Tonwoche №553 (1942)

Slovakia.

A rally is taking place on the square in front of the city theatre in Pressburg to mark the anniversary of liberation from Bolshevism.

President Dr.

Tiso is speaking.

A parade of troops in front of the tribune with the president.

Infantry is marching, cavalry is riding by, mechanized artillery, and vehicles with searchlights.

The building of the Belarusian People's House.

Horse-drawn carts are positioned on the square.

A meeting is taking place in the hall.

A speaker is delivering a speech on agrarian reform.

People are coming out and smiling.

The text of the programme is being read to the people at the rally.

A German officer and a peasant are on the tribune, speeches.

A view of the cathedral, where a service was held in honour of this event.

An officer is speaking on the porch.

Women are holding icons and crying.

A priest is speaking.

Occupied regions of Russia.

A view of the snow-covered, half-ruined Pskov Kremlin, which the Bolsheviks did not use for religious purposes.

A small house with the sign "Buffet".

Beggars stand near the cathedral, begging for alms.

People give to them.

Ruins of a monastery, a road along which cars drive, residents walk.

Everyday life in Pskov, a man leads a horse across the street, women with bags, people stand in line at a newspaper kiosk with a sign "German Printing".

A local market on the square, where peasants who have arrived in carts sell agricultural products.

A counter with women selling milk.

A tent with a sign: "Haberdashery and flower stall".

People trade at the market, a woman with a birch broom under her arm examines something in a man's basket.

Counters with baskets, jars, jugs.

People at the shopping arcades.

Boys push a girl through the snow on a homemade sled.

A woman with a yoke collects water from a pipe.

A boy ties one skate to his felt boot and rolls down the road, followed by his friend on a scooter.

Ice drift on the Daugava near Riga.

Ice floes are floating down the river.

Views of Riga from the river.

A ship is floating on water with ice floes, a view of the bridge.

Soldiers and residents are watching the ice drift, a soldier is taking pictures.

Industrial restoration is underway in Valencia.

Two pipes located nearby are being removed from a plant.

A worker is sawing off the pipe posts with a welding machine, it falls and drags the other one along with it.

Workers are watching this process.

Bulgaria.

Sports competitions in a bowling alley.

Athletes knock down pins on different lanes, the balls return to them along a mechanical lane.

Latvia (?) Women are engaged in water sports.

Diving in a pool.

A line of girls, sitting on the curb, fall into the water one by one, backwards, like a fan.

Underwater footage of swimming girls, girls performing circular movements.

In Berlin, an army orchestra concert was held in the Olympic Stadium.

Popular melodies are performed, the audience taps its feet to the beat.

Soldiers are among the spectators.

Famous French film actors Albert Prejean, Daniel Darrieux and Vivian Romans leave Paris for Berlin by train.

In Germany, they are greeted with flowers.

The actors are on a tour of the city, taking pictures of the sights.

Then they visit the film studio during the filming of the movie, communicating with their German colleagues.

Germany.

Production processes at the Osram incandescent lamp factory.

Manufacturing light bulbs on an automatic line, individual operations.

Women work in the workshop.

Osram products are exported.

View from the warehouse window of vans with the name Osram on their sides.

Hitler meets the train with Tsar Boris III arriving from Bulgaria at the station and shakes his hand.

Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and Field Marshal Keitel are in the Fuhrer's retinue.

Everyone heads to headquarters.

Goering receives the Tsar and takes him to his estate, Karinhalle.

Tsar Boris signs the book of honored guests.

Military operations near Leningrad.

German sappers build a railway bridge to replace the one blown up.

Local residents are involved in the construction.

Welding of structures.

A new bridge has been built in a few weeks; view of the finished bridge.

Blowing up the remains of the old bridge.

German troops and supply trains advance in severe frosts, with snowdrifts sweeping along the road.

Soldiers wrap themselves in blankets.

A snow-covered village, locals walk past German supply trains.

Clearing roads of snow.

A German heavy gun is being prepared for battle, shells are being carried, and the gun is firing.

The suburbs of Leningrad are visible across the river.

Explosions in the city.

The position of anti-aircraft gunners, soldiers are carrying shells wrapped in matting, the gun is firing.

A church is visible in the distance.

The guns are firing at Leningrad.

Soldiers in camouflage look through binoculars.

The appearance of Soviet tanks, German artillery repels the tank attack.

A destroyed Soviet tank is burning.

A German soldier near a destroyed tank.

Soviet tank crews surrender.

German tanks take up new positions.

Military action in France near the city of Saint-Nazaire.

Burning ships of the American landing forces are visible in the night.

German anti-aircraft guns are firing at the city, street fighting is underway.

Soldiers with rifles on the embankment look at the sky, a sailor points to the sky at the soldiers.

Soldiers make their way through the ruins of the city.

The streets are littered with the corpses of dead English and American soldiers.

Prisoners are being led down the street.

Captured English paratroopers are being fished out of the water, German soldiers are interrogating them.

Prisoners and wounded are being led out of the house.

A column of prisoners passes by German soldiers.

Prisoners are being put into a truck.

A view of a destroyed and half-submerged English launch, the remains of a burning vessel.