Tonwoche №559-1 (1942)

Representatives of the foreign and German press visit the studio of the famous German sculptor Arno Breker in Grunewald (Berlin).

The door to the studio opens, there are examples of monumental art: statues, bas-reliefs, sculptural compositions.

Sculptors are working.

Breker shows visitors around the studio.

Italy.

International regatta in Trieste.

Yacht races at sea.

Italian athletes win.

Spain.

Traditional celebration in honor of the end of Lent week in Spain.

Carnival night procession with torches "The Burial of the Sardine".

They carry a huge stuffed dragon - the personification of the fish eaten during Lent.

The stuffed dragon is burned at the stake.

Bullfight in Marseille.

In the arena, young people tease the bull.

The torero thrusts in his pikes.

Clowns in the arena, a humorous performance with a bull.

A bull gores a clown.

The Berlin variety theatre "Scala".

A Spanish tightrope walker performs, balancing on a loose rope, first on a board, then without it.

Belgium, France.

Recruitment of Belgian and French citizens for work in Germany.

Posters at the recruitment point in Antwerp.

Seeing off those leaving Antwerp for Germany.

General Heydrich attends the departure of the train.

Registration of recruited workers at the exchange in the French city of Dijon.

The 150,000th Frenchman leaving for Germany is presented with gifts: a suit, a bottle of wine.

The train leaves Dijon.

Funeral ceremony at the military cemetery in Riga, crosses with the names of fallen German soldiers.

Soldiers with wreaths and flowers, officers.

Funeral speech by Commissar Brikums (?).

German delegation, soldiers with flowers in their hands.

Close-up of the monument – a huge fascist Iron Cross.

Latvian volunteers in formation on the city square.

Commissar delivering a speech.

Solemn procession in front of the tribune with German and Latvian officers.

An exhibition of German books is taking place in Riga.

Latvian Commissar General Drexler delivers a speech to the public at the opening of the exhibition.

A portrait of Hitler hangs at the entrance to the exhibition.

Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" - the spiritual guidance of the nation.

A stand with books on the topic "The Wehrmacht at War".

Visitors look at the exhibition.

Goethe's book "Faust".

Drexler looks at an old book.

A stand telling about the foundation of German printing houses in Ostland: in Riga in 1588, in Dorbat in 1631, in Reval in 1633, in Narva in 1695. A view of old books.

German officers looking at books on the stands.

Track and field competitions were held at the stadium in Riga.

The stands were filled with German and Latvian soldiers and spectators.

A football match.

Running competitions among men, then among women with a relay race.

German officers presenting awards to the winners.