Bernard.

Reich Minister Dr.

Goebbels arrives at the Western Front.

He is greeted by German soldiers and officers.

An air defense unit, Goebbels at the unit's headquarters.

He is looking at photographs taken from a reconnaissance plane.

Maneuvers in which pilots demonstrate their skills to Goebbels.

A squadron in the sky.

Goebbels receives explanations from the generals.

Together with Colonel General Reichenau, Goebbels is present at the exercises of infantry units.

A training battle is underway.

Soldiers are moving forward in short dashes.

Machine gun fire in the forest.

Western Front.

Sappers build a pontoon bridge across a river in winter conditions.

Sappers in the water in rubber suits.

Laying the pontoons, completing the bridge.

A detachment of sappers passes over the bridge to check its strength, then vehicles drive along.

The return of a German submarine to its home port after a multi-month voyage.

The crew is lined up on the shore, the captain reports to Admiral Doenitz about the voyage.

The crew is awarded the Iron Cross.

North Sea.

Naval patrol service.

View of a warship patrolling the waters of the North Sea.

Deck in ice, frosted handrails, ropes, guns.

Sailors knock off the ice with hammers.

An icy anchor is raised.

At the alarm signal, the sailors run to their stations.

Artillerymen at the side guns, aiming and firing.

The Nazi flag flutters on the mast.