Tonwoche №532 (1941)

France.

On the facade of the building there is a banner with the inscription "Dakar".

Admiral Petain leaves the building, walks around the line of soldiers of the colonial army.

The award ceremony, which is watched by the public, women in national costumes are standing.

General Vigo (?) takes the parade, sailors and a Muslim detachment are marching.

The opening of the week of military books took place in Weimar.

A sculptural monument to Goethe and Schiller.

Delegates from 14 countries are passing by.

The delegates are eating in the canteen.

The slogan "Book and sword" is above the exhibition of military books.

Goebbels is examining the books, leafing through them, the writer Hans Jost approaches him, Goebbels shakes his hand.

A fundraising campaign for "People's Aid" took place in Riga.

Counting the collected monetary donations.

A warehouse of things collected from the population.

Clothes for volunteers are being sewn in a studio.

Spain.

Girls from a youth fascist organization on vacation at the seaside.

They are swimming, playing ball, dancing in a circle on the shore.

Poland.

Salt mines underground.

Blasting operations are underway.

Salt is loaded into wagons and lifted to the surface.

Hitler's headquarters.

The Fuhrer receives the Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano and Alfieri.

They are accompanied by Ribbentrop.

Hitler and Ciano enter headquarters, then leave the building, say goodbye.

Germany.

A special wagon with Turkish General Ali Fuad Erden arrives at Hitler's headquarters; he is met by officers.

German soldiers cut down trees, saw logs at a sawmill, and carry boards.

Construction of utility houses for soldiers.

Hitler, Keitel, and other generals inspect various utility devices for soldiers (stoves, collapsible houses, various means of transportation) intended for the German army on the eastern front.

German troops occupy Petrozavodsk.

Close-up of the Finnish flag on a building.

General Heinrichs reviews the parade of Finnish troops in Petrozavodsk.

German cyclists and tanks are passing by.

South-eastern section, Kharkov-Stalino area.

View from an airplane of the road with German motorized columns (from a low point).

Trucks are driving along the road.

Soldiers are riding bicycles behind a truck carrying weapons, holding on to a rope, and a soldier is riding a camel.

Officers are watching the passing troops on the side of the road.

A fuel train arrives at the base, fuel barrels are being unloaded, barrels of gasoline are on the ground.

A squadron of German planes takes off to bomb Soviet positions.

The plane dives on the target, the bombing is carried out.

An observer is watching from the ground through a telescope.

Airplanes bomb fortifications near Kharkov.

German soldiers watch them from the ground.

October 24 – the storming of Kharkov.

A view of the city from afar, German artillery fires.

Fragments of street fighting.

German tanks enter the city.

A wrecked tram No. 6 stands on the street, the ruins of the station, the post office building, and the central square are shown.

A German flag is hung from the bell tower window.

Trophies captured by the Germans: Soviet cannons, guns, tanks.

Ukraine.

In the city of Glukhov in occupied Ukraine, church services have resumed in the cathedral.

The interior of the cathedral, an icon of the Mother of God.

Residents at the service, the rite of communion.

Battles for Donbass.

Bulgarian motorized units on the offensive, they drive across rough terrain.

A commander with officers at a map.

Soldiers fire machine guns and cannons.

Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, view of a half-destroyed dam, water rushing in a stream into a breach in the dam.

Central section, Kaluga region.

German convoys are traveling through terrible mud, the wheels of the carts are barely turning.

Soldiers are running, dragging a cannon.

View of Kaluga from afar, the city is burning.

Transport enters the city past burnt chimneys.

At the railway station there are broken and burning trains.

German units and cyclists are marching through the city.

Residents are watching the troops passing by.

Scheme of battles on both sides of the highway leading to Moscow.

The rout of the Soviet defensive line.

Anti-tank ditches, fortifications with barbed wire, hedgehogs, bunkers.

Trenches filled with water.

Tank attack in the Borodino region.

View from a slit in a tank.

Soldiers are walking behind the tanks.

Tanks are shelling Soviet positions.

The battles continue until dusk, tracer bullets and explosions are visible in the darkness.

Soviet soldiers surrender.

A column of prisoners is led through the village.