Tonwoche №510 (1940)

Western Front.

Transportation of German wounded from the front to the rear.

Orderlies carry the wounded on stretchers, an ambulance drives past.

Slightly wounded soldiers walk on their own.

The wounded are loaded onto the plane, they are in the cabin.

Landing, the wounded are sent by cars to the rear hospital.

While waiting for the transfer, the wounded listen to the report from the front, transmitted by broadcast from the radio car.

Hitler makes a trip to the front.

The car with the Fuhrer drives through the ruined Ypres.

View of the Gothic cathedral and town hall, ruins of the triumphal arch.

At headquarters, General Reichenau reports to Hitler on the situation at the front at the map.

Hitler, accompanied by Generals Keitel, Kluge, Bodenschatz, inspects the troops, they go around the soldiers, have lunch at the field kitchen.

Hitler and the generals arrive in Langemarck, mechanized artillery and tanks are driving towards the car.

The soldiers greet the Fuhrer.

Hitler at the Langemarck Heroes' Cemetery, a ceremony of honour for fallen soldiers.

Italy.

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

Newspapers are sold on the streets and in kiosks.

Legionnaires are marching down the street.

Minister Marinacci speaks at a street rally in Florence.

Residents of Genoa greet demonstrators, the standard of the Italian Legion in Germany.

German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and Alfieri on the balcony in front of a large crowd gathered in the square.

A German air raid on Paris.

German bombers take off over Paris and its environs.

Wagner's music is heard in the background.

A squadron in flight, the pilot's face.

Planes over the Seine, the bombing begins.

Explosions at a large railway station.

An attack by German bombers on a French airfield.

Hitler at his headquarters.

Hitler strolls through the park, studying a military report as he walks.

He discusses plans with Generals Keitel and Jodel at a map.

The Western Front.

General Brauchitsch leaves headquarters, gets into a car and heads to the front.

The offensive in France.

The major offensive of Hitler's troops in northern France, which began on June 6, 1940. The advance of German motorized troops through French cities and villages.

A sign pointing to the city of Laon.

The building of the Gothic Notre Dame Cathedral, soldiers marching through the city.

A sign pointing to Merville.

German motorcyclists riding.

Tanks and vehicles advancing through the city.

Tanks and armored vehicles crossing the Somme.

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

German soldiers on the streets of the city, street fighting is underway.

A German cannon is firing at the street.

Soldiers carry shells, artillery battery hits the city, houses burn.

Panorama of captured French guns, equipment.

French prisoners.

Assembly point for transfer of prisoners of war, they sit on the ground.

Face of a prisoner.

Column of prisoners heading to the camp.

Refugees with things on the road.

Captured Englishmen.