Tonwoche №637 (1943)

The University building in Madrid, rebuilt by order of Franco in connection with the restoration of the country.

Students with flags stand on the field of the university stadium.

Ceremonial procession of troops before Franco.

Consecration of the university by priests.

Franco laying a wreath at the monument to the fallen students.

Parade, troops, horse artillery, cavalry and phalanxes of youth marching.

Franco raises his hand in a fascist salute.

Occupied Ukraine.

Rice harvest in the liberated eastern regions.

The field was under water flowing through irrigation canals.

After drying, the harvest begins, the peasants mow, collect stacks.

Machines thresh the sheaves, cleaning the rice.

Bicycle race in Antwerp between Belgian and French athletes.

The racers pass by a mill, rush along a wet road in the city.

At one of the stages of the race, the athletes are given bags on the go.

Finish, the winner is the Belgian Lenne.

A football match for the von Tschammer-Osten Cup was held in Stuttgart.

Among the spectators there were many holidaymakers from the front and wounded soldiers.

Fragments of the game between the teams of Hamburg and Vienna.

At the end of the game, the fans run out onto the field and hug the players.

Autumn maneuvers of the Romanian army.

The General Staff watches the maneuvers, German officers are present.

The infantry is advancing, tanks are moving, planes are flying.

Communication is carried out by radio.

The gun is preparing for battle, volleys are fired.

In Athens, German motorized units passed by the university building.

Tanks, motorcycles, trucks with soldiers are driving.

A general takes the parade on the platform.

In Tirana, after Germany guaranteed the independence of Albania, the National Assembly gathered in the former royal palace.

Delegates are heading towards the building.

The camera surveys the hall.

A delegate fingers his rosary beads, another picks his nose intently.

Members of the 1st Free Government in Albania are appointed.

Field Marshal Kesselring arrives in Italy, where he inspects German units.

He walks around the line of soldiers, greets the German soldiers, as well as that part of the Italian troops that, after the events of July 1943 (the fall of Mussolini), remained loyal to the Duce, Kesselring presents awards.

Mussolini enters the hall of the government house, Marshal Graziani talks with the military in the foyer.

Mussolini looks over papers at the table.

Italian Minister of War Marshal Graziani holds the first meeting of the fascist republican government, he signs the papers.

Graziani arrives at the headquarters of Field Marshal Rommel.

Rommel inspects the construction of fortifications in northern Italy.

An anti-tank wall is being built.

Rommel inspects a firing point, the guns are aimed at the sea.

Rommel close-up.

South Italian front.

German troops hold back the Allied advance in Rome in new defensive positions.

Soldiers unwind barbed wire, stretch it over posts.

A soldier catches on the wire, looks at a hole in his trousers.

Soldiers clear the field of fire, blow up trees with dynamite.

View from a hill.

German artillery on the shore.

Headquarters, communication is carried out by telephone.

The gun is firing.

Allied tanks are burning.

In the airspace of the Gomel region, a German squadron is bombing the Soviet rear.

Bombs are flying, explosions are visible on the ground.

Barracks on the outskirts of the city, railway buildings and bridges are blown up.

A chain of shells flies from an airplane.

On the ground, they are trying to camouflage themselves with a smoke screen.

The pilot looks down, continues bombing.