Tonwoche №510-1 (1940)

Berlin.

German composer Richard Strauss plays his new work on the piano, dedicated to the 2600th anniversary of the Japanese Empire.

Japanese deputies, the ambassador, and officials from Tokyo are standing near the piano.

Strauss reads a welcoming address to the Japanese ambassador and passes the score of the work through him to Tokyo.

Construction of oil rigs and oil production in Slovakia.

Workers drill a well, take out a core.

Oil flows through a branch channel.

A man puts his hand in an oil stream, looks at it.

Sending German reservists to the Western Front.

The detachment marches along the road singing.

Boarding the carriages.

A soldier from the carriage shakes hands with a soldier on the platform.

The train departs, the soldiers wave their hands from the windows.

Fascist demonstrations take place in Rome in connection with Italy's declaration of war on the Allies.

Mussolini speaking from the balcony of a historic palace to a crowd gathered in a square.

The people of Genoa cheer the demonstrators.

Close-up of the standard of the Italian Legion in Germany, the Federico Guella.

German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and Minister Alfieri at the window of the building.

The people gathered below raise their arms in a fascist salute.

A flag with a swastika hangs.

A crowd in a square in Rome enthusiastically greets Mussolini.

The Mediterranean Sea.

Manoeuvres of the Italian fleet.

Italian submarines in port, going out to sea.

A sailor descends into a hatch, closes a bulkhead.

The engine room of a submarine.

An officer raises a periscope to the surface, conducts observation.

Sailors prepare a torpedo for launch.

A military squadron at sea.

Seaplanes fly over the ships.

Motorboats rush across the water.

Aerial view of the ships.

The Italian flag on the mast of a ship.

The Western Front.

Map of Western Europe with the borders of Germany, Belgium and Holland marked on it.

Scheme of German military operations, a retrospective view.

With the transition of German troops to the counteroffensive on May 10, the borders move to the west.

On May 15, the Maginot Line is broken.

May 16 - Holland capitulates, May 26 - Calais falls.

May 28 - Belgium capitulates.

German Stukas take off to blockade the Strait of Pas-de-Calais.

The pilot closes the cockpit.

The bombing of Dunkirk.

View of the city from the air, shells exploding on the ground.

Diving towards a new target.

The pilot's hands on the control stick, the plane rises.

German bombers fly to destroy British transport ships.

Raid on the port of Dunkirk, dropping bombs on the ships.

A German coastal battery prepares to open fire on British ships.

Raid by British aircraft, explosions on the ground.

German anti-aircraft guns fire in response.

A shot down English plane falls into the sea, the pilot descends by parachute.

A German soldier watches the air battle from the ground.

Another plane is shot down, it flies low over the water, touching it with its wing, falls and explodes (a spectacular shot).

There are wrecked English planes on the seashore.

There are wrecked English and French vehicles and tanks on the road leading to the city.

A sign to Dunkirk.

A view of the ruined city.

A car drives past the ruins.

A flag flutters over the cathedral.

German motorcyclists drive through the city.

There are wrecked armored vehicles, trucks, and cars in the streets, and abandoned weapons are scattered around.

There are tanks with broken tracks.

There are burning ships and wrecked ships in the port.

Black smoke from the fires has thickened over the port.

Half-submerged ships in the bay, abandoned ships on the shore, a ship lying on its side in the water.

There are abandoned and wrecked vehicles, guns, and anti-aircraft guns on the sandy shore.

A panorama of military trophies.

German soldiers examine a wrecked ship near the shore.

There is an abandoned rubber boat on the shore, an English helmet sticking out of the sand.

German soldiers walk past guns and shells in containers.

Close-up of a comic drawing on a gun: a gnome on a shell.

British prisoners are led along the road into the city.

They smile at the camera, take off their caps, and wave them.

Hitler makes a trip to the Western Front.

The car with the Fuhrer drives through the ruined Ypres.

View of the Gothic Cathedral and Town Hall, ruins of the Arc de Triomphe.

Hitler, accompanied by Generals Keitel, Kluge, and Bodenschatz, walks through the city.

General Reichenau reports to Hitler about the situation at the front at a map attached to the wall.

Hitler and the generals inspect the troops, they walk around the formation, try soldiers' porridge at the field kitchen.

Hitler says goodbye to Reichenau's headquarters, gets into the car, the soldiers surround the car, seeing the Fuhrer off.

Hitler stands in the car, greets the soldiers.

Hitler at the Langemarck Heroes' Cemetery, a ceremony of honors for the fallen soldiers is underway.

Military cemetery with crosses.

German airborne troops over Narvik, paratroopers jump with parachutes, land on the snow in the mountainous terrain, collect dropped weapons.

A detachment of paratroopers in formation.

A detachment in camouflage suits lies on a hill, soldiers shoot from rifles and a machine gun.

View of the strait.

Panorama of Narvik.

The major offensive of German troops in northern France, which began on June 6, 1940. Signpost to Merville, view of the cathedral.

Advancement of German motorized units through French cities and villages.

Reserve troops move to the front.

Tanks and armored vehicles crossing the Somme River.

French tanks are burning.

The Germans inspect a destroyed French tank, take its crew prisoner.

German bombers take off for Paris and its environs.

View of the ground.

Squadron in flight.

Close-up of the pilot's face, planes flying behind him.

Planes over the Seine, the bombing of the city begins.

The Eiffel Tower and bridges are visible below.

Explosions at a large railway station, bombing of roads, an airfield, hangars.

A German squadron covers the sky.