Tonwoche №626 (1943)

Thousands of Russian and Ukrainian workers are employed in German agriculture.

Peasants work in the fields where the harvest is being collected, looking after cows and horses.

Hay is stacked on carts.

Potatoes are being harvested, women empty them from baskets into sacks.

Work on a farm, cows are grazing.

A young man is milking a cow.

Occupied Ukraine.

Ukraine is one of the most fertile regions of Europe.

Poland in the gardens.

Harvesting in orchards.

Women collect apricots in baskets, which are processed in large quantities into marmalade.

The fruit is dried in special ovens and stored for the winter.

Thanks to German rule, all types of agriculture are developing, such as horse and sheep breeding.

Livestock belonging to the first model farm.

A pig with piglets comes out into the yard.

Poultry is also bred in large quantities, a worker feeds geese.

Sports activities among Romanian youth.

Passing the ball down the line, playing basketball, jumping over a goat, push-ups.

Diving in a pool, a group jump of girls from the side.

Girls demonstrate rhythmic dances on a large platform.

The rest and leisure of foreign workers in Germany is organized with great care.

One of the many cabaret performances for workers in Berlin.

A couple dances on stage.

A musical ensemble sings and plays glass bottles to the accompaniment of drums.

Marshal Pétain, accompanied by officials, attends the Grand Prix races in Vichy.

Pétain goes to the stands, the papal nuncio sits nearby.

The horse races begin. 200 meters before the finish line, the horse Clodoch goes ahead by half a length and wins the Grand Prix.

The largest bicycle race in Spain takes place between Madrid and Valencia. 31 cyclists from different provinces are at the start.

The first stage of the race, equal to 350 km, is underway, the riders ride across the countryside, through an aqueduct, followed by motorcyclists.

Arrival in Valencia in the rain.

Delio Rodríguez is the winner for the third time.

The winner with flowers.

During their rest, the Spanish volunteers on the eastern front do not want to give up their customs.

They arrange a mock bullfight.

One soldier holds horns in his hands, attacks the "toreador" with a cloak.

The bull is defeated, he is carried away on a stretcher.

Everyday life of German soldiers in occupied Norway.

Soldiers with basins of water, they wash dogs.

A senior sergeant major shows how vigorously one must wash very dirty shirts.

Soldiers wash clothes, splash water, laugh, hang things on ropes.

A soldier lies with a puppy.

South of Lake Ladoga, German units are fighting back new attacks by Soviet troops in heavy fighting.

A view of the area with broken trees shows what fierce battles took place here.

Operations of German tanks and infantry.

Artillery opens up with hurricane fire from both sides.

A view through a slit in a tank: soldiers are running in a small forest, tanks are supporting German grenadiers.

Under heavy enemy fire, German soldiers carry a wounded comrade on a stretcher to a dressing station, where he receives first aid.

The wounded man is bandaged and a splint is applied to his leg.

The wounded are loaded into special cabins installed on a handcar and taken to the rear.

German troops during fierce fighting near Orel.

Early in the morning, between two skirmishes, the soldiers rest.

They smoke, play with a dog, give it a cigarette.

A young soldier with a bird sitting on his elbow.

German infantrymen on a tank, one soldier with a guitar.

Soldiers play cards on the tank's armor, drink coffee from flasks brought by a comrade.

The tanks go on the attack again.

Soviet bombers attack, they are hit by light and heavy artillery.

Anti-aircraft guns hit the planes.

Soldiers take cover in trenches.

The enemy plane is shot down, German soldiers are on the ground next to it.

German tanks go into battle, preventing the Soviet troops from breaking through.

Captain Mangold, Knight of the Order of the Iron Cross, by the camera.

Soldiers drag a cannon, shoot.

After the battle, soldiers rest, wash themselves by the river.

There are broken Soviet tanks.

Soldiers unload mines, a mortar battery in action.