Tonwoche №496 (1940)

A playful skit promoting increased vigilance in wartime.

A young man puts down an elderly man who is telling a stranger military secrets.

A fire in the Japanese city of Shitsuka.

An aerial view of the burning city.

Residents left homeless wander the streets.

Firefighters put out the flames.

Buildings engulfed in flames collapse.

A panorama of the city shrouded in smoke from the air.

A rally is being held in Barcelona to mark the opening of the Monument to the Victory of Franco's Troops.

A parade is taking place in the square in front of the tribune where military leaders and officials are standing.

Cavalrymen are riding, infantry is marching, and generals are driving by in a car.

A traditional holiday is being held in Rome to mark the founding of Mussolini's Life Guards.

A view of lined-up units.

Mussolini awards distinguished soldiers.

A police parade.

Italy, Germany.

Visit to Europe.

American Secretary of State Cordell Hull arrives by ship in Genoa.

Conversation with Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano in his office.

Mussolini sees his guest off at the station.

Arrival in Berlin.

The car with the guest arrives at the Reich Chancellery building.

The first German military fair in Leipzig.

View of the streets decorated with banners and the main building of the fair.

Goebbels, accompanied by officials, enters the building for the opening of the fair.

Trophies of the Polish company are on display at August Platz.

A working model railroad is in the pavilion.

A toy mechanical dog is placed in the corridor of the pavilion.

A printing press, a worker cuts out a card from a template.

A panorama of industrial enterprises in western Germany.

Ore processing at a plant, coke at the exit.

Production processes.

Germany.

Air defense service.

View of a sentry.

An anti-aircraft point against the backdrop of a giant industrial facility.

The work of the military industry is being protected.

A submarine returns to its home port after a victorious campaign.

An icebreaker guides the boat through the ice captivity.

The boat anchors at the pier, the crew goes ashore.

Rear Admiral Dönitz walks through the formation of sailors, awarding distinguished submariners with Iron Crosses.

The captain of the boat, Lieutenant Schulze (he is wearing a fur papakha), is awarded the Knight's Cross by order of Hitler.

Torpedo boats in the North Sea.

View of the sea in the ice.

A cruiser is in the vanguard.

A sailor at the helm.

Refueling at sea from a tanker.

Continuation of the campaign.

The surveillance and inspection service stops the Norwegian vessel, checks the captain's documentation.

The boats continue on their way.

The Western Front.

Reconnaissance patrol on a campaign.

Scouts in camouflage suits in a winter forest, in mountainous terrain, they pass through caves covered with huge icicles.

Having reached the enemy trenches, the unit begins a fight and returns with a wounded prisoner carried on a stretcher.

The non-commissioned officer congratulates the scouts on completing the mission.

The first interrogation of a prisoner.

A review of German equipment that proved itself during the Polish campaign.

Open all-terrain vehicles with soldiers on board drive through the snow, pulling guns behind them.

Military exercises on the ground.

An artillery unit deploys a gun.

Tanks on the offensive, with infantry advancing behind the tanks.

Simulating a counteroffensive.

Firing flamethrowers.