Tonwoche №636 (1943)

A meeting of the German Labor Front organizations, both abroad and within the country, is taking place in the building of the University of Berlin.

Representatives from 21 countries are taking part in the meeting.

The head of the Labor Front organization, Dr.

Ley, is giving a speech.

The faces of the audience in the hall, applause.

Reichsmarschall Goering on an inspection tour.

A car with an escort arrives at the location of the air defense units.

Goering goes around the pilots, among them Major Graf, a knight of the highest German order for bravery.

The flight crew reports to the marshal.

Major General Galland is in the group of pilots.

Field Marshal Milch is in Goering's retinue.

Goering gives a young soldier a pack of cigarettes.

Goering and Milch walk and talk with Professor Messerschmidt.

Goering talks with residents of the areas affected by the air attacks.

Children give him flowers.

Goering at a metallurgical plant, he watches the blast furnace in action through dark glass.

A marshal among the inhabitants of a mining village.

Goering in a city in western Germany.

He comes out into the street, surrounded by locals, and escorts the distinguished guest to his car.

Vice-Admiral Raeder arrives in Budapest on a visit.

He hands over a yacht, a gift from the Fuhrer, to the Hungarian Regent Admiral von Horthy for his 75th birthday.

They board the yacht, and the Hungarian flag is raised.

The furnishings of Horthy's salons and office on the yacht.

The yacht sails along the Danube past the embankment, parliament, and other buildings.

The captain is at the helm, and the yacht sails under a bridge.

Horthy and Raeder are talking in the salon by the wide window.

The Hird paramilitary organization of Norwegian youth holds its annual autumn exercises.

Prime Minister Vidkund Quisling takes the organization's parade.

Sports competitions of the squads are held in the stadium, with spectators in the stands.

Target shooting from a prone position.

They carry shot-through targets.

Seated young men slap their knees.

Girls in military uniforms are among the spectators.

Young men overcome various obstacles.

Gratitude Day for the Harvest in Crimea.

Muslim Crimean Tatars gather for the holiday of Bayram.

They pray in the mosque, the mullah reads the Koran.

A holiday in a Muslim village.

Residents on the square in front of the house, the porch of which is decorated with garlands and a painting depicting Hitler talking with the mullah.

A speaker speaks, people applaud.

Carts with gifts of Crimea pass by: apples, pears, nuts, etc.

The celebrations end with national dances.

The Aegean Sea, the operation of German troops to capture the island of Kos.

The bombing of the island by German dive bombers.

On October 3, the island was occupied by joint forces of the German Air Force, Navy and ground forces.

Aircraft fly along the coast, firing on enemy strongholds with onboard weapons.

Bombs fly at larger positions.

German ships approach the island under British fire.

A signalman gives a signal with a searchlight.

Bullets slap the water, bomb explosions are visible.

Under cover of darkness, a German landing force lands on the island.

Artillery and tanks fire, German soldiers attack and occupy the British garrison.

Motorized units enter the town, local residents watch the movement of troops and greet them.

A panorama of the port and the embankment with boats, a view of the mosque.

The remnants of the British garrison in a column of prisoners of war.

A captured British airfield with undamaged aircraft remaining on it.

Captured soldiers are sent to the rear by ship.

Heavy defensive battles on the Dnieper west of the Kyiv-Zaporozhye line.

Repulse of a breakthrough by Soviet troops.

Counterattack by German tanks and infantry.

Soldiers fire a cannon, machine gun, and grenade launcher.

Corpses of Soviet soldiers lie on the field.

A German signalman works.

A German tank crushes bushes and emerges from the forest.

Infantry is attacking.

Soviet soldiers are running along the road, surrendering.

Tankers look at the prisoners.

German tanks and guns are holding back the advance of superior enemy forces.

Rocket launchers are firing.

German aircraft are bombing and shelling Soviet positions, destroying enemy reinforcements and tanks.

Aerial view.