Tonwoche №536 (1941)

Newsreel №63999, 2 parts, Duration: 0:16:16 B/W
Studio UFA

Reel №1

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France.

Funeral ceremony of General Charles Hünziger, who died in a plane crash.

Priests, head of the Vichy government Petain, officials, members of delegations from other countries exit the church, a view of the German delegation headed by Ribbentrop.

A military orchestra walks down the street, soldiers march.

Petain passes by the German delegation, shakes hands.

The coffin is placed on a hearse, driven along the street, soldiers carry wreaths, residents see off the procession.

Latvia.

Red Cross nurses collect parcels for soldiers on the eastern front.

Soldiers sit in the hall at long tables with refreshments and bottles of wine.

A folk group performs in front of them, girls in national costumes sing in chorus, soldiers clap.

At the end of the performance, the soldiers sort out the gifts.

Karelia.

Wounded German soldiers are engaged in various crafts.

In a workshop where toys for children are made.

A wounded soldier carves a figurine out of wood, another one makes a wooden spoon with carvings.

A soldier holds a wooden moving crocodile in his hands.

Craftsmen carve a horseman, an eagle with a swastika, a harness with a horse, and dolls out of wood.

An artist paints toys.

Finished products.

Spain.

Salt mining on the sea coast.

Men rake salt out of the water, pour the crystals into a pile.

Salt is loaded into trolleys, into baskets tied to donkeys.

A caravan of donkeys with salt goes along the shore.

Loading salt onto ships.

View of Prague from the Vltava, the Royal Bridge across the river.

Young artists make sketches of the Royal Bridge outdoors.

View of Budapest, trams driving across the square, a bus depot.

A traffic controller on the street.

Repair of destroyed tracks in the city, repair of transport.

A workshop for the production of road signs, their installation on poles.

The traffic controller looks at his watch, cars driving out into the night city.

Daytime traffic.

A policeman detains a man who is trying to cross the street in front of a moving car.

Germany.

Blasting operations in a granite quarry.

Masons split blocks of granite and transport it to a workshop.

Craftsmen process granite, carving columns and other interior decorations from it.

Grinding granite on a machine.

Using granite in building construction, installing columns.

Drawings for decorating walls.

Gymnasts perform for an audience in a Copenhagen gymnasium.

Girls perform mass exercises, and competitions are held in jumping over a goat.

The fifth anniversary of the signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact is celebrated in Berlin.

Foreign guests arrive and gather in the hall.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Bardosy approaches Hitler, who shakes his hand.

German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop meets Finnish Minister Witting, Bulgarian Minister Popov, Vice President of Romania Mihail Antonescu, and Slovak Prime Minister Tuka.

Hitler is sitting on the sofa, talking with the Danish Foreign Minister Scavenius.

The Croatian Foreign Minister Cincar-Markovic, the Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, and the Spanish Minister Serrano Suñer enter the hall.

The guests are greeted by Goering and Goebbels.

Hitler is talking with the guests.

General Jodl is giving explanations to the guests at the map.

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Reel №2

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Military operations in the Leningrad area.

Guns firing at the city, explosions.

Soldiers in the trenches, a grenade launcher firing.

Field headquarters, a radio operator with a telephone receiver.

Infantrymen in camouflage suits run to the attack.

Crimea, the Tatar ditch.

A new railway built by German railway builders, a train with soldiers and provisions is moving along it.

A highway near the southern coast, trucks with weapons and provisions are going through tunnels.

Horse-drawn wagons and convoys are moving in the mountains.

Shelling of Kerch from heavy guns, assault detachments on the offensive.

Africa.

Military operations in the Tobruk area.

German officers at a conference in the desert.

German and Italian artillery is firing.

Tanks are preparing to attack, soldiers are following them.

Overcoming barbed wire fences.

Night battle, soldiers are moving in the smoke and fires.

Flamethrowers fire in the darkness.

Keywords

Eastern Front, 1941, World War 2, artillery, connection, Eastern Front, 1941, World War 2, railway, military supplies, artillery, Africa, 1941, World War 2, artillery, tanks

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