Tonwoche №505 (1940)

Propaganda plot.

A playful scene promoting the White Book as a collection of irrefutable documents that truthfully shed light on the prehistory of the war.

Celebrations in Germany on the occasion of Labor Day.

Celebration of May Day.

A meeting of the Reichsarbeitskammer at the Krupp plant in Essen.

Hess walks down the aisle with the military and the plant administration.

Hess gives a speech, with Dr.

Ley in the front row of the audience.

Recycling scrap metal.

One of the foundries in Germany.

Loading scrap metal into a furnace.

Remelting copper ingots.

The purified copper is cast into plates and dipped in a solution for subsequent purification.

Army grain reserves.

A huge grain storage facility.

A worker checks the storage temperature.

A sample of grain taken from the bottom of the storage facility with a probe for moisture.

Workers scatter the grain with shovels.

German coal is delivered to Italy.

A coal train sets off, a switch opens.

The train passes through a tunnel in the mountains.

Arrival at Brennero station on the border with Italy, Italian border guards check the documentation.

Military operations in France.

German soldiers near barbed wire fences.

Soldiers run across the field, explosions and gunfire are heard.

Captured French soldiers are escorted, sit on the side of the road with their hands raised, the Germans search the prisoners.

Providing first aid to wounded prisoners.

The face of a crying French soldier, war trophies lie around.

Prisoners are fed at the table.

Military operations to capture Norway.

Map of Northern Europe.

Animated diagram of the supposed Allied invasion of Norway and a similar operation by the Germans, who are ahead of the Allies in their actions (according to the announcer).

The advance of German troops across Norway.

Convoys and cavalry are moving, the infantry is advancing.

Continuation.

A soldier distributes fresh front-line newspapers to passing units; the soldiers read them as they go.

A motorcyclist with newspapers arrives at the unit; the soldiers sort them out.

A soldier with a child in his arms looks at a newspaper.

Lunch for German units at a halt.

A soldier carries loaves of bread; the soldiers receive rations and eat from mess tins.

Horses eat oats from sacks hung from their muzzles and drink water from the river.

The soldiers sit and rest on the bank.

Continuation of the march.

The lead units clash with a center of enemy resistance.

Artillery shelling of British positions.

A German infantry unit receives final instructions before the battle and awaits the order to advance.

German troops cross the river using inflatable boats and land on the opposite bank.

Troops move inland.

Signalmen lay telephone cables.

On the side of the road lie the corpses of English soldiers, broken military equipment.

A destroyed city, houses burned to the ground, protruding chimneys.

A British vehicle with ammunition captured by the Germans.

Captured English soldiers are led to the assembly point in Grondheim.

A wounded prisoner leans on a stick.

The prisoners are interviewed, they say that they are glad that the war is over for them.

A group of prisoners sings a national song in chorus.

A panorama of piles of scrap metal - these are broken English planes.

A German soldier examines an airplane, a gunner's gun, unexploded bombs.

Bombing of English military bases by German aircraft.

A bomber in the air, views of the Scottish mountains.

The pilot's cabin, he looks at a map of Norway.

Air shelling of concentrations of English troops.

Bombing of a ship.

A squadron of English ships at sea is bombed.

Airplanes diving, bombing.

Victory flight of a German squadron.