Tonwoche №556 (1942)

Croatia.

A demonstration and military parade took place in Agram.

Poglavnik Pavelic reviews the parade of troops.

A column of German soldiers marches.

Trucks with soldiers and mechanized artillery drive by.

A view of Serbian officers in the crowd.

A demonstration of the population in national costumes.

France.

Marshal Petain visited the cruiser Dunkerque, which arrived in Toulon after a major overhaul.

Petain boards the ship and walks with the captain through the line of officers.

A memorial plaque on the ship commemorating the Battle of Mers-el-Kebir in Algeria on July 3-6, 1940, during which the cruiser was heavily damaged by a British squadron.

The officers show Petain a hole in the hull and shell fragments left as a souvenir.

The marshal made an entry in the cruiser’s log about the impressive visit.

Date: March 12, 1942. Latvia.

Pictures of awakening nature, melting snow.

Girls walk past blossoming trees.

Spring cleaning of peasants near their houses, who clean the street with brooms, pour water from a hose.

A woman washes a window, a girl wipes a chair, the housewife beats out a coat.

Exhibition of applied arts in Riga.

A showcase with artistic embroidery on tablecloths, metal haberdashery, amber products, small plastic art.

Ceramic products.

Visitors look at the exhibition.

A man picks up a wooden box with carvings.

A chessboard with carved figures.

Porcelain figurines.

Household items, wooden furniture with carvings, a chandelier.

Embroidered napkins and decorative plates lie on the table.

A shop window with handicrafts, a view from the shop of people passing by.

Latvia.

A man leads a group of girls to a greenhouse, they do various jobs, tie up supports for cucumbers, examine tomato seedlings, and hill up the soil.

The traditional spring festival of Fallas in Valencia.

Carts with the main characters of the festival - dolls that depict famous politicians, actors, and bullfighters in a satirical spirit, ridicule human vices, etc. - drive along the street.

People in the square look at the dolls displayed on the stairs, eat, and have fun.

During the festival, firecrackers and jokes are heard in the streets.

An important ceremony of the festival is the offering of flowers to the basilica with a sculpture of the Holy Virgin.

The festival ends with the burning of dolls, a bonfire burns in the square, and the sky is colored with fireworks.

A mass race begins at the city hippodrome, and athletes continue running through the rough forest terrain.

Athletes at the finish line at the stadium.

The President of the Olympic Committee Johannes Siegfried Edström presents the cup to the winner of the race.

The Milan-San Remo cycling race.

Moments of the race, groups of fans stand along the way.

The athletes ride through the city, being handed packages along the way.

The journey continues along the mountain road along the embankment, the final in San Remo.

The winner is Adolfo Leoni.

An art exhibition of Portugal is taking place in Berlin.

A chamber orchestra performs in the foyer.

Visitors look at the exhibits: paintings, sculpture.

A tour of front-line students from European countries around the Sanssouci palace complex in Potsdam.

Students from Spain, France, Croatia, Finland, and the Walloon Legion look at the sights.

A memorial service in the garrison church of Potsdam, wreaths on the tombs.

The 7th International Pro-Fascist Congress of Journalists is held in Venice from 10 to 12 April 1942. St.

Mark's Square, architectural monuments.

Congress building.

The German delegation headed by Otto Dietrich walks along St.

Mark's Square, accompanied by the Italian Minister of Culture Pavolini.

The meeting room in the Doge's Palace, journalists from different countries have gathered to discuss issues of European nations.

Minister Pavolini opens the congress, everyone applauds.

Dietrich's speech.

View of the square and the column with the winged lion.

The Fuhrer's headquarters.

Field Marshal Keitel congratulates Hitler on his birthday, shakes his hand.

Goering and Himmler arrive at headquarters, approach the generals, Goering shakes hands with Dr.

Ley.

Hitler approaches Ribbentrop, talks to him.

Admiral Raeder and Hitler, accompanied by other officers, walk along the park alley.

A children's choir sings a song in honor of the Fuhrer's birthday, a girl plays the accordion.

Hitler approaches the children, they present flowers to the Fuhrer.

Battles in the Gulf of Finland for the island of Suursaari (Gogland).

The movement of German troops across the frozen bay and across the water that has emerged on the surface of the ice.

Soldiers in camouflage suits walk through the snow, carrying weapons on sleds.

A caravan of vehicles travels across the thawed bay.

A communication cable is pulled from the vehicle, establishing communication with the shore.

A harbor on an island, an abandoned Soviet ship frozen in the ice.

All-terrain vehicles carry guns, artillerymen deploy them, and fire at Soviet positions.

Battles near Salla.

German and Finnish ski infantrymen prepare for battle, a firefight with Soviet troops.

Military action in the Leningrad area.

Trucks travel along a muddy road past a populated area, delivering ammunition and military supplies.

Horse-drawn convoys move along.

Vehicles get stuck in the mud, tilt to the side.

Soldiers get stuck in the clay.

Motorcyclists pull a motorcycle by hand.

A truck skids to the side.

An airplane flies over the column of trucks.

Soldiers help pull a truck out of the mud.

View from the mud-spattered cabin window onto the road.

View of the destroyed Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station.

A stream of water rushes through the breach.

The Todt Organization at work restoring the dam.

A diver descends underwater with a welding machine.

Soldiers pump the pump.

Local workers are used for the work.

Panorama of the restored hydroelectric power station, its machine room.

Africa.

German soldiers repair tanks before the battle.

Combat operations in Cyrenaica.

German guns fire on the enemy.

Field Marshal Rommel watches the battle through binoculars from his car.

Italian tanks counterattack under artillery cover.

Destroyed British and American tanks.

Soldiers search American prisoners, soldiers of the colonial troops and blacks stand.

German tanks on the offensive.