Tonwoche №513 (1940)

Celebrating Christmas in Germany.

Children in a kindergarten greet St.

Nicholas, who comes to them with a sack of presents.

The children sing a Christmas song for their parents.

Germany.

The leader of the German fascist youth, Schirach, visits a military school.

He walks around the line of cadets and talks to the young men.

Germany.

Taking the oath of allegiance from soldiers of an artillery battalion on the territory of a military plant.

There are pyramids of rifles on the ground.

Young soldiers repeat the words of the oath.

Workers hand over new rifles to recruits, an officer hands them out one by one.

Western Front.

Military operations in France.

Map: English Channel, Dunkirk, Saint-Nazaire and other points.

Port, captured Englishmen stand by the wall of a building, receive food.

Comrades help the wounded to walk, the Germans ferry prisoners in boats.

German soldiers photograph prisoners on the street of the city.

German and Hungarian generals at headquarters discuss the situation near a map.

Generals speaking in front of a microphone.

Nurses preparing Christmas presents for soldiers at the front.

Mail arriving at the front, soldiers receiving letters and parcels.

A view of the coast from an airplane, a cluster of ships can be seen in the sea.

German tanks are moving on land, German ships are sailing in the sea.

On the shore there is broken equipment, ships, a destroyed bridge. equipment.

Generals monitor the movement of troops, stop a young soldier, talk to him.

The infantry is walking through the mud.

Broken guns and equipment are lying on the ground.

Destroyed houses in the city.

There is a broken tank near the house.

Abandoned guns and broken cars are standing on a street damaged by bombing.

Dead soldiers are lying near a gun.

The Germans are leading prisoners.

Trucks, camouflaged with branches, with soldiers and attached guns are driving along a dirty road.

Tanks in a snowy forest.

Soldiers with panzerfausts in their hands.

There is a broken English tank in the field.

Soldiers look at the sky, where planes have left smoke trails, bombing is underway.

The fighting continues until dusk.

Fires rage in the night city.

Anti-aircraft guns hit English planes, the plane falls and explodes on the ground.

German tanks continue on their way.

Soldiers pass by ruins, corpses of enemy soldiers lie.

German planes on the airfield.

The squadron flies in a wedge, bombing English planes on the ground.

Air battle with fighters.

The English plane is shot down, it flies apart in the air.