Tonwoche №507 (1940)

Propaganda plot.

A playful scene with two characters arguing in defense of violating the neutrality of Holland and protecting the borders.

A diagram of plans to seize German territories.

The territory of Germany is highlighted on the map of Europe.

A diagram explaining the intentions of England and France to blockade Germany.

Military actions in Holland.

May 10 – the beginning of the offensive in Holland.

Takeoff of a squadron of transport planes, on board which are the airborne troops of General Student.

View of the Dutch territory from the air: canals, forests.

The landing of troops over Rotterdam, the release of military equipment and ammunition.

Landing of paratroopers, they collect parachutes and cargo.

The beginning of hostilities in the city on the territory of the factory.

German soldiers move deeper into the city, waging street battles.

Bombers are sent to help the infantry.

Explosions in the city, ships are burning in the port.

Military operations in Holland.

German troops overcome the first Dutch fortifications and advance.

A column of German equipment on the streets of the city, trucks camouflaged with branches drive by.

Crossing the canal on a pontoon bridge, soldiers pulling a gun on ropes.

View of the blown up bridge.

German soldiers resting after the march.

Tired soldiers sleep right in their cars and motorcycles.

Morning, the troops move on.

Abandoned Dutch military equipment on the road, city buses, residents walking towards them.

A forced stop on the outskirts of the village, where the remnants of the Dutch troops put up resistance.

A German unit carefully makes its way through a minefield.

A communications department in the field.

Firing from a light artillery gun.

View of a village street, destroyed houses.

A mangled car that ran over a mine.

Sappers clear the street of mines.

The roof of a house is on fire.

View of a Rotterdam street with traces of the most brutal battles.

Rubble, destroyed buildings.

A column of German equipment is driving along the road.

View of the bridge.

In the vanguard are Hitler's personal units, the Hoeppner tank division.

Establishing contact with the dropped paratroopers.

On the street, an officer talks to a senior airborne unit commander.

German troops on the streets of Rotterdam.

Combat operations in the city.

A Dutch envoy walks down the street with a white flag.

Night footage in the city, fires are raging.

A panorama of the city from the bridge, a view of the glow, with German soldiers marching against its background.

Morning, a view of the destruction in daylight.

Residents wander around the ruins of houses with strollers and bicycles.

A view of the destroyed city blocks from an airplane.

After the capture of Rotterdam by German troops, the command of the Dutch army announces capitulation, negotiations are underway with the German side on this matter.

The German squadron sets off on a course for Belgium.

View of the earth from an airplane, roads clogged with military equipment and troops are visible.

Below is the Belgian fortress of Luttich, the airplane flies around it.

Military operations in Belgium.

Flight over the fortification lines near Liege.

German soldiers inspect the captured fortress of Luttich, its bunkers and pillboxes, the ruins of the fortress.

The German flag over the citadel.

A panorama of the city of Liege, destruction in the city.

German cyclists ride by, residents watch them from the sidewalk, observe the movement of troops.

Motorized artillery and equipment ride past the theater building.

View of a crowd of residents.

A German motorcyclist rides past a local policeman, asks something, he explains.

German troops are standing in the square.

German soldiers distribute the text of the memorandum on Belgium in the crowd, a piece of paper in their hands.

People read the text hung on the wall.

The advance of German troops west of Liege.

A sign to Namur.

Motorized artillery, armored vehicles, and tanks ride by.

Crossing the pontoon bridge over the Meuse River.

Offensive operations in southern Belgium.

Trucks drive along a broken road past ruins.

The city of Dinant.

German soldiers at a striped pole look at the city across the river.

Sappers drag supports, assemble a raft from them, and use it to transport tanks, equipment, and troops.

A tank battle near Dinant, with air support from aircraft.

Destroyed French tanks on the ground, holes in the armor.

Fighting near the city.

German soldiers inspect a destroyed car, an officer's corpse is visible through the window.

Belgian prisoners walk with their hands raised.

A rest stop on the way.

Faces of prisoners, among them Indians and blacks.

Prisoners carry wounded comrades on stretchers.

Prisoners are led along the road, toward German troops.

City residents look at a column of prisoners walking along the street.

Destroyed cars and guns lie around.

Continuation.

Motorized units drive through the city.

Close-up of a car window with bullet holes.

An overturned car lies in a crater filled with water.

German soldiers march.

A soldier chases a pig with a rifle butt.

A truck with soldiers drives by in front of a church.

General Reichenau drives by in a car, talks to a soldier on the road.

Soldiers march, cyclists, tanks, and supply trains ride by.

Two soldiers ride a tandem bicycle.

The road to Sedan to the Maginot Line.

Armored vehicles drive by, soldiers run.

Soldiers drag machine guns with ropes on carts.

Taking the city.

Crossing the Franco-Belgian border.

A bunker on the border.

Soldiers lie down by the road, set up a gun.

Military action in France.

A suspended balloon adjusts artillery fire, a scout transmits information by radio.

Guns fire at Sedan.

Smoke and fires in the air.

Artillerymen in the forest.

Providing first aid to the wounded on the front line.

Breakthrough of the Maginot Line at Sedan.

Captured French bunker, German soldier enters the bunker.

Panorama of the line of fortifications.

Corpses of French soldiers lie.

German troops enter Sedan, make their way through ruins, rubble, knock down the door of a house, enter.

Soldiers run through the streets of the city.

Burning houses.

Continuation of the offensive deep into France.

Signpost to Verdun.

Mechanized artillery advances in the darkness.

Artillery crew loads the gun, fires.

Tank advance with air support.

Infantry attack.