Tonwoche №547 (1942)

Romania.

King Michael and Marshal Antonescu attend a religious ceremony of blessing the waters in Bucharest.

They visit a monastery, where they are met by a priest.

Troops are lined up in the courtyard.

The priest performs the blessing ceremony over Michael.

They go down the monastery stairs to the water, go into it, and wash themselves.

Latvia.

Distribution of holiday gifts to wounded soldiers in a hospital.

A nurse bandages the hands of a wounded man.

Officials and girls in national costumes enter the ward and congratulate the wounded.

Sports festival on ice in Riga, attended by the Director General of Latvia Oskars Dankers.

A parade of athletes in the stadium, Latvian and German flags are hanging.

Couples in national costumes skate, young men walk with hockey sticks.

Slovak athletes in national costumes skate, holding hands crosswise.

Round dance on skates, skating in the game "Stream".

Performance of figure skaters.

Among the spectators there are many soldiers.

Competition of speed skaters, hockey competition.

Young athletes perform in speed skating.

Dankers presents a prize to a boy.

Protectorate of Moravia.

The Danube River in the ice.

The descent of a barge on the river, it breaks through the ice, leaving a water trail.

Hungary.

Snow drifts in Budapest, snow removal machines at work.

Skiing competitions in Hungary in the mountains among the military.

Slalom, ski jumping.

They jump from the ski jump in pairs.

Revue in a Paris variety theater.

Variety artists on stage.

Mistinguett performing a humorous song.

The entrance of the variety artists in long dresses and huge feather fans.

The soloist descends the stairs accompanied by men.

Hairdressing school in Vienna.

A hairdresser demonstrates the art of styling women's hair to an audience.

Various procedures for creating fashionable hairstyles.

Female hairdressers learn to curl hair curlers, dye hair, and style hair in a large hall.

Women under hair dryers.

A fashionable hairstyle show.

Stockholm in the snow.

Snow is being thrown from a bridge into the river.

Cannons stand in the snow on the wall of an ancient fortress.

A blizzard in the city, people are walking, hiding from the snow.

A man is shaking snow off a horse's muzzle.

A driver is trying to warm up a car engine.

A woman is clearing snow from a shop window.

Windshield wipers are sweeping snow away with wide shovels.

A passerby is slapping himself on the back with his hands.

A man is buying frozen flowers on the street.

Snow is being thrown from the back of a truck into the river.

Art exhibition in Riga.

Three girls in national costumes looking at a painting of sowers.

Sculpture of a naked girl.

Battle paintings.

Governor-General of Krakow Frank at the exhibition.

Landscapes, busts, sculpture "Mother and Child".

Construction of a large dam in Spain.

Workers in a pit.

A crane carries a concrete slab, it is lowered under water, a diver descends there to supervise the installation of the slab in place.

Funeral of Reich Minister of Armaments and Ammunition Fritz Todt on 8.2.1942 in Berlin.

Flags at half-mast on the Reich Chancellery building, a sentry at the entrance.

The coffin with Todt's body is carried into the building.

An honor guard at the coffin in the hall.

Hitler and Goering walk past the first row where the relatives of the deceased are sitting.

Hitler expresses condolences to the widow, relatives, children.

Hitler's speech at the funeral meeting.

The Fuhrer approaches a soldier holding a pillow with Todt awards and pins another order on him.

Soldiers carry a wreath from the Fuhrer, Hitler adjusts the ribbons.

Goering stands with a marshal's baton.

Troops are lined up on the street.

The funeral procession begins along the streets of Berlin, a coffin is carried out of the Reich Chancellery building and placed on a gun carriage.

Field Marshal Keitel, Admiral Raeder, and generals follow the coffin in the funeral cortege, carrying wreaths.

Marshal Antonescu's visit to Germany on 11.2.1942. Arrival of the train, meeting with Hitler at the station.

They get into the car and drive to the Fuhrer's headquarters.

The Fuhrer and Antonescu are at headquarters, met by the generals.

General Jodl makes a report at the map.

Antonescu's departure from Germany, Goering sees him off at the station.

Military operations in the Crimea.

German patrol boats in Yalta harbor.

View of the coast and city from the sea.

German patrols go along a street in Yalta, then along the coast.

A sentry on the pier.

Romanian and Croatian units in trenches preparing for battle.

A machine gun is placed in a slit.

Soviet aircraft bombing German ships in the Black Sea.

Aircraft are being hit from a machine gun on the ground.

German artillery fires from guns.

A German cameraman films the fighting.

German Stukas bombers fly to bomb Soviet positions in the Kerch area, a view of the city below from an airplane, bombs are flying down.

A German squadron in the English Channel, accompanied by a squadron.

Ships on a campaign.

Signalmen give signals with searchlights and flags.

An alarm signal on a ship, sailors run to their stations.

Fragments of a naval battle to break through between Dover and Calais.

Naval guns are firing, torpedoes are launched.

English planes are in the air, German anti-aircraft guns are hitting them.

A shot down English plane falls into the sea.

The convoy of ships continues its journey.