Tonwoche №506 (1940)

The German offensive on Luxembourg and Belgium.

May 10, German motorized units on the western border.

Tanks drive along the cobblestones past fortifications.

Infantry in the attack, crossing the border.

Soldiers throw down a barbed wire fence from a bridge, clear away rubble.

The sign "Luxembourg Customs", the coat of arms of the country on the wall.

German soldiers break down the border fences.

The Luxembourg border guard is disarmed and taken away.

Soldiers cut the lock off the gate with an oxyacetylene blowtorch.

The first German motorcyclists and motorized units in the city.

A tanker stands in the open hatch of a tank, which is driving along a city street.

Residents watch the movement of troops.

Wartime proclamations are hanging on the wall of a building.

Tanks, motorcyclists, mechanized artillery move along the streets.

A concrete barrier with barbed wire appears in the path of a tank column, the tanks force their way through the obstacle.

A railway station, a view of a moving train with an open platform in front, on which guns are placed.

A small advance guard detachment on a handcar passes along the rails.

A train of soldiers and guns on platforms follows behind.

German soldiers march along the streets of the city.

A woman hands out sandwiches to them.

A man pours water from a hose on a passing column because of the intense heat.

A soldier scoops up water from a resident's bucket with a mug as he moves.

The offensive against Belgium begins.

The border fence is removed, soldiers and equipment pass by.

German soldiers march along the road.

Horse-drawn convoys in the forest.

A tank is used to clear a blockage on the road.

The troops enter the Malmedy region, where the overwhelming majority of Germans in the country live.

Residents greet the soldiers, wave their hands from their windows, and shake their hands.

Soldiers pull a cannon along the street.

A military airfield, paratroopers head toward an airplane.

The Stukas take off.

The paratroopers sit in the cabin and sing a military song together.

Technicians at the airfield hang bombs on the bombers.

The German offensive on Belgium and Holland.

German bombers in the sky, view from the plane to the ground.

German soldiers are standing on the ground near a huge bomb crater.

View of the railway tracks mangled after the bombing, destroyed station houses.

The German town of Freiburg im Breisgau, bombed by enemy planes.

A school with broken windows, ruins on the site of orphanages, hospitals.

Broken window of a building, sign: "House of Mercy".

View of the destruction inside the building, children's toys are lying among the bricks and debris.

The wall of the school with traces of shrapnel and broken windows.

Crossing the Dutch border.

German sappers restore the bridge over the Julian Canal.

Soldiers with equipment are transported by ferry.

Tanks, armored vehicles, motorcycles are driving across the bridge.

Close-up of the border sign.

Entrance to the town of German motorcyclists, tanks.

A bilingual proclamation from the new administration hangs on the wall of a house.

Transport vehicles on the streets of the city.

Residents wave their hands in greeting.

A German tank pushes back a concrete barrier on the road.

Capture of one of the bridges over the canal, a battle at the bridge.

Dead Dutchmen lie there, surrendered Dutch soldiers stand at the side of the road.

The invasion of Belgium began with the capture of the Albert Canal.

German sappers remove explosives planted by the Belgians from the bridge supports.

Soldiers cross the river in rubber boats.

The first Belgian prisoners walk along the road.

The German offensive continues.

A tank breaks through bushes, moves towards a barbed wire barrier.

Soldiers ride bicycles.

Infantry makes its way along a broken bridge.

Forcing canals under enemy fire in inflatable boats.

The surrender of the city of Maastricht.

A man waves a white flag on the city wall.

German tanks in the city.

Horse-drawn convoys travel along a muddy road, crossing rivers in shallow water.

Crossing canals.

Wounded German soldiers are carried on stretchers, they are given medical care.

Heavy artillery fire opens on the city.

View of the ruins of houses.

Stukas in the sky.

Panorama of the smoking area.

Bombers diving at objects.

Demonstration of the power of German weapons.

The barrels of heavy guns rise up, self-propelled guns on a platform.

Tanks overcome rough terrain.

Infantry on the offensive, firing flamethrowers.