Tonwoche №529 (1941)

Newsreel №63994, 2 parts, Duration: 0:16:03 B/W
Studio UFA

Reel №1

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Reception of ambassadors by General Franco in Madrid.

Arrival in cars of the Spanish Minister Serrano Suñer, the Japanese ambassador, the German ambassador and others.

Franco in ceremonial uniform greets the guests in the hall.

The religious procession in Poland and the unveiling of the monument to Paracelsus.

Germany.

A detachment of the RAD with shovels marches to the construction site of the railway.

Young people carry out earthworks, lay rails.

Bicycle races in France.

Moments of the race.

Military parade in Rio de Janeiro.

President Getúlio Dornelis Vargas, officials and the generals are in the government box.

Sailors march.

Horse artillery, cavalry, cars with searchlights pass by.

The public watches the parade.

Norway.

Quisling visits the Norwegian volunteer battalion, he goes around the line of soldiers with the generals.

Close-up of the stripe on the sleeve of the greatcoat.

Taking the oath.

The French Volunteer Legion, accepted into the ranks of the German army, takes the oath.

A line of soldiers in the forest, a ceremonial march of the legion.

The Salla area.

Autumn forest, the movement of Finnish infantry and supply trains along a muddy road.

The beginning of the shelling of Soviet positions from guns, explosions in the forest.

Infantry attack.

Soldiers fire from a grenade launcher, overcome barbed wire, throw grenades.

Flamethrowers in action.

German soldiers on the attack, they run across the field, shoot from trenches.

A broken locomotive stands on the railroad tracks.

Keywords

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Reel №2

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Southern section.

Convoys travel along a muddy road, a soldier sitting on a cart smiles at the camera.

Soldiers walk with difficulty through the mud, one of them pulls out a stuck boot.

German troops move from Kherson to Perekop (Crimea).

View of Soviet positions, bunkers.

Soviet planes fly in the air, bomb, German artillery fires.

Aerial view of a destroyed station, railway lines, trains.

German sappers repair the railway, lay rails, weld.

A train with guns goes across the railway bridge.

At the railway station, cargo is loaded into cars.

Central section.

Beginning of the German autumn offensive.

German artillery fires.

Field Marshal Kluge watches through binoculars.

Crossing the river in rubber boats.

Soldiers in the attack on the opposite bank.

Soviet soldiers surrender.

Fighting in a captured village.

Soldiers enter a hut to search.

Bullet holes on the wall of the house.

Diagram of the front line in the Bryansk and Vyazma area on October 5, encirclement of Soviet troops in this area, the front line from Lake Ilmenskoye in the north to Rostov and Mariupol in the south.

Prisoners taken near Vyazma, a huge column of prisoners marching.

A camp for prisoners, distributing food to them.

Close-ups of individuals.

A German plane in the air, a view of the battlefield.

A huge mass of damaged and smashed equipment and guns.

German columns move forward, vehicles drive by.

Soldiers run through shallow water, throw grenades.

Flamethrowers in action.

Armored vehicles and cavalry drive by, soldiers march.

Keywords

USSR, eastern front, World War 2, 1941, convoys, soldiers, natural phenomena, bunkers, BBC, artillery, sappers, repair work, railway, Eastern Front, 1941, World War 2, military leaders, personalities, artillery, crossing, river, prisoners, environment, BBC, equipment is broken

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