Tonwoche №624 (1943)

Newsreel №64019, 2 parts, Duration: 0:15:27 B/W
Studio UFA

Reel №1

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A group of Belarusian youth leaders, as guests of the German youth leadership, travels around Tyrol.

The girls get off the train, the German side meets them, the girls bring flowers.

Traveling by bus to a Tyrolean city.

View of the town hall.

Girls in Belarusian national clothes on the observation deck, a panorama of the city and the area.

The guests attend a seminar for heads of kindergartens.

The guide takes the guests through the dining room where the seminar members dine and shows them the bathroom.

A Belarusian woman washes her feet in the shower.

The girls, members of the seminar, demonstrate gymnastic exercises on the grass to the guests, and run barefoot on the ground.

A rest room for the seminar members, with a piano and shelves of books.

The girls are sitting at the table, doing needlework, and a girl is playing the guitar for her friends.

The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

According to a long-established tradition, the protectorate celebrates the beginning of the harvest.

Residents in bright national costumes go to the celebration, a brass band is playing.

The Minister of Agriculture Rubije opens the harvest festival, he begins the mowing.

The farmers join in the harvesting of wheat, the girls tie sheaves, the man sharpens the scythe.

A hay mower drives across the field.

In Zagreb, teenagers from the Ustasha youth organizations visit the Poglavnik Ante Pavelic.

Pavelic is among the children, they present him with gifts and flowers.

Pavelic lifts a girl in national dress in his arms.

Holland.

The largest equestrian competitions took place in the Heimer Sports Park.

Spectators watch the steeplechase.

Upper Silesia (Poland).

A sports festival was held on the Heidebreck sports ground, in which teams of foreign workers in Germany took part.

Teams lined up on the field with signs: Protectorate, Croatia, France, Belgium, Holland, Eastern Workers, Italy, Bulgaria.

A tug-of-war competition between two teams.

Relay race of national teams, winners are the French.

Football match France - Protectorate.

Moments of the game.

France wins with a score of 2:1. Marshal Petain received the Turkish ambassador Rehi Cortin (?) in Vichy.

In the presence of Prime Minister Laval, the ambassador was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor.

The leader of the Spanish students visited Germany at the invitation of the leader of the German student organizations.

A wreath was laid at the sculpture in the honorary hall of the University of Munich.

The guest visited the House of German Art, where he became acquainted with works of modern German art.

Inspection of exhibits: genre paintings, landscapes, perfect nudes, sculpture.

Anglo-American bombers carried out a terrorist raid on Rome.

Residents at the ruins of houses.

Princess Piedmont visited the destroyed residential areas.

She is among the residents.

The People's Republic of Poland through the ruins.

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Reel №2

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Continued.

The laboratories and clinics of the university quarter were badly damaged.

A view of the interior of the clinic, destroyed wards and beds.

Bombs were also dropped on the cemetery.

A view of the damaged family crypt of the Pope.

A view of the Basilica of St.

Lawrence, one of the oldest churches in the holy city, built in the fourth century.

The ashes of Pope Pius IX rest in it.

The ruins of the basilica after the Anglo-American air raid.

One of the most valuable monuments of art from the early Christian era was destroyed.

Pope Pius XII examined the ruins of the basilica.

The combat front on the Mediterranean.

Marshal Rommel arrives at a German airfield near Thessaloniki and is met by officers.

The car with the marshal goes to headquarters.

Heavy German tanks drive through the city past the round tower.

This part of the European front is constantly being strengthened.

Tanks drive along the road, across the field to the Aegean coast.

Tankers run to the water, splashing around.

A German sentry on guard duty at a coastal gun.

According to reports from the German High Command, German troops are leaving the city to straighten the front line near Orel.

Residents watch mechanized units, tanks, and trucks with soldiers drive by.

A squadron of German bombers, attack aircraft, and dive bombers strike the most important areas of the battle.

German soldiers watch the planes from the ground.

Bombs hit enemy positions and tank clusters.

A German tanker looks through binoculars in an open hatch.

German tanks in a battle for a heavily fortified hill.

Soldiers follow the tanks.

The remaining enemy tanks have dug in in one of the villages.

View from a tank slit of the terrain and shell explosions.

The village is surrounded, the infantry is attacking.

Soviet troops are defeated by a counterattack.

On the battlefield there are wrecked Soviet and American tanks, wrecked guns.

In places of particularly heavy fighting the number of those killed on the enemy side is 20-30 times higher than the number of those taken prisoner.

The faces of the Soviet prisoners are mostly Asian.

The Soviet troops lost significantly more than half a million killed, wounded and captured.

A huge column of prisoners on the way.

The launch of high-speed German bombers of the Messerschmidt 110 type.

In the area of Belgorod, enemy reserves, tank clusters and columns are destroyed by bombs and fire from onboard weapons.

Explosions on the ground.

A surprise attack by a Soviet fighter.

A German gunner fires his weapon, tracer bullets appear in the sky.

The Soviet plane is shot down, it falls to the ground.

The squadron attacks the second enemy plane, it is on fire.

The German gunner smiles contentedly.

The Messerschmidt shakes its planes in victory.

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