Tonwoche №495 (1940)

A propaganda sketch about the possibility of being deceived when buying from speculators.

An elderly man named Ludwig enters his room with a young friend in a very high spirit.

He tells how he visited a wonderful place where even in this wartime you can buy anything you want, and this happened thanks to a letter he received with an offer.

The friend reasonably states that such organizations are specially created to deceive such simpletons and that it is better to give the letter to the appropriate authorities.

Ludwig solemnly opens a suitcase containing a large package, which should contain the butter he bought.

However, it turns out to contain... a brick.

Winter in Berlin.

Despite the snowdrifts, heavy traffic continues in the capital.

Snowdrifts at the Brandenburg Gate, in the park.

Residents remove snow with shovels.

Men make a sculpture out of snow - a team of horses.

Removing snow from the streets with the help of teams with scrapers.

On the railway, the rails are heated with special burners.

Snow removal machines in action.

A passenger ship carrying German families expelled from East Africa after its conquest by the British arrives at the Italian port of Trieste.

The people were given about 10 minutes to pack their things and sent on a long journey in winter.

The families descend the gangway from the ship.

Italian and German charities provide support to the arriving colonists, providing them with warm clothing.

Departure for their homeland by train.

The North Sea.

The illegal actions of the British Navy, filmed with a hidden camera by an amateur.

The English crew moors to a Japanese ship for a search.

The forcible abduction of 21 German passengers from a Japanese ship as hostages.

Norway.

Violation of neutrality at sea.

The German ship Altmark was attacked in a Norwegian fjord.

A diver descends under the water to examine the hole.

Damage to the ship: gunfire marks on the railings, on the hull.

Norwegians greet the German sailors.

The crew of the German ship stands in mourning silence.

The seriously wounded are carried out on stretchers.

In the hospital, nuns take care of the wounded.

Doctors examine a sailor's leg.

The Nazi flag is raised on the Altmark.

The funeral of the killed sailors in the presence of members of the Norwegian mourning commission.

Close-ups of the German sailors, an honor guard.

A minute of silence.

Laying of wreaths from the Royal Norwegian Navy, a wreath from Hitler.

Military operations in France.

A German reconnaissance patrol advances.

It passes through a barbed wire fence.

The patrol approaches the village of Forbach, a tourist sign is visible on the street.

German soldiers make their way through the streets of the city.

Sign: Forbach, Saint Avolo.

Soldiers fire machine guns and rifles.

German soldiers move along the trenches of the Western Wall, they climb into a dugout.

The build-up of Germany's air force.

Animated diagram, a map of Germany with its borders in 1935. Numerous air bases threatening Germany are shown near its borders in neighboring countries.

Footage from the newsreel of those years: the beginning of the revival of aviation.

Hitler and Goering at a military airfield, they walk around the line of soldiers, look at the planes.

Footage from a contemporary newsreel: in the service of the air defense - powerful searchlights aimed at the sky.

Air base headquarters, equipment.

Long-range guns.

Military aircraft take off, performing aerobatics in the sky.

Aircraft of various designs at an air parade.

Demonstration of Germany's naval power.

View of a German cruiser in the harbor, an icebreaker on the move, splitting ice floes.

Ship guns ready for battle.

Cruiser in a stormy sea.

The observer sees a ship on the horizon.

At the alarm signal, the crew takes their places.

Gunners at work, loading guns, firing.