Tonwoche №630 (1943)

Bulgaria.

Troops take the oath of allegiance to the young Tsar Simeon II, a portrait of the Tsar on a gun carriage.

The first to take the oath are Prince Kiril, the brother of the late Tsar, and Minister of War Mihov, they pass by the priest and kiss the banner.

In connection with the events in Italy, a grand demonstration of the Croatian people took place in Zagreb, expressing their allegiance to Poglavnik Pavelic.

Soldiers and the population walk along the street.

Ante Pavelic addresses the people with a speech in which he thanks Germany for the support it provided in creating an independent Croatian state.

Pavelic walks through the crowd of people.

Arrival of new German reinforcements in northern Italy.

Armored vehicles with soldiers, cavalry, and horse-drawn guns drive by.

Field Marshal Rommel meets the troops.

The announcer reports that the German armed forces, with their lightning-fast actions, prevented the fulfillment of the terms of capitulation signed by Badoglio.

German troops occupied a large number of large Italian cities.

German soldiers pass through the city of Recio, the population watches the movement of troops.

The occupation of the city of Pavia by the Germans, cars with soldiers and tanks drive by.

Troops on the road to Milan, trucks drive past the Arc de Triomphe, drive through the city, residents watch them.

Military actions near Rome, street battles in one of the suburbs of the capital.

Machine gunners shoot, explosions are visible in the city.

Badoglio's troops capitulate, German soldiers enter Rome.

Soldiers at the German embassy, a woman looks out the window.

Women surround the soldiers, one of them takes a kitten out of a soldier's jacket and strokes it.

Cars drive past the Colosseum.

The first shots of Mussolini's liberation.

A special task force group sent by order of the Fuhrer to free the Duce advances along the plateau.

The commander of the paratrooper squad from the Student division orders to occupy the cable car station in the valley, which is the only way to communicate with the Gran Sasso mountain plateau.

The paratroopers, together with soldiers of the SS security service, land on the impassable mountain range.

They rush to the hotel building where Mussolini was imprisoned.

The Duce is freed and walks surrounded by German soldiers.

The cable car station in the valley is informed by radio about Mussolini's release.

Reinforcements are climbing up the cable car to the top of the mountain.

The Duce boards a light plane together with the commander of the SS detachment Otto Skorzeny.

The plane takes off from the mountain plateau and flies to the Fuhrer's main headquarters, where Mussolini is to stay for several days.

Hitler meets the plane with Mussolini.

His son Vittorio approaches the Duce and kisses his father.

Mussolini and Hitler get into a car and drive to headquarters.

Ribbentrop meets them at the building.

After several days at headquarters, Mussolini leaves Germany.

Hitler escorts him to the plane.

The announcer says that Mussolini, in his address to the Italian people, called on his loyal followers to take up arms again and, together with Germany, Japan and other allied states, continue the struggle until final victory.